Plan .to Set Up
Mournful 'nom eeoming for 19 9. 'Illegal' Immigration Illietinis
mittee was set up: headed by ing Co. and the Bulgarian Settlers
By HAIM SHACHTER
dren, lost their lives; _199 •bodies
0.
Six Villages in
Moshe Sharett, chairman of the Association in Israel.
were later recovered and buried
On their perilous journey to the
Jewish 'Agency Executive, with
The transfer of the remains of
homeland 24 years ago,
in the cemetery of the little
Galilee This Year Jewish
the participation of members of the "Salvador" victims is one of
199 "Maapilim" ("illegal"' immi-
Turkish village of Salivara.
NAHARIYA—By the summer of
1965, all will be ready for setting
up six new villages in Northern
and Central Galilee, announced
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol on his
inspection tour to Galilee, where
he was accompanied by Mrs. Esh-
kol; Shimon Peres, vice minister
of defense, and Joseph W e i t z,
head of the Israel Land Authority.
Of these new settlements, said
Eshkol, four, including a semi-
urban center, will be established
in the Biranit Region on the Leb-
anese border, one village in the
Yodfat Region arid one in the
neighborhood of Har Ithon.
The Jewish National Fund has
already reclaimed over 2,000 dun-
ams of land' out of the 4,200 al- ;
located to these villages, and built
dozens of miles of highways and
access roads.
Weitz pointed to the vital im-
portance of the Galilee Develop-
ment Program which has been
started simultaneously by the Jew-
ish National Fund, the govern-
ment and the Jewish Agency in
different parts of the area, and to
the particular difficulties which
this mountainous region presents.
He was confident that there will
be no time lag in the completion
tion of the different stages of the
great project. The premier, reply-
ing to Weitz's address, empha-
sized the close cooperation and
great efficiency of all those who
lent their hand to this 'enterprise.
The settlement of Galilee. he
added, presents the principal chal-
lenge to this generation, especially
to the youth of Israel.
Japanese Mayors
Plant JNF 'Trees
JERUSALEM--The mayors of
nine cities in Japan — Sakurai.
Kuwana, Shimada, Mizusawa, Funa
Ohtawara, Suita, Yaman-
ashi and Akabira—devoted part of
their recent visit to Israel to the-
planting of trees at the Jewish
National Fund planting center in
Sanhedria. Jerusalem.
The delegation expressed a keen
interest in the JNF system of land
ownership and in the participation
of world Jewry in JNF land re-
clamation and development proj-
ects.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 4, 1964 17
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grants) met their death in a
The survivors, who were found the, government, representatives of the central events in "Illegal Im-
storm at sea.
by Turkish peasants on their way the foreign office and the min- migration Year," which is dratving
They have finally come home. to their fields the following morn- istry of .defense, the Zim Ship- to a close.
On Aug. 30, the Israel "SS Ash- ing, were transfer-red to Istanbul
dod," with 199 coffins on board, where the Jewish community or-
was escorted to Israel territorial ganized: help. Three months later
waters by vessels of the Israel they were transferrd to Palestine,
Navy. In -silence the coffins were "illegally" again on board the "SS
lowered onto a raft which took Dorian," under the aegis of Ali-
them to the quay side at Jaffa yah Bet, the "Illegal Immigration
where a short memorial service Organization. They and their fami-
was held and the president of lies are now scattered over all parts
Israel delivered a eulogy for the of Israel, engaging in various oc-
2,000-odd "Maapilim" who lost cupations, but each harboring
their lives at sea in their desperate mournful memories of that har-
efforts to reach the shores of rowing experience.
their homeland. From there they
The fate of the "Salvador - arous-
were transferred for burial in a ed the feelings of the Jews in
common grave on Mount Herzl Eretz Israel and throughout the
in a plot facing the building of world. The Halutz movement
"Yad Vashem" — 'the Holocaust transformed ,the Salvador episode
Memorial Authority.
into a symbol for the thousands
-Thousand s, including high of Jewish youth who strove by dev-
government dignitaries, attended ious ways to effectuate their
the rites solemnized by Bulgarian ideals in the Jewish homeland. For
rabbis. A military guard of honor years the survivors - of the 'Salv-
fired salvos saluting the vitims.
ador" and the members of the
For 24 years they had lain bur- Bulgari a'n Jewish community,
ied in a little cemetery in the which, on the establishment of
Turkish village of Salivara. At the state, had come over to Israel
long last their remains came almost to a man, had exerted ef-
home.
forts in order to transfer the re-
In the early days of World War mains of the victims from Saliara
II, the fascist-dominated Bulgarian to Israel. Action was speeded('up
goverment, issued an expulsion after it was learned that for var-
order to all Jews of foreign nation- ous reasons the victims' remains
ality. There were 4,000 of them, would have to 'be reinterred else-
constituting 8 per cent of the en- where.
tire Jewish population in Bulgaria.
Contacts were established with
Many of them had lived in the the Turkish authorities, and their
country for years, had raised fami- consent for the • transfer was ob-
lies and established thriving busi- tained. Last year a special com-
ness. Suddenly, everything was lost
for them. Without notice they
were rounded up by the police and
taken to the Turkish or Greek
frontiers and ordered to cross.
No sooner had they crossed the '
demarcation line than the guards
opened fire upon them. For weeks
on end hundreds of them were
tossed back and forth, stranded in
the frontier regions without food
or shelter. Finally the idea was
conceived of undertaking the peri-
TRADITION
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OF
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succeeded in purchasing a wooden
vessel, the "Tzaar Krum," 20
meters long by 6 meters wide —
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ship. lacking even the most ele-
mentary navigation instruments.
Into the hold of this unsea-
worthy cockle shell was packed
a human cargo.of 323 men, wo-
men and children. Renamed,
ironically enough, "Salvador"
(the Savior), it was towed out
on Dec. 4, 1940, from the Black
Sea port of Varna by a motor
tug through the Bosporous to
Istanbul. From, there the ship
was to be towed by another tug
to the shores of Palestine. ,
But after waiting for days off
Istanbul for the storm to subside,
a tug came alongside on Dec. 13.
towed the vessel a short way out
to the Sea of Marmora and there
abandoned' it to its fate. For six
hours the vessel battled against
the raging waves that lashed its
rotting timbers, and when finally
the Bulgarian skipper attempted to
turn ship in order to make for Ist-
anbul again, a mountain-high wave
tossed the vessel against a reef
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