Acre Prison
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Acre Prison, also known as Akko Prison, is a former prison and current museum in Acre, Israel.
The citadel in the old city was built during the Ottoman period over the ruins of a 12th-century Crusader fortress. The Ottomans used it at various times as a government building, prison, army barracks, and arms warehouse.[1]
During the
Palestinian general strike
alone.
On April 16, 1947,
Lehi, and Irgun. One of those prisoners was Eitan Livni (father of Tzipi Livni), the Irgun operations officer.[4]
In total, the prison contained 700 Arab prisoners and 90 Jewish prisoners.
A room in the prison was occupied for some months by
Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, and members of his family, who were exiled to Ottoman Syria in 1868. The cell is now a site of pilgrimage for Baháʼís making a wider pilgrimage
to the Baháʼí shrines in Haifa and Bahji, outside Akko.
See also
- Acre Prison break
- Exodus (1960 film), directed by Otto Preminger, based on the novel Exodus, by Leon Uris.
- Olei Hagardom
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Historical images of Acre Prison.
- ^ Old Acre - The Underground Prisoners' Museum
- ^ "Learning each other's historical narrative. Palestinians and Israelis" (PDF). vispo.com. March 2003. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ISBN 978-1-56656-925-5. pp.202,291.
- ^ Lapidot, Yehuda. "The Acre Prison Break". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 2008-01-15.