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SS Navemar, designed for 28 passengers, which carried 1,120 Jewish refugees to New York in 1941; MV Struma, a schooner chartered to carry Jewish refugees that was torpedoed and sunk by a Soviet submarine on 5 February 1942; MV Mefküre, a schooner carrying Jewish refugees that was torpedoed and sunk by a Soviet submarine on 5 August 1944
SS Quanza was a World War II-era Portuguese passenger-cargo ship, [3] best known for carrying 317 people, many of them refugees, from Nazi-occupied Europe to North America in 1940. At least 100 of its passengers were Jewish.
Jewish refugees on a train on their way to Sète to embark on President Warfield. As a packet boat President Warfield had been certificated to carry 540 passengers. In the war she had been converted to provide berths for 605 troops. But more than 4,500 Jewish refugees arrived in Sète. [32]
The Struma disaster was the sinking on 24 February 1942 of a ship, MV Struma, which had been trying to take nearly 800 Jewish refugees from the Axis member Romania to Mandatory Palestine. She was a small iron-hulled ship of only 240 GRT and had been built in 1867 as a steam-powered schooner [ 3 ] but had recently been re-engined with an ...
With ships packed with refugees, such as the St. Louis and refugee ships headed for Palestine were turned back, it is difficult to make a case for the thesis that rescue was not possible. [40] Wyman's views are supported by numerous participants and scholars, such David Kranzler, Hillel Kook, Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl, to name only a few. [41]
As many as 900,000 Jewish refugees fled or were violently expelled from Muslim-majority countries in the 20 th century (most in 1948 with the creation of the Jewish State) and 650,000 refugees ...
Dublon's brother, Willi Dublon, was successful in securing spots on the St. Louis motor ship for himself and his entire family. This included Erich, Willi, Erna, twelve-year-old Lore, and six-year-old Eva. [1] The passengers on the St. Louis were made up of mostly Jewish refugees who were also hoping to escape Nazi persecution. [3]
Yet, Jewish refugees and immigrants from Arab lands, the Sephardi-Mizrahi, are off the radar. They make up about 56,000 of the 535,000 Jews living in Southeast Florida. In Miami-Dade, 17% of the ...