Etzel Collection, Capture of Two British Sergeants - Leaflets, Articles, Newspaper Items and British Intelligence Report

13.07.1947 - 01.09.1947

Reference Code : K 4 - 6/ 18/ 1

Archive: Etzel Collection
Material status: Scanned

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Description

Etzel leaflets informing of trial of two British sergeants and explaining reasons for their hanging.
Report on conversation of Golda Meyerson with the High Commissioner after the hanging of the sergeants, in which she promised that the Yishuv (pre-State community) would fight the dissidents.
Newspaper articles about kidnapping of the sergeants, searches for them, declaration of Netanya as a military area, discovery of the two hanged bodies, reactions from the Jewish Agency, Hagana, sources among British authorities and around the world.
Also in file:
Copies of letters from the two sergeants.
Report from commander of Intelligence in Eretz Israel to General Secretary of Mandate Government about searches for the kidnapped sergeants. A letter from a Jew from Netanya giving names of those involved in the kidnapping and the trial also included in the file. (the copy is photocopied, not scanned)