List of Passengers on the St Louis who found refuge in Great Britain

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1556 WL 1286
Held at	: Wiener Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/ ›
Full 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 & 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.

Finding aids:

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

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