We are reaching out to individuals whose relatives arrived in San Francisco from the Philippines on July l, 1923 on board the USAT Merritt as part of a group of over 500 refugees who fled Russia in the fall of 1922.
We are in need of materials for the USAT Merritt collection at the Museum of Russian Culture - such as photos, personal stories and papers, etc. - to preserve this vital part of Russian history and to commemorate this historical event.
Contact Eugenia Bailey at ... eugeniabailey@att.net ... or
Contact Margarita Meniailenko at the Museum of Russian Culture ...
415-921-4082 Wed & Sat 10:30 am to 2:30 pm ... contact@mrcsf.org
USAT MERRITT 1923 ... On July 1, 1923, the army transport ship USAT Merritt out of Manila, Philippines, docked at Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay. It carried five hundred and twenty-six Russia "boat people" survivors of some seven thousand who had fled Vladivostok eight months previously as victorious Communist forces advanced on the last out post of resistance to the Bolshevik revolution.
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