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The redemption is an alpable ship out of the Burgas port in Bulgaria on 26 September 1947 and was organized by the Institute for an increase in B, with 1,388 from Maromania. It was named after the concept of redemption in Jewish culture.
“ Redemption” was seized by the British and on October 2 was dragged into Haifa Port in British destroyers. Most of the elephants were deported to the detention camps in Cyprus and some of them were transferred to the prison camp.

History of her

Service of the United States
Built in 1907, the U.S. Army Coast Guard ship was designed; driven by two steam engines and two impulses, capable of fasting 8–9. Her name before the purchase was Paducah. As a port city in the United States, at the Ohio and Tennessee River Meeting, the name of an Indian leader named Paduke, who was engaged in a boat building. During World War I, the other served as a tour of beaches and artillery training.

Ship from Elephants

Buying and preparing for a cruise
The ship was sold for sale, and was purchased in the United States by Weston Trading Co, a registered commercial company that used the institution’s activities for the increase in B.

The ship's preparation for the cruise began in the United States, including the construction of the console on board. In May 1947, the Miami port left the Panama flag, equipped with food and wooden stamps, to Europe. She moved to the port of Horta, the port of Lisbon, and arrived at the port of Bona in the Gulf of Skia, on the west coast of France. On August 4, the ship reached the port of Burgas in Bulgaria. She attracted the attention of British agents who gave her to their fighters. Following this, in the mid-August 1947, the ship was welcomed by British consular representatives in Romania and Bulgaria, as suspected of transporting Jewish refugees to Israel.

“ Redemption” was prepared for the diaspora by Jewish volunteers from the United States, while preparing for the “Jewish state.” The two ships were built at the same time.
It was equipped with two rescue boats, 16 shells, paved for the devices prepared on the right to the chain cell, and large silica for people prepared in a sealed tank. The responsible for preparations was Gideon Schwart. On the eve of the cruise, the ship was neat and clean, and it was a large stock of medical and food equipment.

The commander of the ship was a wealthy Palmach man, and alongside him a life and a man of the Palmach was also his, and the traitors were comforting Keller and the heirs. They had a short wave device made by the United States, which was 13W. The captain was a U.S. citizen, Captain Rudolf (Rudy) Frockt. Rudolph W. Patzert. On the other hand, a team of right-wing nationals, including two Spanish and two American Jews.

The elephants, about 1,388 souls, were Jews who came from Romania. Some of them belonged to organizations and parties: Dror, Borukhov, The Worker, The Zionist Workers, Easti, Bnei Akiva, and the Association of Israel. About 200 of them were children and boys, and some women were pregnant.

The ship is one of the 10 elephant ships known as the "American ships" of the desalination plant - ships purchased in the United States/Canada and which are relatively large for ships purchased in Europe can be a significant change in the scope of the miscarriage after the "Morry Greenfield" - a volunteer in one of them - wrote on them a book called the "secret fleet of Jews").

Political background for sailing
From July 1947, contacts between the soldiers of the Mossad began to increase B in Bulgaria that Yaika Dan and the Shiloites with the Bulgarian authorities in order to jeopardize Bulgaria as a site for humiliation from Europe. They hid in Dr. Baruch Conno, who had extensive ties to the Bulgarian security forces. Unlike the position of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which feared political conflict with Bulgaria, the heads of the Internal Security Forces collaborated with the Mossad’s people to the Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Must