Yitzchak ben Eliezer of Munkatch. Ohel Yitzchak [on shechitah]. Vienna, 1905.

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The former owner, Yitzchak Tzvi Gelb, records in this volume that he, along with his wife and daughter were survivors of the Patria Disaster. He acquired this volume shortly thereafter and movingly records here his thanks to God for having saved him. He signs his inscription: “Currently in the Atlit Detention Camp, awaiting the complete redemption for the entirety of Israel, Amen.” In November 1940, British Mandate authorities placed over 1,700 Jewish ‘illegal’ immigrants to Palestine on the ship Patria in order to deport them from Palestine to Mauritius. Seeking to prevent the deportation, Haganah agents planted a bomb on the ship which was intended to simply render it un-seaworthy. However, the bomb blew a large hole in the ships’ hull causing it to sink, subsequent to which, hundreds drowned. The survivors were detained in the Atlit Detention Camp. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patria_disaster.