My parents sailed first from Gdynia, Poland, to Le Havre, France, landing there on November 23, 1938, from where they made their way to the port of La Rochelle, There they boarded the Orduņa, a ship of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, which was in service to South America and which took them to Cuba, via Liverpool, England, and Bermuda. In a memoir written when she was in her mid-70s, my mother recalled that even though she and my father were refugees with an uncertain future, they decided to treat the voyage as a holiday. This picture suggests that they managed to succeed.