Aliyah Bet, or Immigration Wave B, was comprised of illegal immigrants from Nazi Europe, shipped to Palestine, with the aid of American Jews and the Haganah. The last of the “White Papers”, British mandates restricting Jewish immigration to Palestine, was published on May 17, 1939, when Nazi oppression reached its zenith. The mandate allowed immigration of 15,000 Jews per year for the following five years and then a total halt of Jewish immigration for the rest of the …showed first 75 words of 865 total…

…showed last 75 words of 865 total…immigrant on the real Exodus ’47. We may have lived under sanitary conditions, been well fed, happy and constantly entertained, however we experienced a type of camaraderie that only comes about when fighting for such a noble cause as our freedom to enter our homeland. It was an overwhelming and fulfilling feeling to step onto Israeli land, knowing that I completed the journey my Jewish ancestors from the Exodus began over fifty years ago. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**