By 1940, the Betar movement lost their beloved leader Vladimir Jabotinsky, but continued their activities throughout the war years. They gathered speed after the end of the war despite the destruction of a good proportion of their membership through the decimation of the Holocaust. A general conference was held in Paris in September, 1948, to bring about some better organization of the European Betar movement. We bring here some rare photos gathered by Lea Dror-Batalion.

 

Shlomo Ben Yosef became a symbol for the Jewish struggle for liberation and freedom. Yet he did not die on a battlefield, but on the gallows of Palestine - the first Jew to receive the death sentence in Eretz Israel for nearly two thousand years.

Suggested reading list of Betar and History books.