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The Opawa went out via Jamaica-Panama Canal to Sydney then on to Aukland and returning the other way via...
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Even though it was wartime and Germany was the common enemy, there was a Jewish organisation in Palestine...
Even though it was wartime and Germany was the common enemy, there was a Jewish organisation in Palestine...
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