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

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 (1927) <Croatia-Curzola>
4. Dagmar Klein (1938) <Zagreb-Curzola>
5. Pietro Klein (1936) <Croatia-Curzola>
6. Davide Maestro (1929) <Sarajevo-Curzola>
7. Mazalta Maestro (1927) <Sarajevo-Curzola>
8. Safira Maestro (1927) <Sarajevo-Curzola>
9. Isacco Maestro (1930) <Sarajevo-Curzola>
10. Pietro Marberger (1938) <Croatia-Curzola>
11. Ruth Milhofer (1938) <Zagreb-Curzola>
12. = Boris Njemirovski (1938) <Croatia-Curzola> (1928!)
13. Dragutin Polic (1943) <Sarajevo-Curzola>
14. Miriam Polic (1936) <Sarajevo-Curzola>

+ Nissim Mesulam (1929) + Ruth Bartana (1935-2011) + Gila Sida Eitan (1927-2018) From Sarajevo

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

+ Anna Szyller (Germany, 1929)

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