Posted on 12/26/2009 7:51:29 PM PST by Shellybenoit
This week Yitzhak Aharonowitz Captain of the Exodus passed away. As a tribute to this hero, below is real story of the the Famous Voyage (which is much different from the movie).
With the White Paper of 1939 the British caved into Arab pressure (that would never happen now--would it?) and severely limited the number of Jews that could enter what was then called Palestine.
During WW II it meant that they were causing the death of hundreds of thousands of Jews who could have escaped the Holocaust, had they a place that would take them in. After the Holocaust, many of Hitler's victims were trying to get in to the Holy Land. The British in their infinite wisdom threw these refugees back into camps this time on Cyprus.
Boris Agulnik was one of those refugees, he ended up on a ship called, The Exodus.
(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...
I loved that movie when it came out.
Exodus was one at the top of the list.
So he was 23 years old when he was Captain of the Exodus, and 86 when he passed away.
I’m going to try some more search. He was an interesting fellow.
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