I often receive emails from persons who are looking for passenger lists from their relatives’ Atlantic crossings on board the ships of the Swedish American Line.
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Hello,
I searched ancestry.com and indeed found my grandparents’ and mother’s names on a Gripsholm passenger list. That was so exciting to see their names on that list! I have a specific question about the Gripsholm that I am hoping you may be able to answer: the list for the voyage they were on is dated Nov. 24, 1939. Do you know if that was one of the last voyages the Gripsholm made before she was retired during the War? If so, that makes my grandparents’ escape from Germany (my grandfather was Jewish) all the more meaningful. I also wonder if there was any connection to picking up passengers in Latvia before starting out from Sweden. My grandparents spent months waiting for a letter of support. When they finally got one, they could sail, but I wonder if they would have left directly from Latvia, perhaps via a smaller ship that took them to Gothenburg where the Gripsholm departed. My last question is, do you have any pictures of that Gripsholm? Thanks much for any further information! Best, Anne Schreiber
My grandmother and my brother traveled to Sweden on the Kungsholm in June of 1955. Also traveling on that passenger list were my grandmother’s sister and her husband as well as another great uncle and his wife whose names I don’t remember. Have you had any luck with Kungsholm passenger lists? I have checked Ancestry and other site with no luck. Anne