NORMAN SCHUTZMAN’S excerpt from his autobiography“MY PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL” Company “B” 7th Brigade, 72nd Battalion: L-R: Sidney Halperin, “Buffalo Bill” Shapiro, “Ahem”
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PETER SAMUEL WINTON Military No: 55155 7th July 1948 – L-R Mendel Itzinger (Germany/UK), 72nd Battalion InfantryPeter Samuel Winton, 7th Brigade, Shalom Pinder
Harry Klass (right front row wearing World War II American steel helmet) Harry was born in Cape Town to a Lithuanian-born father and
There are giants and legends that walk among us and when they pass on, the void is tremendous. A true giant left us
A rare gold medallion of the Irgun Tzvai Leumi has been donated to the Begin Center archives by Barry Pakula of Indianapolis in
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John McElroy was a highly experienced Canadian pilot. His military career began in the Canadian infantry before he subsequently enlisted in the Royal
I was employed as an assistant shorthand typist at the Women’s and Men’s Division of the United Zionist Revisionist Party in Johannesburg when
Leslie Easterman in World War II Leslie Easterman was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to Esther and Alexander Easterman on 7th July, 1920. His
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I was born in the USA and lived in New York City. In May 1948 I was recruited by representatives from Israel. They
In the spring of 1948, probably during March, I applied to the “Land and Labor for Palestine” Organization. Subsequently, in April, we spent
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Leonard Eddy Fine was born in Toronto, Canada to a family of Russian immigrants. In his youth, he was very active in sports,
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In a somewhat perverse action I volunteered to go to Israel to counter the horrendous deeds committed by the British against defenseless displaced
James served in the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1940-46 in the European Theater of Operations. Although he returned home following his service
