ODLAZAK JEVREJSKIH IZBEGLICA – ŽRTAVA HOLOKAUSTA IZ EVROPSKIH ZEMALJA ZA PALESTINU PREKO TERITORIJE JUGOSLAVIJE 1946–1947. GODINE
Departure of Jewish Refugies – Holocaust Victims from European Countries to Palestina Through the Territory of Yugoslavia in 1946-1947

Summary/Abstract: After the World War II, the freed war prisoners were free to decide whether they were to be repatriated to their homelands, to stay in the country where they were at the time of liberation, or to move to another country. A number of Jewish military war prisoners and most of civilian refuges – the Holocaust victims – decided to move to Palestina. Since Palestina was under the British mandate at the time, and that British had imposed a very restrictive immigration quote of 1,500 Jew immigrants a month, it was obvious that any additional immigration could be realized by illegal means only. The World Jewish Congress representatives addressed, among the other, the Government of Yugoslavia asking them to help with organizing illegal transports to Palestina. Yugoslav authorities stood by, firstly in public and tacitly afterwards, since international politics started to be more and more complicated. Namely, Yugoslavia itself was, at the moment so critical for Jewish refuges, in collision with England over the Trieste territory status. Nevertheless, in cooperation of Yugoslav and Jewish officials a solution to that problem was found so that Yugoslav territory was used as a transit route and Yugoslav Adriatic ports as boarding ports for boats carrying numerous Jewish refuges to the desired destination – Palestina.

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