Operation Exodus: From the Nazi Death Camps to the Promised Land: A Perilous Journey That Shaped Israel’s Fate
| Author | Gordon Thomas |
| Publication information | Thomas Dunne Books, October, 2010, 400 pages |
| Abbreviation | ISBN 10 0312569939 |
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The Haganah הגנה arranged for the purchase of a small American steamer as part of a mission to serve as lifeboat for more than four thousand survivors of Nazi rule and transport them to Palestine.
Renamed Exodus 1947, the ship and its young crew left France en route to the future state of Israel.
The Holocaust survivors aboard Exodus endured even more hardships when the Royal Navy stopped the ship in international waters, used force in boarding (killing two passengers and one crewmember) and eventually deported her passengers to internment camps in Germany. The death of the ship’s captain in late 2009 generated headlines throughout the world.
Enriched with new survivors’ testimonies and previously unpublished documentation,
Operation Exodus is the saga of a people who risked all in search for a home.
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Published in United Kingdom by JR Books Ltd, September, 2010
ISBN-10: 1906779260
ISBN-13: 978-1906779269