Two items printed by inmates belonging to the Etzel (Irgun Tzva'i Le'umi) and Lehi interned at the Gilgil Detention Camp, Kenya. 1947 and 1948. Hebrew. 1. "Sefer HaMa’atzar VeHaGalut…" ["The Book of the Internment and the Exile (Three Years since the Beginning of Our Exile)"]. "Jewish Detainees' Camp in the Exile, Gilgil, Kenya, 2nd of Heshvan, 5708" [October 1947]. At top of title page (Hebrew): "Badad [Alone] – Journal of Thought and Literature." A thick book, mimeographed typescript, with illustrations, diagrams, tables, musical scores, and maps. A highly comprehensive record of the three years spent by the deportees of the Etzel and Lehi in detention camps in Africa. The present copy of the book has an "Appendix": a dozen (mimeographed) pages printed after the book itself was completed, containing sequels to stories of the deportees, extending to July 1948, when the deportees were finally sent home to the newborn State of Israel. The final paragraph states as follows: " After three years and nine months, the end of our exile is arising. We are yet enveloped by the foreign skies of Kenya; the spikes of barbed wire still encompass the compound; but an air of freedom is already penetrating our hearts, and 254 exiles from Zion are making their way back to the motherland, to Israel, to join the ranks of the fighters, to do battle and triumph ." "Sefer HaMa’atzar VeHaGalut…": 321, [4] ff. + [3] photographic plates, 33 cm. Good-fair condition. Foxing (numerous stains to first and last leaves). Minor blemishes to edges. Tears to title page (including one open tear). Binding stained and slightly blemished, partly detached. "Appendix": [12] ff., 33 cm. Good-fair condition. Foxing. Tears to edges. Open tear to last leaf. 2. Program for Purim party at the theater of the Gilgil Detention Camp: "Bamatenu…" ["Our Stage, the Stage of The Exiles of Zion"]. Gilgil, April, 1948. At the end of the program are instructions regarding the proper conduct expected of the audience, issued by the management of "Bamatenu." 7 pp., 20 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Fold lines and creases. Leaves detached. Enclosed: "Unchained, the Exiles of Eritrea-Sudan-Kenya" (Hebrew), published by "Lohamei Herut Yisrael", 1968 (two leaves apparently missing); a page from the June 14, 1964 issue of the Israeli daily newspaper "Ma'ariv, " with a news item regarding a meeting between Colonel H.P. Rice – British commandant of the detention camp – and Ya’akov Meridor, one of the inmates who escaped through a tunnel.

Two documents related to the ouster of David Ben-Gurion and the founders of the Rafi Party from the Mapai Party: summons to appear before the party's high court, and copy of the indictment sheet submitted to the court. Tel Aviv, August 1965. 1. Official summons (printed form, filled in handwriting) to appear before the high court of the Mapai Party on August 2, 1965. Summoned to appear: David Ben-Gurion and the six founding members of the Rafi Party, namely Yosef Almogi, Gideon Ben-Yisrael, Amos Degani, Hannah Lamdan, Yizhar Smilansky (S. Izhar), and Shimon Peres. At the bottom of the form is a blank stub – confirmation of attendance – to be filled in and torn off. 1 f., approx. 24 cm (including stub). Good-fair condition. Creases. Blemishes and stains to margins. Open tear to upper right corner (with very minor damage to text). Stub partly detached. 2. Copy of indictment sheet submitted to the court, detailing the violations of the party code of conduct committed by the founders of the Rafi Party, and demanding their ouster from the party. Bearing the printed signature of Nahum Shadmi, Secretary of Mapai's Comptroller's Office. 2 ff. (copy of typewritten document), approx. 32.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Creases. Few stains. Minor blemishes. Open tear to upper right corner. Enclosed: Seven pages of the protocols of the hearing by the court, August 23, 1965; with some handwritten notations and marks.

Some 300 photographs (pasted onto loose album sheets), apparently from a private photo album of one of the soldiers of the Jewish Legion. Jerusalem and additional sites in Palestine, [ca. 1918-1919; some photos possibly from other countries and/or from later years]. These photographs show soldiers in the uniform of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (RRF) in a wide variety of sites throughout Palestine, many of them with a strong Zionist or Jewish connection. One photo features a soldier wearing an epaulet adorned with the Star of David – the insignia of the Jewish Legion – standing in front of the Western Wall. Included among the photographs: Soldiers entering the Temple Mount plaza; a number of photos of soldiers at the Western Wall; soldiers at the entrance to the Jewish Soldiers' House (established for the benefit of soldiers of the Jewish Legion with the support of the Council of Delegates and funded by James de Rothschild); wooden grave markers to fallen Jewish soldiers (including a marker over the grave of Joseph Arditti, an officer in the French Army's Legion d'Orient that took part in the conquest of Jerusalem); roll calls; tent camps; boxing matches; Zionist and other Jewish sites and buildings (including Haifa's Technion, the Bezalel School, and the Tombs of Absalom, Zechariah, and Benei Hezir); deck of SS Kaisar-i-Hind, that served in transporting British army units from 1917 to 1921; and more. A small part of photographs most probably document the life of the soldier and his family in the postwar years, either in the US or Europe. Approx. 300 photographs, size and condition vary. Most of the photos are grouped and pasted onto loose album sheets, approx. 26.5X18 cm. Overall fair-good condition. Stains, creases, and blemishes. Tears, including open tears, to edges of some photos. Many photos blurry or faded. Some photos detached, with remnants of glue on back. Leaves crumbling, with multiple open tears and blemishes.

Collection of booklets and journals of Jewish units in the British army. The first half of the 1940s. Approx. 40 booklets and journals (mostly mimeographed typescripts), printed for various Jewish units in the British army, including the Jewish Brigade and transport companies. The journals provide much information about the activity of the units, the battles and the lives of the Jewish soldiers in Europe. Some of them are accompanied by illustrations. Included: • "Basha'ar" (At the Gate), internal booklet no. 3, 1941 – a booklet encouraging students to enlist in the British army. • Journals of No. 5 Water Tank Coy. R.A.S.C; 462 General Transport Coy. R.A.S.C; company 553, R.A.O.C; 178 General Transport Coy. R.A.S.C; and other companies. • Issue no. 3 of the journal of the 1st Palestinian Light Anti-Aircraft Battery. Merchavya, 1943. One of the articles in the issue deals with the need to enlist and fight for the Jewish Yishuv in face of the news about the destruction of European Jewry. • Issues 4-5 of "Bama'avak" (In the Struggle), the journal of the Jewish Brigade. Belgium, 1945. • A volume compiling various journals and leaflets; most of them of the Jewish transport companies. • and more. A total of approx. 40 items (some of them bound together). Size and condition vary. Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.