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When a Rescue Became a Massacre: The SS Patria Secretollapse
When a Rescue Became a Massacre: The SS Patria Secretollapse
Fear that a desperate rescue could become a deadly disaster drives this episode: a two-kilogram bomb tore a three-meter hole in an 11,000-ton liner and sank it in 16 minutes, killing more than 200 people - so what went wrong with a plan meant to save lives?
In this episode, we tell the documented sequence of events aboard the SS Patria in Haifa harbor, from the refugees’ forced transfer to the Haganah operation intended to disable the ship and the aftermath that buried the truth for 17 years; how did a device meant to cripple…
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