More than 400 Jewish volunteers who joined the British armed forces in the early months of the war and were taken prisoner by the Germans in Crete returned to Palestine today.
They were met by representatives of the Jewish Agency and other Jewish national groups. They all had stories of hardships to tell, describing how they were driven more than 1,000 kilometers on foot by whip-wielding German troops when the Allied armies closed in on Germany. During their long trek, they received hardly any food.
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