Photography and the Holocaust – Essay 11 : Modern Maccabees : Israel’s Enduring Battle for Independence by Robert Hirsch

Unknown photographer. Devorah Drechler, circa 1920. N/S. Gelatin silver print. National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel.

Unknown photographer. Arab rebels from the Haifa area near Jenin posing with their commander, Abd al-Qadir Yusuf Abd al-Hadi. One rebel is carrying an Arab Palestinian flag emblazoned with a crescent and cross, 1937. N/S. Gelatin silver print.

Unknown photographer. The Old City’s Jewish Quarter in ruins, May 1948. Variable dimensions. Gelatin silver print. The National Library of Israel’s Photography Collections, Jerusalem, Israel.

Unknown photographer. A female officer of the Haganah gives a demonstration in the handling of a Sten gun during the War of Independence, 1948. Variable dimensions. Gelatin silver print. Hagana Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Unknown photographer. Palestinian refugees fleeing their homes near Haifa, June 1948. Variable dimensions. Gelatin silver print.

Unknown photographer. Jewish residents of Jerusalem fleeing during the battle for the Old City through the Zion Gate, May 1948. Variable dimensions. Gelatin silver print.

Unknown photographer. A Haganah unit defends its base in Safad during Israel’s War of Independence (pictured in the front is Shmuel Shalkovsky), 1948. N/S. Gelatin silver print. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, courtesy of Sam Schalkowsky.

Hugo Mendelson. Israeli Soldiers of the Negev Battalion, Battle for Beersheba, 1948. Variable dimensions. Gelatin silver print. The National Library of Israel’s Photography Collections, Jerusalem, Israel.

Hugo H. Mendelsohn. Jerusalem’s Ben Yehuda Street in the aftermath of an Arab multiple truck bombing, February 1948. Variable dimensions. Gelatin silver print. Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem, Israel.

Unknown photographer. Jordanian artillery shells Jerusalem, 1948. Variable dimensions. Gelatin silver print. Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi Photo Archives, Jerusalem, Israel.

Unknown photographer. A unit of Israeli women soldiers marching in the Yom Hamedina parade in Tel Aviv’s Allenby Street, 1948. Variable dimensions. Gelatin silver print. The National Photo Collection of Israel, Photography Department, Government Press Office, Jerusalem, Israel.

Robert Capa. Child at Sha’ar Ha’aliya transit camp for new immigrants, near Haifa, Israel, 1950. Variable dimensions. Gelatin silver print. © Magnum Photos.

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Rudi Weissenstein. Building a state together, Magdiel, 1946. Variable dimensions. Gelatin silver print. The PhotoHouse, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Unknown SS photographer. Prisoners transporting stones on the Stairs of Death, Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria, circa 1942-1944. Variable dimensions. Gelatin silver print. German Federal Archive, Koblenz, Germany.

Zoltan Kluger. A woman electrician works as a linesman during the War of Independence, September 9, 1948. Variable dimensions. Gelatin silver print. The National Photo Collection of Israel, Photography Department, Government Press Office, Jerusalem, Israel.

Teddy Brauner. Golda Meir with the children of Kibbutz Shefaim, July 1950. Variable dimensions. Gelatin silver print. The National Photo Collection of Israel, Photography Department, Government Press Office, Jerusalem, Israel.