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Displaced Person Transports: Cargo of Hope

This page on the U.S. Merchant Marines website describes the essence of what was endured by many of our immigrants, but the account and images bear a particularly uncanny parallel to the vivid memories of Marisa Ciceran who, on 11 October 1951, then a 7-1/2-year-old refugee from Istria and Rijeka, Yugoslavia, embarked from Bremerhaven, Germany and arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA with her parents and younger sister on the General S.D. Sturgis.

Go to: Displaced Person Transports: Cargo of Hope © http://usmm.org

See also:

Immigrant Ships - General S.D. Sturgis
People, Memories - 11 settembre 1951 - sbarco al Pier 21 (Italiano)
History, Immigration -
- Chronology of Immigration, Legislation and the Ellis Island Immigration Station - 19th and 20th Centuries
- Treaties, Conventions and Post-war Legislation:
  - February 10, 1947 - Treaty of Peace with Italy (Paris Treaty)
  - June 25, 1948 - Displaced Person's Act of 1948 (U.S.A.)
  - July 28, 1951 - Convention relating to the Status of Refugees - Adopted on 28 July 1951 by the United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Status of Refugees and Stateless Persons convened under General Assembly resolution 429 (V) of 14 December 1950

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This page compliments of Marisa Ciceran