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Originally an American vessel named the President Garfield, the Exodus 1947 was the best known of the ships that sailed from Europe to Palestine on Aliyah Bet immediately after the war. Carrying approximately 4500 Jewish refugees, the ship left Sète, France, on July 11, 1947, and was surveyed by British naval forces during its voyage. A British patrol surrounded the ship off the coast of Palestine and towed it to Haifa. When British soldiers attempted to force the passengers off the ship, they resisted. During the battle that followed, three Jewish immigrants were killed and others wounded. The British then deported the refugees back to France on July 20 where they embarked on a hunger strike. They were then taken to Hamburg, Germany, on September 8 and placed in displaced persons camps where most of them remained until the establishment of Israel in 1948. The events surrounding the Exodus were covered by the international press and also witnessed by members of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) who were present in Haifa at the time of the struggle. As a result of these reports, the UN requested the end of the British Mandate in Palestine and the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. The Exodus 1947 became a symbol of the plight of Jewish refugees after the war. (en-US)

Fonte

Degani, Nissan. Exodus Calling. Tel Aviv, Israel. 1996. pp. 19-330, 332

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