A simple ceremony here yesterday marked the tenth anniversary of the death of 250 Jews in the vessel Patria which blew up in Haifa harbor with hundreds of “visaless” Jews aboard. The vessel had been held in the harbor by British authorities who refused to permit the Jews to disembark.
Flowers were placed on the remains of the Patria at a ceremony attended by leaders of the former underground immigrant movement. All port installations observed a two-minute period of silence, after which every ship in the harbor sounded its siren in memory of the dead.
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