Press Photograph of Americans Protesting British Navy Commandeering of the Exodus 1947

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Object ID

2021.1.11

Object Name

Photograph

Date

7-24-1947

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Description

Crowds stand behind police barriers in a city while holding picket signs most visibly stating “Bevin inherited Hitler’s Barbed Wire” “Who is ‘oiling’ American Palestine Policy?” and “’Exodus 1947’ A Symbol of Jewish Determination.”

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

The British refusal to allow the more than 4500 passengers - including 655 children and the Reverend John Grauel - on the Exodus 1947 (the old President Warfield resurrected) to disembark in Haifa; the ensuing hostilities after the ship was rammed and boarded by British soldiers; and the decision to send the passengers - men, women and children - back to displaced persons camps in the very country that murdered six million of their co-religionists, created a furor around the globe. The British were seen as no better than the Nazis, preventing the haggard and homeless Jewish refugees - the surviving remnant of the European Holocaust - from reaching sanctuary in their own homeland. Increasing public awareness and international support for the passengers of the Exodus elevated this event to the symbol of the Jewish struggle for a homeland in a world where few countries welcomed any of them. Ultimately the Exodus would become “the ship that launched a nation.”

Dimensions

10 x 8 1/4"

Keywords

Exodus 1947

Subcollection

Exodus

Recommended Citation

"Press Photograph of Americans Protesting British Navy Commandeering of the Exodus 1947" (1947). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2021.1.11.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1713