DPs board "Ship of Freedom."

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DPs BOARD 'SHIP OF FREEDOM'

BREMERHAVEN, GERMANY -- FIRST DISPLACED PERSONS

TO BE ALLOWED TO GO TO THE UNITED STATES, START

BOARDING THE GENERAL BLACK, A U.S. ARMY TRANSPORT,

HERE. BANNER PROCLAIMING THE BLACK A "SHIP TO

FREEDOM" CHEERED THE 813 DPS WHO FILED ABOARD.

REFUGEES REPRESENT 11 NATIONS. CHURCH WORLD

SERVICE ANO INDIVIDUAL DENOMINATIONS IN U.S. ARE

PLANNING TO HELP IN RESETTLEMENT OF DPs.

CREDIT MUST READ:

RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (WW-NY 1OE-8-JOG-P)

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Title: DPs board "Ship of Freedom."
Description: The first displaced persons to be allowed to enter the United States under the new congressional act, begin to file aboard the U.S. Army transport General Black at Bremerhaven, Germany, Oct. 21. The DPs coming to America on the ship represent 11 nations and number 813 persons. Speeches by military and civic personages and a concert by an army band marked the sailing of the "Ship of Freedom." Photo radioed from London, received in New York Oct. 22.
Creator: Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Date: 1948
October 21, 1948
Subject names: Religious News Service--Archives.
Church World Service.
Topics: Refugees--Europe.
Refugees--Transportation--Germany--Bremerhaven.
Passenger ships--Germany--Bremerhaven.
Missions--Interdenominational cooperation.
Geographic subject: Europe.
Germany
Bremerhaven.
Bremerhaven (Germany)
Europe--Germany--Bremen--Bremerhaven
Geographic subject: Bremerhaven (Germany)
Form: photographs
Extent: photograph : black-and-white ; 9 x 7 inches
Physical location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 18, image no. P-7835; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-...
Rights status: IN COPYRIGHT; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_P-7835
PID (Persistent Identifier): islandora:147031