Testimonies of Etzel Members
Recording reference code : TP - 9
Description
- Shlomo Lev-Ami retirement from Haganah and establishment of Etzel Petah Tikva branch. Development of Etzel and headquarters during David Raziel. Military training in Poland. Attitude of Avraham Stern (Yair) to Zeev Jabotinsky and Revisionist Movement.
Split of 1940. Reorganization of Etzel and relations with Lehi members. Lehi program to ally with the Germans. Etzel command after death of David Raziel, under command of Yaakov Meridor. Relations between interviewee and other members of headquarters.
Appointment of Menachem Begin as Etzel commander and structural and organizational changes at headquarters. Propaganda and information. Etzel activities in Aliyah offices, public and press reaction to operation. Relations with Haganah and national institutions, background to the 'Season'. Am lohem period. The 'Season' and position of Etzel. Disputes of command and Haganah in Etzel. Transcript : on 3.
- Lipsha Jameson: her activities in British military hospital in Cairo, recruiting Jewish soldiers to help Etzel. Suspicions of British, her detention and interrogation.
Started a hunger strike, was hospitalized, released and deported from Egypt.
- Moshe Rosenberg: Etzel under his command.

