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Into the Inferno: the Memoir of a Jewish paratrooper behind Nazi Lines - Yoel Palgi antisemitism held either side with pearlsIn the spring of 1944, a group of thirty two young Palestinian Jews parachuted into Nazi held Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Their goal was to encourage Jewish resistance where possible and to organize rescue schemes thwarting deportations to the death camps. Linking up in Yugoslavia and impelled by the hope that the Jews trapped in Hungary were still capable of fighting back, some of the volunteers set out for Budapest. Tragically, they were