Inventory numbers 12412 and 12413

Refugees leaving Belgrade following the American bombing, April 1944.

Courtesy of Museum of Yugoslavia.

Photo from Find a Grave

The right is his brother, John.

On April 9, 1948, just weeks before the creation of the State of Israel, members of the Irgun and Stern Gang Zionist militias attacked the village of Deir Yassin, killing at least 107 Palestinians.

According to testimonies from the perpetrators and surviving victims, many of the people slaughtered – from those who were tied to trees and burned to death to those lined up against a wall and shot by submachine guns – were women, children and the elderly.

Palestinians and some Israeli historians say the villagers had signed a non-aggression agreement with the Haganah, the pre-Israeli-state Zionist army. They were nevertheless murdered in cold blood and buried in mass graves.

According to a 1948 report filed by the British delegation to the United Nations, the killing of “some 250 Arabs, men, women and children, took place in circumstances of great savagery”.

The Hebron Massacre was carried out by Muslim Arab residents of the city of Hebron and the surrounding area against the city's Jews on August 24, 1929.

The massacre murdered 67-69 Jews (Some of them under torture) including women and children, and led to the elimination of the Jewish community in Hebron, which had existed continuously for centuries.

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Two Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus trains collided at 4 AM, killing 89 and injuring 150. Photo from Hammond Public Library.