Captain of Holocaust Refugee Ship Dies

The Sunday Telegraph London (27 April 2008)

Author: Carolynne Wheeler In Jerusalem

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THE MAN who gained legendary status as commander of the ship Exodus, attempting to bring thousands of Jewish Holocaust refugees to the holy land after the Second World War, has died.

Yossi Harel, whose journey at the helm of a ship carrying 4,500 frail survivors from Germany to then-British Mandate Palestine was immortalised in the film Exodus, where he was portrayed by Paul Newman, died of a heart attack at the age of 90.

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Captain of Holocaust Refugee Ship Dies

"He is one of the last people of that generation that did so much," said his biographer and friend, the Israeli aut...

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