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Jack Jedwab: The nefarious attempt to rewrite the history of Jewish refugees after the Holocaust

Like thousands of other survivors, my parents were trying to rebuild their lives. Their first attempt to reach Haifa was unsuccessful, and they were interned

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Holocaust distortion is on the rise. It does not always appear as outright denial of the murder of six million Jews. Increasingly, it takes subtler forms — reshaping the historical record in ways that erode understanding of what happened and why. Beyond the dangerous manifestations of rewriting the Holocaust itself, there are also increasing efforts to distort its aftermath. The story of the hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees who survived the war only to remain stateless is too often overlooked, minimized, or reframed in ways that obscure their plight. Few examples illustrate this more clearly than the history of the refugee ships that carried Holocaust survivors toward British-mandated Palestine in the years immediately after the Second World War.

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The Nuremberg trials of 1945–46 exposed the full horror of Nazi crimes against the Jews of Europe. As the world learned the scale of the genocide, one might have expected that the survivors who emerged from the devastation would quickly find refuge.

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