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“From Minneapolis to Jerusalem 1947 and 1976”, published in “UpFront”, Jerusalem Post, Sept.19, 2008 Please add Note: Published book written by Rabbi Sachs:
Jerry Rosenberg grew up in a typical immigrant Jewish family in Hamilton, his parents having immigrated to Canada from Russia in 1905. His
I was born in Belgium where we lived when the Germans occupied the country in May 1940. With the start of deportations east,
EXCERPTS FROM: “IN THREE WARS: A PERSONAL AND ORTHOPAEDIC PERSPECTIVE” by Cyril J. Kaplan I graduated from the Medical School of the University
Irving Meltzer grew up in Glen Cove, Long Island, and served as a ship’s radio officer on Merchant Marine convoys through treacherous Nazi-held
Click here to read Part 1 The truck and the bus were both full of grapes and other fruits, and one truck carried
When Jewish Agency emissary Michael Comay arrived in South Africa in January 1948, at one of his first meetings with Dr. Lionel Melzer
Link to Part 1 Our positions were taken over by the Besa machine gun platoon of our battalion, and for a brief moment
INTRODUCTION BY SMOKY SIMON (Chairman of World Machal, and Chief of Air Operations in War of Independence) JOE WOOLF – PAR EXCELLENCE
72ND INFANTRY BATTALION, 7TH BRIGADE I.D. NO. 64636 The tumultuous years of World War II coincided with my high school years, and
The underground organization that recruited American volunteers in 1947 was known as Land & Labor. When I was seventeen, my friend Simon Levy
When he submitted his application for a passport, Judah misrepresented his destination. This was necessary because the State Department, having noticed the surge
ANDRE WIEDER My name is Andre Wieder, born 10th December 1927 in Czechoslovakia, and living in Belgium since 1930. My father, a baker
Allan Burke was born in Manchester on 7th December 1914. He worked in his family’s garment business for a short while, but with
Leonard Cohen, the son of Bella and Shalom-Sol Cohen, was born in Liverpool, England, on 28th August 1919. His mother was one of
Charles Ohayon, the son of Yehuda and Sultana, was born in Paris, France in 1925. He arrived in Israel in 1948 and joined
Ezer Weizman was born in Tel Aviv in 1924, and raised in Haifa. He began his long military career by enlisting in the
“ Seek and You Shall Find”!! Seeking information about his late father who took part in Israel’s War of Independence, John Burrows Jr.
Paul Shulman with Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion Half a century ago, hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees who had survived
I joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1941 and trained in Canada as a navigator. On completion of my training, I was
“CZECH MATE” Article by By Gloria Deutsch. Jerusalem Post Magazine, 9th July, 2010 When the Czech Republic recently celebrated 65 years
BY AMIR GILAT – 9TH NOVEMBER, 1987 published in Maariv and The Jerusalem Post about the Brit Milah of Modechai Rosenfeld on the
Along with over 800 other South Africans, I was in Israel for a year beginning May/June 1948. I had completed two-and-a-half years of
“Drom Afrika 1” – A day in May 1947A new name had just been painted on the whaler: “Drom Afrika 1.” She was