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Leaving Bremerhaven on a vessel dubbed "the ship to freedom" was the culmination of a long emigration process for the DPs aboard—but it was still just the beginning of a long sea voyage and a longer process of adjusting to life in the United States.
Bremerhaven (German pronunciation: [ˌbʁeːmɐˈhaːfn̩] ⓘ; Low German: Bremerhoben) is a city on the east bank of the Weser estuary in northern Germany. It forms an exclave of the city-state of Bremen. The River Geeste flows through the city before emptying into the Weser.
From 1950, the DP camps change the inhabitants into German administration, change any longer so strongly, do not have however partly still live for many decades in the camps, until by the end of the 50's they could move into subsidized low-rent housings.
This unified city, restored to Bremen in 1947, was thereafter known by the name of Bremerhaven. Repeated cessions of Prussian territory expanded the docks after the opening of the “Old Harbour” in 1830, and Bremerhaven developed as Germany’s largest fishing port.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Port of Embarkation, Bremerhaven, 1950s.: Ships, including a US troop ship, docked at the Columbus Quay. ID: Large ships docked at a port with a city in the background. ~ Source: U.S. Army in Germany.com ~ Creator: German Postcard; publisher: Cramers Kunstanstalt KG, Dortmund) ~ Date: ca 1950s
Most of the displaced persons immigrated to Israel, approximately one third to the US, and several thousand settled in Europe, including in Germany itself, and reestablished communities that had been destroyed in the Holocaust. After the war, the Allies established DP camps across Europe.
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The Bremerhaven Port of Embarkation (BPE) was located in a U.S.-occupied enclave within the British Occupation Zone of Germany. Compared to other U.S. posts in the European Command, the BPE’s mission was unique; all American troops arriving by ship from the U.S., or returning there, were funneled through the port.
