1947 Passenger List from the QUEEN ELIZABETH

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A Cabin Class passenger list from the Queen Elizabeth I's February 13, 1947 voyage from Southampton to New York. It is highly decorated, with a glossy cover in the Cunard colors, and the Cunard White Star logo on every page. Cabin Class was less posh than First Class, where celebrities and aristocrats were more likely to be found in this time period, but there are several notable names on the list. The Vicomtesse de Bellaigue, Marie-Antoinette Willemin, was a Belgian aristocrat who served as French tutor to the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret during the 1940s. Another woman whose name stands out is Dr. Edith Silberger. She was a physician, born in Prague, and a Jewish survivor of the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Her parents and her husband were all murdered at Theresienstadt, and she was immigrating to the U.S. where she had a sister. Also aboard the ship were University of Cambridge psychology professor Frederic C. Bartlett and botany lecturer David G. Catcheside.