Menu from St. Louis Cruise Liner

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.103

Object Name

Menu

Date

4-19-1935

Files

Content Warning

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Description

Recto: White paper with menu printed in black. Includes the ship's seal and a swastika.Back: Top portion is a black and white photograph of a row of houses next to a beach, with people near boats by the water. The bottom portion includes black printed text and lines.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: The inability of the Jews on the transatlantic liner St. Louis to disembark in Havana, the United States, or any of the chosen destinations was a great propaganda victory for the Nazis. On the 1939 voyage were 937 passengers, almost all Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. This postcard advertises the St. Louis in the mid-thirties, four years before the "Voyage of the Damned". The menu displays the Nazi swastika.

Dimensions

8 x 5 1/2"

Keywords

St. Louis, Cruise Liner, Jews, German, Voyage of the Damned

Subcollection

St.Louis

Recommended Citation

"Menu from St. Louis Cruise Liner" (1935). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.103.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/395