An album with a wooden relief from the camp of exiles in Asmara

An album with a woodwork in which the look of Asmara camp, the work of prisoners in the camp, the mid-1940s. rare.

On the front cover is an engraved wooden plaques showing the houses of the camp, the fence surrounding the camp and the entrance gate. On the lower right is the caption: 'Asmara Exile Camp'.

The album's pages served as a book of Memories for a student in 1958, and some of them were inscribed with dedications from Efrat's classmates.

Between 1944 and 1948 some Irgun and Lehi members were arrested and deported on 12 transports to detention camps in Africa. The detention camps in which they were held were Sembel, near Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, Carthage in Sudan, and Gilgil, Kenya, north of Nairobi. In the camp, the deportees held active cultural activities in the form of sports activities and competitions, as well as the work art that was generally connected to their stay in the camp. The exiles were returned to their country two months after the establishment of the State of Israel in July 1948.

20x13 cm Very fine condition.