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