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Jacoub Noah Shak, the son of Reuven and Rachel, was born in Poland on 2nd November 1921. When still a child, his parents
Aaron Fried, the son of Moshe and Amalia, was born in Leipzig, Germany, on 23rd May 1926. In 1939 he arrived in England
William Fisher, the son of Chaim-Zeev and Frieda, was born in Proskorov in Podolia, a province of Russia, on 28th August 1923, two
Joseph Kahn, the son of Yitzhak and Devora, was born in Philadelphia, USA, on 21st August 1908. He grew up in Los Angeles,
The son of Helmut and Anna, Carl Rolfe Asman was born in Leipzig in Germany on 18th January 1927. He was six-years-old when
The son of Leon and Chava, Wilfred Canter was born in Kiev, Ukraine, on 7th February 1921. When he was five-years-old his parents
The only child of Victor, Edward Cohen was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 2nd July 1922 into a well-to-do family. He grew
The son of Aliza and Benno, Edgar Dreyfus was born in Germany in 1924. It is believed that he and his parents fled
Jonathan Balter’s Diary Jonathan Balter, a medical student from London and the son of a prominent Jewish surgeon, chose to be an infantryman
The son of Lilian and Chaim Leib (Hyman), Dov Seligman was born in the Bronx, New York, on 30th June 1922. His parents
I was born in Uvgheni, Romania on 4th July 1922. My father left for the USA in 1930, and worked 12 hours a
Jerome Kaplan was born was born in Bayonne in New Jersey to August and Celia on 17th June, 1927. After completing his education
The son of Daflar and Maklouf, Maurice Akmim was born in Paris, France on 10th December 1930. He completed elementary school and later
The son of Carl and Marta, Benjamin Stein was born in Honagen, near Frankfurt in Germany, on 19th November 1920. He was a
The son of Noel and Sophia, Jacques Shulman was born in Paris, France on 14th January, 1928. As a youth he emigrated with
I was born in Philadelphia in 1928 and while I was at college in 1947, I enlisted for service in Aliyah Bet aboard
Machal Overseas volunteers in the War of Independence1948-1949 A Machal Statue has been erected at the Armored Corps Museum at Latrun. This statue
William Guy Gerson was born in Copenhagen, in Denmark in 1913, to a Jewish Zionist family who later immigrated to the USA. During
Sidney Leisure, the son of Yitzchak and Sadisha, was born in Toronto, Canada, on 5th May 1929. He grew up in a well-to-do
72ND BATTALION, 7TH BRIGADE I was twenty-years-old and working in the fur trade earning a small wage. I was deeply troubled by the
In March 1948 Joe Sunderland was already a qualified pilot. Together with John Harvey (British Machal) and Freddy Fredkins (Belgian Congo Machalnik), he
The son of Leon and Emma, Sergio Pabuncelo was born in Rome in Italy in 1927. He studied at elementary school and later
The son of of Nissim and Esther, Yacov Maloul was born into a large family in Dimonet, Morocco, on 5th January 1929. He
Enrique Rothschild, the son of Benjamin and Chana, was born in Santiago on 7th November 1927. His parents had immigrated to Chile from