Haapalah / Aliyah Bet

David Gottlieb cites: “Some of my motivation to become involved in transporting refugees was the whole idea of adventure. I didn’t think carefully of consequences. It was just an attempt to assure my parents that there was still some hope that eventually I would become a mensch, from which they would glieb naches [gather pride] from their wayward son. But, I wasn’t really prepared for what I saw.”

In April, 1946, on the day after Passover Seder, HMCS Beauharnois and Norsyd sailed from the Port of New York.
David Gottlieb cites: "Our ship was berthed in the Todd shipyards on Staten Island for three months while it underwent repairs and was readied for an Atlantic crossing and in that interim our crew was moved to a ‘safe house’ in the Seagate area of Coney Island."

Aryeh Leon Malkin, Menachem Moskowitz Peretz, Zeev Rauff, Dov Seligman Smilansky and Mordecai Blockman Barkan, members of kibbutz Daled, later kibbutz Ein Dor קיבוץ עין דור, volunteered to serve on the Canadian corvette, HMCS Beauharnois יאשיהו ווג'ווד Josiah Wedgwood.

In April, 1946, Aryeh Leon Malkin served as crew, sailed from the Port of New York aboard HMCS Beauharnois יאשיהו ווג'ווד Josiah Wedgwood.

In April, 1946, David Gottlieb served as crew, sailed from the Port of New York aboard HMCS Beauharnois יאשיהו ווג'ווד Josiah Wedgwood.
David Gottlieb cites: "The ship’s chief engineer was a Swede with a passionate dislike for the British, and the ship’s cook was a big Canadian with fiery red hair and beard to match. But, the most memorable crew member was the boatswain, a fat, self-admitted “Jewish hobo,” who formerly had worked on a Hudson River barge. This man later saved my life during a violent storm near the Azores."