Six-Day War>Recollections

I was born after World War Two and as a youngster was fortunate enough not

May 1967: I was a junior buyer at Marks and Spencer, and Michael House in

The Six-Day War – That was when I realized that being Jewish was an exceptionally

One of my lasting memories was people commenting “You did well” – just as though

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

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

It was a pleasant, clear morning. The sort of morning when a man gets up

“We ran there, a group of panting soldiers, lost on the plaza of the Temple

By the end of May, ordinary life – as we had known it in the

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