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Augustine L. “Duke” Labaczewski
A Pesach aboard the Hatikvah — recalled by Murray Greenfield Maybe I missed it, but Duke — who was the cook and ready to do everything a seaman should do — was a crew member of the Hatikvah. Duke spoke Yiddish, which he had learned working in a bakery owned by a Jewish couple, immigrants
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Harold Kraushar
In June 1948 Harold Kraushar sailed on the ship Altalena, which carried soldiers and weapons for the Zionist cause to what was then Palestine. He served as a machine gunner with the Irgun Zvai Leumi, the military organization that fought for the creation of the Jewish State of Israel. After the War of Independence he