Haapalah / Aliyah Bet

David Shpitzer, his wife,and son, Dan, arrived at Bratislava, but the Danube River was frozen, so they waited until September to sail to Tulcea.

On August, 1940, Esther Leinhardt Langsam, and her sons, Oscar and Herman, left with 500 others, the last to successfully leave, on a train to Bratislava, and boarded a steamship that sailed down the Danube River to Tulcea.

In September, 1940, Jiri Polacek left on the last transport from Bohemia and Moravia, to Tulcea.

On September 2, 1940, Emil Gregr organized the illegal transport of ten fellow Jews from Praha via Wien for Palestine.

In October, 1940, Hugo Hornung sailed from Bratislava to Tulcea.

In late 1940, while the Germans were trying to deport the Jews of Europe, rather than exterminating them, and Adolf Eichmann headed The Committee for Sending Jews Overseas, Berthold Storfer, a Jewish businessman, worked under Adolf Eichmann. and organized two groups of transports, one organized on behalf of the Jewish community of Wien, and the second, organized with Betar.
Adolf Eichmann was happy to make trouble for the British by allowing Jews to leave for Palestine, counter to the policy of the British White Paper of 1939, and against the unofficial British policy, which did not even allow Jews into Palestine.
The Committee for Sending Jews Overseas, chartered three ships in Romania:
* Atlantic
* Pacific
* Milos

On October 7, 1940, Mordechai and Pesa Rypinsky, and children Hella and Yitzchak, sailed on Atlantic אטלנטיק from Tulcea for Palestine.

On October 7, 1940, Emil and Jolan Wellisch sailed on Atlantic אטלנטיק from Tulcea for Palestine.
Heinrich Henry Wellisch was able to transfer from Pacific to Atlantic where his parents were located.

On October 7, 1940, Hugo Hornung sailed on Atlantic אטלנטיק from Tulcea for Palestine.

On October 7, 1940, Esther Leinhardt Langsam and her two sons, Oscar and Herman, sailed on Atlantic אטלנטיק from Tulcea for Palestine.

Herman Langsam, his mother, Esther Leinhardt Langsam, and brother, Oscar, were brought to Atlit Detention Camp, where they were detained by the British Mandate Police.
Herman Langsam, age 3 years, died of typhoid.