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unusual facts about Jewish Underground


Havat Gilad

In 1984 he was convicted of membership in the Jewish Underground of the early 1980s, and sentenced to three years in prison for his part in the assassination of Palestinian mayors.



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Ari Wallach

Ari was born in Guadalajara, Mexico where his father, a Polish Holocaust survivor and member of the Jewish underground in World War II, established a successful industrial infrastructure business after an 11 year stint in Cuba pre and post-revolution.

Efraim Margolin

Growing up with a father who was a local leader of the Haganah Jewish Underground Militia, he became one of the leading young engineers during World War II working for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in Iran and later, as Manager in Bahrain Island constructing an airport for the British Air Force.

Jewish resistance

Jewish Resistance Movement, a Jewish underground movement in Mandate Palestine

Kiryat Shmuel, Jerusalem

Members of the Lehi and Etzel Jewish underground were tried here, and some were sentenced to death.

Nathan George Horwitt

Horwitt was rumored to have made his farm in Stockbridge, Massachusetts available for training exercises for the Jewish underground force, the Irgun, between 1945 and 1948.

Nazi persecution of the Catholic Church in Poland

In Kolonia Wilenska, Sister Anna Borkowska hid men from the Jewish underground from the Vilna ghetto.