"A Fleet Returning to the Homeland, Illegal Immigrant Ships at the Port of Haifa" – Album of Photographs – Mid-Late ...

"A Fleet Returning to the Homeland, Illegal Immigrant Ships at the Port of Haifa" – Album of Photographs – Mid-Late 1940s – Lipa Kugel
"A Fleet Returning to the Homeland, Illegal Immigrant Ships at the Port of Haifa", album with photographs by Lipa Kugel. Haifa and elsewhere, [ca. mid-late 1940s].
A small souvenir album with 28 photographs of abandoned illegal immigrant ships at the port of Haifa and other ports. the photographs depict various ships, including the SS Hanna Szenes, SS Palmach, SS Henrietta Szold, SS HaChayal HaIvri, SS Chaviva Reick, SS Theodor Herzl and other ships. The ships seized by the British authorities and kept at the Haifa port were known as "the Fleet of Shadows". At the beginning of the album is a folded leaf with the photographer's name and information about the photographs: the names of the ships, the number of immigrants and their arrival date in Palestine (the list enumerates eighteen photographs only, the rest of the photographs in the album were possibly taken by other photographers or added later). The front board reads "A Fleet Returning to the Homeland, Illegal Immigrant Ships at the Port of Haifa" (Hebrew).
Enclosed: a "Shanah Tovah" card published by Photo-Studio Kugel, with the same photographs of the illegal immigrant ships appearing in the album.
A total of 28 photographs. Size of photographs: approx. 11.5X8.5 cm. Condition varies. Good overall condition. Some of the photographs are captioned by hand on the leaves. Blue binding tied with string, with tissue guards. The leaves of the album and the photographs are slightly bent. Tears and blemishes to the tissue guards (some of them restored with acid-free tape). Scuffs and blemishes to binding.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.