The General W. M. Black, the first sailing under the United States Displaced Persons Act

Bremerhaven → New York

The Displaced Persons Act of 1948 was approved on 25 June 1948, and the first shipload admitted under it left Bremerhaven aboard the US Army transport General W. M. Black on 21 October 1948. The ship reached New York on 30 October. The passenger list preserved in the Truman Library carries 819 names; the shipping account of the same sailing counts 813 people of eleven recorded nationalities, among them 388 Poles, 178 Lithuanians and 17 Ukrainians, with 63 orphans aboard. Displaced persons were registered by citizenship, so Ukrainians from Galicia and Volhynia appear in such lists as Poles.