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- Title
Stranded in Boğaz, Cyprus: The affair of the Pan Ships, January 1948.
- Authors
Goldman, Danny; Walsh, Michael J. K.
- Abstract
This article sheds some new light on the affair of the Pan Crescent and the Pan York, the largest ships to carry 'illegal' Jewish immigrants to Palestine from Bulgaria in 1947 / 1948. These ageing vessels were apprehended by the British authorities off the Dardanelles and escorted to an enforced detention near Famagusta, Cyprus. The ships remained anchored near Boğaz for five months while their human cargos were sent to camps just outside the walls of the historic city. As the clock counted down on the British Mandate in Palestine throughout early 1948, the fate of the vessels, and the thousands of immigrants who depended upon them, hung in the balance. Now, through a recently instigated cataloguing project for Cypriot newspapers instigated at the National Archive in Kyrenia, and the simultaneous uncovering of some relevant documents at the Public Records Office in London, a fuller understanding and appreciation of the events in this critical post war period can be attempted. This article is one of a series published in the Journal of Cyprus Studies that draws historical links between Cyprus and the Jewish people.
- Subjects
FAMAGUSTA (Cyprus); CYPRUS; PALESTINE; SHIP cargo; JEWS; SMUGGLING; UNDOCUMENTED immigrants; PALESTINIAN Jews; IMMIGRANTS; TWENTIETH century; JEWISH history
- Publication
Journal of Cyprus Studies, 2009, Vol 15, Issue 37, p41
- ISSN
1303-2925
- Publication type
Article