2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
Absentee bidding for this session ends on Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM EST.
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Real photo printed card, 9” x 7” showing a view of the notorious Acre Prison., nd circa 1940.
Acre Prison, also known as Akko Prison, is a former prison and current museum in Acre, Israel. The citadel in the old city was built during the Ottoman period over the ruins of a 12th-century Crusader fortress. During the British Mandate it was used as a prison. Many were imprisoned during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. 108 Arab prisoners were executed for their involvement in the revolt. In 1947, the Irgun attacked the prison in the ‘Acre Prison Break’, blowing a hole in the wall through which 27 Irgun prisoners escaped. 214 Arab prisoners also escaped. Three Irgun men who took part in that attack were captured during that attack and imprisoned and executed there.
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