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Exodus 1947

The Exodus 1947 (originally called the SS President Warfield) was a former US passenger ship later acquired by an underground Jewish military organization. In 1947, the ship carried 4,500 Jewish displaced persons in an ill-fated journey to British-controlled Mandatory Palestine. British authorities refused entry to these would-be “illegal immigrants” and returned the ship’s passengers to Europe. Explore more content related to the Exodus 1947 and its impact on the establishment of the State of Israel (1948).

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A British soldier removes refugees, wounded resisting the British, from the ship "Exodus 1947." [LCID: 87409]
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A British soldier removes refugees from the ship Exodus 1947
Displaced persons protest the forced return to Germany of passengers from the refugee ship "Exodus 1947." [LCID: 37201b]
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A protest by displaced persons
Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship "Parita," carrying 850 Jewish refugees, lands on a sandbank off the Tel Aviv coast. [LCID: 13000]
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Aliyah Bet
An exhausted Jewish woman from the "Exodus 1947" refugee ship is given a drink as British soldiers stand nearby. [LCID: 69776]
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A refugee collapses
British military personnel (upper deck) aboard the "Exodus 1947" refugee ship, whose Jewish passengers were then forcibly returned ... [LCID: 86242]
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British military personnel aboard the Exodus 1947
British soldiers deport "Exodus 1947" passengers [LCID: dfe0102e]
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British soldiers deport "Exodus 1947" passengers
Jewish children, forcibly removed by British soldiers from the ship "Exodus 1947," stand behind a barbed-wire fence. [LCID: 37197a]
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British soldiers forcibly removed these Jewish children from the ship Exodus 1947
British soldiers remove Jews, passengers of the "Exodus 1947" who were forcibly returned from Palestine, upon their arrival in Hamburg. [LCID: 88273]
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British soldiers remove Exodus 1947 passengers upon arrival in Hamburg
Passengers on board the "Exodus 1947" refugee ship, which has just arrived at the Haifa, Palestine port, peer out of cabin windows. [LCID: 69111]
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Exodus 1947
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Exodus 1947 - Photograph
Jewish refugees, forcibly removed by British soldiers from the ship "Exodus 1947," arrive at Poppendorf displaced persons camp. [LCID: 37193b]
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Jewish refugees from the ship Exodus 1947 arrive at Poppendorf
Jewish refugees on the ship "Exodus 1947" at Haifa port. [LCID: 86035]
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Jewish refugees on the Exodus 1947 ship
British soldiers guard Jewish refugees, forcibly removed from the ship "Exodus 1947," on trucks leaving for Poppendorf displaced ... [LCID: 37195b]
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Jewish refugees who were removed from the Exodus 1947
Passengers on board the "Exodus 1947" refugee ship, which has just arrived at the Haifa, Palestine port, peer out of cabin windows. [LCID: 69111]
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Passengers on board the Exodus 1947
Passengers on the deck of the refugee ship "Exodus 1947" in Haifa. [LCID: 69105]
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Passengers on the refugee ship Exodus 1947
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Postwar Refugee Crisis and the Establishment of the State of Israel - Photograph

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