"Certificate exodus 47." Poppendorf Displaced Persons Camp (northern Germany), 1947. Hebrew and English. Certificate with passport photo: "Certificate, Holder of this No. 2474 is a Maapil [illegal immigrant] of 'Exodus 1947:' he / she was brought by force to Germany from Haifa, and is in exile on his way back to Eretz-Israel." Marked with a circular inked stamp depicting a ship. Certificates of this type were apparently issued in order to enable refugees who sailed aboard the ship "Exodus" to identify fellow passengers, and to thus prevent the dispersal of the group in transit between the various displaced persons camps. Fearing attempts on the part of the British authorities to track the former passengers, these certificates bear no identifying details regarding the person in question other than the passport photos. See Aviva Halamish, "The Exodus Affair: Holocaust Survivors and the Struggle for Palestine, "Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, 1998. Translated by Ora Cummings. [1] f., folded (4 pp.), approx. 11.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Creases. Some stains.