Detention Camps in Africa, The Camp in Sambel, Eritrea - Murder of Shaul Hagalili and Eliyahu Ezra - Letters, Overviews, Sketches

17.01.1946 - 01.12.1946

Reference Code : K 15 - 2/ 25/ 1

Archive: Detention Camps in Africa
Material status: Scanned

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Overviews and letters to various regional commanders, people and institutions on: incident with camp guards where two detainees were killed, request to replace the Sudanese guard staff with white guards, demand to change camp's security arrangements and transfer bodies of victims to Eretz Israel. List of names of wounded. Letters of condolence. Letter to U.S. Supreme Court judge, Frankfurter, requesting intervention in matter of illegal detention in exile and murder case.
Problem of legal rights and status of deportees. Internal instructions for detainees following the murder. Letter from British representative accusing detainees in incident. Letter from father of Eliyahu Ezra to Committee for compensation from damages from riots, application for financial assistance. Drawings of map of camp.