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This collection of stories Land - Israel. The stories span a century from 1850 until the end of 1950. These stories of ordinary people or forgotten who died prematurely because they are part of the Zionist story, voluntarily or involuntarily, in Israel and abroad.
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Oded Oded Israeli, born and resident of Rehovot - Painter and retired from the Civil Service seeking pleasure through tombstones Stories Land - Israel of ordinary people who died unnatural deaths between the years 1850-1950, because they are part of the Zionist story. village in the woods View my complete profile
Introduction
On 16 February 1936, the Spanish people went to the polls, and announced to the peoples and nations that desire democracy. "Popular Front" won the elections, and established a republican government, led by Francisco Largo Caballero [formerly belonged to the current extreme left], followed by Juan Negrin [socialist] and liberal president ever Ghazna Diaz. Supported government workers and many of the educated middle class, Katlonim and Basques, as well as militant anarchists and communists, who established their own military units - militia.
On July 17, 1936, in the north of Morocco, Melilla Spanish city on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, a revolt against the government "Popular Front" and the Republic. The rebels village in the woods bombed the Alhsirs and put the army Maori - mostly Moroccan village in the woods mercenaries who served in the colonies - the land of half - Iberian Peninsula. Rebels head was General Francis Franco. He and his soldiers stood behind the church, the army and landowners, as well as the fascist Phalange, crossed the Mediterranean with transport aircraft of the Luftwaffe "- the air force of Nazi Germany, and landed in Spain.
Outbreak of the Civil War. Young General Franco, known by his colleagues "Hero Asturias" for his part in the bloody suppression of the miners' strike and the workers Asturias region in 1934, with a rich past in suppressing rebellions residents colonies in North Africa, led the revolt against the elected government of the Democratic Republic.
Many of the world saw the war as part of the struggle against fascism has, and went to Spain to help the Republican Army to stop the army of Franco's Nationalist Legionnaires of which 140,000 Maori, which accreted 100,000 Italian fascists; 40,000 German Nazis and fascists 20,000 Portuguese.
In the early days of September journalist and politician Dolores village in the woods Aibarrori, axis Parliament and General Secretary of the Communist Party in Spain, the hero of the struggle against fascism, called "La - Fasionarih", made in Paris, to the world that the Spanish nation has decided that "it's better to die than live upright on her knees . "So was born the slogan:" They shall not pass! NO PASARAN. "
Combustion that small - Mineo slaughtered 300 people, "most of them Communists;" village in the woods in Seville were Maori and Legionnaires streets and threw hand grenades into houses; 9000 been murdered in Saragosh - 2000 in Burgos - 1500, in Badajoz - 4000, in Granada 18,000, including poet and playwright Federico Gracia Lorca, before the age of 40. [Pablo Narroda (or unrecognized name Binyamin Eliezer) was consul in Chile in Madrid when the Civil War broke out. Murder of his friend Lorca caused him to support village in the woods Republicans and publish village in the woods the poems "Spain in my heart"]. village in the woods
"In 1000 mental decline were killed, mostly in hand-fascists cutting their necks," says The Daily Express, in Toledo, among others, were burned alive 400 republican militiamen village in the woods wounded village in the woods in the hospital, along with the doctors and the sisters who cared for them.
On 26 April 1937 the Basque city of Guernica was deleted, the Nazi bombing; Legion of the Condor of the Luftwaffe bombed the city to help the nationalists, as well as an experimental arena tactic of 'War - Flash' ['Blitzkrig'], implemented in the future World War II. After four hours of the bomb destroyed the city, killed 1,600 people and injured thousands. (Creating Guernica, famous works of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, painted in 1937, in response village in the woods to the brutal and complete destruction of the city.)
About 7,000 volunteers were French. About 5,000 Poles, and a similar number of Germans and Austrians. About 3,000 Americans, about 2,000 British, about 1600 from Belgium and the Netherlands, and a similar number Yugoslavia. Several hundred came from Israel, Canada, Bulgaria, Italy, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Switzerland. Also came from Ethiopia, which was occupied by fascist Italy, and even the Russians were "white" exiles, hoping that it will be allowed to return to their country.
Some served in the Republic, such as the pilot - the writer Andre Malraux, who later became the Minister of Culture of France. Some, such as the British poet John Cornford [killed near Lofira] and Ben with the famous writer George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), who was seriously wounded, who fought in the ranks of militias left as the POUM [Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista] from the