La Spezia
Historic naval port where a nineteen forty-six hunger strike helped force open emigration to Israel.
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This guide to La Spezia in Cinque Terre opens in April nineteen forty-six, when more than a thousand Holocaust survivors, smuggled aboard the steamer Fede, learned British agents meant to stop their voyage to Palestine and responded by dismantling the ship's own engine and hiding the parts. It follows the hunger strike that came next, led by a young Romanian named Moshe Feldman, and the flags, food deliveries, and press coverage that turned the standoff into a public cause. Stand at the water's edge where the refugees made their stand.
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