The paper trail of Mendel (Max) Abend's flight from Nazi-occupied Austria to safety in Cuba

Unlike the unfortunate passengers of the St. Louis, a ship of the Hamburg-America line, carrying 950 German Jews who were tragically denied entry by Cuban authorities - the protagonist of this collection of documents, Mendel Abend, a Viennese Jew born in Pruchnik, Poland in 1895, succeeded in obtaining refuge in Havana in March 1939