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Portable Network Graphic  |  2001-06-12  |  136.8 KB  |  622x430  |  8-bit (175 colors)
   ocr: Despite the British Mandatory government's policy, which limited Jewish immigration, Palestine continued to be a major immigration destination for Jews from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. The Palestine Office in Berlin, which was closed for several days after the Kristallnacht Pogrom of November 1938, was reopened with the permission of the German authorities and continued to distribute the few immigration certificates that were granted by the British authorities. At the same time, organized illegal immigration to Palestine ('Aliya B') was set up with the knowledge of the German authorit ...