Images: Picture postcard of the MS St. Louis. USHMM, courtesy of Julie Klein;
Portrait of Gustav Schroeder, captain of the MS St. Louis. USHMM, courtesy of Herbert & Vera Karliner;
Photo of Lilly Joseph’s evening gown. USHMM,
gift of Liesl Joseph Loeb; Twins Ines and Renate Spanier peer
out a porthole of the MS St.
Louis as the ship docks in Antwerp on June 17, 1939. Courtesy of Bibliothèque
Historique de la Ville de Paris; Members of the Dingfelder
family board the MS St.
Louis in Hamburg, Germany. USHMM,
Dingfelder and Wolff families' papers; Passengers on the MS St. Louis, including
Evelyn Altman (born Evelyn Klein), front. USHMM, courtesy of Don Altman; A group
of Jewish refugee children wait in the port of Lisbon to board the SS Mouzinho, which took
them to the United States in 1941. USHMM,
courtesy of Milton Koch
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