"The rise of Princes Kathleen"

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The rise of Princes Kathleen is the name of a large group of immigrants, who came to Israel from Italy during World War II and followed by the ship Princesses Kathleen. The ship was not an alpable ship, but a cruise ship that held two cruises from Italy to Palestine in 1945.

In her first journey, Perinss Cathlin was released from Taranto port in southern Italy and three days later, on the Passover Eve, J. N.S. in San X, March 25, 1945, arriving at Haifa Port. The ship's passengers were Holocaust survivors from Europe, 900 in the number, who were licensed by an increase due to the activity of the representative of the Jewish Agency's immigration department in Rome, Shlomo Obrato, and the lender of the refugees from the Jewish soldiers in Italy, Lion Abid.

In her second journey, Perinss Cathlin came to Haifa in Jethello, November 8, 1945. The number of immigrants in this cruise was 783.

The ship

"Frans Cathlin" was a Canadian ship built in Scotland and was launched in 1924. The ship sailed from Glasgow to Vancouver through the Panama Canal and reached its destination in 1925. Along with her sister ship, Freinss margarita, the ship was operated in a passenger line between Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle, and could carry up to 1,500 passengers. It was later increased to 1,800 passengers.

In 1939, Prussias Cathlin and Princeton were recruited by the Royal Canadian Navy and used to transport recruits. "Painss margarrite", was coined by a German submarine on August 17, 1942, in a detailed way that Sayid in Egypt to Cyprus. Perines Kathleen survived the war and returned to the Canadian shipping company that operated it before the war in 1947. In 1949, the ship began to carry out imported cruises from Vancouver to Alaska. On 7 September 1952, the ship climbed aboard near Juno, Alaska, and Santa. Her passengers were rescued before the drowning and were not injured.

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On the first travel organization in Italy was appointed by the authorities, the symbol of Lion Ababa. He volunteered for the British Army in World War II and was stationed in the 148 (PAL) WTER TANKS. In September 1944, his unit, belonging to the British Eighth Camp, arrived in Florence. Avicher was sent along with his company to provide drinking water to the residents of the city of Pisa, whose water was identified when the Arano River rose on its banks. They arrived in the city with kidneys to transport water and have a symbol of the protector of David. This is how the encounter with Jewish refugees hiding in the city during the war.

The Water Lead Company dealt with concentration and fostering the values of Zionism mainly in Florence. Ababa took a vacation from his active service and began to concentrate the refugees, especially the young ones in which, in special places, the training – towards their rise to Israel. At the same time, Jewish soldiers, from other places in Italy, began to concentrate the refugees in special concentrations. At the same time, they tried to find Jewish children and also found, in all Tuscany.

After appealing to the immigration department of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, he announced that nearly a thousand entry permits to Israel, which were rare in all the years of the war, were at his disposal. The organizers had some problems:
Providing identification measures to refugees, most of which have lost the documents, most of them intentionally, so that they cannot be identified. The British occupation authorities established the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees. Among other things, he hunts all of these refugees in the necessary documents. Umberto was true that it was a special envoy of the agency's immigration department as a member of the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees that was centered in Naples.
Transport on land was required to drive refugees to the port in southern Italy. The Italian rail network was destroyed during the war, thus the refugees were transported to the border