Assistance

Life after liberation was overwhelming and daunting. There were programs that provided Holocaust survivors with assistance to meet their physical and emotional needs. 

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee provided Holocaust survivors with food and clothing and the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training offered employment training. The largest survivor organization, Sh'erit ha-Pletah (Hebrew for "surviving remnant") pushed for more and greater emigration opportunities even though opportunities for legal immigration the the US above the existing quota were still limited. Other areas of residence had limitations and restrictions like Palestine and many borders in Europe as the British restricted immigration to these destinations. (Holocaust Encyclopedia) 

America itself feared allowing refugees to enter the United States because the country feared its own citizens struggling even further to find employment.  One in four Americans were unemployed at the peak of the Great Depression in 1933 so letting in Jewish refugees felt like a threat. While many officials in the U.S. State Department were greedy for not alleviating immigration regulations, some officials feared that Jewish refugees from Germany could be spies for the Nazis (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

BBC. (n.d.). The Jewish refugees the US turned away. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-39857056

Everything was "tomorrow" was this man's first Spanish word that he had learned through this journey. He hoped that each day would be the day that Roosevelt would allow him and the rest of the refugees to enter in but rather kicked Jews out to "let someone else worry about them." (BBC)

Belgium, France, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands were four countries that were prepared to take the people on the ship in their country. Unfortunately the people that made into the Netherlands, France, and Belgium got arrested by the Nazis. "Lucky is a word I use many times", the man in the video states as he was able to make it into the United Kingdom and survive. (BBC)