Exodus and Redemption
by Esther Newman-Cohen
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33.500 x 19.700 x 0.001 inches
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Title
Exodus and Redemption
Artist
Esther Newman-Cohen
Medium
Painting - India Ink On Paper
Description
After World War II, those Jews who had survived the Holocaust were living under guard and behind barbed wire fences in "displaced persons" camps within Germany and Austria. European Jews then began organizing an underground network known as the Brichah ("flight," in Hebrew), which moved thousands of Jews from the camps to ports on the Mediterranean Sea, so they could then be sent to Palestine by ship. The British, who were then responsible for administering Palestine, vehemently opposed this kind of large-scale immigration. Displaced person camps run by American, French and Italian officials often turned a blind eye to the situation, with only British officials restricting movement in and out of their camps. In 1945, the British reaffirmed the pre-war policy restricting Jewish immigration to Palestine and prepared a massive naval and military force to turn back the refugees. Over half of 142 voyages were stopped by British patrols, and most intercepted immigrants were sent to internment camps in Cyprus, the Atlit detention camp in Palestine, and to Mauritius. About 50,000 people ended up in camps, more than 1,600 drowned at sea, and only a few thousand actually entered Palestine. The Geulah Haganah ship is pictured here. The most famous and the largest ship was The Exodus 1947 which carried the largest-ever number of illegal immigrants to Palestine. Its name and story received a lot of international attention. The incident took place near the end of the British mandate, after which Britain withdrew its forces and the State of Israel was established. Within a year, over half of the original Exodus 1947 passengers had made other attempts at emigrating to Palestine, which ended in detention in Cyprus. Britain continued to hold the detainees of the Cyprus internment camps until it formally recognized the State of Israel in January 1949, when they were transferred to Israel. The 1960 MGM movie starring Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson and others immortalized this story.
This is a signed original work painted in India Ink on Paper
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