And over 3 months earlier, Erev Yom Kippur Tashakh (September 1947), two other Haapala ships sailed from Burgas - the Northland ice breaker and the Paducah, later renamed Haggana ships Medinat Hayehudim and Geulah, resp., - and were overcome by British destroyers just outside Palestinian waters, and brought into Haifa harbour on October 2. There were a number of Czernowitzes on these boats, and we were transferred to Cyprus thereafter.
Those were the days...
Mordecai
----- הודעה מקורית -----
מאת: Hardy Breier <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net>
תאריך: Thursday, July 2, 2015 8:08
נושא: RE: [Cz-L] No more Judo at the Synagogue of... (Varna - 3919 km)
אל: 'Miriam Taylor' <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>, 'Edgar Hauster' <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>
העתק: 'Czernowitz Discussion Group' <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
> Mimi, it was the Pan York and Pan Crescent
> That sailed from Burgas in December 1947 .
>
> Hardy
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> 119421712-3499476_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Miriam Taylor
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> To: Edgar Hauster
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> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] No more Judo at the Synagogue of... (Varna -
> 3919 km)
>
> Thank you Edgar for sending us information about the synagogues
> of Varna and this having been been the port of departure of the
> Struma.Many other clandestine immigrant ships sailed from Varna.
> In either December 1947 or January 1948, two ships registered in
> Panama under the names "Pan Crescent" and "Pan York" left Varna
> with a very large number of Romanian Jews hoping to get to Palestine.
> As soon as they entered the Mediterranean Sea they were
> surrounded by British destroyers and forced to go to Cyprus.
> Quite a few Czernowitzers were on these two ships.
>
> Mimi
> On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:02 PM, Edgar Hauster wrote:
>
> > Czernowitzers...
> >
> > Varna was the next stage during my ride to Istanbul. The two
> > synagogues of Varna, the Ashkenazi and Sephardi, were nationalized.
> > The Sephardi synagogue, around which the Jewish community was
> > established, was used as a boxing ring for many years. The
> Ashkenazi
> > synagogue was used until the beginning of the 1990 s as Judo club.
> >
> > http://hauster.blogspot.de/2015/07/no-more-judo-at-synagogue-
> of-
> > varna-3919.html
> >
> > At the same time Varna was the port of registry for a small
> ship with
> > a long history. It was launched as SS Xantha, but subsequently
> carried
> > the names SS Soelyst, SS Sea Maid, SS Kafireus, SS Esperos,
> Makedoniya
> > and finally MV Struma. We'll keep following Struma's course
> and her
> > fate down to Istanbul.
> >
> > Edgar Hauster <iPad>
>
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