Tradewinds/Hatikva

A Pesach aboard the Hatikvah — recalled by Murray Greenfield Maybe I missed it, but Duke — who was the cook and ready to do everything a seaman should do — was a crew member of the Hatikvah. Duke spoke Yiddish, which he had learned working in a bakery owned by a Jewish couple, immigrants […]

A former U.S. Navy officer, Harold Katz manned The Hatikvah carrying Holocaust survivors as part of the Aliyah Bet. He returned to Harvard Law School and became an established trial lawyer in Boston. In the early 1970s he made Aliyah himself and spent the rest of his days in Israel. See also: Short video JTA