1938 TRIP TO FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND February 7, 2004 Normally I would have waited to post the next part of the story until tomorrow but later this evening as I was washing my dishes and listening to soothing classical music, I went over the events of the scrapbook story in my mind. My thoughts were still on the names of the list of passengers aboard the Queen Mary in December 1938. I had noticed that there were many names that certainly sounded Jewish. Names such as Cohen, Cohn, Friedman, Gould, Katzinger, Kuhn, Levy, Oppenheimer, Rosenkranz, Rosenthal, Sachs, Sax, Schwarz, Silberman and Weil. At the time I thought that the number of Jews aboard was in disproportion to other ethnic names. As I continued to wash the dishes and lightly pondered the subject all of a sudden a very huge light bulb lit up over my head! It was December 1938 and they were the Jews who were lucky enough to escape Nazi Germany before the borders were completely shut down in 1939 at which time the Jews left in Germany were pretty much doomed. In other words, the Jews aboard ship were Jewish refugees fleeing Germany at almost the last minute. Oh yes indeed, there was a motley group of passengers sailing on that glorious ship on that particular voyage; the almost royalty, the very rich, the businessmen (my father and Earl Dunn) and then there were the Jewish refugees. The Queen Mary was only two years old (officially christened in 1936) but by August 1939 she was permanently berthed in New York City awaiting her role in the upcoming World War II.