"... Killed during the riots in Hebron on August 24, 1929, in accordance with the law we demand the ransom of the killed ..." - folder containing dozens of stencil and handwritten documents filed as a lawsuit against the Palestinian government for the victims of the 1929 riots in Hebron about a month after the riots, including details about the murdered and robbed, estimated damage to life and property, and the amount of compensation required. Among other: signed documents by the heads of the American Consulate regarding claims for damages from American relatives of the pogrom victims, and more. A lawyer folder full of unknown documents of paramount historical importance that appears here for the first time.
The first documents deal with the Ottoman law on compensation for the murdered, and regulations on claims for stolen property, below are some documents from the American Consulate regarding compensation claims against the Palestinian government for losses incurred by American plaintiffs during the 1929 riots, including lists of names of the victims and the estimate of the damage, signed by the American Consul. There are leaves with the names of "robbers" and "killed" in handwriting and typewriter, which include the amount of compensation claimed by the Palestinian government for them, and pages in which there is an exchange between the American consulate and the lawyer who handled the lawsuits. There are also nine leaves of a lawsuit entitled: "1929 riots - a claim for compensation." on each page the name of the plaintiff - usually a relative of the murdered person, and details about the murdered person, how he was killed, details of the objects looted by the Arab rioters - when exactly they were bought, their color and size. In them: Compensation claim sheet for murdered people who stayed at the house of the Rabbi of Hebron Elazar Dan Slonim - Yaakov Wexler and Rabbi Zeev Berman: "Place of damage: Beit Eliezer Dan Slonim Hebron, damaged by: Arab murderers, Rabbi Zeev Berman was killed during the riots in Hebron on August 24, 1929, according to the law we demand the ransom of the person killed", There are also three leaves of lawsuits for the families of those murdered at the Bezalel Lazarovsky House in Hebron, a lawsuit for those murdered at the Nachman Segal House, the Zvi Yosef Kidlstein House, a ransom lawsuit for the murdered Avraham Shapira, and a robbery lawsuit filed by Yaakov Meir Bernstein, whose family members were robbed.
[58] leaves. Folder: 35 cm. general condition good - very good.
