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Ladataan... Underground to PalestineTekijä: I. F. Stone
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A moving and unforgettable eyewitness account of the courageous exodus of Holocaust survivors from post-World War II Europe to the Promised Land, now expanded with Stone's frontline reporting on the Arab-Israeli crises of 1948-49 and the Suez War of 1956, and with a new foreword by D. D. Guttenplan In the spring of 1946, American journalist I. F. Stone embarked on an incredible adventure, accompanying Holocaust survivors as they made their historic voyage from Eastern Europe to the biblical Promised Land. Undertaken in secrecy against the strict orders of Palestine's British colonial governors, this harrowing escape began in the displaced persons camps of Germany and Poland. An illegal convoy of the homeless, proud, and determined, these refugees traveled by train and by foot across the European continent before boarding the ship that would carry them past the British blockade to their ancient, ancestral home. No account of the historic twentieth-century exodus is as poignant, powerful, exhilarating, and dramatic as this acclaimed first-person narrative. Through the words of author I. F. Stone, one of America's most provocative and revered investigative reporters, these courageous men, women, and children live again. Largely implicit but nevertheless unyielding is Stone's belief in a binational Arab-Jewish state, a creed unacceptable to the Zionist movement of the time. Included are essays written in the years following Israel's establishment, reflecting on the state of the newly reborn nation and the volatile situation in the Middle East thirty years beyond the establishment of Mandatory Palestine. Caught between the immediate, innate sense of belonging he felt in Palestine and his own developing critique of Zionism, Stone wrote into each of these works a personal struggle, a question of justice unsolved today. With a new introduction by D. D. Guttenplan, this edition reveals a perspective indispensable to understanding past and present tensions in the Middle East. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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This book is an excellent historic document written at the time.
The Hagana had recruited a group of Jewish sailors take an illegal ship into Palestine, up till then foreign sailors been hired. The reporter wanted to travel with them but instead was sent by planw to Europe where he describes the DP camps. Interesting that most of the inmates were Polish Jews who had fled to Germany. There were DP camps all over Europe with people from as far away as Ethiopia and Afghanistan. Germans cities are buildings in rubble. Polish refugees said that the Polish government was okay but the people were leading pogroms against Jews. Getting over the border between Poland and Czechoslovakia was difficult. The writer could speak Yiddish the most common language amongst the immigrants.
This was a time when the Americans had requested that 100 000 Jews be let into Palestine and Britain disagreed. Britain was in the throws of getting out of Egypt and wanted to hold Palestine as a strategic asset to have a hold over Suez canal.
Slovakia was self administered under the Nazi's and was a place for Germans to relax and had plenty of food during the war. Where refugees and not let out of Poland the reporter goes to the Bratislava head and tells them what he is writing in the US press and they relent. He crosses to Austria which is divided up into different allied sections. Only 4000 of 200 000 Jews living in Vienna and they were mostly converts to Catholicism.
He meets Yiddish speaking Russian officers who tell him they are communist supporters but support the Zionist idea as there is no place for Jews in Eastern Europe.
He now goes to Italy where the ship is ready and it leaves the port and later picks up the refugees at a small place along the coast at night. He eventually gets onto a ship that has an American Jewish crew. Everything has to be done to avoid the British knowledge.
Every DP camp is under the allies with the Joint and Hagana involved. Quite a number of non Jews arrive with the refugees an example is a Polish women who took 2 children for her Jewish neighbour and wanted to be with them. Families who fled to the Russian sector repatriated to Poland and then onto DP camps towards Israel. He says that the ship was two thirds men as less women survived and the all showed signs of optimism compared to the people in defeated countries.
Later at sea a Turkish boat comes and many are transferred to it to run the gauntlet. The engine breaks down and the are stranded at sea and water is running out. An SOS brings a British ship but as they are in open sea does nothing. Eventually the get the ship to go and it gets to Haifa where the narrator has a visa and gets off. The refugees are put in Atlit. Later people were put on Cypress.
The book concludes that Britain hadn't come to terms with the end of Empire. They wanted to make treaties with the Moslem effendis to control the masses against the Bolsheviks. The Jews and Christian of the region were not important to their policy. He believes that so many refugees will arrive that they can't be stopped. One has to understand Britain's relationship to American and France as well as Cold War at the time. (