![The Zeiss Ikon Tenax camera taken by Grisha Plat from the house of a German soldier near the Bad Reichenhall DP camp](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/55_12.jpg?itok=IX9VnXmI)
Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Donated by Grisha Plat, Holon, Israel
![The Zeiss Ikon Tenax camera taken by Grisha Plat from the house of a German soldier near the Bad Reichenhall DP camp](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/55_12.jpg?itok=yNzvsiku)
![Holocaust survivors who completed a defense course in a DP camp near Munich, photographed by Grisha Plat](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/6387-1_0.jpg?itok=NeBt5emE)
![Holocaust survivors who completed a defense course in a DP camp near Munich, photographed by Grisha Plat](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/6387-1_0.jpg?itok=xmO0o6jj)
![The ship "Lakomemiyut". Plat tried to reach the shores of Eretz Israel on this ship](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/6387-2.jpg?itok=3Anh7oy4)
![The ship "Lakomemiyut". Plat tried to reach the shores of Eretz Israel on this ship](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/6387-2.jpg?itok=6733nBJh)
![Company B, Battalion 5 of the Harel Brigade in Eilat. Plat is second from the right](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/6387-3.jpg?itok=DYfTE8m7)
![Company B, Battalion 5 of the Harel Brigade in Eilat. Plat is second from the right](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/6387-3.jpg?itok=QqGeHx-I)
![Company B, 5th Battalion of the Harel Brigade in training. Grisha Plat is standing third from the left](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/6387-4.jpg?itok=gtnULuoW)
![Company B, 5th Battalion of the Harel Brigade in training. Grisha Plat is standing third from the left](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/6387-4.jpg?itok=W26nMaG5)
![Plat, left, with his FN MAG while training with the Harel Brigade](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/6387-5.jpg?itok=6l6zFgo7)
![Plat, left, with his FN MAG while training with the Harel Brigade](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/6387-5.jpg?itok=RL8ukX0j)
![The Harel Brigade soldiers in training, photographed by Grisha Plat](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/6387-6.jpg?itok=x7Et920A)
![The Harel Brigade soldiers in training, photographed by Grisha Plat](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/6387-6.jpg?itok=x6uza9U4)
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Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Donated by Grisha Plat, Holon, Israel
Grisha Plat was born in Białystok and was only eight years old when the war broke out. He had three siblings: Isser, Eliyahu and Esther. After losing his entire family in the course of the population's flight eastward, he wandered alone across the USSR, living from hand to mouth until Red Army soldiers eventually took the child under their wing.
Following the battles for the liberation of Poland, Grisha reached Berlin together with the Red Army unit. After a short time in Berlin, Grisha was handed over to Jewish Brigade soldiers and transferred to DP camps. There he joined "Gachal" (Giyus Chutz La'aretz - Overseas Recruits), and started to take part in military exercises designed to train young survivors to fight in Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine). Children in the DP camp were told that they were free to enter the houses of German neighbors and take whatever they wanted. Hoping to find interesting items, Grisha chose to enter the home of a German soldier near the Bad Reichenhall DP camp and took the Zeiss Ikon Tenax camera. He used it to photograph and document postwar life in the DP camp and later, the battles of the War of Independence. Grisha attempted to immigrate illegally on the "Lakomemiyut" ship, but was intercepted and sent with all his fellow travelers to Cyprus. After the establishment of the State of Israel, Grisha joined the Harel Brigade and fought in the battles for Jerusalem and the Negev, and participated in the liberation of Eilat. He was wounded near the Suez Canal during the Sinai Campaign. The camera has accompanied him throughout his life.
Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Donated by Grisha Plat, Holon, Israel
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