Há muitos anos, talvez no início dos anos 80, antes da unificação da Alemanha Democrática e da Alemanha Federal em 1989, um tio meu ofereceu-me um calendário cujas fotografias eram,  de barcos em garrafas e lembrava-me que era, provavelmente, proveniente da República Democrática Alemã. Cheguei a fotografar algumas das imagens desse calendário e mostro-as aqui nas duas primeiras fotografias que apresento.  Many years ago, perhaps in the early 1980s, before the unification of Democratic Germany and Federal Germany in 1989, my uncle offered me a calendar whose photographs were about ships in bottles and I reminded that it was probably coming from The German Democratic Republic. I got to photograph some of the images of this calendar and I show them here in the first two photographs that I present. Vor vielen Jahren, vielleicht in den frühen 1980er Jahren, vor der deutsch-deutschen Wiedervereinigung 1990, bot mir ein Onkel einen Kalender mit Bildern von Schiffen in ...

The National Navy Museum in Haifa, which includes the boats in bottles from the first five photographs, was created in 1953 based on the private collection of its founder and first director, Aryeh Ben-Eli. In 1972, the museum moved to its current location near Monte Carmelo's north beach. I don't know if this collection contains pieces of Palestinian origin. However, we know that on the Palestinian side, Yasser Arafat also liked to collect bottles with boats. In the photo below Yasser Arafat appears in Ramallah and looks at a bottle presented by Wilfried Mammes from Bremen in Germany. Il National Navy Museum di Haifa, a cui appartengono i pezzi delle prime cinque fotografie, è stato fondato nel 1953, sulla base della collezione privata del suo fondatore e primo direttore, Aryeh Ben-Eli. Nel 1972 il museo si trasferì nell'attuale sede vicino alla spiaggia nord di Monte Carmelo Non so se questa collezione abbia pezzi di origine palestinese. Tuttavia, sappiamo che da part...