oha 2017

The Sea beasties and the sailing ship St Louis, 1939

Art: 2017
Media: Ink, gouache, colored pencil
Framed, 32.5 inches H x 42 ¼ W
Begun Feb 27, 2017, completed March 6, 2017

Depicted at lower left: Klaus Helmut Goldschmit, who was 19 when the ship left Hamburg. He was eventually murdered at the Auschwitz death camp.
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Segan plans to write the USHMM in Washington, D.C. to find out if the name and fate of the girl portrayed at upper left in the drawing is known to researchers. She was drawn from a photo of passengers peering through portholes in the ship.

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The ship had about 900 passengers, mainly German Jewish, on board when it left Hamburg for Havana, Cuba. About 20 passengers were allowed to disembark in Cuba.

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Then the United States and Canadian governments denied refugee status to any passengers when the ship went near Miami, Florida and Nova Scotia, Canada. The passengers disembarked in Antwerp, Belgium.

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The British accepted a number of the passengers, all of whom were alive at the end of WWII.
Of those who disembarked in Antwerp and were allowed to enter France and Belgium, a number of them were eventually murdered by the Nazis.

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This is the 2nd drawing Segan made about the Sailing ship St Louis. The first is titled The Sea monsters & the sailing ship St Louis 1939. See Other Holocaust Art since 2010.
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Also see the 2017 linocut print: The Sea demons and the sailing ship St Louis, 1939.