Six-Day War>Recollections

I had returned to London with my young family a few months before the war

I am from Lithuania where Jews have always kept their Jewish identity, even absolutely secular

In June 1967 I was a 14 year old school boy attending a Jewish school

Before “The British volunteers who played their part in the war were never officially acknowledged.

Israel Bonan was a Jewish student, born and living in Egypt during the 1967 events…

IRAQ The defeat of the Arabs by Israel in the war of 1967 led to

Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War had dramatic repercussions on the few thousand Jews still

I cannot help observing that this year marks the 40th anniversary of the Six Day

In May 1967 I was working in Haifa as an au pair, looking after three

Children played their part in keeping everyday life going during the emergency. When the postmen

Rona Hart had been in Israel for only a few weeks when war-clouds started to gather.

In the early morning hours of Monday, June 5, 1967, the sun was already heating

The battle started. All my friends were being shot. My commander was shot. A shell

I was Third Officer on a British Merchant ship when we were in the last

My name is Shmuel Gurewicz. I was born in Soviet Russia. We escaped the Communist

In the days before the outbreak of the Six-Day War, Yoske “Balagan” Schwartz was practicing

The school year of 1966-1967 I spent, as a third year university student, in Israel

“We filled every available receptacle with water, because June is quite a hot month and