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PALESTINE - 1945-1948 BRITISH IN PALESTINE
A group of 40 press photographs, dated 1945-1948, various sizes (largest approx. 205 x 255mm and smaller), most with typescript descriptions on versos, stamps and serial numbers of various British, American and French press agencies. (Some minor creasing.)
IMPORTANT ARCHIVE OF IMAGES SHOWING THE END OF THE BRITISH MANDATE IN PALESTINE. Many photographs show British soldiers with Jewish prisoners rounded up for interrogation, or with prisoners photographed after receiving their sentences, including one of men in chains. There are images of Acre Prison, scene of the Irgun attack on 4 May 1947 in which 28 Irgun prisoners and 214 Arab prisoners escaped through a hole blown in the prison wall. Scenes of British martial law are well represented, including the startling image of Princess Mary Avenue in Jerusalem completely covered in barbed-wire as part of the 'Bevingrad' plan to divide the city into governable zones. There are also images of Arab-Jewish violence, with Arab ambushes on Jewish convoys, and Arab victims of a Jewish attack on Bedouin. Scenes of demonstrations in New York against the British policy of restricting Jewish immigration into Palestine and the forcible repulsion of ships carrying Displaced Persons are included, and are contrasted with images of the British evacuating men and matériel from Palestine in 1948.
A group of 40 press photographs, dated 1945-1948, various sizes (largest approx. 205 x 255mm and smaller), most with typescript descriptions on versos, stamps and serial numbers of various British, American and French press agencies. (Some minor creasing.)
IMPORTANT ARCHIVE OF IMAGES SHOWING THE END OF THE BRITISH MANDATE IN PALESTINE. Many photographs show British soldiers with Jewish prisoners rounded up for interrogation, or with prisoners photographed after receiving their sentences, including one of men in chains. There are images of Acre Prison, scene of the Irgun attack on 4 May 1947 in which 28 Irgun prisoners and 214 Arab prisoners escaped through a hole blown in the prison wall. Scenes of British martial law are well represented, including the startling image of Princess Mary Avenue in Jerusalem completely covered in barbed-wire as part of the 'Bevingrad' plan to divide the city into governable zones. There are also images of Arab-Jewish violence, with Arab ambushes on Jewish convoys, and Arab victims of a Jewish attack on Bedouin. Scenes of demonstrations in New York against the British policy of restricting Jewish immigration into Palestine and the forcible repulsion of ships carrying Displaced Persons are included, and are contrasted with images of the British evacuating men and matériel from Palestine in 1948.