Atty. Max Seligman - Archives, Correspondence about Detention of Hatzohar and Betar Members
10.08.1938 - 19.06.1939
Reference Code : HT 13 - 2/ 2
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Max Seligman correspondence with prisoners and British authorities. Main topics: inquiries into Max Seligman requesting treatment of Betar and Hatzohar (Zionist Revisionists) activists who were arrested, prison visits, request to transfer Jewish prisoners from prisons in Arab areas to Jewish areas, appeals to authorities on matters of religion and holidays, hunger strike by Jewish prisoners in Acre in light of difficult conditions and dangerous security situation in prison, caring for Acre prisoners' issues, announcement of detainees' release, reactions to extensions of arrest;
Letters and memorandum by Jewish detainees in Acre to High Commissioner demanding their release, threat of hunger strike. Letters from Yaakov Hilevich to Max Seligman requesting his release from Acre prison. Release of Binyamin Lubotzky. List of Acre Revisionist prisoners and personal information from 05/04/1939.

