Commander of the Exodus
Contributors: Seymour Simckes (Translator)
Publisher: Grove Pr
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780802116642
Subjects: Holocaust survivors; Palestine; History: World; Jewish Holocaust; Refugees, Jewish; History; Jews; Holocaust; 20th century; Emigration and immigration; Political; Exodus 1947 (Ship); Harel, Yossi
First sentence: When the persecutions of the Jews began to assume a fierce momentum in Europe, Yossi Harel was fighting in Jerusalem and the Galilee against Arabs in the anti-Jewish riots of the 1930s.
Description: Chronicles the life of Yossi Harel, who successfully defied the blockade of the British Mandate to deliver more than 24,000 displaced Holocaust survivors to Palestine.