page_title: History of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
section_title: World War II
hierarchical_section_title: History of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology / World War II
caption_attribution_description: English: Eight-year-old Yisrael Meir (Lulek) Lau is held by a fellow Buchenwald survivor, Elazar Schiff, as they arrive in Palestine aboard the RMS "Mataroa." Haifa, Palestine, July 15, 1945. Čeština: Přeživší z koncentračního tábora Buchenwald po připlutí do Haify, 15. července 1945. עברית: אלעזר שיף, וישראל מאיר לאו בן ה-8, ניצולי מחנה הריכוז בוכנוולד, על סיפון האונייה "מטרואה", בהגיעם לנמל חיפה - 15 ביולי 1945
context_page_description: The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is a leading technical university in Haifa, Israel, with a history dating back to the early 20th century.
context_section_description: Shlomo Kaplansky was the President of the university from 1931 to 1950. In the 1930s, the Institute absorbed large numbers of Jewish students and distinguished scholars from Poland, Germany, and Austria, who were fleeing the Nazi regime. In the midst of immense financial difficulties, Technion staff voted to work temporarily without pay to ensure the Technion's economic survival. In 1934, the Faculty of Industrial Technology was established covering broad fields. By the late 1930s the demand for technical university graduates had increased, and many Technion students volunteered to fight with the British against the Third Reich. Enrollment exceeded 400 students, and the University had expanded to include a degree in industrial engineering, 11 labs, and a nautical school. In time, fields of study taught at the Faculty of Industrial Technology were made into independent faculties.
  In the years preceding the establishment of the State, Technion was an active center for the Jewish underground – notably the Hagannah – and a source of technological defense solutions crucial to the struggle for independence.
caption: Refugees from the Holocaust arriving in Haifa.
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