[Auswandererkartei Bremen Part 05 (International Refugee Organization-Kartei)] 135782655

[moewenzahn]

ship name should read „Volendam“
Thanks to routebleue, family name should read „MANTLER“

[Auswandererkartei Bremen (International Refugee Organization-Kartei)] do_muZ3oJgX81okk1k4HBDqe

ship should read „Volendam“ After WWII the steamer was also used to transport Mennonite refugees from Europe to South America. One of the transports " […] by the Volendam was in October 1948, that of a group of 751 West Prussian and Galician Mennonites (the Danzig Refugees) for Montevideo, Uruguay, and a num­ber of Mennonites from Russia, who intended to go to Paraguay, and who disembarked in Buenos Aires." (quote from source, emphasis mine) The „Volendam“ left Bremerhaven on 06. or 07.10.194…