The Hellship Memorial Foundation led the search for the Japanese freighter Hofuku Maru. The Hofuku Maru was one of more than 130 cargo ships the Japanese converted to serve as floating concentration ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: On the morning of September 21, 1944, more than 1,200 British and Dutch prisoners of war were packed into two stifling cargo holds below the deck of ...