Immigrant identification card carried by Richard Karmann during his voyage aboard the M.S.St. Louis

ID: 789 ~ Source: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Gift of the Karmann Family ~ Creator: Hamburg-Amerika Line ~ Date: May 27, 1939
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The Hamburg-Amerika line issued immigrant identification cards to the 937 passengers hoping to disembark in Havana, Cuba.

This file appears in: The M.S. St. Louis

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…