Three Letters and a Reproduction of the Scroll of Independence – Signed by Saadia Kobashi, Moshe Kol, Kalman Kahana ...

Three Letters and a Reproduction of the Scroll of Independence – Signed by Saadia Kobashi, Moshe Kol, Kalman Kahana and Zerach Warhaftig – Signatories of the Scroll of Independence
Three letters and a reproduction of the Scroll of Independence, each signed by a different signatory of the Scroll: Saadia Kobashi, Moshe Kol, Kalman Kahana and Zerach Warhaftig. Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv, ca. late 1970s to 1987.
1-3. Three letters describing the signing of the Scroll of Independence, dated 1987: • Letter with the testimony of Moshe Kol - Kolodny (typewritten): "I didn't attend the festive ceremony in Tel-Aviv since I was besieged in Jerusalem… Only during the ceasefire was I flown in on a small, rickety, Piper… I signed with my family name, Kolodny; by doing so I wanted to compensate my family and my wife's family, most of whom perished in the Holocaust". • A handwritten letter with the testimony of Saadia Kobashi: "I signed with awesome respect and a thanksgiving prayer to the Creator of the World…". • A handwritten letter by Kalman Kahana: "After 40 years this indeed will not be a reconstruction of emotions, and I fear that they will contain more imagination than reality. A recorder for emotions, to preserve them, has not yet been invented…"
4. "Independence Day Souvenir, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Jerusalem", a printed sheet of paper. On one side is the symbol of the menorah and on the other side, a reproduction of the Scroll of Independence in three languages – Hebrew, English and French. Hand-signed on the bottom by Zerach Warhaftig, in Hebrew and in English.
Enclosed: a photocopy of a letter from 12.5.1948, which was sent to David Ben-Gurion by Moshe Kol, Yitzchak Greenbaum and Yehuda Leib Fishman Maimon. Hand-signed with initials by Kol (in pen).
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. The letters are in their original envelopes.