Burte Pienik

• General Notes
  • How is this Burte related to everyone else?  If you recognize this person, please notify me, Uri Ladell,  at pieniek.family@gmail.com .
    
    
    Miss Burte Pienik was on the following ship:
    RED STAR LINE - S. S. FINLAND
    13 March 1913
    
    In 1952, John Hirtz started to write his story down.  Unfortunately, he didn't finish it.
    "In the year of 1913, in the month of March, the Red Star Liner Finland moved slowly past the Statute of Liberty in her dock at the Harbour of New York, carrying some 1200 immigrants which assembled 15 days before at the Harbour of Antwerp in Belgium. These immigrants coming from nearly every country in Europe - Frenchmen, Belgium, from Holland and Germany. The first day out at sea, they grouped together and you could notice them by their actions. The Germans singing and playing the accordions, those from Switzerland yodelling and the French enjoyed themselves by emptying a few bottles of wine some of their relatives put in their bags before departing. And now, 15 days later, with heavy hearts and expectations, they embark in the promised Land America - there wasn't one of all the immigrants who had more than 100 dollars in their pockets. Very few could speak one word of English."