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In the
spring of 1941, before the United States had entered World War II, the
passenger ship Zamzam was sunk by a German raider in the
South Atlantic. Among the Zamzam's 201
passengers were 142 Americans, most of whom were
missionaries en route to Africa. The dramatic sinking and
miraculous rescue became headline news in 1941.
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Zamzam
survivors will be gathering July 30 - August 1, 2010,
for a reunion at Akron, Pennsylvania (near Lancaster).
Family members, including extended family, are
encouraged to attend, as well as interested friends.
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Zamzam reunions are unique,
as survivors recall memories of their 1941 experience. Even those who
are not survivors feel the drama and faith the survivors describe,
supplemented by a display of scrapbooks, pictures, videos, books, and a
few artifacts and diaries. Devotions and hymn-singing bring deep
memories of the time together on the prison ship, Dresden.
Other dimensions of the story have
been uncovered in recent years. For example, we have learned more about
the raider which sank the Zamzam, and we have been touched by
reflections shared by the grandson of the passenger who was fatally
wounded during the shelling. Recently a book has been written about the
Zamzam's Canadian women passengers who were interned in Germany.
And again, survivor Peter Levitt will share in person his internment
experience as a child.
The book mentioned above is authored by Carolyn Gossage of Toronto, Canada.
It is in German and
is published by Ch. Links Verlag. Its title translates as: Wild Journey : The Odyssey of Seven
Canadian Women in the Third Reich. For more information or to
purchase the book, please go to
www.christoph-links-verlag.de or contact
mail@christoph-links-verlag.de. A summary of the book in English can
be found in the Internment section.
For more information and to make
reservations for the reunion, please contact
eleander@cox.net by April 17,
2010.
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