Etzel Collection, King David Hotel Bombing - Testimonies, Overviews and Newspaper Items 1948 - 2004
22.07.1946 - 22.07.1946
Reference Code : K 4 - 5/ 11/ 2
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Testimonies by Yisrael Levi (Gideon), Amichai Paglin (Gidi), Yitzhak Avinoam and S. Tamir (Nissan) regarding preparations, details and results of operation to bomb the King David Hotel, Jerusalem; involvement of Yanai (Hans Reinhold) in carrying it out, and its implications for the British administration.
Testimony by G. Neuville, a passer-by, who received a warning to distance himself from the hotel.
Overviews regarding importance of King David Hotel, adaptation of the plan of action, approval from Command of Resistance Movement to carry out the operation, preparations, the explosion and its results.
Text of radio broadcast about the bombing of the King David Hotel, with participation of those responsible and those who executed it.
Event mentioned during discussion in British House of Lords in 1979.
Newspaper items about approval of operation by Moshe Sneh, British disregard of Etzel warnings received prior to explosion, preparations and execution.
Article by Menachem Begin about the bombing, translated to Russian, 1996.
Newspaper items on fiftieth anniversary of the operation, July 1996.

