Gift of Rose Sigal-Ibsen in memory of Albert Dov Sigal
Id no. 196.88, Jewelry, Hebrew
British authorities held Jewish "illegal" immigrants, most of them Holocaust survivors trying to enter Palestine, on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
Artist Albert Dov Sigal (1912-1970) made this brooch with the image of a ship and the word "Cyprus" in Hebrew at the bottom. He sold pins for money to supplement his family's meals.