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or Allied forces. There he joined another ISLD representative and they set up direct radio contact with HQ in Bari. During Amir's three-month stay on the island he made contact with various forces that passed through, amongst them other volunteers from Eretz-Israel, commandos, as well as a group of
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and took all the occupants as hostages. Rehavam and Avital were attending a ceremony at the Royal Palace thus they were not among the hostages and could therefore conduct the negotiations with the kidnappers. Following the intense negotiations, including the King of
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that no blood be shed, and with the rare and courageous cooperation of the
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was being uncovered and the sites of the extermination camps were as yet hardly known. Amir and his diplomatic staff were amongst the first Jewish visitors to the camps after World War II. At this time, Poland's PM
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