Selma and Carl Simon (center) with other passengers at a party held in the dining room of the M.S.St. Louis shortly before it approached Cuba

ID: 792 ~ Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Reuben Babich
 ~ Creator: Simon Family ~ Date: May 1939
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By Susan Heinemann Berman
"Well, [my Aunt Edie] said there were a lot of young people, and she said that they had parties every night. This was a luxury liner. And it was taken over by the Nazis, so they flew the Nazi flag. They had a big picture of Hitler in the dining…