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Jews Leave Belsen Camp on First Lap of Journey to Palestine; All Have Visas

July 24, 1947
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From the very same railway platform from ##ch tens of thousands of Jews were sent to their death in the infamous Belsen ?ath camp, 350 displaced Jews set out yesterday on the first lap of a long journey ## Palestine.

Singing and in high spirits, the group filed into several dirty, wooden ##aches to form the fifth such transport under a plan allotting a certain number of ## 1,500 regular monthly Palestine immigration certificates to the British zone. ## date some 1,500 Jewish DP’s from the British zone have left for Palestine under ?is program.

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