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...crowd had gathered to hear the story of Frank Lavine, a Massachusetts resident and survivor of the Exodus ship, which carried Jewish Holocaust survivors in their attempt to immigrate to Palestine after the end of World...
...Exodus ship began as a luxury bayliner called the S.S. President Warfield, designed to carry 350 passengers a short distance--from Baltimore, Md. to Norfolk...
After its use in the 1944 invasion of Normandy, the ship was deemed unfit for passengers, and it was left in a shipyard to be used as scrap metal...
...members of the Jewish underground found a need for the ship in the confused days after V-E Day, when many concentration camp survivors were living in displaced persons camps, waiting for admission to Palestine...
Slave marriages weren't recognized, so family records of descendants of Africans living in America prior to 1870 were often not recorded. But good paper trails do exist for black freemen who came as ship's crew members, not slaves. A good start: www.ccharity.com 212-491-2200, or www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html...