In December 1942 , when the mass murder of European Jewry became known to the Allies , the British continued to refuse to change their policy of limited immigration , or to admit Jews from Nazi controlled Europe in numbers outside the quota imposed by the White paper , and the Royal Navy prevented ships with Jewish refugees from reaching Palestine . Some ships carrying Jewish refugees were turned back towards Europe , although in one instance , about 2,000 Jews who were fleeing Europe by sea were detained in a camp in Mauritius , and were given the option of emigrating to Palestine after the war . The British also stopped all attempts by Palestinian Jews to bribe the Nazis into freeing European Jews . At the time that The Holocaust became known to the Allies , there were 34,000 Jewish immigration certificates for Palestine remaining . In 1943 , about half the remaining certificates were distributed , and by the end of the war , 3,000 certificates remained
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine