IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1286
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: List of Passengers on the St Louis who found refuge in Great Britain
Date(s): mid 20th century
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The German steamship, the St Louis, left Hamburg with 930 Jewish refugees on board on 13 May 1939. Its passengers had valid immigration visas to Cuba stamped in their passports. When the ship arrived at Havana, the refugees were refused entry. The ship was turned back to Europe, where its passengers, after much negotiation were permitted to land in English and Western European ports. Those caught up by the Nazi invasion ultimately met their deaths a year later in the Holocaust.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Alphabetical list of names, with year of birth, of those St Louis passengers who found refuge in Great Britain.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Alphabetical
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: February 2008