Category:SS Palestine May44 (subject)

SS Palestine (May 1944)

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Overview

In 1944 the Italian government authorized two transports to Palestine, one in May 1944, the other in July 1944. The transports were made mostly of former internees from Ferramonti or other camps who had been liberated in Southern and Central Italy.

In the same period, in July 1944, around 1000 Jewish refugees chose to go from Naples to the United States (Fort Ontario).

The Children

Among the 254 passengers were 43 children.

The Pentcho Ship (24)

These 24 children were part of a group of Jewish refugees who from Bratislava went to Rhodes and were deported to Ferramonti. All of them were liberated at Ferramonti in Sep 1943, except the Ehrlich Bros. who had been transferred with their parents to Monteroduni (near Campobasso), wento into hiding and reunited with the rest of the group only at a later stage.

1. Siegfrid Goldfinger (1927)
2. Josef Breuer (1928)
3. Karol Farkas (1929)
4. Leopold Spiegel (1929)
5. Judith Breuer (1930)
6. Margot Buckspan (1930)
7. Walter Ehrlich (1930)
8. Ilse Breuer (1932)
9. Liane Breuer (1934)
10. Liselotte Breuer (1936)
11. Valy Brody (1937)
12. Lewi Lebovits (1939)
13. Chaviva Blumenfeld (1940)
14. Adriana Lichtschein (1940)
15. Zewe Weingarten (1940)
16. Felicia Goldfinger (1941)
17. Benito Ehrlich (1942)
18. Ernesto Lebovits (1942)
19. Mose Isak Degen (1943)
20. Sulamit Friedmann (1943)
21. Helene Goldberger (1943)
22. Alessandro Wald (1943)
23. Eva Weingarten (1943)
24. Giuseppe Wesel (1943)

Other Internees liberated at Ferramonti

1. Alessandro Levi <Belgrag-Spalato-Ferramonti>
2. Paolo Skopal (1936) Malaski, Czechia, <Ljubljana-Ferramonti>

From Curzola

These 13 children were part of a group of Yugoslavian Jews (from Croatia and Bosnia), who were interned on the island of Korcula under Italian occupation. In October 1943 they reached safely southern Italy.

1. Leone Alcalaj (1939) <Bosnia-Curzola>
2. Mordechai Gaon (1942) <Croatia-Curzola>
3. Raffaele Gaon (1942) <Croatia-Curzola>
4. Dagmar Klein (1938) <Zagreb-Curzola>
5. Pietro Klein (1936) <Croatia-Curzola>
6. Davide Maestro (1929) <Sarajevo-Curzola>
7. Masalta Maestro (1929) <Sarajevo-Curzola>
8. Isacco Maestro (1930) <Sarajevo-Curzola>
9. Pietro Marberger (1938) <Croatia-Curzola>
10. Ruth Milhofer (1938) <Zagreb-Curzola>
11. Boris Njemirovski (1938) <Croatia-Curzola>
12. Dragutin Polic (1943) <Sarajevo-Curzola>
13. Miriam Polic (1936) <Sarajevo-Curzola>

From other camps

1. Eleonora Dominitz (1933) <Poland-Acri>
2. Ruben Fried (1933) <Zagabria-Spalato-Vicenza>
3. Milan Hirschl (1928) <Spalato-Treviso> (???) or Ivan? Milan apparently fled to Switzerland
4. Zelico Hirscler (1928) <Spalato-Parma>
5. Velimir Sorger (1929) Spalato-Treviso

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