What is Jewish Parachutists of Mandate of Palestine?
[[File:Memorial for the Yeshuv Paratroopers IMG 1214.JPG|thumb|250px|Jewish Parachutists of Mandate of Palestine graves in Mount Herzl]] The '''Jewish Parachutists of Mandate Palestine''' were a group of 250 [[Jewish]] people from [[British Mandate of Palestine|Mandatory Palestine]] who volunteered to join the [[British Army]] and fight the [[Nazis]] in Germany during [[World War II]]. A national burial site for them is located in the national military and police cemetery in [[Mount Herzl]] in [[Jerusalem]]. In the grave site are three graves of famous paratroopers and four empty graves for the paratroopers that were killed in the [[Holocaust]] in the death camps. == Other websites == *[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/4007559/Jerusalem%20Mount%20Hertzel%20Cemetery the graves Jewish Parachutists of Mandate Palestine in Mount Herzl] in the [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]] site *[http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/holocaust/about/07/jewish_soldiers.asp?WT.mc_id=wiki Combat and Resistance: Jewish Soldiers in the Allied Armies] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113120020/http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/holocaust/about/07/jewish_soldiers.asp?WT.mc_id=wiki |date=2012-01-13 }} on the [[Yad Vashem]] website *United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005440 Jewish Parachutists from Palestine] [[Category:Mandatory Palestine]] [[Category:20th century in Israel]] [[Category:History of Palestine]] [[Category:World War II]] [[Category:Burials at Mount Herzl]] {{hist-stub}}