Exodus 1947: “The Ship that Launched a Nation”

On 11 July 1947, over 4,500 Holocaust survivors boarded a worn-out passenger ship, Exodus 1947, with the goal of breaching a naval blockade of British Mandate Palestine in order to rebuild their lives in a future Jewish state. Although the Haganah organized mission would be one of dozens of failed attempts at Jewish immigration during the decades of British control of the territory, the ship would become an international symbol of the need for Jewish sovereignty. 

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