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MS St. Louis was adapted as a German naval accommodation ship from 1940 to 1944. She was heavily damaged by the Allied bombings at Kiel on August 30, 1944. The ship was repaired and used as a hotel ship in Hamburg in 1946.
The story was inspired by actual events concerning the fate of the ocean liner St. Louis carrying Jewish refugees from Germany to Cuba in 1939. It was based on a 1974 nonfiction book of the same title written by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts. [5] The screenplay was written by Steve Shagan and David Butler.
Gustav Schröder (German: [ˈɡʊs.taf ˈʃʁøː,dɐ] ⓘ; 27 September 1885 – 10 January 1959) was a German sea captain most remembered and celebrated for his role in attempting to save 937 German-Jewish passengers on his ship MS St. Louis having sailed from Hamburg to escape Nazis in 1939.
Ships named SS St. Louis include: MS St. Louis, a diesel-powered passenger ship sometimes referred to as "SS St. Louis"; built in 1925 by Bremer Vulkan for the Hamburg America Line. It carried Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in 1939 in an unsuccessful emigration attempt; scrapped in Hamburg in 1952
The group on the remaining four ships, totaling 602 people, arrived in New Orleans in January 1839, [6] [7] and from there arranged for transport on steamboat up the Mississippi River to St. Louis, Missouri. During that time, the members of the group were asked to sign a document of absolute submission to "our bishop Stephan".
The rusted hull of the USS Inaugural was exposed on Tuesday.
St. Louis (disambiguation) MS St. Louis, a German passenger liner which entered service in 1929 and was scrapped in 1952 which was involved in transporting refugees from Nazi Germany in 1939; USS General M. L. Hersey (AP-148), a United States Navy (later United States Army) troop transport which later became the civilian cargo ship SS St. Louis
An American teenager disappeared during a cruise in Germany, police said. Aydin Brown, 14, was last seen at 7 a.m. Thursday when he left the Caribbean Princess in Rostock-Warnemünde, a port town ...