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Journey to the US on the USS Henry Gibbons

Ben describes running from the Nazis with his family and their journey to the US on the US

Aired 11/20/2018 | Rating NR

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Journey to the US on the USS Henry Gibbons

Clip: Season 2 Episode 2 | 1m 51sVideo has Closed Captions

Ben describes running from the Nazis with his family and their journey to the US on the US

Ben Alalouf describes arriving with his family in Naples in 1944 having been on the run for three years from the Nazis. There he was lucky enough to get a place on the USS Henry Gibbons, an American troop carrier that had been sent to rescue nearly a thousand refugees.

Aired 11/20/2018 | Rating NR

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