Patria disaster
The SS Patria was an passenger ship that sank in the Mediterranean Sea on 25 November 1940 from a bomb planted by the terrorist group Haganah. It was sailing from the port of Haifa. It was carrying about 1,800 Jewish refugees from Europe during World War II.[1] The British government were deporting them from Palestine to Mauritius because they did not have visas.[2] Zionist organisations opposed the deportation, and the paramilitary group Haganah planted a bomb in the ship to stop it from leaving Haifa.[3][4] It killed 260 people and injured 172.[5] The rest of the passengers were rescued by British and Arab boats that rushed to save them.[1]
The British allowed the survivors to remain in Palestine on humanitarian grounds. 221 passengers were buried in the Carmel Beach cemetery in Haifa.[6]
Patria Disaster Media
SS Patria sinking in Haifa port
A nameplate preserved from Patria
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chazan, Meir. The Patria Affair: Moderates vs. Activists in Mapai in the 1940s. Journal of Israeli History 22 (2) (2003). p. 61–95. doi:10.1080/13531040312331287644.
- ↑ Bauer, Yehuda. American Jewry and the Holocaust (1981)Wayne State University Press. p. 143–144. ISBN 0-8143-1672-7.
- ↑ Penkower, Monty Noam. Decision on Palestine Deferred: America, Britain and Wartime Diplomacy (2002). London: Routledge. p. 55–59. ISBN 0-7146-5268-7.
- ↑ Ofer, Dalia. Re-presenting the Shoah for the Twenty-first Century (2004). New York: Berghahn Books. p. 95. ISBN 1-57181-802-2.
- ↑ Deaths of 260 in 1940 ship explosion commemorated. JWeekly.com (14 December 2001)San Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
- ↑ Perl, William R.. The Four-front War: From the Holocaust to the Promised Land (1979). New York: Crown Publishing Group. p. 250. ISBN 0-517-53837-7.
Other websites
- The story of the SS Patria on Zionism Israel
