 They had one daughter, Nicola Anne Patricia Lubitsch, on October 27, 1938.When war was declared in Europe, Vivian Lubitsch and her daughter were staying in London.Vivian sent her baby daughter, accompanied by her nursemaid, Consuela Strohmeier, to Montreal aboard the Donaldson Atlantic Line's , which was sunk by a German submarine on September 3, 1939 with a loss of 118 passengers.