Haapalah / Aliyah Bet

On April 13, 1940, Etia Malkin Perlman and her two children, Moshe and Sonia, were deported ressetled in Siberia Сибирь, a month after her husband, Yossif Perlman, was arrested.
Michael Tobias cites: they went by horse-drawn cart to Horod'k train station where they boarded a freight car, and traveled east for two weeks on the Trans Siberian Railway to Omsk and the Irtish River.
They travelled up the Irtish River to Krasnokutsk and on to Novotroitsk Sovhoz, their final destination, arriving May 1, 1940, where they were housed in the camel's stables.

Moshe Perlman Porat served into the work-battalions first, and later, in the infantry.
Michael Tobias cites: "In the Spring of 1943 Moshe was mobilized into the work army. He was sent back to Pavlodar and he worked on railroad construction between Stalinsk to Magnitogorsk in the Urals. His section (the 8th) was constructing a railroad bridge over the Irtish river, transferring coal, steel rails, wood, and nails by hand."
In the Spring of 1944, bridge construction stopped, and Moshe Perlman Porat was transferred from Karaganda to Aksakarovka. where he got a clerk's job in the Andreyevka station.
In the autumn of 1944 Moshe was mobilized into the Red Army., and was sent from Karaganda to Alma Ata, a large military training unit.
He crossed the Black Sea on a ship, escort a penal company to the front, sailing from Odessa to Constanta, through Romania to Hotvan and to Slovakia. The penal company was left with the 4th Ukrainian Front and Moshe's squad returned to Alma Ata via Hotvan, Kishinev, Kyev, Mocka and Kooybishev.
He became part of an Infantry Unit, 2nd Belarussian Front. and in June, 1945, he wassent east to Szczecin, then south to Silesia.
He finished the war meeting the alien western forces on the Baltic coast near Rostock. and was released from the Soviet Army in May, 1946,

Lieutenant Monroe Fein served as Captain aboard Altalena אלטלנה.

Julian Barenson served as Chief Steward aboard Altalena אלטלנה.

Monroe Fein cites in Days of Fire, written by Shmuel Katz
"The ship continued to receive heavy firing from the shore for a period of about one and a half hours. Some of the heavy machine guns ashore were using armour-piercing ammunition which passed right through steel bulkheads of the ship. This fact began to cause numerous casualties. We had no doctor on board and some of our casualties were very seriously wounded. We contacted the army command and requested a cease-fire in order to allow us to remove the wounded men from the ship. We arranged that we would use our own LCVP for this purpose. . . . "
"During this time one of them [the wounded] died. One hour and a half later, and after repeated requests, there was still no sign of any boat. At this time, we were suddenly taken under fire by a large gun which was located on the coast to the north of the city. This gun fired three shots, all of which passed over the ship and exploded in the water beyond. . . . "
"During this time I conferred with the commander-in-chief of the Irgun and told him that if the gunfire should hit the ship, the ship, the cargo and possibly a good many lives would be lost and that he should at all costs maintain the cease-fire order until there could be further negotiations. This he agreed to do, but as he himself came up to talk on the radio to the headquarters ashore, the heavy gun resumed firing."
"As soon as the gun started a second time, I struck the flag as a sign of surrender. We again inquired of the Palmach commander whether the cease-fire order was in effect and the reply came that the cease-fire order was in effect but that he had been 'unable to contact all fronts.' Within a few seconds after this message was received, there was a direct hit on the ship which started a large fire in the cargo hold. The ship's crew made immediate and valiant efforts to put out this fire, but because of the nature of the cargo it proved beyond our capacity and I ordered all men aboard to prepare to abandon the ship."
"The first thought all of us had was to remove the wounded men. There was no panic. Everyone behaved in an extremely calm and heroic manner. As the men began jumping off the ship and swimming towards the shore, those of us still on board saw that they were being shot at continuously from rifles and machine-guns on the beach. I rushed to the bridge and began waving a white flag and shouting to stop the fire on the men who were swimming for their lives. At the same time another man hoisted a large piece of white canvas on the halyard, but these efforts were of little avail, as the firing continued."

Alex Gutman was one of the Maapilim on board Altalena אלטלנה.

Moshe Perlman Porat sailed for Israel on Altalena אלטלנה., arriving in Israel on June 20, 1948.
He had crossed into the French zone, and made it to in Reutlingen
With help from Yuta Plavner, who provided identity papers as an officer in UNRA, Moshe crossed into France, where he stayed until June, 1948.
His mother and sister joined him in July 1947, and he attended the ORT School.
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Dov Shilansky sailed for Israel on Altalena אלטלנה, landed at Kfar Vitkin, on June 21, 1948.
Dov Shilansky cites: He encountered an Israeli soldier in a command car, and “I spoke to him in Hebrew. It was my first speech in Israel.”
He told the soldier “We’ve just arrived. We survived the Holocaust. We’ve come here to fight by your side. The homeland is in danger. We will join the army.”
The soldier instructed him to go no farther. and Dov Shilansky replied: “We have no other way. I won’t go back to Dachau. If we can’t come to Israel, we’ll go back to the sea.”
The soldier replied: “I don’t care. Go back to the sea.”