Commemoration of the landing of the bikes in Bet Yanay
In 1934, Velos was chartered by the Hechaluz Jewish youth movement , which helped young people settle in Palestine. On July 26, 1934, the ship left the Greek port of Piraeus with 350 emigrants on board . It reached Palestine unrecognized on August 25 and all passengers disembarked in BET Yanay , six kilometers north of Netanya .
After the successful landing, the activists from Hechaluz traveled to the Bulgarian port city of Varna , where they took 318 emigrants on board. These were mostly Polish Jews. On September 6, the Velos set off for Palestine for the second time, but was stopped by the British blockade on November 13. The Velos then returned to Piraeus. From there the emigrants were brought to Romania by ship and then to Poland by train . All 318 emigrants who returned were reimbursed for the cost of the crossing.
According to the entry in Group South's war diary, the ship ran aground on November 26, 1941: “Mse VELOS +++.
Individual evidence
↑ HE-ḤALUTZ. Encyclopedia Judaica, accessed August 9, 2016 .
^ Jewish refugee ships in the Black Sea (1934–1944). In: Ursula Büttner (Hrsg.): Das Unrechtsregime. Volume 2: persecution / exile / burdened new beginning (= Hamburg contributions to social and contemporary history. Volume 22). Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-7672-0963-2 , pp. 197-248 ( wlb-stuttgart.de ).
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