The chosen people : the story of the '222 transport' from Bergen-Belsen to Palestine

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The chosen people : the story of the '222 transport' from Bergen-Belsen to Palestine

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In the summer of 1944, while the Second World War was reaching its climax, a group of almost 300 emaciated and bedraggled Jews arrived by train in Palestine. Most of them came from Bergen-Belsen. The Germans had put them on a train, which carried them across war torn Europe to Istanbul, where- unknown to them- they were exchanged for a group of German civilian internees from Palestine. It was an extraordinary transfer and an extraordinary deliverance.

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A. N. Oppenheim