Jack Kemp

(See here for the parent piece to this.)

There was also this courageous guy, mentioned in the book "Exodus 1947."


"Later in the book, Ms. Gruber also mentions John Stanley Grauel, a Protestant minister who was a crew member and supposedly a "neutral observer," who sailed on the ship from Baltimore, through the Atlantic storms to Europe and a British Royal Marine boarding (where they killed three people) to arrive with them in Haifa. He later gave testimony to a commission and to Ms. Gruber."

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Rev. Grauel was an American Protestant minister who fought antisemitism and was a fervent Christian Zionist. He was actually sworn in as a member of the Haganah, the Jewish underground army (they swore him in on a New Testament out of respect for his faith). He briefly left the "Exodus" ship and was a Haganah courier in France, his Christian cleric's robes averting all suspicion. Years later, after first being buried in New Jersey, his body was transfered to a cemetery for Righteous Gentiles just outside the walls of the Old C:ity of Jerusalem. I have a hard to find copy of his autobiography

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