Jewish Art & Craft Cyprus Camp Prisoner Work "Inkwell" Stone WWII Holocaust 1947

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Jewish Art & Craft Cyprus Camp Prisoner Work "Inkwell" Stone WWII Holocaust 1947
Inkwells with Base
Artwork of Prisoner Refugee
Vintage Art work made by an "Illigal" Jewish immigrant
craftsman
in the Cyprus
detention
Camp in Dekhelia,
outside of Larnaca.
The Inkwells made in the camp
by the Larnaca Stone
as a Souvenir or
Art objects that exchanged
with British soldiers who guarded them for d
esired foodstuffs
.
Souvenirs made in Dekhelia Camps with the local Larnaca
stones exhibited in Museums
of the Holocaust and
Museums of Jewish Heritage in the world.
It is signed by ink "קפריסין י.ד. 1947" - (
Cyprus 1947) in Hebrew
in the bottom of the two Inkwell stone covers.
Sizes: base ~ 17.4 X 10.7 cm.  Total hight ~ 5.5 cm.
Weight: 1.07 Kg.
Dated: 1947.
Condition: One Inkwell stone cover with chip
in the top and broken corner that glued,
mini chips and scratches here and there,
otherwise fine.
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The British authorities held Jewish “illegal” immigrants
in detention camps
on Cyprus from 1946 to 1949.
This policy was part of an effort to deter
Jewish immigration
to Palestine, under British control, as was Cyprus.
During that time over 53,000 Jews passed through
the barbed wire camps,
held against their will,
with a quota of only 1,500 per month permitted to leave
Cyprus for Palestine. The Jews considered illegal immigrants
by the British
were intercepted by British naval forces
and turned back from the shores
of Palestine and escorted
to Cyprus or temporarily imprisoned
in Palestine (Atlit)
before being deposited in the camps of Cyprus.
The two major camps were
Caraolos, north of Famagusta,
and in
Dekhelia, outside of Larnaca
.
The compounds stretched for several miles.
The story of these camps
has been well documented
as an episode in the history of the modern state of Israel.
Museums and archives in Israel have
extensively documented the camps.
The United States Museum of Tolerance in California,
the Holocaust Museum
in Washington, D.C. and the Museum
of Jewish Heritage in New York City
have devoted exhibitions
to this period. Yet, in Cyprus, memories are dim,
if not forgotten of this traumatic period.
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