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Concentration camp survivors aboard the Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship "Mataroa" arrive at the Haifa port. [LCID: 69101]
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Haifa

Haifa is a port city on the Mediterranean Sea. After the Holocaust (1933–1945), many European Jews tried to enter British Mandatory Palestine through Haifa, even as the British placed strict limits on immigration. Explore more content related to postwar Haifa.

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A child stands in a group of people looking off to the right. They have dark short hair and light skin tone. They appear to have a wrapped injured hand.
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A child survivor arrives at Haifa
Jewish refugee children unfurl the Jewish flag as they arrive at the Haifa port aboard Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship SS ... [LCID: 69701]
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Arriving at Haifa
Eight-year-old Yisrael Meir (Lulek) Lau is held by a fellow Buchenwald survivor, Elazar Schiff, as they arrive in Palestine aboard ... [LCID: 69435]
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Arriving in Palestine
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
British soldiers transfer Jewish refugee children from the ship Theodor Herzl
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British soldiers transfer Jewish refugee children from the ship Theodor Herzl
The Jewish refugee ship "Pan-York," carrying new citizens to the recently established state of Israel, docks at Haifa. [LCID: 45100]
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Jewish refugee ship Pan-York docks in Haifa
Jewish refugees arrive in Haifa and are interned [LCID: dfh0360i]
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Jewish refugees arrive in Haifa and are interned
British soldiers force Jewish refugees from Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship "Theodor Herzl" through a disinfection station ... [LCID: 69911]
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Jewish refugees from the Aliyah Bet ship Theodor Herzl
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
Refugees removed from the "Exodus 1947" walk to a ship which will return them to Europe. [LCID: 69941]
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Refugees who were removed from the Exodus 1947
As UN official Emil Sandstroem (bottom right, white hat) looks on, British soldiers remove Jewish refugees from the ship "Exodus ... [LCID: 69913]
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Removal of passengers from the Exodus 1947
Youths with camp numbers tattooed on their arms aboard Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship "Mataroa," at the Haifa port. [LCID: 69100]
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Youths aboard the Aliyah Bet ship Mataroa

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