On Holocaust Remembrance Day, an up to date repost, remembering the tragic voyage of the German passenger liner St. Louis in 1939. The ship carried 908 Jewish refugees fleeing from Nazi Germany.
The ship and its passengers departed from Hamburg however have been denied entry to Cuba, america, and Canada. Lastly, the ship circled and returned to Europe. Regardless of the US authorities’s refusal to just accept the refugees, non-public Jewish assist teams in america did handle to position a lot of the refugees in Belgium, France, and Holland, to keep away from returning them to Nazi Germany. Tragically, many have been later captured when the Nazis invaded. Two-hundred-and-fifty-four of the refugees are believed to have died within the German dying camps.
The voyage has been the topic of at the least one ebook and two films. The film, Voyage of the Damned, in 1974 was based mostly on the ebook of the identical identify by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts. A second film, The Voyage of the St. Louis, was launched in 1995.
Here’s a quick video by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum about The Voyage Of The St Louis.
