onsdag 12 augusti 2020

From Palestine to jail in Mauritius: When Britain deported 1,580 Shoah refugees

 They fled the Nazis to Mandate Palestine in 1940, only to be deported and, over Churchill’s objections, locked up for 5 years; August 12 marks 75 years since their release

Times of Israel:From Palestine to jail in Mauritius: When Britain deported 1,580 Shoah refugees

LONDON — On December 5, 1940, 1,580 Jewish men, women and children were taken from the Atlit detention center near Haifa, transferred on to two ships, and deported to the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.

On their arrival in the small British colony 17 days later, the refugees — who had fled Nazi-occupied Europe three months prior — were taken to the Beau Bassin central prison where they were held behind bars for nearly five years.

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