1943 DELAWARE BREAKWATER REFUGEES

REFUGEES CAUSE NO CRISIS

AT DELAWARE BREAKWATER IN 1943

The Portuguese Serpa Pinto sailing from Lisbon, under a travel

agreement approved by both Washington and Berlin , brought

188 passengers, among them 100 war refugees and 36 children

through the Delaware Breakwater early Sunday morning to the

safety of Philadelphia Port waters. They had spent the night off

Marcus Hook.

All though it is safe at a Philadelphia dock passengers are not allowed to

disembark for several days.

There were 43 Americans who had been waiting months for passage

home and 35 men and women one time residents of now Nazi

countries.

The ship made the Atlantic under full illumination and the captain

reported his location each day to both Washington and Berlin under

the “agreement” of safe conduct so no one would fire upon her.

This is the second trip the Serpa Pinto has made within the year when

it brought 200 refugees here last November:

Abstract: Monday, January 25, 1943, Philadelphia Inquirer