The Exodus
SS Exodus Memorial, Haifa, Israel 2017. The Exodus, nicknamed the "Ship that Launched a Nation" by famed writer Ruth Gruber, was an American Aliyah Bet ship that attempted to bring in 5,400 desperate Holocaust survivors. The Exodus' story fundamentally affected the United Nations vote on the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine dividing Mandatory Palestine into two States, one Jewish, and one Arab. The Memorial was funded by the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation.