Berihah, or "Brichah" was the organized effort that helped Jews escape post-Holocaust Europe to Palestine. The movement of Jewish refugees from the DP camps in which they were held (one million persons classified as "not repatrifiable" remained in Germany and Austria) to Palestine was illegal on both sides, as Jews weren't officially allowed to leave the countries of Central and Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union and its allies, nor were they permitted to settle in Palestine by the British. In… (More on Berihah)