Jewish children, forcibly removed by British soldiers from the ship "Exodus 1947," stand behind a barbed-wire fence. [LCID: 37197a]

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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