TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holly,David C.
TI  - Exodus 1947
SN  - 1557503672
AV  - DS126.4 H65
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Annapolis, Md.
PB  - Naval Institute Press
KW  - Exodus 1947 (Ship)
KW  - Jewish refugees
KW  - Palestine
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - fast
KW  - Eretz Israel
KW  - nli
KW  - Middle East
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-232) and index
N2  - A biography of a ship, with the focus on its final assignment, a desperate race to Palestine carrying 4,500 Holocaust survivors fleeing Europe. it examines the people and organizations at work preceding the birth of Israel, including the haganah, which rescued the ship from the scrap heap for its most important voyage. this episode was but one example of a means of bringing people to the homeland, in keeping with zionist goals
ER  -