Halifax 1945-1955

Refugees disembarking the U.S. Military Ship S. S. General Sturgis at Pier 21. The photograph was taken by Jewish Immigrant Aid Services on March 28, 1949. (Jewish Public Library)

Black-and-white photograph of a group of 15 people, wearing coats and hats, smiling and waving at the camera from the gangway of a ship. Several more people wait to disembark the ship. A lifeboat is suspended in the top-left corner with ice frozen to its sides.