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The Saddest Ship Afloat: The Tragedy of the MS St. Louis

The Saddest Ship Afloat: The Tragedy of the MS St. Louis

Lawlor, Allison

Paperback

Series: Stories of Our Past

BoatingGeneral World HistoryHolocaust

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ISBN10: 1771083999
ISBN13: 9781771083997
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing (CN)
Published: Jun 14 2016
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.40 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

On May 13, 1939, the eve of the Second World War, the MS St. Louis left port in Hamburg, Germany, headed for Havana, Cuba. Among the ship's passengers were more than six hundred Jews attempting to escape Nazi rule. But most of the visas the passengers had purchased turned out to be fake and after several days in limbo in Havana's harbour, the ship's captain turned back for Europe. Canadian and American activists petitioned their governments to accept the refugees on humanitarian grounds, but to no avail. On its return, the ship would distribute its passengers among European countries, and over the course of the war, an estimated 250 would die in the Nazi-run concentration camps.

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