Word: exoduses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jews, it was a continuation of the Exodus 1947 saga. All of them had been aboard this ship when it had been rammed, attacked and captured by the British (TIME, July 28) off the Palestine coast. Since then they had lived in the ships' holds, ignoring British orders to leave and French offers of hospitality. The leaders of the refugees declared doggedly: "We wish to go to Palestine. We shall not land in Europe as long as we are alive...
...Rebecca (22). Once he had lost them to a German concentration camp, but in 1945 the family was reunited. Now he had lost them to Zionism. Two months ago, exclaiming, "We want to go to our real country," the children had left, and at Sete boarded the Exodus...
Janitors at several houses and Yard dormitories reported an exodus of baggage-laden students leaving hot Cambridge in desperation. But for those who stayed behind to face the oven atmosphere, Howard W. Emmons, associate professor of Engineering, had some words of encouragement yesterday...
...Palestine's violence would be ended by such mortal arithmetic. Yesterday's hopes and anger were forgotten in today's new fears. Forgotten was the United Nations' inquiry commission. And forgotten, for the moment, were the 4,500 Jews defiantly refusing to leave their ship, Exodus, 1947, in France's sweltering Port-de-Bouc...
...fight lasted three hours. Escorted by three more destroyers and a cruiser which had rushed to the scene, the Exodus limped into Haifa harbor. As they were transferred to another ship which was to return them to France, where they had embarked, the refugees doggedly sang the Zionist anthem Hatikvah ("Our hope is still not lost...