ברגר Berger, Carmela bat Yaacov (Jacob)

Birth Name ברגר Berger, Carmela bat Yaacov (Jacob)
Birth Name ברגר, כרמלה בת יעקב
Married Name כהן, כרמלה
Call Name כרמלה
Call Name כרמלה
Gender female

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth   Чернівці Chernivtsi, Буковина, Чернівецька область, Україна  

 
Boat November 4, 1946 כנסת ישראל haTnuat haMeri haIvri Lochit Lochita Lohita Knesset Israel תנועת המרי העברי Knesset Israel כנסת ישראל sailed from Bakar to Haifa

Place Note

On November 4, 1946, Lohita Knesset Israel כנסת ישראל, along with MS Anastasia, sailed from Bakar, on a two-and-a-half week voyage, carrying 4,000 passengers.
Palyam.org cites Lohita Knesset Yisrael כנסת ישראל sailing on November 5, 1946, carrying 3,445 passengers.
Reuven Yatir cites: Lohita Knesset Yisrael כנסת ישראל carried 3,500 passengers and a small vessel, Saint, carried 500 passengers, but on their "way to the open sea the “Saint” ran into a small island and sank. We transferred her passengers to our vessel and continued our voyage in an orderly manner."
Benyamin Yerushalmi served as Commander aboard Knesset Israel כנסת ישראל.
Yossi Harel served as second-in-command aboard Knesset Israel כנסת ישראל.
Yoash Tzdon served as Gidoni, wireless radio operator, aboard Knesset Israel כנסת ישראל.
She sailed close to the Dalmatian coast.
Before she set sail, she had been given the name, תנועת המרי העברי Tnuat haMeri haIvri, the Hebrew Resistance Movement, and her captain told the passenger at muster, prior to sailing, that they should be accountable to her name.
The resistance group included 2,000 individuals, most from youth movements.
Her name was changed to Knesset Yisrael כנסת ישראל on orders from the Yishuv.

Event Note

Benyamin 'Ben' Yerushalmi served as Commander aboard Knesset Israel כנסת ישראל.
Reuven Yatir cites: a group of Maapilim he had trained in seamanship took over running of the ship, when they left the Aegean Sea and let the Greek crew go, and "They went back to Piraeus in a small boat, together with Ben Yerushalmi."

Event Note

Yoash 'Chato' Tzidon served as Palyam Escort מלווה and Gidoni גדעוני, wireless radio operator, aboard Knesset Israel כנסת ישראל.
He came to Bakar with the Maapilim, from the transit camp in Zagreb.

Event Note

Yossi Harel served as Second-in-Command aboard Knesset Israel כנסת ישראל.

Event Note

Reuven Hirsch Yatir served as Palyam Escort מלווה aboard Knesset Israel כנסת ישראל.

Event Note

Reuven Yatir cites "In November 1946, 4,000 mMaapilim arrived and Yoash Tzidon, the Gideoni (radio operator), came with them from the transit camp in Zagreb. Knesset Israel took on 3,500 Maapilim and a small vessel, the Saint, took the other 500."

Event Note

Jacob Berger, his wife, Klara, and daughter, Carmela, sailed for Palestine aboard Knesset Israel כנסת ישראל.

Event Note

Moshe Malkiel, age 17 years, sailed for Palestine aboard Knesset Israel כנסת ישראל.

Event Note

Matilda and Pnina Wiesel sailed for Palestine aboard Knesset Israel כנסת ישראל.

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Parents

Father ברגר Berger, Jacob Yaacov
Mother Ternrider, Klara

Source References

  1. Britain’s Naval and Political Reaction to the Illegal Immigration of Jews to Palestine, 1945-1948

Pedigree

  1. ברגר Berger, Jacob Yaacov
    1. Ternrider, Klara
      1. ברגר Berger, Carmela bat Yaacov (Jacob)

Ancestors