THE NEW YORK TIMES, Sept. 7, 1947 

* "Haganah Ship SS Exodus 1947"- Jews
* "The Ship That Launched a Nation"  
* Jewish Refugees - "Operation Oasis"
* "A Floating Auschwitz" prison ship

The front page has a two column heading: "Jews' Ships Reach Germany; Leaders Reported Isolated" (see images) 
Complete 1st section only with all 64 pages, rag edition in great condition.

Background: The return of the Exodus 1947 refugees to Germany in September 1947 remains one of the most significant propaganda disasters in British colonial history, serving as a catalyst for the end of the British Mandate in Palestine. By forcibly deporting over 4,500 Holocaust survivors from the shores of Haifa back to the British-occupied port of Hamburg—essentially returning victims to the land of their former oppressors—the British government, under Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, inadvertently galvanized global outrage and shifted the tide of international diplomacy. The harrowing optics of British soldiers using batons and fire hoses to drag displaced persons into the barbed-wire-enclosed camps of Poppendorf and Am Stau were captured by the global press, creating a moral crisis that the British could not overcome. This "Exodus Affair" directly influenced the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP), whose members were deeply moved by the refugees' plight; their subsequent report recommended the partition of Palestine and the establishment of a Jewish state, making the ship a powerful symbol of the "Illegal Immigration" movement (Aliyah Bet) and a cornerstone of the narrative of Israeli independence.