Simon Plosker

Click on any link below for that person’s more detailed account The lead up… Winston

The Six-Day War began suddenly and ended quickly. What appeared at first to be no

It was a pleasant, clear morning. The sort of morning when a man gets up

By the end of May, ordinary life – as we had known it in the

In May 1967 I was working in Haifa as an au pair, looking after three

Children played their part in keeping everyday life going during the emergency. When the postmen

Rona Hart had been in Israel for only a few weeks when war-clouds started to gather.

In the early morning hours of Monday, June 5, 1967, the sun was already heating

The battle started. All my friends were being shot. My commander was shot. A shell

I was Third Officer on a British Merchant ship when we were in the last

My name is Shmuel Gurewicz. I was born in Soviet Russia. We escaped the Communist

In the days before the outbreak of the Six-Day War, Yoske “Balagan” Schwartz was practicing

The school year of 1966-1967 I spent, as a third year university student, in Israel

“We filled every available receptacle with water, because June is quite a hot month and

Sol Stern tells of his experiences of covering the Six-Day War as Israel correspondent of