Port of Embarkation, Bremerhaven, 1950s.

ID: 89 ~ Source: U.S. Army in Germany.com
 ~ Creator: German Postcard; publisher: Cramers Kunstanstalt KG, Dortmund) ~ Date: ca 1950s
This file appears in: Displaced Persons Camp

Ships, including a US troop ship, docked at the Columbus Quay.

ID: Large ships docked at a port with a city in the background.

This file appears in: Displaced Persons Camp

By Andre Kessler
"We left Vienna and went to Bremerhaven, Germany, where the ships sailed from. They only sailed once a week and we wound up in what was called a Displaced Persons Camp. It was an old German Army camp. I don’t know if they didn’t want us to…