Annette Metis Gallagher family collection

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Black headband embroidered MS St. Louis worn by a young girl on board the ship
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn516067
- English
- overall: Height: 35.625 inches (90.488 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Embroidered headband worn by 9 year old Annette Metis, while a passenger on board the MS St. Louis during the ill-fated roundtrip journey from Germany to Cuba in May-June 1939. The ship name on the headband is flanked by two flags, one with the HAPAG company logo; the other appears to be a now disguised German flag with swastika. As a German ship, the company would have displayed a German flag. Annette, her mother, Lotte, and brother Wolfgang, age 14, fled Germany because of the increasing persecution of Jews by the Nazi dictatorship. Her father, Dr. Felix Metis, had previously emigrated to...
Metis family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn522429
- English
- 1939-1967
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
The papers relate to the voyage of the MS St. Louis and include a scrapbook created by Dr. Felix Metis that contains telegrams sent from the MS St. Louis and newspaper clippings about the voyage; an insert about the voyage from the November 28, 1967, edition of "Look" magazine; and six photographs depicting Annette Metis [donor], her mother, Lotte, and her brother, Wolfgang, aboard the MS St. Louis.