121. Henrietta Szold — Ariette Salom
type: aux schr
Departed Piraeus, Greece 30 Jul 1946, arrived 12 Aug 1946
ex-Ariette Salom, built (unk), about 150 tons.
536 passengers
150 passengers transferred at sea from the Rafi. Passengers included 180 children, 28 infants including 2 born on board, and 19 pregnant women. Passengers resisted capture by the destroyer Venus. Transferred to transport Empire Heywood for deportation to Cyprus.
Name: Henrietta Szold (1860-1945) was an American Jew, founder of Hadassah, who had organized the rescue of Jewish children from Europe during the war.