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1940-47: Jews fleeing Holocaust seek to migrate to Palestine

Around 100,000 European Jews, fleeing from the Holocaust and its aftermath, sought to migrate to British Mandate of Palestine, against Biritsh restrictions. Several thousand succeeded. Britain imposed a naval blockade and sent around 50,000 to internment camps in Cyprus, Mauritius and Palestine.

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Key Events: 1940s
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1940-47: Jews fleeing Holocaust seek to migrate to Palestine
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29 Nov 1947: UN Partition of Palestine
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9 April 1948: Deir Yassin
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14 May 1948: State of Israel established
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15 May 1948: Arab armies attack newly-declared state of Israel
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800,000 Jews expelled from arab countries
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