As the self-appointed family historian, this project has taken me to places around the world and to truly know the personalities of my grandparents. Why the decisions that formed their lives and ultimately mine. The stories handed down have been twisted in ways that I did not understand and this […]
Author: hansdohm
This is my way of showing many people of the world the Dohm family history.
Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, 5/26/1939
Now we are near a trip home from Santiago, Cuba where to !!! 288 bottles of rum were loaded aboard, I wonder if there will be a little sip left over for the Copenhageners but it’s only small samples.
Santiago, Cuba, June 7 1939
MS “Vinland” kidnapped 4/5 of the crews of “Restmore” for a trip to Europe on June 2nd.
Santiago, Cuba 5/10/1939
Santiago, Cuba 5/10/1939 Dear friends, we arrived here the evening before yesterday and we got the mail, 3 letters of March 6 and 28 and April 16 and thanks, we answer more complete later since today at 12 o’clock it goes to the home mail beaches with a Norwegian steamer […]
Manzanillo, Cuba 4/29/1939
We are still on the coast to find a ship for one part of the family but it doesn’t seem we have any luck there. The ships where the captain could be allowed to hire such a crew are all going in other directions than Europe and the ones that do go to Europe around here are British don’t dare to hire a female crew.
Batabano, Cuba 3/15/1939
Batabano, Cuba 3/15/1939 Dear Marie and Valdemar! Yesterday Peter was in Havana and brought your letter of 12. February home and we thank you strongly. There were certain expressions so it seems like it was you, Valdemar, who had emptied the bottle of schnapps before you sat down at the […]
La Coloma, Cuba 3/5/1939
La Coloma, Cuba 3/5/1939Waiting with longing for the money so be nice and send it as quick as possible.Dear Marie and Valdemar, now we are out in the swamp again and we have landed in Cuba’s field where nothing is growing. Last time we passed Cuba it was with the […]
Havana, Cuba, February 6 1939
Havana, Cuba, February 6 1939Dear Marie and Valdemar,Now you have to get a little holler from the world sailors and thank you for the last letter which we got sent to Havana from Mollers in Miami. It was a fresh gust with snow and ice which we need a little […]
Havana, 1/14/1939
Havana, 1/14/1939Today we had a visit from a professor of geography with his students around 100, but 75 % were female, can you imagine Peter making a speech for all the Spanish senoritas? He tried to make that stool he was standing on to break so he could fall in […]
Havana, 1/10/1939
Havana, 1/10/1939Today there is a big Polish America Steamer “S,.S. Pilsutsky” beside us. The chief Stewart is Danish and we were on board yesterday evening, it surely is an anthill, there is a 300 men crew and in the laundry they wash 5000 pieces a day, a good thing I […]