[Just before the outbreak of World War II, Ludwig Katzenstein's family is trying to flee the Nazi persecution of the Jews and has tickets on the Queen Mary in Cherbourg. The Gestapo has delayed them at the French border for a supposed irregularity with their papers]
Ludwig Katzenstein: Finally, in the evening, they let us go. But then we would have been late to the Queen Mary. So my father went to the head of the train and asked him, begged him, to telegraph the captain of the Queen Mary and tell him what happened. Could he wait for us?
Iain Glen - Narrator: In Cherbourg, with over 2000 passengers already on board, the Queen Mary was ready to depart.
Ludwig Katzenstein: This was some request! And that captain waited for us six hours. Unbelievable! Miracles happen.
