Louis “Shorty” Levin, whose ship was rebuilt into the Exodus, which ferried illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine after World War II, died at 90 in Florida. In 1946, Levin sold a ship that needed renovations to the Chinese American Industrial Company.
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