Passenger List - First Class Guests
This is a list of passengers travelling in First Class. It includes the dignitaries mentioned by Gombrowicz in his novel Trans-Atlantic: the senator Rembielinski and the minister Mazurkiewicz. Gombrowicz is the last name on the list. This is consistent with the account in his Diary: in July 1939, fellow writer Czeslaw Straszewicz met Gombrowicz at Zodiak, a bohemian café in Warsaw. Straszewicz told Gombrowicz that he had been invited to participate in the Chrobry's maiden voyage to Argentina. In exchange, he would write on the Chrobry for the Polish press. Gombrowicz asked Straszewicz if he could get the same deal and Straszewicz promised to pass Gombrowicz's name to the Gdynia America Line. It obviously worked out, and Gombrowicz was added to the exclusive list of guests.