YankelB

Regele Carol

Hello YankelB, It was interesting to read what you wrote about this ship. My grandmother Olga Pollak came to Israel from Romania on this ship in 1935, in the journey to the macabia games. At that time we are making efforts to locat the passengers list, on this journy which will give us some details about my grandmother and especially her Romanian passport number. (We need it for citizenship). So I wanted to ask you: do you know where we can find those lists? Please write me any additional information that you have about this ship, and it's journey to the macabia.

Amir Daniel Amrdani (talk) 17:06, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Sorry for a late response. Was hospitalized for a while, but am back at home now. Its amazing that your grandmother and my dad were on the same ship. As for your question. I don't have any additional information about the ship, and I think it will be quite difficult to find the passenger list for her-especially considering the ship was a Romanian registry so many years ago. I put that question to ChatGPT and here a link to it https://chat.openai.com/share/051c6f66-9083-40c1-b413-7736a4494660 (Let me know if it doesn't open. I can send you a copy that I printed & saved). I have the program booklet for the 1935 games. But I could not find your grandmother's name listed as a participant of those events they listed. However, it's possible that not all events were listed in it. Was Olga Pollak the name she would have used at that time? Do you know what event she participated in? I am also curious if she returned to Romania after the games, or like my dad and many other athletes, stayed and blended into the population, which meant that they were there illegally until the establishment of Israel in 1948. But that was one of the ways to get into Palestine at the time, since the British were restricting Jewish immigration. 71.84.36.33 (talk) 21:52, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

I have not received a reply from you. So I am wondering if you saw my reply on July 14. YankelB (talk) 19:55, 27 July 2023 (UTC)