David Raziel - a small collection of items - photos, consolation letters, documents…

A small collection of items related to Etzel commander David Raziel. 

1. 3 photos of Raziel - 2 of them as a child, from Russia 1922, when he was 12. His family, which was exiled from Palestine to Egypt during WWI, moved on to Russia and returned to PAlestine in 1922. He is photographed with his sisters and his mother. The third photo, as a young man, is framed in black paper and under glass. 

2. 5 consolement letters sent to Raziel's parents in 1941, after he was killed on Iraq, where he was sent by the British. 

3. The Visa granted to Raziel's father (Mordechai Rozenson and family) for re-entry to Palestine in 1922 from the British Mandate aucthorities. 

4. 2 letters received by Raziel's sister in 1952. One, sent from Max Seligman in London, deals with the attempts to bring Raziel's bones from Iraq to Israel, and mentions Menahem Begin and Yohanan Bader. The other sent by Margaret Slansgate, probably wife of Viscount Slansgate,is apparently also related to the same issue. 

5. 2 publications in print - a pamphlet in Raziel's memory, apparently from 1948, with a eulogy by Menahem Begin, and an invitation to a prayer and memorial service, apparently from the year of his death, 1941, sent to his sister. 

6. A notebook of Raziel's from his years as a pupil at the Tahkemoni school in Tel Aviv, where his father was principal. It is a physics notebook, but only one page actually deala with the subject. THe rest of the pages, starting at the rear end of the notebook, contain the beginning of a story of a 15 year old boy who leaves his Palestine village after his father was drafted to the (Ottoman?) army and his family went broke, to look for the father and bring him back home. the 7 pages of the story end with the boy arriving at Shekhem and killing a drunkard who tries to rob him, which gets him arrested. 

THe hand writing is different from Raziel's handwriting, as we found on the internet.