Eden Pogrom documentation

Today, 30 November, Israel marks Memorial Day “Exit and expulsion of Jews from Arab countries and Iran”, The next set symbolically as”T. November. Shimon Sasson, son 84 from Tel Aviv, Was a boy 15 When the riots in the city. “The report on voting came”Family heard from the radio that we had in Aden”, This week recalled a conversation with “the land”. “Then we went down and told everyone who had gathered under the house who voted, Who pays and who refrains. Was rejoicing”. But the joy was premature and was soon replaced by panic. “What happened was totally unexpected and came at us out of the blue”, One month later described Ovadia Tuvia - Jewish Agency, In a letter sent to Israel Israel.

Ruins of Aden, December 1947
Ruins of Aden, December 1947 Danny Goldschmidt / The legacy of Aden

Aden, Who was at the time a British colony and today is in Yemen, Lived an ancient Jewish community of 5,000 members, Swimming alongside the local Arab community. Riots began on December 2 1947 And continued for three days. “Night 2 December Arabs started burning cars of Jews in the streets”, Sasson described this week. “The next day they invaded our district. The streets were completely empty. We tossed them bottles”. The next day the Arabs began to set fire to shops, Businesses and homes of Jews. “Several families have fled their homes and ran to our house, Which was the center of the Quarter. I opened the door and took home five families”, He adds, And read the names from memory.

Ovadia Tuvia: “Jewish houses became perforated holes Mcdorihm. House after house was burned”
Jewish leaders asked for help from the British, Who ruled the city. these, In response, Police sent a unit of Bedouins under British command. “From that moment began the Holocaust”, Tuvia described his letter. “Hooligan rioters began to rob Jewish shops. The police are standing and smiling. Moment you could see how they are helping themselves and pillage”.

One of these policemen standing near the home of Sassoon, Where families have found refuge fleeing from rioters. “The British declared a curfew. I did not know then what stops, And went up to the roof to see what was happening on the street”, He recalled. “Molly saw a soldier carrying a rifle. I bent down and he shot at me”. The ball did not hit him, But one of the women who were guests in his home - a gem Menachem Moshe Cohen, Who was then 15. “The bullet entered her head. She died on the spot. There was a commotion at”, Recalls. For three days, residents were forced to stay in the presence of body, Until it was possible to mass grave. “We took her home wrapped in a blanket”, He added, And burst into tears.

Ruins of Aden, December 1947

Ruins of Aden, December 1947 Danny Goldschmidt / The legacy of Aden
“Every Jew who called for help or increased roof extinguish the flames or flee from his home, Shots meter weight. Shouts madness in the Jewish neighborhood ripped the heavens. Jewish houses became perforated holes Mcdorihm. House after house was burned. Dozens of deaths have fallen one by one”, Tuvia described, Born in Aden in 1920, Immigrated to Israel as a child and returned to Aden in 1945 to organize Jewish immigration to Israel the.

Gabriel David, Then baby, Lost his grandfather, Yahya, Riots. The memoirs are based on stories he heard as he grew up in the family. “87 Jews were, Slaughtered and burned to death. My grandfather was shot in the head by sniper”, Said this week. This happened after he went to the roof in an attempt to extinguish the fire took hold in place. “He did not die on the spot”, Said David. “He bled all night in”. Son of Yahya, Grade, Was a child of nine. “I sat next to him in bed and moan all the time. He was dying before our eyes”, Said video evidence documenting David posted on YouTube as part of his work to document the heritage community.

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The next day an ambulance came to evacuate the hospital Yahya. Brother, life, Helped evacuate, He had been shot and injured himself. Doctor, Who was not Jewish, Although he was shot - and killed. Continued turmoil in the hospital which eventually turns Yahya, Before he died there of his wounds. Us, Simeon, Accompanied him, Also had to hide it from the threat of attackers structure, Chased him up there. “The Arabs came to the hospital, And began to ask: 'Where the Jews'? They almost killed him”, Said David.

Simon had to pose as a patient hospitalized in place, And with the assistance of the local team was covered with a blanket to the rioters did not murder him too. The next day he returned home. “His face drooped. He fell to the floor and sobbed like a little child”, Told Score. Another brother of Yahya, Salem (Peace), Was a mohel and a familiar figure in the community, He also killed in the riots. “The Arabs tried to force him to convert to Islam”, Said David. “He refused, And they killed him and dismembered his body”.

Shimon Sasson
Shimon Sasson, Yesterday Tomer Appelbaum
After three days, When the British Army finally went himself to the Jewish Quarter, Ended disorders. “On Friday morning, went to collect the dead. Freight car moved from street to street and gathered them. Each house took Matthew middle of the road and took care of the burials Yemeni refugees in a mass grave without a funeral without any ceremony. All streets filled with weeping and wailing”, Tuvia concluded, Who later became a composer and musical director of Inbal.

Shimon Sasson, son 84 from Tel Aviv, Was a boy 15 When the riots in the city: “Community Eden sacrificed 87 People due to the declaration of the Jewish state. All sin was the establishment of the State of Israel”
Yitzhak Shor, Yo”Dr. movement “Pioneer” Zionist operated in Aden, Wrote after the riots, January 1948, A letter to his cousin, Moses Schorr, Who lives in Israel. In it he described the terrible crisis and asked for help in raising the youth to Israel Israel. “We describe shorten”, writing. “Each family has an adventure, Allows the company to tell. But to shorten things, I am saying, That the soldiers tied us with the rioters and one in Nablus carried out the robberies and murders”.

Later he added: “The soldiers locked us in homes. Anyone who tried to escape from the flames soon shot. People were thrown live into homes go up in flames. Babies bathed in gasoline and burned. Babes dismembered in half by the enemy. Old - pecked the eyes. Young men - were divided into small parts of their bodies and thrown into flame. women, Breasts torn. Sitting write head is spinning, Many atrocities that have occurred on our heads”.

Hebrew school for boys was burned in Aden, 1947

School burned down in Aden, December 1947 Danny Goldschmidt / The legacy of Aden
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Riots month mark Aden Association held in Israel Synagogue memorial to the victims of the community in Tel Aviv. Moshe Netanel, Ben community, Spoke at the event. “Terrible holocaust was the community of Eden, An ancient community, Anxiety religion and holy people… This Community, Foundations and shaken overnight became Refugee Committee”, said. “They need to return the feeling of security and freedom denied them… Hence we have to declare an alarm Agency, Community institutions, Public and Aden in Israel, Come to rescue our brothers in Aden. All of us have a duty to do all that we, To render assistance, Let them leave the valley of death and be absorbed their lives than ever”.

British police sent to help Jews Bedouins. “From that moment began the Holocaust”, Tuvia described, “Hooligan rioters began to rob Jewish shops. The police are standing and smiling”
One of the corners at the community's heritage, Adjacent to the synagogue, Dedicated riots. A newspaper clipping “Latest news” Stored there told readers in Israel disorders. “Shocking letter from the British killing”, The newspaper reported. “Aden defended themselves bravely drove the rioters Clear, But abandoned by police, Collaborated with the killers”. “The rioters destroyed the community to the core, And destroyed the economic aspect, Educational and religious”, Danny Goldschmidt said this week, Son of one of the most important families in the community, Who founded and runs the heritage. “Today there are no Jews in Aden. Community realized that she had no reason to be there”, Added. One can browse through books and pamphlets documenting the community memory. One booklet, Which published Aden Association, Immortalized in the names of 87 The victims disorders - most of them treat herself to some anointed’ Othman, Nearby suburb.

The list is divided into victims killed in shooting, As Samuel Menahem Mansoor, Saada Samuel Aoami, Shoshan Shlomo Nissim Salem and Esther; Victims who were brutally murdered, Such as Suleiman Said Tznaani, Saeed Salem Maati and Samuel Daud Alforsh; Victims burned, Including Wahab Abraham Kharrazi, Undermine good Asiik, And five children, Aged one to three, Whose names are not known; And victims are defined “Missing an unknown place”, Including Shimon Tube Sabin and Mansour Hassan Casale.

The ruins of a synagogue in Aden, December 1947

The ruins of a synagogue in Aden, December 1947 Danny Goldschmidt / The legacy of Aden
“Community Eden sacrificed 87 People due to the declaration of the Jewish state. All sin was the establishment of the State of Israel”, Sasson says, He had to see the murder of the girl who hid in his house before his eyes. For, The tragedy did not end with the cessation of events. A few months after the establishment of the state is up to Israel alone. emu, She was pregnant, Sisters joined later. His father remained in Aden to 1967, And left with the British departure from.

“When my mother came to Israel, I went to meet her in the eye at the top. When I entered the tent, I saw that she was pregnant. A month later I went to see her again, But I did not see the baby”, Told. When asked where was, His mother said that she was informed that her daughter was born, But she died in childbirth. “It's the only thing I know. Not poked this topic”, Sasson says.

To connect together two tragedies experienced by community: First Disorders, And then the disappearance of children. Even in Aden, Which immigrated to Israel, Leaving the community some unknowns. “Not anyone who had finally been located riots”, Sasson says. “Some disappeared and we located. To this day we do not know where they are”.

Professor’ Michael David, A dermatologist by profession and brother of David on, Angry state, Did not bother to remember the victims in the riots. “As noted in the book about”November ninth and talking about the historic decision came”In all that was around, Do not say anything about this pogrom, This decision directly related. Master of the Universe”, Said this week.

“It is terrible to do this comparison, But the Kishinev pogroms killed fewer of them with. Maybe if we had Bialik, Our memory would look different”, said, Referring to the famous poem “City of Slaughter”, Bialik wrote in 1903 after a visit to the city.