Eyewitness To Exodus By Beatrice Levin

Eyewitness to Exodus is a vintage historical fiction book written by Beatrice Levin and published in 1962 by the Chicago Paperback House. 

The story is a dramatic retelling of a pivotal moment in Israeli and post-World War II Jewish history. It centers on the heroic journey of 4,500 Holocaust survivors and Jewish refugees sailing from France to Palestine. They traveled aboard an ancient, overcrowded American riverboat originally designed for only 650 passengers in the Chesapeake Bay—the famed ship Exodus 1947