ofskfe:1: A burned-out Jewish boys’ school in Aden, Yemen. The girls’ school next to it was also bur
ofskfe:1: A burned-out Jewish boys’ school in Aden, Yemen. The girls’ school next to it was also burned and gutted in dec. 1947, during the massacre of Aden’s Jewish population. The pogrom, that erupted on December 2, 1947, was devastating - 82 Jews were murdered and 76 wounded; 106 out of the 170 existing Jewish shops in Aden were robbed bare and eight were partially emptied. Four synagogues were burnt to the ground and 220 Jewish houses were burned and looted or damaged.2 & 3: Jewish refugees and children wait to board a plane from Yemen to Israel. In response to an increasingly perilous situation, most of the Yemenite Jewish community had been secretly evacuated to Israel between June 1949 and September 1950. (x) -- source link