Etzel Collection, Materials Related to Altalena Affair
11.06.1948 - 08.07.1948
Reference Code : K 4 - 20/ 11
Attachments
Description
Identification tags belonging to fallen in Altalena Affair.
Protocol of Council of the Provisional State meeting from 24.6.1948, regarding wave of imprisonments that took place in Eretz Israel following Altalena Affair and resignation of Rabbi Fishman and Moshe Shapira.
Report by officer of regimental culture about responses to his lecture that related to Altalena Affair.
Blessings honoring heroes of Altalena from 'Friends of Lehi';
Greeting from mayor of Johannesburg, with picture of Altalena attached;
Indictment from Field Court against soldiers who refused to participate in action against th Altalena in Kfar Vitkin.
Certificate of Release from Service for Joseph Brooks, crewman on Altalena, signed by Consul of Panama and Monroe Fein, 14.7.1948 (photocopy)
Comments by David Zvi Pinkus at Council of the Provisional Government, 8.7.1948 (copy from State Archive, personal archive of Zvi Pinkus, P/3024/5) not scanned.
Dismantling of Altalena, its sinking and search for remnants by Arik Kerman, 29/5/2016; outline with copies of documents on subject, not scanned.

