Following S/S Ulua (S/S Haim Arlosorof) - Holocaust survivors dancing Hora after they left Trelleborg on January 24, 1947, heading port of Le Havre in France

The S/S Ulua ship departed from Trelleborg in Sweden on January 24, 1947. After the horrors of Holocaust and the brief period of recuperation in Sweden, Ulua was to bring a group of 650 Holocaust survivors to their destination, Eretz Israel. Most of them were woman that came to Sweden by UNRRA White Boats. 

However, not all of them that came to Sweden at the end of WWII got their health back. Several of survivors on board left their closest relatives buried in Sweden.

The wish of going to Israel was already written down on their Displaced Person card issued at the Swedish Transit Hospital in Lübeck. Now they were finally on their way dancing Hora after they left Trelleborg on January 24, 1947, heading port of Le Havre in France.

Holocaust Survivors dancing Hora at afterdeck. Photo provided by Eli Nusbaum. His father is on the photo. The voyage had taken 34 days, the ship had traveled a distance of 4,500 nautical miles, and had called at 5 ports and 3 other stops.

Medical card of Blanka Gross. She died after one day at the hospital in Norrköping. Her sister, Dora was one of the Holocaust survivors that left Sweden for Eretz Israel on S/S Ulua. I visited recently Blankas grave and put the memory stone at her matzeva.  

S/S Ulua was about to be stopped in Denmark, Sweden and in France.