Jackie L asked Armando Lucas Correa:

I just read The Night Travelers, and I was so moved. It is so difficult to read about the atrocities committed against the innocent, but I loved the strength in your characters and how these women were so connected. Thank you for your wonderful book. I was wondering why Lilith and the Herzogs were allowed off the ship when they arrived in Cuba. Presumably they were on the St. Louis. Why were they not turned away?

Armando Lucas Correa Jackie L, very grateful that you read The Night Travelers. Thank you for your kind words. Yes, Lilith and the Herzogs were on the MS St. Louis, it is a sort of leitmotif in my three historical novels, The German Girl, The Daughter's Tale and The Night Travelers. Of the 937 passengers on the St. Louis, only 28 passengers were able to disembark in Havana and I include, among them, Lilith and the Herozogs. Those 28 passengers were able to disembark for several reasons, either they paid the $500 per passenger required by the Cuban government or they obtained permission to disembark, not from the immigration authorities, but from the Cuban labor department. In my novel The German Girl, I center the story on the St. Louis. In my other novels it is a simple reference. Thank you,
A

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