Summary
The ship on which the first contingent of illegal immigrants to be deported under the November 1940 policy was assembled in Haifa Harbour, scuttled at her moorings on 25 November 1940 with the loss of 252 lives, in the official document quoted in the United Nations study (Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem: 1917-1947 (Part I), lines 1183-1185).
Details
- The quoted official document states that regulation of Jewish immigration was complicated by attempts to organise the unauthorised entry of large bodies of immigrants, whose shiploads came from inside Axis-controlled Europe, and that in November 1940 it was decided illegal immigrants would be deported to an alternative place of refuge in the Colonial Empire (Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem: 1917-1947 (Part I), lines 1183-1185).
- “The Patria, however, was scuttled at her moorings on 25 November, as a result of sabotage by Jewish sympathizers ashore, with the loss of 252 lives” (lines 1183-1185).
- Numbers of illegal immigrants were subsequently deported to Mauritius; they were admitted to Palestine in 1945 and an equivalent number was deducted from the quota provided for in the White Paper (lines 1183-1185).
Related pages
British White Paper of 1939, Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem: 1917-1947 (Part I)