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Israel (Yisrael) Carmi (born Israel Weinman), born 1917 (exact date unknown), was the founder of the Tilhas Tizig Gesheften (TTG Brigade).〔The Brigade, Blum p16 / 27〕 ==Life== Carmi was born in the Danzig (now Gdańsk) sometime in 1917. At the age of 17 he immigrated to Israel, changing his surname from Weinman to Carmi. Carmi worked at a farming kibbutz in the area of Givat HaShlosha in central Israel.〔Blum p26〕〔M. Beckham The Jewish Brigade p27〕 At the age of 19 (1936) Carmi was recruited into the Haganah (anglicised Hebrew: ''"The Defense"''), and in the winter of 1936 Carmi volunteered for the Palestine Police Force on orders from Haganah.〔Blum p.26〕 During the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, Carmi fought whilst outnumbered by the revolting Arabs who tried to overrun Kfar Yehezkel,〔Blum p.26〕 and in 1938 at the age of 21 Carmi was selected for the Special Night Squads,〔Blum p27 / 28〕 receiving the Colonial Police Medal of Valor for his duties.〔Blum p27 / 28 / 29〕〔Soshuk Levi Momentous Century p122〕 In 1939 at the end of the Arab Revolt, Carmi returned to Givat HaShlosha and married Tonka, promising to stay on the farm and grow oranges and melons.〔Blum p27 / 28 / 34 / 39〕 However this changed with the issuance of the White Paper of 1939. Carmi joined the PUSH (Haganah unit), whose goal was to 'prevent the British from arresting the underground leaders and messing up covert training grounds.〔Blum p. 28〕 When World War II broke out Carmi joined the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) under orders from Haganah and became the rank of sergeant.〔Blum. p28/29〕 During the summer of 1942 Carmi was stationed in Sinia where he stole British arms for future use.〔Blum p30〕 Then during July 1943 Carmi was in Benghazi as part of the 2nd Battalion of the Palestine Regiment, a supporting unit of the Jewish Brigade.〔Blum p126〕 Carmi caused mutiny in the 2nd Battalion after the commander ripped down the Israeli flag Carmi had raised instead of a British flag.〔Blum p16〕 In 1944 Carmi joined the Jewish Brigade.〔Soshuk p224〕 Around October 1944 Carmi travelled to Alexandria and then directly to Italy where he smuggled two Haganah operatives as British soldiers, their mission was to determine the truthfulness of the gas chamber rumors.〔Blum p10〕 From here Carmi travelled north to a base established in Fiuggi.〔Blum p25〕 After this Carmi and operatives left Italy for Germany,〔Blum p139〕 on the way there was an incident in which the group attacked wehrmacht POWS and as a result the British ordered them not to enter Germany and to stay in Tarvisio.〔Blum p153 and p156〕 In June 1945 Carmi and operatives left the encampment in Tarvisio to visit the Mauthausen Concentration Camp.〔Blum p161〕 Carmi asked to be transferred to the intelligence units, where he gathered information regarding the whereabouts of Nazis.〔Blum p170〕 Together with Australian born Robert Grossman, Carmi travelled back to Italy this time Treviso and gathered information from locals around the area, including touting for information.〔Blum p170-172〕 Treviso was considered the perfect location because the SS stayed throughout the war and the local trainstation was used in connection with the deportation of Italian Jews, and the area was also full of refugees and recovering wehrmacht soldiers.〔Blum p171-172 and 174-178〕 Here Carmi got information regarding a high-ranking Gestapo officer in charge of confiscation of the property of Italian Jews.〔Blum 172〕 In turn Carmi went to the home of the Gestapo officer disguised as a British officer and searched the home, finding bags of jewellery, guns, and cash.〔Blum 176〕 Upon threats to kill him, the Gestapo officer offered information providing the addresses and other personal information of other SS or Gestapo officers - receiving 18 pages of names.〔Blum p178〕 Carmi gave the list of minor officers to the Allied Intelligence Bureau (AIB), but kept the major officers list.〔Blum p178〕 Carmi then organised a group of fellow Jewish Brigade officers to track and kill those whose guilt was "definitively established" by evidence.〔Blum p185〕 Members of the group included Meir Zorea, Haim Laskov, Abram Silberstein, Marcel Tobias, and Orly Givon.〔Blum184-185〕 Some offered membership to the group due to the extrajudical nature of their actions.〔Blum 185〕 The group began killing officers from the list, typically stating "in the name of the Jewish people, I sentence you to death." before carrying out a quick field trial, later the officers were killed by strangulation, and two SS officers were pushed over a mountain ledge.〔Blum p196 / p198 / p200〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Israel Carmi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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