1-199-025 - From the Jewish Chronicle Archive/Heritage Images

Arrival of SS Marine Flasher, New York, USA, 20 May 1946. Refugees and displaced persons, many of them Holocaust survivors, arriving in America. The Marine Flasher was a converted troop ship used to bring civilians to the United States under President Harry Truman's December 1945 immigration order. Some postwar immigrants already had family and friends settled in the country.