Gerhard continues to receive messages from people who were on the very same ship that brought his family over from Germany to the United States:
Gerhard, Thank you for emailing me. My father and his family were on this ship. I found the name of this ship on their naturalization paperwork from Germany. I don’t know much about the trip over on the boat other than all my family became very afraid of water and never got on a boat again. There are still two members of the family alive. I feel overwhelmingly compelled to contact them and get their experience before their passing.
-Stephanie
My father arrived today in 1950 leaving Austria from a dp camp and went to germany left may 1st and arrived in Ellis Island may 14 on the s.s. Ballou most American patriotic man i know
Kimberli moj deda je putovao tim brodom. Bio je Jugosloven Zvao se Nedeljko Dejanovic. Umro je u Klivlend, Ohajo 7.7.1958.To je sve što znam. voljela bih da saznam gdje je sahranjen i kako je tamo zivio
Google translate:
Kimberly my grandfather traveled on that ship. His name was Nedeljko Dejanovic. He died in Cleveland, Ohio on July 7, 1958. That’s all I know. I would like to know where he was buried and how he lived there