Chess pieces made by Aryeh Klein in a detainment camp in Cyprus, after attempting to immigrate to Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) illegally.

After the war, the brothers Yisrael and Yitzhak Roth and their cousin Aryeh Klein, Hungarian survivors, decided to make their way to Eretz Israel with a group of pioneers of the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist movement. They sailed together on the ship "Knesset Israel" that attempted to land in spite of the British mandate blockade, but the ship was caught and its' passengers deported to the detainment camps in Cyprus. The Hashomer Hatzair group stayed together in the camp. One of their fellow detainees, a chess expert, began to teach others and some of the youths started to carve chess pieces from the local limestone that was strewn throughout the area. Yisrael Roth came up with the idea of building a lathe that would enable them to mass produce various items. He obtained a pair of skates from someone and used his mechanical skills to build a lathe with the blades. With the creation of the lathe they began to mass produce chess pieces. Yisrael made the pieces with the lathe, Aryeh carved the details and Isaac made hinged boxes for the games that served as chess boards. The three proceeded to sell the games to the Jewish Agency representatives in the camp who sold them to other detainees and to the British soldiers who bought the games and sent them home as gifts. The group's joint kitty filled with funds that enabled them to buy improved food. When the three were finally allowed to sail to the new state of Israel, the group established Kibbutz Beit Kama in the Negev. Aryeh Klein kept one of the chess games that they had made in the camp and Yisrael Roth kept the lathe.