Lot 62
Collection of Passports and Certificates – New Immigrants to Israel – 1920s to 1950s
Twenty-six passports, certificates and documents issued to immigrants from Europe and Arab countries to Palestine. Lithuania, Romania, Austria, Iraq, Egypt and elsewhere, ca. 1920s to early 1950s. Different languages.
Including: · Certificate for a refugee returning to his country, issued by the Zionist Federation in Tiberias in 1920 (for one of the refugees of the "Jaffa Deportation"?) · Temporary certificate for an immigrant, issued by the Mandate Government, indicating registration "pursuant to section 7 of the Immigration Ordinance". 1922. · Official promissory note of the "Aid Committee for the Immigrants to Palestine" in Vienna, with a commitment of a Jewish immigrant to return the travel expenses after his arrival in Palestine. 1933. · Lithuanian passport issued in 1940, with transit stamps to Palestine via Lebanon. · Two "Health Tickets" with vaccination books issued by the Ministry of Immigration of the State of Israel in Germany. 1949. · Passports and certificates of immigrants from Iraq, Egypt, Poland, Hungary and elsewhere.
Enclosed: A passport issued to a Jewish girl by the French authorities in Morocco (1937); war refugee relief booklet (Karo atbėgėlio šelpimo knygutė) issued by the Red Cross in Lithuania (1940).
Size and condition vary. Good-fair condition.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
