They placed us in three British freighters, and they had grades who checked everybody, it was very humiliating. And I remember when we left Haifa, looking back at mount Carmel, that’s an image which till this day is staying in my mind. We were on the high seas when we realized that they are really sailing to the west. We realized that they are taking us back, they are taking us back to Europe. The British were so angry about the Exodus that they decided not to take us to Cyprus, where they took most of us, most of the so-called illegal immigrants. There was a very dip seated anger in our people at the moment because it was very frustrating, here we wanted to reach our home, our Homeland and instead, the British who actually initially promised as the Homeland in the Balfour Declaration, are now punishing us for wanting to get to our home and are taking us back to Europe. They are taking us back to the land, which was soaked by Jewish blood, were our families were driven to gas chambers and to crematoria, they are taking as back to that cursed ugly place.
credits
from Saba Project, Vol. 2,
released November 6, 2020
מילים: ארווין בירנבאום
פסנתר: שי מאסטרו
קונטרבס: כריס טורדיני
תופים: ניצן בירנבאום
post production: הראל להב וניצן בירנבאום