![A Hebrew poster reads: "Give a hand in rescue, the Fund for Recruitment and Rescue". [LCID: 08336]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/b018e131-eefb-4c29-b2c3-6a430c29ec0c.jpeg "A Hebrew poster reads: \"Give a hand in rescue, the Fund for Recruitment and Rescue\". [LCID: 08336]")
A poster in Hebrew soliciting contributions from members of the Yishuv (the Jewish community of Palestine) for army recruitment and for efforts to rescue European Jewry. The Hebrew text reads "Give a hand in rescue, the Fund for Recruitment and Rescue." Palestine, July 22, 1943.
Item View![A boat used by Danish fishermen to transport Jews to safety in Sweden during the German occupation. [LCID: 41224]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/9fbf794b-26ff-4bde-8eb8-c251a82557f0.jpeg "A boat used by Danish fishermen to transport Jews to safety in Sweden during the German occupation. [LCID: 41224]")
A boat used by Danish fishermen to transport Jews to safety in Sweden during the German occupation. Denmark, date uncertain.
Item View![Danish fishermen used this boat to carry Jews to safety in Sweden during the German occupation. [LCID: 62187]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/3ae68db5-a9a4-4c9b-ba74-795eb4dc2e57.jpeg "Danish fishermen used this boat to carry Jews to safety in Sweden during the German occupation. [LCID: 62187]")
Danish fishermen used this boat to carry Jews to safety in Sweden during the German occupation. Denmark, 1943 or 1944.
Item View![Jewish refugee youth, on an escape route from France to Switzerland, at a Children's Aid Society (OSE) girls' home. [LCID: 03438]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/53448085-61c5-47fe-99d5-381976faa2a6.jpeg "Jewish refugee youth, on an escape route from France to Switzerland, at a Children's Aid Society (OSE) girls' home. [LCID: 03438]")
Jewish refugee youth, on an escape route from France to Switzerland, at a Children's Aid Society (OSE) girls' home. Couret, France, ca. 1942.
Item View![Jewish refugee youth from French transit camps at the Children's Aid Society (OSE) home "Maison des Pupilles de la Nation." [LCID: 03442]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/3c5105c4-18ee-444f-955a-ac4a53233782.jpeg "Jewish refugee youth from French transit camps at the Children's Aid Society (OSE) home \"Maison des Pupilles de la Nation.\" [LCID: 03442]")
Jewish refugee youth from French transit camps at the Children's Aid Society (OSE) home "Maison des Pupilles de la Nation." Some of the children are in flight, en route to Switzerland. Aspet, France, June-August 1942.
Item View![Jewish refugees board the SS Mouzinho for the voyage to the United States. [LCID: 06526]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/338faaa7-e3f5-409a-984f-19440aedbb8c.jpeg "Jewish refugees board the SS Mouzinho for the voyage to the United States. [LCID: 06526]")
Jewish refugees board the SS Mouzinho for the voyage to the United States. Among these refugees is a group of Jewish children recently rescued from internment camps in France. Lisbon, Portugal, ca. June 10, 1941.
Item View![The refugee ship "Pentcho," carrying 510 passengers bound for Palestine, in the Aegean Sea. [LCID: 78880]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/96be8acb-62bb-445d-b215-e8cb872f3598.jpeg "The refugee ship \"Pentcho,\" carrying 510 passengers bound for Palestine, in the Aegean Sea. [LCID: 78880]")
This photograph shows the refugee ship Pentcho, carrying over 500 passengers bound for Palestine, sailing in the Aegean Sea. It had departed from Bratislava on May 18, 1940.
In October 1940, while the Pentcho was sailing in Italian territory, its boiler exploded. The passengers and crew were able to get ashore and offload their supplies before the ship finally sank. On October 18 and 19, Italian authorities picked up the refugees and took them to Rhodes. They stayed there for over a year in a hastily constructed camp in the soccer stadium of Rhodes. In January 1942, the refugees were transferred to the Ferramonti internment camp in southern Italy, where they remained until the Allies captured Italy.
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