Abraham Schwadron Collection. אסף אברהם שבדרון.
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Sarah Aaronsohn was born on January 5, 1890 in Zikhron Ya’akov which at the time was part of Ottoman Syria. Aaronsohn, her sister Rivka Aaronsohn, and her brothers Aaron Aaronsohn and Alexander Aaronsohn, with their friend Avshalom Feinberg formed and led the Nili spy organization. Aaronsohn oversaw operations in Palestine of the spy ring and passed information to British agents offshore. Sometimes she travelled widely through Ottoman territory collecting information useful to the British, and b...
