Etzel Collection, Central Prison in Jerusalem - Letters, Memoranda

22.07.1942 - 16.06.1947

Reference Code : K 4 - 25/ 2

Archive: Etzel Collection
Material status: Scanned
Date Type: Approximate

Attachments

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Description

Letter from death row inmates in Jerusalem Prison to the institutions not to request pardon and not to compare their fate to that of the informers.
Memoranda by Fighting Underground prisoners to U.N.S.C.O.P.: declaration of hunger strike as act of protest against method of the trials, death sentences and prison conditions;
Call to grant them status of prisoners of war;
Letter from Yosef (Eliyahu Temler) to Yiftach (Amichai Paglin) about operation plan to release the prisoners from the prison.
Correspondence
between Max Zeligman and British authorities about detention and treatment of four Night of Whippings detainees;
Approval for Max Kritchman, lawyer, to visit prisoners in Jerusalem Prison;
Notice regarding petition by head rabbi and Citizens' Unity to British to demand separation of Jewish from Arab prisoners in Central Prison in Jerusalem.