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| 1939: The War Against The Jews |
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Smoke billows from the ship Rim off the island of Rhodes, while local residents look on from the shore. The boat was carrying 600 illegal Romanian immigrants bound for Palestine when it ran aground and burned. Although the British government had effectively closed Palestine to legal migration, thousands of European Jews attempted to escape the Nazi onslaught by entering Palestine illegally.
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Jewish refugees from the ship SS Patria make their way to shore in lifeboats after sailing from Europe to Tel Aviv. British restrictions placed on Jewish immigration compelled these Jewish refugees to enter Palestine illegally.
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After a deliberate landing of the boat on a sand bank off the coast of Tel Aviv, the 850 European Jewish immigrants on board the Patria were arrested by British officials and interned in a detention center near Haifa.
Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive
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June 17, 1939: After being denied access to Cuba and the United States, the German refugee ship St. Louis docks in Antwerp, Belgium. Belgium offers to take 214 passengers, the Netherlands 181, Britain 287, and France 224. Ultimately, the Nazis will murder most of the passengers except for those accepted by Great Britain.
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July 30, 1939: Reacting to German anti-Jewish policies and reflecting the attitude of many other officials in Great Britain and Western Europe, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain writes: "No doubt Jews aren't a lovable people; I don't care about them myself. But that is not sufficient to explain the pogrom."
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August 2, 1939: Concerned that the Germans could be the first to develop an atomic bomb, expatriate German physicist Albert Einstein writes to President Franklin Roosevelt about developing an American bomb.
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The Holocaust Chronicle
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