Museum of Underground Prisoners
Museum of Underground Prisoners is a museum in Jerusalem, commemorating the activity of the Jewish underground—Haganah, Irgun and Lehi—during the period leading up the establishment of the State of Israel.
Museum of Underground Prisoners
Museum of Underground Prisoners
Hallway and prison cells at the museum
Haganah was the main Zionist paramilitary organization that operated for the Yishuv in the British Mandate for Palestine. It was founded in 1920 to defend the Yishuv's presence in the region, and was formally disbanded in 1948, when it became the core force integrated into the Israel Defense Forces shortly after the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
Hagana poster from the 1940s
Haganah fighters guarding Migdal Tzedek, 1936
In 1940 a Haganah bomb sank the SS Patria, killing 267 people
Marching Jewish troops in the British army (1942)