Item Summary

This document publishes the declarations made by five LEHI fighters on trial in the British Military Court in 1944 for gun possession: Zvi Tavori, David Hame'iri, Malkah-Hasyah Shapira-Lerner, Anshel Kaufman Shpeilman, and Matityahu Shmuelevits (Refa'el Birnboim). For example, Zvi Tavori refuses to recognize the jurisdiction of the British Military Court, claiming: "I received permission to possess the gun from the only government I recognize in the Land of Israel, the LEHI, the only one to restore to the people of Israel its rightful status among the nations in the form of a Hebrew state in this land." After completing his statement, he was sentenced to seven years in prison. Hame'iri received a 12 year sentence, Shapira-Lerner received a 4 year sentence, Shpeilman was sentenced to 10 years, and Shmuelevits, charged with both shooting a British platoon and gun possession, was sentenced to death by hanging. Upon hearing the verdict Shmuelevits began to sing Hatikvah. The document encourages its reader to pass it along after reading it. Epilogue: The death sentence was reduced to life imprisonment. After independence, Shmuelivits became an advisor to Prime Minister Menachem Begin. He died in 1995.

Descriptive Information

Title
הנאשמים מאשימים : לוחמי חרות בפני בית-הדין הצבאי הבריטי בירושלים : הרצאות לוחמי חרות ישראל.
Transliterated Title
ha-Neʼeshamim Maʼashimim : loḥame ḥerut bi-fene bet-ha-din ha-tsevaʼi ha-Briṭi bi-Yerushalayim : hartsaʼat Loḥame Ḥerut Yiśraʼel.
Call Number
oversize DS119.2 .C64f box 4 item 135
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc4j03dd45n
Publisher
[Israel] : LEḤI, Kisleṿ 705 [November/December 1944].
Language
Hebrew
Date Created
1944
Format
Book
Extent
40 pages ; 22 x 17 cm
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Princeton collection of publications of Jewish underground organizations from pre-state Israel, 135.0.

Discovery Information

Subject
Loḥame ḥerut Yiśraʼel
Jews—Palestine—History—20th century
Israel—History, Military—20th century
Palestine—History—1917-1948

Physical Characteristics

File Count
40

Institutional Information

Collection
Underground Publications and Ephemera Printed in Palestine at End of the Palestine Mandate
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9c3a32b8-56e9-4943-8d91-88711b816b7f/manifest