Simon family boarding the M.S.St. Louis at the port of Hamburg, Germany

ID: 788 ~ Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Reuben Babich ~ Creator: Hamburg-Amerika Line ~ Date: May 13, 1939
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By Susan Heinemann Berman
"They heard about this ship that was going to be sailing from Hamburg to Cuba. It was leaving in May of 1939. And they did everything they could to book passage on it. Apparently the tickets were sold out almost immediately. They had to pay an…