Word: parita
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Police and troops in Tel Aviv were amazed last week to see the S.S. Parita steam in from sea heading straight for the sandy beach instead of her wharf. She ran aground, stuck fast, and over her railings into the water swarmed 125 Jewish refugees, bundles & all, squealing and gurgling to set foot on their Promised Land. Police herded them, and 750 more still on board, into a concentration camp. They came from Germany and Czechoslovakia, said they had been sailing without a captain for eleven weeks...
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