Category:SS Palestine May44 (subject)

SS Palestine (May 1944)

• Holocaust Refugee Children, Italy -- Ferramonti -- SS Palestine (July 1944) -- Fort Ontario

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 numerous children. Most of them came da been interned with their families at Ferramonti.

The Pentcho Ship

1. Chaviva Blumenfeld (1940) <Bratislava-Rodi-Ferramonti>
2. Ilse Breuer <Vienna-Bratislava-Rodi-Ferramonti>
3. Josef Breuer <Vienna-Bratislava-Rodi-Ferramonti>
4. Judith Breuer <Vienna-Bratislava-Rodi-Ferramonti>
5. Liane Breuer <Vienna-Bratislava-Rodi-Ferramonti>
6. Liselotte Breuer <Vienna-Bratislava-Rodi-Ferramonti>
7. Walter Ehrlich (1930) <Bratislava-Rodi-Ferramonti-Monteroduni>
8. Benito Ehrlich (1942) <Bratislava-Rodi-Ferramonti-Monteroduni>
9. Karl Farkas (1929) <Bratislava-Rodi-Ferramonti>
10. Felicia Goldfinger (1941) <Poland-Bratislava-Rhodes-Ferramonti>
11. Siegfrid Goldfinger <Poland-Bratislava-Rhodes-Ferramonti>
12. Ernesto Lebovits (1942) <Bratislava-Rhodes-Ferramonti>
13. Ernesto Lewi (1939) <Bratislava-Rhodes-Ferramonti>

Other Internees liberated at Ferramonti

1. Margot Buckspan (1930) <Germany-Ferramonti>
2. Mosè Isak Degen (1943) <Poland-Ferramonti>
3. Helene Goldberger (1943) <Ferramonti>

From other camps

1. Leone Alcalaj (1939) <Bosnia-Curzola>
2. Eleonora Dominitz (1933) <Poland-Acri>
3. Ruben Fried (1933) <Zagabria-Spalato-Vicenza>
4. Mordechai Gaon (1942) <Croatia-Curzola>
5. Raffaele Gaon (1942) <Croatia-Curzola>
6. Milan Hirschl (1928) <Spalato-Treviso>
7. Zelico Hirscler (1928) <Spalato-Parma>
8. Dagmar Klein (1938) <Zagreb-Curzola>
9. Pietro Klein (1936) <Croatia-Curzola>

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