Contains a photographic portrait of Benjamin Gantman, taken in Marseille, France in June 1947 on the eve of his boarding the ship"Exodus"
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Benjamin Gantman photograph
Copyright Holder: Mr. Benjamin Gantman
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Benjamin Gantman, his father, and brother were arrested in Antwerp, Belgium on March 2, 1942 and imprisoned in a series of prisons and finally in the Wuelzburg ILAG XIII until liberation. After liberation, Benjamin tried to make Aliyah on board the Exodus and returned to Israel on the SS Negba in October 1948.