The passenger ship S.S. Providence brought Holocaust survivors from various ports in Europe to Haifa, Palestine, in 1947–48. Although the majority of ships attempting to bring Jewish refugees to Palestine were technically illegal and in defiance of strict British immigration quotas (the ship, Exodus, 1947, is the most famous example), the British did allow a very limited number of people to legally immigrate, including the passengers of the Providence. Having arrived at Marseille Harbor from the British sector of occupied Germany, many of the passengers were survivors from the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons camp and the nearby Blankenese children’s home.

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