Sourced narrative
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9 statements
01Evidence and context
The grand mufti, openly hostile to Jews, met Hitler on November 30, 1941, and spent the war years in Berlin.
From summer 1942 an Einsatzgruppen unit in Athens stood ready to enter Palestine if Rommel won.
In May 1942, 600 Zionists at the Biltmore Hotel rejected the White Paper and partition and demanded a Jewish commonwealth over all of Palestine.
The Holocaust and Britain's obstruction, which kept Jewish refugees from reaching Palestine, radicalized certain elements in the Yishuv.
Menachem Begin's Irgun, roughly two thousand fighters, demanded an uprising against British rule in Palestine.
Lehi, under Yitzhak Shamir, assassinated Lord Moyne in 1944 and Count Folke Bernadotte in 1948.
Britain's Black Sabbath roundup seized three thousand Jews, tortured a large number, and sent some into African exile.
In July 1946 the Irgun destroyed the King David Hotel, where Britain kept its military and civil headquarters. Ninety-one people died.
In February 1947 Britain handed jurisdiction over Palestine to the United Nations.
Context
The grand mufti, openly hostile to Jews, met Hitler on November 30, 1941, and spent the war years in Berlin.
From summer 1942 an Einsatzgruppen unit in Athens stood ready to enter Palestine if Rommel won.
In May 1942, 600 Zionists at the Biltmore Hotel rejected the White Paper and partition and demanded a Jewish commonwealth over all of Palestine.
§ 01Geography
Where it happened
§ 02Museum
Objects and images
§ 04Network
Connections
§ 05Bibliography
Further reading
Anita Shapira, Israel: A History (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2012).
A synthesis of Israeli history · recommended in Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 517
§ 06Apparatus
Sources on this page
- 01Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 461inspect
- 02Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 461inspect
- 03Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 461inspect
- 04Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 460inspect
- 05Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 461inspect
- 06Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 461inspect
- 07Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 461inspect
- 08Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 461inspect
- 09Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 461inspect
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