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June 5, 2018

How Italy Became a Stop for Holocaust Survivors on the Way to Palestine

And the story’s political manipulation today.

In the aftermath of World War II, some 70,000 Jewish refugees streamed into Italy; most wished not to settle there but to journey onward to the Land of Israel. The British government there, however, barred Jewish immigration, leading the Haganah to arrange a variety of efforts to smuggle people into the country. Rosie Whitehouse describes what happened to one group of survivors:

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