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Hebron Massacre of Jews Remembered

[Jerusalem Post] Tovah Lazaroff - One can still see the scar from the knife wound Shlomo Slonim sustained 80 years ago, when an Arab stabbed him as he huddled in his mother's arms in their Hebron home. He stood in the Hebron cemetery, at the end of a ceremony marking the Hebrew anniversary of the 1929 massacre of 67 Jewish residents of that city by an Arab mob. His father, Eliezer Dan Slonim, had been the director of the Anglo-Palestine Bank and a representative of the Jewish community in the Hebron Municipality. After bursting into the family home, the Arabs killed 24 people with knives and machetes. Among them were Slonim's father, his mother Hannah, her parents who were visiting, and his four-year-old brother. The massacre destroyed the Hebron Jewish community, whose roots go back to biblical times. Some Jews tried to return to Hebron after the massacre, but the British removed them in 1936.
2009-08-11 06:00:00
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