Collection of Documents and Photographs – "The Kazet Theater" – Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp, 1945-1947

Collection of Documents and Photographs – "The Kazet Theater" – Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp, 1945-1947
Photograph album, membership card and program of the “Kazet Theater” (Concentration Camp Theater) at the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp. [Ca. 1945-1947].
1. Kazet Theater membership card, issued to the actress Sonia Buczkowska, from 1945. With photograph. [4] leaves, 14 cm. Good condition. Stains. Loose leaves.
2. Program for a performance of the “Kazet Theater” in Belgium, organized by the “World Jewish Congress” and the Committee of Jewish Organizations in Belgium. Brussels, 1947. Yiddish. [1] leaf, folded in half, 21 cm. Good condition.
3. Photo album with 25 photographs of the “Kazet Theater” actors, most photographed while performing. Theater stamps on the album leaves and on the photograph backs (some added later). Some of the photographs are stamped on the back with the stamp of Sami Feder, director of the “Kazet Theater”. Photo size varies, ca. 8.5X9.5 cm - 16.5X21 cm. Some of the photographs are later prints. Album: 29X19 cm. Good condition.
The Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp led an active political and cultural life, with many active organizations and institutions, including the “Kazet Theater”. The theater was founded in 1945 by theater actor and director Sami Feder. In the course of some two years the theater actors staged performances and plays in Yiddish for the Jewish public in the DP camps in Germany. In 1947 they also performed in Belgium, Sweden, England and Paris. After many of the theater actors chose to remain in Paris, the theater’s activities ceased.