Palestine During World War II, 1940-1945
- Overview
- Primary sources
- Documents and Correspondence Relating to Palestine – Aug. 1939-Mar. 1940.
- Summons to a Holy War Against Britain – A “Fatwa” Issued by Haj Amin al-Husseini, May, 1941.
- The Mufti’s Diary Entry on His Meeting with Hitler, Nov. 21, 1941.
- The German “Final Solution,” 1941.
- Atlantic Charter, Aug. 14, 1941.
- Murder! Sir Harold Mac Michael, 1942.
- Declaration by the United Nations, Jan. 1, 1942.
- The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland, Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dec. 10, 1942.
- Survey of Arab Affairs, Jewish Agency, Central Zionist Archives S25/5934, 1942/3.
- The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising- Telegram from Yitzhak Schwartzbart to the Jewish Agency, Aug. 8, 1943.
- JNF in Action, 1943.
- A Sure and Certain End, Abba Hiller Silver, United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- After the War is Won, Sigfrid Undset, United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- The Right to Grow, Louis Bromfield, United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- For the Millions to Come, Walter C. Lowdermilk, United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- The Growth of the Yishuv in Palestine, United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- A Declaration of Rights- The Text of the Palestine Resolution Adopted at the American Jewish Congress – September 1, 1943, United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- Our Human Assets, Fannie Hurst, United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- In the Scales of Justice, Jacques Maritain, United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- The Program of the United Palestine Appeal, United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- Storm Signal, Pierre Van Paassen, United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- 1939-1943 Four Fateful Years, Julian L. Meltzer, United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- The Story of “Night of Stars,” Samuel Blitz, United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- America and Palestine, Israel Goldstein, United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- An Historic Opportunity, Stephen S. Wise, United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- The Road to Nationhood, Bernard A. Rosenblatt, United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- Land for Reconstruction, Morris Rothenberg, United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- The Immigration of German Jews, Abraham Revusky, United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- Palestine’s Role in the Solution of the Jewish Problem, Chaim Weizmann, Foreign Affairs 20, 1943, 324-338.
- The Jewish National Home in Palestine- Hearings Before the Committee On Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Feb. 1944.
- Rak Kach- Notice, Etzel Requests Recognition as an Underground Army, Sep. 27, 1944. IN ENGLISH, THE BROADSIDE READS, IN PART- “On 27th September 1944, at night, attacks were carried out by our soldiers against the British Police Fortresses at Haifa, Kalkiliya, Katra and Beit Dajan…”
- The Alexandria Protocol, Oct. 7, 1944.
- Prayer for Eating Hametz in Concentration Camp, 1944.
- Protocols of Proceedings of Crimea Conference (Yalta Conference), Feb. 4-11, 1945.
- Pact of the League of Arab States, Mar. 22, 1945.
- Attitude of American Government Toward Palestine- Letter from President Roosevelt to King Ibn Saud, Apr. 5, 1945.
- Article 80, United Nations Charter, June 26, 1945.
- Jewish Colonization and Arab Development in Palestine, David Horowitz, Jewish Agency, Central Zionist Archives S90/76, October 7, 1945.
- President Herbert Hoover in an Interview with the Scripps-Howard Press, Nov. 19, 1945.
- Exchange of Notes between the United Kingdom and the United States Regarding the Constitution of a Joint Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry, Dec. 10, 1945. This text contains the terms of reference for the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry which visited Palestine in 1946 in order to provide an assessment and recommendations regarding the problems of European Jewry and Palestine.
- There Are No Master Races! (comic strip), 1945.
- Swat Them All! American Jewish Committee, c. 1945.
- Mr. Biggott, Carl Rose, American Jewish Committee, c. 1945.
- International Response to Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Holocaust
- British Limits on Immigration
- Newspaper articles
- Life Visits Arabia, Life Magazine, May 31, 1943. Click here for more on Ibn Saud.
- U.S. to Join with Britain Solving Jewish Issue, News Chronicle, Nov. 14, 1945. Click here for more on The Jewish Question.
- Palestine, News Chronicle, Nov. 14, 1945.
- The Powers Must Unite to Aid Jews, Says Bevin, News Chronicle, Nov. 14, 1945.
- Secondary sources
- Images
- Palestinian Troops in England, July 26, 1940. Three members of the Palestinian Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps present arms at their camp in England. The PAMPC was a fighting unit consisting of both Arabs and Jews. Click here for the original Caption for Palestinian Troops in England.
- Group of soldiers in the Palestine Pioneer Corps, Mar. 9, 1940. The group includes a Palestine Jew, a Palestine Arab, a German, an Austrian, a Czech, a Transjordan Arab and a Pole.
- Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue, Jerusalem, c. 1940
- Dung Gate, Jerusalem, 1940-1946.
- The Field Synagogue by the River Svir, 1941-1944.
- Cover of United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- The Desert Comes to Life, United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- They Back Up the R.A.F., United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- …And Now on the Sea, United Palestine Appeal Yearbook, 1943.
- Postcard of Adolf Hitler and the Mufti of Jerusalem Meeting in Berlin
- The Mufti Reviewing Bosnian Troops, Jan. 12, 1944.
- The Mufti, Giving the Nazi Salute, Reviewing Moslem SS Troops.
- The Mufti with Bosnian Volunteers of the Waffen SS
- The Mufti Reviewing Nazi Troops in Yugoslavia, 1944.
- Pictures from Auschwitz, 1944.
- Aerial Photograph of Auschwitz, Apr. 4, 1944.
- Arabs on the March, Oct. 11, 1945. Click here for the original caption.
- King Ibn Saud and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, USS Quincy, Feb. 14, 1945.
- Photographs from Our Destruction in Pictures, Bergen-Belsen, Dec. 1946.
- Hannah Senesh
- Videos
- Websites
- Alan M. Dershowitz- Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust Myths
- Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
- The Mufti and the Führer Click here for more on The Mufti of Jerusalem and Yasser Arafat.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Administration: Roosevelt Meets King Saud at Bitter Lake. Click here for more on Ibn Saud.
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Yad Vashem- The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority
- The Holocaust History Project
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