January 15, 2002
Video: Artful Persuasion
Here is a video documenting the final preparations and opening night of the Artful Persusasion show at The Telfair Museum in Savannah, GA. The show featured over 50 prints from the private collection of Rita Trotz. The prints provided a comprehensive overview of poster art, beginning with items from the early 1800s, and continuing through the present day. Click here to watch the video.
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January 01, 2002
Immigration
In one of the first things I ever posted on the earlier version of Trotz.com back in 2002, I unearthed some background on the ship which took my father, Sam, and much of the rest of the Trotz family to the United States from Poland. Read on for more....
M/S PILSUDSKI, ship which carried much of the Trotz family from Poland to the U.S. in 1939. 526 feet long and could make 18 knots. Accommodation was for 796 in three classes -- 46 First Class, 370 Tourist, 400 Third Class and crew of 350. M/S PILSUDSKI sailed for her first transatlantic voyage, Gdynia-New York, on 15 Sep. 1935. Each round trip, Gdynia-New York-Gdynia took about three and half weeks.
When WWII broke out and Poland fell to the Germans in September 1939, the ship was commandeered by the British for military use. Two months later, she was destroyed by German mines at 4:36am on Nov. 25, 1939 off the English coast.
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