User:Brewcrewer/Carmi

 Israel (Yisrael) Carmi was the founder of Tilhas Tizig Gesheften (TTG Brigade).

Carmi was born around 1917 (he was 17 when he emigrated in '34)

Carmi born in Danzig Germany. now Gdansk Poland

Origianal name was Weinman and changed it upon arrivel to Israel.

He immigrated to Israel in 1934 and began working at a farming kibbutz - Givat HaShlosha.

(in 1936) at age 19 he was recreuited to the Hagana. inititaion: "dimly lit basement" - "one hand on bible one hand on gun"

winter 1936 volunterred for the Palestine Police Force, or ordres from Hagana. spring: stationed up north

During 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, fought while outnumbered Arabs who tried to "overrun" Kfar Yehezkel.

at 21 (1938) selcted to the Special Night Squads. . received the Colonial Police Medal of Valor.

In 1939, at the end of the Arab revolt, Carmi retuned to Givat HaShlosha. in 39, Married Tonka, promising to stay on the farm and grow oranges and melons.

Daughter Shlomit (infant in 44).

However, changed with the issuance of the White Paper changed. He joined the PUSH unit of the Hagana, whose goal was to 'prevent the brithsh from arresting the undergroind leaders and messing up the covert training grounds.

Wnen ww2 broke out, he joined the Buffs, under orders from the hagana. He became a sergent.

Summer of 42, stationed in Sinia. stole Briths arms for future use.

In July 1943 was in Benghazi as part of the Second Batallion of the Palestine Regiment.ref>Blum, p. 127 raiesed Israel flag instead of british flag after Commander ripped down Israel flag. "mutiny, second batallion, Benghazi, "jewish hero"

He joined the Jewish Brigade, and was a Sergeant.

Around October 1944 on SS Stafford from Alexandria to Italy.

Smuggeled two Hangana operatives as British soldiers. their hagana mission was to determine truthfullness of gas rumors.

disembarked in Taranto Italy, in Novermer 44, and began moving up notrth. At Fiuggi, established base..

In April 14 were orderd to cease figtiing the Germans.

They they left Italy for Germany. on the the way there was an incident where the groip attacked Wermacht POW's. The Briths heard about this and told them not to enter Germany. Instead were told to stay in Tarvisio]], a town in Nothereast Itarly.

In June, they left the encampement to visit the Mautheausen concentration camp."jewish angels", crying. Asked to be transferred to the intelligejcne unit, wehre he gathere information on teh whreabouts of Nazis. Together with Austraailian Robert Grossman, gahtered inforamtion from locals around the Treviono area, incluiding totuing on occasions. Trevision was sort of a prime location because the SS stayed there througout the war, the loca trainstarion was used in connection with the deporation of Italian Jews, and the area was full of refugees and recovering Wermcaht soldiers. Blum, p. 171-172

Got info on a highrankng Gestapo officer that was in charge of the confiscation of the property of Italian Jews. Went to home as British office, searched home, adn dound bags of jewelery, guns, cash. Upon threats to kill them, Gestapo officer offered to provide the addresses and other personal inforamtion of on SS or Gestapo officers. They received 18 pages of names. Carmi gave a list of minor officers to Allied intellignce, but kept the major officers for themselves. Carmi then organized a group of fellow Jewish Brigade officers that would kill those those whose gulty was "definitivley established" by the evidence. Members of the group included, Johanan Peltz, Meir Zorea,, Abram Silberstein, Haim Laskov, Marcel Tobias, and Orly Givon. Some refused the groips due to teh extrajudicial nature of their actions. Began killing, typically stating "in the name of the jewish people, i senetnce you to death." Meir Zorea preferred strangulation. Two SS officers were pushed over a mountain ledge.

At one point Abba Kovner, the leader of another squad that murdered former Nazis, approached Carmi's group requesting their assistance.  Israel (Yisrael) Carmi was the founder of Tilhas Tizig Gesheften (TTG Brigade).

Carmi was born around 1917 (he was 17 when he emigrated in '34)

Carmi born in Danzig Germany. now Gdansk Poland

Origianal name was Weinman and changed it upon arrivel to Israel.

He immigrated to Israel in 1934 and began working at a farming kibbutz - Givat HaShlosha.

(in 1936) at age 19 he was recreuited to the Hagana. inititaion: "dimly lit basement" - "one hand on bible one hand on gun"

winter 1936 volunterred for the Palestine Police Force, or ordres from Hagana. spring: stationed up north

During 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, fought while outnumbered Arabs who tried to "overrun" Kfar Yehezkel.

at 21 (1938) selcted to the Special Night Squads. . received the Colonial Police Medal of Valor.

In 1939, at the end of the Arab revolt, Carmi retuned to Givat HaShlosha. in 39, Married Tonka, promising to stay on the farm and grow oranges and melons.

Daughter Shlomit (infant in 44).

However, changed with the issuance of the White Paper changed. He joined the PUSH unit of the Hagana, whose goal was to 'prevent the brithsh from arresting the undergroind leaders and messing up the covert training grounds.

Wnen ww2 broke out, he joined the Buffs, under orders from the hagana. He became a sergent.

Summer of 42, stationed in Sinia. stole Briths arms for future use.

In July 1943 was in Benghazi as part of the Second Batallion of the Palestine Regiment.ref>Blum, p. 127 raiesed Israel flag instead of british flag after Commander ripped down Israel flag. "mutiny, second batallion, Benghazi, "jewish hero"

He joined the Jewish Brigade, and was a Sergeant.

Around October 1944 on SS Stafford from Alexandria to Italy.

Smuggeled two Hangana operatives as British soldiers. their hagana mission was to determine truthfullness of gas rumors.

disembarked in Taranto Italy, in Novermer 44, and began moving up notrth. At Fiuggi, established base..

In April 14 were orderd to cease figtiing the Germans.

They they left Italy for Germany. on the the way there was an incident where the groip attacked Wermacht POW's. The Briths heard about this and told them not to enter Germany. Instead were told to stay in Tarvisio]], a town in Nothereast Itarly.

In June, they left the encampement to visit the Mautheausen concentration camp."jewish angels", crying. Asked to be transferred to the intelligejcne unit, wehre he gathere information on teh whreabouts of Nazis. Together with Austraailian Robert Grossman, gahtered inforamtion from locals around the Treviono area, incluiding totuing on occasions. Trevision was sort of a prime location because the SS stayed there througout the war, the loca trainstarion was used in connection with the deporation of Italian Jews, and the area was full of refugees and recovering Wermcaht soldiers. Blum, p. 171-172

Revenge murders
Got info on a highrankng Gestapo officer that was in charge of the confiscation of the property of Italian Jews. Went to home as British office, searched home, adn dound bags of jewelery, guns, cash. Upon threats to kill them, Gestapo officer offered to provide the addresses and other personal inforamtion of on SS or Gestapo officers. They received 18 pages of names. Carmi gave a list of minor officers to Allied intellignce, but kept the major officers for themselves. Carmi then organized a group of fellow Jewish Brigade officers that would kill those those whose gulty was "definitivley established" by the evidence. Members of the group included, Johanan Peltz, Meir Zorea,, Abram Silberstein, Haim Laskov, Marcel Tobias, and Orly Givon. Some refused the groips due to teh extrajudicial nature of their actions. Began killing, typically stating "in the name of the jewish people, i senetnce you to death." Meir Zorea preferred strangulation. Two SS officers were pushed over a mountain ledge.

At one point Abba Kovner, the leader of another squad of formaer partisians that murdered nazis and approached TTG for assiatacne. Kovner wanted to poisen the water supply of major German cities, in order to kill six million germans. Carmi refused because the murder was too indiscrimiante, telling them, "we use tweezers, you want to use a bulldozer." Peltz disagreed with this desicion; he and Carmi came to blows when he accused Carmi of being a "coward" for not going along with Kovner.

emigration to Israel
at that time, in western europre there was 750,000 Jewish survivors, 250,000 of which were spread out in DP camps in Austrian and Germany. The british mandate of palestine allowed only 1,500 surviros to emigrate. Thus, Bricha, known as the organized scheme to bring holocasue survivors to Israel, was set in place, and Carmi's group was to get involved.

at this time, Carmi created a name a fictitious british army unit and named it TTG. The group stole British equipmamant and forged army documents, allowing them to create false work orders to transfer survovis in the DP camps. they first went to a DP camp in Lunz, where they filled up two trucks with orpahns and brought them to southern Italey, where they got onto SHips headed for israel. the refugees were moved into a transit camp at Pontebba, at the nothern italian border, and form tehre they moved to the sourthern italian port cities that bordered the Mediterranean Sea. teh british got the hang of it, sealing one of the transit camps in Judenberg. TTG then resorted to planning a "bonefire" to allow them to into the forest next to the camp. from there, ttg filled 12 trucks with aroiund 200 teenagers and smuggeled them into the Italian border. more difficluties arose when Graz was transferred from russian control to british control. Grza was used a transpit point for hundreds of refugee surviros becasue the russian commander in Graz was symphatic to the refugees cause adn overlooked the movement. ttg arranged for 42 trucks.............