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Workers carry supplies and load them on boats in transit to the three British vessels anchored at Port de Bouc, France, July 29, 1947 carrying 4,500 i...

A British soldier wearing an arm protector carries a child down the gangplank after the three-masted Schooner originally named the

Jewish refugees are beeing disembarked from the ship

General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party Matyas Rakosi shown at his office on July 25, 1947 in Budapest. (AP Photo/B.I. Sanders)

A ship crammed with jewish illegal immigrants is docked in the port of Haifa Palestine, July 21, 1947. British marines and soldiers organize the trans...

Benny

Brooklyn Dodger's pitcher Ralph Branca pitching on the mound in the 9th inning of game 2 against the Chicago Cubs at Ebbet's Field, New York on July 1...

Thousands of people flock to the beach at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York on July 4, 1947 to celebrate Independence Day. (AP Photo)

Plowing in this

In center at the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) session June 22, 1947 in Jerusalem are Dr. Victor Hoo, Secretary General of UN...

Some of the defendants in the court case against the officials of the I.G. Farben Cemical Industries. Defendants sitting in the front row, left to rig...

Dr. James Madison Wood, above, one of the nation's dustinguished educators, who is bringing to a formal close his thirty-five year administration as h...

Smiley Quick, U. S. Walker Cup player from Inglewood, Calif., drives during his game with Stanley E. Bishop in the British Amateur Golf Championship T...

Other passengers aboard the Ernie Pyle interested in the docking procedure as it puts in at a New York City pier May 22, 1947 but not little ten-year-...

The Red Cross feeds some of the 600 victims of the Texas City disaster, that it is caring for in an abandoned barrack section of Camp Wallace, approxi...

Adolphe Menjou (right), takes the witness stand, May 15, 1947 to testify before the house Un-American Committee in Los Angeles, May 15, 1947, during...

Dean Frank L. Mott, right, of the Missouri University Journalism School, presents the medal of honor to Joseph Pulitzer, president of the Pulitzer Pub...

OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL: Mr. B. Wartena, left, chief of the administrative section of the Defence Information Center, is shown with August von Knierie...

OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL: Fritz Gajewski, left, and Heinrich Hoerlein, both of the managing board of the I.G. Farben Cemical Industries, are seen readi...

OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL: Carl Krauch, former chairman of the supervisory board of directors of the I.G. Farben Cemical Industries, left, and Hermann S...

OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL: Carl Krauch, former chairman of the managing board of directors of the I.G. Farben Cemical Industries, left, and Hermann Schm...

Mal Ord, chief mechanic at the Don Lee Experimental Engineering Co. in Los Angeles leans over a Mercedes W154 race car in the company's shops April 29...

General view as Dr. Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil, standing at center of Rostrum, addresses the United Nations General Assembly Special Palestine session a...

General Assembly Special Palestine session at Flushing Meadow Park, N.Y. cross section of the floor on April 28, 1947. Sir Alexander Cadogan and U.K....

Red Cross workers are shown interviewing the needy to determine the amount of aid they should receive, in Texas City, Texas, Apr 24, 1947. A large num...

Four dazed and battered rescue workers limp back from the danger area along the waterfront at Texas City, Texas, April 17, 1947 shortly after a new se...

A doctor gets ready to inject a hypodermic into the arm of an injured, elderly woman, victim of explosion blasts in Texas City, Tex., April 16, 1947 a...

Weary rescue and relief workers receive sandwiches and warm drinks from a group of relief workers in the explosion and fire wrecked town of Texas City...

Almost every means of transport was being used April 16, 1947 to remove wounded from the scene of explosion and fires in Texas City, Texas.

A helmeted Red Cross worker offers cigarettes and coffee to one of the many rescue workers probing the ruins following the distaster in Texas City, Te...

An unidentified nurse administers blood plasma to one of the hundreds injured in a fire, at a first aid station in Texas City, Tex., April 16, 1947. H...

Brooklyn Dodger's Bruce Edwards,left, Pee Wee Reese,center, and Rube Melton discuss the suspension of team manager Leo Durocher in the Ebbet's Field l...

Franklin D. Roosevelt's likeness appears on several stamps from foreign countries, April 4, 1947. (AP Photo)

A group of Greek girls, all members of guerrilla bands in Western Macedonia, met the U.N. investigating team near Yerma, Greece, in the foothills of M...

Illegal Jewish immigrants from the stranded ship

The 400 ton refugee ship

US Navy rubber rafts are seen on the beach, March 12, 1947 with the stranded ship

Fireboats pour water into the burning U.S. liner John Ericsson at Pier 90 in New York, March 7, 1947. The British liner Queen Elizabeth is in backgro...

The leading character of Valerie Bettis' ballet, Virginia Sampler, now in rehearsal at the New York City Center theater on March 4, 1947 for the worl...

Director D.W. Griffith stands at his antique writing table in the library of his Beverly Hills, California home on March 2, 1947. Griffith is writ...

D.W. Griffth looks at his collection of still photos made during the filming of some of his motion pictures at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. on...

D.W. Griffith, wearing a robe, lifts dumbbells in the yard of his Beverly Hills, Calif. home on March 2, 1947. .(AP Photo)

Director D.W. Griffith starts out on a walk from his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. on March 2, 1947. Born at La Grange, Ky., on January 22, 1875,...

Image shows the stranded ship

The painting of General Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette or Lafayette, of revolutionary fame, is one of two copies...

Image shows House Bluehnbach, center left, owned by the Krupp family, a German steel producing magnate, situated in the Austrian Alps, February 17, 19...

Soldiers from the 6th Airborne Devision use clubs to quell a disturbance which flared up aboard the 400-ton Schooner

A young Jewish refugee, laden with belongings walks down the gangway of the 400-ton Schooner

A woman refugee resists attempts of soldiers from the 6th Airborne Devision to leave the 400-ton Schooner

This is the rear entrance to the late Franklin D. Roosevelt's picturesque