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LOT 96:

An early report on the Hadassah Convoy disaster - May 1948 - was submitted about a month after the disaster


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An early report on the Hadassah Convoy disaster - May 1948 - was submitted about a month after the disaster


A rare and unknown report on the Hadassah Convoy disaster, which was submitted by S. Horowitz to Dr. D. V. Senator - Administrator of the Hebrew University on 5/9/1948, about a month after the disaster. 80 leaves Typewriter, with extensive details from the survivors of the Hadassah massacre, and from people who were part of the serious incident, about the various stages of the horrific massacre.


The report goes into detail about all the stages of the famous "Mount Scopus Convoy" disaster, in which the Israeli armored convoy was attacked and made its way to Mount Scopus on April 13, 1948, during which 78 passengers of the convoy - medical workers at Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital (including the director of Hadassah Hospital, Dr. Moshe Ben David), Employees of the Hebrew University, Haganah defense personnel, patients, visitors and civilians - were killed after being attacked by Arab rioters as revenge for the Deir Yassin affair. In the introduction to the report, the attorney who edited it writes, Mr. S. Horowitz that the investigation into the disaster took longer than he thought because the security authorities did not cooperate with him, and also due to the fact that he collected testimony from the wounded in a serious condition who did not exactly remember every detail asked about him. 


The report includes a background on the organization of the convoy and the road to Mount Scopus in general, an extensive description minute by minute during the day of the disaster, starting at 9:00 in the morning when the convoy gathered on various streets in Jerusalem, the road and security tests, the first explosion of the escort car, then the explosion of the two buses, and the combined Arab attack on the cars stuck in the place, the military reinforcements that arrived late, the convoy's attempt to defend themselves, chilling testimony of the bodies burned and barely identified (those brought to a mass grave) , and on the missing. There is also a detailed list of the witnesses names and authors of the relevant documents, as well as letters and testimonies received from those who survived the incident and submitted as part of the disaster investigation - including extensive details of the disaster from various angles from those attacked and survived: Dr. Egon Rees, Dr. Heinrich Feuchtunger, Dr. David Ullman, Olitsky, Mr. Pinchas Zaritzky, Dr. Lipa Shapira, Zeev Nasetzky, Arie Szamasky (who testifies in his testimony how he noticed an armed Arab who passed just before the car they were driving, and how the explosion came within a minute) There is also a list of "the names of the wounded who are in Hadassah, Mount Scopus", and "the names of those killed."


Among other things, the report reveals the helplessness of the "Hagganah" personnel in the event that waited for the British consent to intervene, which it refused to attend, as well as the British disregard for the difficult situation after learning about the massacred Jews. According to the testimony of David Shaltiel, for about 6 hours the British forces refused to intervene and rescue the convoy. The British even prevented the Haganah from organizing a rescue operation).


c. 80 pages (33x20 cm), given in the original folder Entitled "The Murders of Sheikh Graach". condition good - very good.