Special landing permit letter issued to the Loeb family by Cuban Immigration Secretary Manuel Benitez Gonzalez

ID: 790 ~ Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Harry O. Loeb. In memory of the St. Louis passengers who perished. ~ Creator: Cuban Government, Manuel Benitez Gonzalez ~ Date: April 11, 1939
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Letters like this one had to be obtained (purchased) by passengers hoping to wait in Cuba for their U.S. visas to come through prior to their trip aboard the M.S. St. Louis.

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

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