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The Jews' Secret Fleet

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There was no Red Cross for them. There was no Amnesty International. There was no Human Rights Watch. There was no U.N High Commission on Human Rights, or UNHCR. There was no one for the Jews of Europe in 1945. The remnants of the nation that Hitler and his European collaborators had tried to whipe out. All those organizations who today work so hard to spread hate against Israel were no where to be found in 1945 when a million Jews were refugees in Europe, herded like cattle into DP camps and kept many times in the former Nazi concentration camps by their `liberators,' the British. Today the education system of Israel works very hard to cover up the story that Jews were victims and were refugees in the name of creating a new `coexistence' education system. However this book should be required reading in every Jewish school in the world and every Israeli school for it tells the true story of the brutal and fascist campaign by British imperialists to keep Jews from immigrating to Palestine, after their lives had been destroyed in a Europe that pretended to be `tolerant'.

This brilliant, concise, study is presented in a perfect large format with accompanying pictures and newspaper prints from the period. It covers the Aliyah Bet that brought Jewish refugees to Palestine between 1945 and 1948 and describes in tragic and brutal detail the fate of eleven refugee ships that tried to run the British blockade. It tells of the crews, mostly American volunteers, the financiers and American supporters, the refugees themselves captured and herded into camps at Cyprus and Atlit and also of the heroic Irgun and Haganah fighters who tried to save them and in some cases brought vengeance on the British for assaulting these Holocaust survivors.

This is a tear jerking story that stirs the soul when one considers the degree to which these stories of heroism in the time of darkness have been utterly forgotten and denigrated as `myth' by modern historians in Israel. But it was not myth. It was thousands of very real people whose families were destroyed and who only wanted a country where they could live free from European hate. Unfortunately their descendants in Israel have, surprise, surprise, been subjected to one European hateful statement after another in the last two decades. This book is a testament to truth, a testament to what really took place in Palestine before the birth of Israel.

Seth J. Frantzman