An account of a key role player and an eye witness trying to correct historical revisionist history and misleading information

Date: Wednesday 9 May 2007

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1

Price: £7

Lecture and discussion by Professor David Gutmann

David Gutmann will talk about issues like the impact of the Holocaust on its survivors, the flight of Palestinian refugees, the meagre resources of the Hagana and the Israeli Army in the early days of the Independence War.

As an American Marine in the Merchant Navy – played an important role in the clandestine immigration during WW2 to break the blockade of the British preventing Holocaust survivors to enter Palestine.

Arrested and held prisoner in detention camps in Cyprus.

On release joined in the War of Independence preparing the first crew for the Israeli Navy

Eye witness to the few resources of the Hagana

Eye witness to the flight of the Palestinian refugees

Do not miss the account of one of the last surviving witnesses of those days.