We have determined that the two Zeemanshoop passengers named Mayer were my father-in-law Kurt Victor Mayer and his wife, Liselotte Mayer. Victor (he preferred it to Kurt) was a German Jew who had been living and working in the Netherlands for a number of years by 1940. After internment in England and the Isle of Man, he was sent to a forest labor camp in New Brunswick, Canada, returning to the UK in 1941. His wife, who was Dutch, remained in the UK during the war.
Following the war the Mayers emigrated to the USA. Victor and Liselotte were divorced, and Liselotte married Dr. Simon Weyl (Weijl) who had also been a passenger on the Zeemanshoop, and who had also moved to New York. Dr. Weyl was a noted psychotherapist in New York; Liselotte also worked in the psychotherapy field.
Victor relocated to the Pacific Northwest, where he remarried and raised a family in Portland and later Seattle. He died in 1992. Simon Weyl died in 1987 and Liselotte in 2002.
We discovered the record of the Zeemanshoop only yesterday, and are thrilled and stunned to be able to read this history, which until now has been only an oral history in our family. Thanks to all the researchers for this wonderful information.
John Sevy
Seattle USA