Feb 2, 2022
TFJ: Special Episode!
The Haganah launched a floating underground railroad to bring
immigrants into Israel after the conclusion of WW II. The British
enforced their White Paper which forbade Jewish immigration to
Palestine, so Holocaust survivors who were caught trying to run the
blockade were incarcerated under cruel conditions in Cyprus.
In a daring move, the Haganah retrofitted an old steam liner
packing it with over 5000 Jews that were languishing in DP camps
and sailed to Israel in the summer of 1947. His Majesty’s Navy
attacked the boat, renamed the Exodus, killing and wounding
passengers. The survivors were not sent to nearby Cyprus, but to
the belly of the beast they had just barely escaped, Germany. The
harshness and the heartlessness of the British was a media headline
causing sympathy for the Zionist cause and would ultimately be an
inspiration to Soviet Jewry.
Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker
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