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Source: https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/jewish-resistance-exodus-1947/
Forgotten Heroes: The Jewish Resistance in France and Exodus 1947
(BESA Center for Strategic Studies-Bar-Ilan University) Dr. Tsilla Hershco - The Jewish Resistance organization in France participated in the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews during the Nazi occupation. At the end of the war, David Ben-Gurion appointed Avraham Polonski, a leader of the Jewish resistance in France, as commander of the Haganah in France. Veterans of the Jewish resistance participated in many critical postwar activities, including clandestine immigration, forging documents, transferring of arms to the Haganah, and setting up communication systems, immigrant camps, and military training camps. Members of the Haganah in France were involved in the Exodus 1947 ship endeavor from its early stages. They forged travel documents and helped transport the refugees on their journey to the port of Marseilles.