'Returning to Haifa' Links the Holocaust and Nakba Tragedies

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'Returning to Haifa' Links the Holocaust and Nakba Tragedies

In 1948, following the establishment of the State of Israel, more than 700,000 Palestinians fled or were driven from their homes in a mass deportation known in Arabic as the Nakba, or "catastrophe." That same year, about 140,000 Holocaust survivors, most of them Jewish refugees driven from their own homes in Europe, began settling in Israel. Many took up residence in houses that had once belonged to Palestinians. The intersection of those refuge…