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Helmar (Helmut) Lerski
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1940–1942
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Your Excellency, President of the State; Mr. Prime Minister; President of the Hebrew University; Governors; teachers; ladies and gentlemen.
I stand in awe before you, leaders of our generation, here…
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Yitzhak Rabin
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1967
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At an age when most youngsters are struggling to unravel the secrets of mathematics and the mysteries of the Bible; at an age when first love blooms; at the tender age of sixteen, I was handed a rifle…
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Yitzhak Rabin
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1994
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Robert Capa
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1948
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We will briefly mention several of his more important military expeditions. In the year 1731, Mr. Boeyé, Officer of the Christian Citizens Militia, received an order from the Council to carry out a…
Contributor:
David de Isaac Cohen Nassy
Places:
Paramaribo, Dutch Colonial Empire
(Paramaribo, Suriname)
Date:
1788
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Let’s start with risk. The risk of being punished. The risk of being isolated. The risk of being injured or killed. The risk of being scorned. We are all conscripts in one sense or another. For all of…
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Susan Sontag
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
2003
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This surprising 1942 Hebrew-language poster from Palestine calls for women to serve in an all-female unit within Britain’s Royal Air Force. This recruitment office was not open on Saturdays!
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1938–1948
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Walter Rosenblum
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1944
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Excerpt from the Order of the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense:
. . . It is recommended that all commanders (from platoon leader to head of staff) change their family names—be they German…
Contributor:
Mordecai Nimtsa-bi
Places:
Haifa, Israel
Date:
1948