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Hachomah

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Date1946-08-14

ClassificationsNewspaper

Credit LineGift of the Gallery Educator Friends of the Museum

Object number2009.A.278

Object Description“Hachomah: [the wall] Inyenei Bitachon V’Haganah [issues of security and self-defense]” printed newsletter in Hebrew, dated 17 m"na 1946 [menachem Av= stands for the month of Ab; =August 14, 1946]. Not clear which organization published this. Title: How the immigrants on the Yagur and Henrietta Szold [immigrant ships] were removed from Haifa port. A transcript of a Kol Yisrael radio program describing the actions of the British in Haifa when their “illegal” ships arrived under British guard, describing the brutality with which the ships’ occupants were removed.

Keywords

Hebrew
Haifa

NotesSee list of ships in MJH vertical files. The Yagur [original name: Sargol] departed from Marseilles, France on July 29, 1946 and arrived in Haifa on August 11, 1946. 754 survivors, caught and sent to Cyprus. The Henrietta Szold [original name Aritem Salem] departed from Greece on July 30, 1946 and arrived in Haifa on August 12, 1946. 536 survivors, caught and sent to Cyprus. May be a newsletter published by the Neturei Karta- see EJ 2nd ed., vol. 15 pp 114-115: Neturei Karta is a group of ultra-religious extremists who do not recognize the State of Israel. The group’s founders broke away from Agudat Israel in 1935. The newspaper Ha-Homah began to appear in 1944.

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