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KIT WILKES-CHASEDeserted the British to join the Haganah On 18th June 2004, Kit Wilkes-Chase’s widow June and their daughters Vanessa and Genevieve received
Ernst (Yacov) Kroch was born in Leipzig, Germany on 23rd November 1923 and studied there at high school until 1938, when he left.
I.D.F. NO: 63516As related to the editor, with excerpts from Henry Katzew’s book “South Africa’s 800.” Gordon Mandelzweig entered his final year of
Avraham Abarzel, the son of Albert and Diamantine, was born on 4th May 1925 in Constantine, Algeria, the eldest of ten siblings. When
The only son of Benjamin and Gittel, Mandel Math was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 22nd August 1926. His parents educated him
His early years at elementary school coincided with the rise of Nazi Germany. In 1938, when he was 11, his family was expelled
The daughter of David and Rosa, Debora Epstein was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1929. The only daughter of an assimilated Jewish family,
The son of Dr. Leo (a delegate to the Zionist Congress) and Johanna (Joanne, nee Hyman) Weiler, Raphael was born in Saarbrucken in
Louis Wald was the son of Yacov and Rosa, hard-working Jews who emigrated from Poland and settled in France, where he was born
The son of Malka and David, Mordechai Wainerman was born in Poland on 1st January 1921. His family emigrated to Argentina when he
The son of Yacov (Jacques) and Lina, Leon Maurice Amzel was born in Nancy, France, on 20th November 1929. He completed high school,
Edouard Amar, the son of Meir and Mamram, was born in Alexandria, Egypt, on 9th October 1910. He was highly educated, and earned
The son of Emily and Leon, Albert Albrecht was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1930 and educated at The Institute for Protection of
Gloria Kessler at a military hospital in Tiberias, 1948-49Acknowledgements to the Museum of American and Canadian Volunteers in Israel’s War of Independence Gloria
Haganah agents had acquired six scrap Bristol Beaufighter TF-10 aircraft in the U.K. After being repaired with the help of contacts, the agents
Wilfred Sheppard, the son of Ernst and Rosa, was born in Vienna, Austria on 22nd November 1922. He arrived in England as a
The son of Avraham and Chana, Richard Sheinhorn was born in Germany in 1925, and arrived in England with the Kindertransport groups at
This page has been updated 11th April 2022 – see video below of Mike Amir’s story. Mike’s experience in the artillery in World
The son of Koti and Yosef, Solomon Morley-Dahan was born on 12th May 1920 in the town of Melila in Spanish Morocco. He
The son of Joseph and Esther, Henri Fernovik was born in 1928. As a member of Machal he arrived from Paris in May
Edouard Flato, the son of Avraham (Bernard) and Sarah, was born in Paris, France, on 12th October 1931. His parents survived the extermination
Sidney Steller, the son of Moshe-Yacov and Leah, was born in Vienna, Austria, on 18thAugust 1924. He was orphaned at the age of
In Israel’s War of Independence in 1948-49, I became known as Sidney Fersht, Haganah Number 76490, having proudly taken the oath of allegiance
