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As a single, 21-year-old registered nurse with a specialty in operating room nursing, I was “signed on” in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1948 to
By Michael Finegood The recent death of Sam Lewis brings to an end the career of one of the distinguished members of Machal.
Rose Agriss was born and raised in Poland, near Vilna, Lithuania. In 1932 she immigrated to the United States and moved to New
I was born in Pretoria in 1924. In 1940 at the age of 16 I was apprenticed to the Iscor Steel Works which
Hank Greenspun was born in Brooklyn on the 27th August 1909. He studied law before joining the United States Army and during World
Evelyn McDaniel was born in the U.S.A. in 1912. Her husband Fred Dahms served as an aircraft mechanic with Lineas Areas de Panama
It was a sight Frieda Macarov will never forget. “When David and I arrived in Jerusalem from Kibbutz Ginegar in October 1947, my
Cyril Steinberg was a volunteer from South Africa who served as a navigator in Air Transport Command in Israel’s War of Independence. To
In 1943, with the encouragement of her mother and father, Esther joined the U.S. Navy Waves. She received extensive medical training as a
Walter “Heavy” Greaves was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, to a family that had fished out of that port for several generations. He
I was born in Montreal, Canada, on 30th October 1924. I was a member of the Habonim youth movement in Toronto before joining
(Photo: South Africa’s 800) Sydney Cohen was born and grew up in the small rural village of Bothaville in the Orange Free State
It was in the hungry 1930s when Pussy, then a teenager, joined Habonim in his native New York. By the time he enlisted
Left to right: David Ophir, Marvin Broder, David Ben-Gurion, Samuel Yanai (Samech), David Hacohen During World War II Marvin served in the U.S.
Jack’s parents were Irish Catholics who were involved in the troubles in Ireland during World War I. They moved to the U.K. where
Jack Fleisch was born in South Africa on thee 12th April, 1924. At the age of 16 he joined the South African army
EXCERPT FROM “A TEENAGER IN HITLER’S DEATH CAMPS” BY BENNY GRUNFELD “IN ISRAEL, 1948-1952” Benny Grunfeld was born in Cluj in Romania
Adrian Phillips, a graduate of the City College of New York and veteran of the U.S. Merchant Marines, volunteered for the “Secret Fleet”
Sara Marder at radio station “Roof Alef Bet” in Haifa, 17th May 1948. My parents were ardent Zionists and left Hartford, Conn.
Mildred Rosenberg served in the Israel Medical Corps from 1948 to 1951 and was stationed at Military Hospital No. 5 (Tel Litvinsky, now
Mary Berger became a surgical nurse in 1942 in the U.S. Army. She was sent abroad when her hospital moved to Normandy following
Jules in uniform as paratrooper in Belgian SAS – 1945 My experience in the Belgian underground during the occupation by the Germans helped
I was one of about ten of us who were sent to guard a house in a section of Jerusalem inhabited by both
In 1933 when I was eight, my family, including my sister Sara, moved from Hartford, Connecticut to Hadera in Palestine. In 1934 we