My name is Celia Levinsky. Together with my husband Abram Levinsky I was a prisoner of the concentration camp in Landsberg am Lech in Bavaria because we're Polish jews. In 1948, after World War II, we were not able to go home because of the political conditions. If we had come back, they had put us into another prison, or even kill us.

After my sister, who went to the US right after WW I, finally sent some money and the sponsorship papers, we were able to leave this country. By that time I was advanced in pregnancy and we hoped that my baby could be born in the US. The ship, we wanted to travel with, unfortunately delayed, so my daughter Hannah Levinsky was born in June 1948 in Landsberg in a waiting camp for displaced persons. 

At last, on 24th of April 1949, we entered the ship "General R.L. Howze" and set sail to New York. With us, our 9 months old daughter Hannah. 

After our arrival in late 1949 we first stayed at my sisters'. It was no problem coming to the USA for we had our sponsorship papers. 

by Cord D. und Sabrina G.