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Yaakov Weiss, the Glossary

Yaakov Weiss (יעקב וייס; 15 July 1924 – 29 July 1947) was a Hungarian Jew born in Czechoslovakia and member of the Irgun, a Jewish guerrilla organization in Mandatory Palestine.^[1]

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Czechoslovak emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
Executed Czechoslovak people
Hungarian Holocaust survivors
Hungarian Zionists
Hungarian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
Hungarian people executed abroad
Olei Hagardom (Palestine)
People executed by the British military by hanging
People from Nové Zámky

Acre Prison

Acre Prison, also known as Akko Prison, is a former prison and current museum in Acre, Israel.

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The Acre Prison break was an operation undertaken by the Irgun on May 4, 1947, in the British Mandate of Palestine, in which its men broke through the walls of the Central Prison in Acre and freed 27 incarcerated Irgun and Lehi members.

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Acre, Israel

Acre, known locally as Akko (עַכּוֹ) and Akka (عكّا), is a city in the coastal plain region of the Northern District of Israel.

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Alan Cunningham

General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, (1 May 1887 – 30 January 1983), was a senior officer of the British Army noted for his victories over Italian forces in the East African Campaign during the Second World War.

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Aliyah Bet

Aliyah Bet (עלייה ב', "Aliyah 'B'" – bet being the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet) was the code name given to illegal immigration by Jews, many of whom were refugees escaping from Nazi Germany or other Nazi-controlled countries, and later Holocaust survivors, to Mandatory Palestine between 1920 and 1948, in violation of the restrictions laid out in the British White Paper of 1939, which dramatically increased between 1939 and 1948.

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Atlit detainee camp

The Atlit detainee camp was a concentration camp established by the authorities of Mandatory Palestine in the late 1930s on what is now the Israeli coastal plain, south of Haifa.

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Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp (also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust.

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Avshalom Haviv

Avshalom Haviv (אבשלום חביב; June 18, 1926 – July 29, 1947) was a member of the Irgun underground organization in Mandatory Palestine, and one of the Olei Hagardom executed by the British authorities during the Jewish insurgency in Palestine. Yaakov Weiss and Avshalom Haviv are Irgun members, Olei Hagardom (Palestine), People convicted of illegal possession of weapons and People executed by the British military by hanging.

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Betar

The Betar Movement (תנועת בית"ר), also spelled Beitar (בית"ר), is a Revisionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky.

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Budapest

Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.

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Debrecen

Debrecen (Debrezin; Debrecín) is Hungary's second-largest city, after Budapest, the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar County.

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Eger

Eger (also known by other alternative names) is the county seat of Heves County, and the second largest city in Northern Hungary (after Miskolc).

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Gymnasium (school)

Gymnasium (and variations of the word) is a term in various European languages for a secondary school that prepares students for higher education at a university.

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Hanging

Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature.

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Hatikvah

Hatikvah (hattiqvā) is the national anthem of the State of Israel.

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Irgun

The Irgun (ארגון; full title: הארגון הצבאי הלאומי בארץ ישראל, lit. "The National Military Organization in the Land of Israel"), or Etzel (אצ״ל) (sometimes abbreviated IZL), was a Zionist paramilitary organization that operated in Mandatory Palestine between 1931 and 1948.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine

A successful paramilitary campaign, sometimes referred to as the Palestine Emergency, was carried out by Zionist underground groups against British rule in Mandatory Palestine from 1944 to 1948.

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Košice

Košice is the largest city in eastern Slovakia.

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List of high commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan

The high commissioner for Palestine was the highest ranking authority representing the United Kingdom in the mandated territories of Palestine, and the high commissioner for Transjordan was the highest ranking authority representing the United Kingdom in Transjordan.

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Mandatory Palestine

Mandatory Palestine was a geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine.

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Meir Nakar

Meir Nakar (מאיר נקר; July 26, 1926 – July 29, 1947) was an Irgun militiaman in pre-state Mandatory Palestine and one of 12 Olei Hagardom. Yaakov Weiss and Meir Nakar are Irgun members, Olei Hagardom (Palestine), People convicted of illegal possession of weapons and People executed by the British military by hanging.

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Miskolc

Miskolc (Czech and Miškovec; Mischkolz; Mishkoltz; Mișcolț) is a city in northeastern Hungary, known for its heavy industry.

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Mukachevo

Mukachevo (Мукачево,; Munkács; see name section) is a city in Zakarpattia Oblast, western Ukraine.

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Netanya

Netanya (also Natanya, נְתַנְיָה) is a city in the Northern Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain.

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Nové Zámky

Nové Zámky (Érsekújvár, Neuhäusel, Uyvar, Novum Castrum) is a town in Nové Zámky District in the Nitra Region of southwestern Slovakia.

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Olei Hagardom

Olei Hagardom (עולי הגרדום., lit. "those who ascended to the gallows") refers to members of the two Jewish Revisionist pre-state underground organisations Irgun and Lehi, most of whom were tried in British Mandate military courts and sentenced to death by hanging. Yaakov Weiss and Olei Hagardom are Irgun members.

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Palmach

The Palmach (Hebrew:, acronym for, Plugot Maḥatz, "Strike Companies") was the elite combined strike forces and sayeret unit of the Haganah, the underground army of the Yishuv (Jewish community) during the period of the British Mandate for Palestine.

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Revisionist Zionism

Revisionist Zionism is a form of Zionism characterized by territorial maximalism.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Safed

Safed (also known as Tzfat; צְפַת, Ṣəfaṯ; صفد, Ṣafad) is a city in the Northern District of Israel.

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Safed Old Jewish Cemetery

The ancient Jewish cemetery in Safed is one of the oldest cemeteries in Israel.

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Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo (translit,; translit), usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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The Sergeants affair

The Sergeants affair (פרשת הסרג'נטים) was an incident that took place in Mandate Palestine in July 1947 during Jewish insurgency in Palestine, in which the Jewish underground group Irgun kidnapped two British Army Intelligence Corps NCOs, Sergeant Clifford Martin and Sergeant Mervyn Paice, and threatened to hang them if the death sentences passed on three Irgun militants—Avshalom Haviv, Meir Nakar, and Yaakov Weiss—were carried out.

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University of Geneva

The University of Geneva (French: Université de Genève) is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Ze'ev Jabotinsky

Ze'ev Jabotinsky (Ze'ev Zhabotinski; born Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky; 17 October 1880 – 3 August 1940) was a Revisionist Zionist leader, author, poet, orator, soldier, and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa. Yaakov Weiss and Ze'ev Jabotinsky are Irgun members and People convicted of illegal possession of weapons.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov_Weiss

Yaakov Weiss, the Glossary

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See also

Czechoslovak emigrants to Mandatory Palestine

Executed Czechoslovak people

Hungarian Holocaust survivors

Hungarian Zionists

Hungarian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine

Hungarian people executed abroad

Olei Hagardom (Palestine)

People executed by the British military by hanging

People from Nové Zámky

References