Parshas “Exodus-1947” [The Chapter of “Exodus-1947”)

(HOLOCAUST)

for the Haganah

Europe

1947

Yiddish text

In 1947 the Haganah organized a ship of illegal immigrants to Palestine. These “ma’apilim” (a reference to the Biblical story told in Numbers 14:44), as they were known in the literature of the day, were Holocaust survivors, recruited from the Displaced Persons camps of Europe. When the British intercepted the boat, carrying 4,500 men, women and children, this dramatic story, brought to the attention of the world the plight of the remnant of European Jewry denied entry to their ancestral homeland of Eretz Israel. This booklet was issued under the auspices of the Haganah somewhere “in golus Eropa” (the Exile of Europe)