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On reaching Cuba, she anchored at 04:00 on May 27 at the far end of the Havana Harbor, but was denied entry to the usual docking areas. The Cuban government, headed by President Federico Laredo Brú, refused to accept the foreign refugees, although they held legal tourist visas to Cuba, as laws related to these had been recently changed. On May ...
SS Navemar – a Spanish cargo liner designed for 28 passengers that took 1,120 Jewish refugees to New York in a seven-week voyage in 1941. MS St. Louis – a German passenger liner carrying 937 Jewish refugees who were denied entry to Cuba, the USA and Canada in 1939. Le Grand Akshan; List by death toll of ships sunk by submarines
From 1942 President Warfield served in the Second World War as a barracks and training ship for the British Armed Forces. In 1944 she was commissioned into the United States Navy as USS President Warfield (IX-169), a station and accommodation ship for the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach. In 1947, she was renamed Exodus 1947 to take part in Aliyah Bet.
Drug-related arrests and convictions in the United Kingdom; denied entry in June 2010 after spending 10 hours in detention in New York's JFK Airport, despite having a visa. [19] Isabel dos Santos Angola: Businesswoman and daughter of José Eduardo dos Santos "Significant corruption by misappropriating public funds for her personal benefit." [20 ...
The remaining 121 passengers were denied entry, including nearly all of the Jewish passengers. [4] Quanza proceeded to Veracruz, Mexico , where it arrived on 30 August. [ 5 ] Only 35 passengers were allowed to disembark, leaving 86 on board, mostly Belgian Jews. [ 7 ]
In 1942, when secret cables indicated the Nazis were killing more than 6,000 Jews a day in Poland, Morgenthau began working with the World Jewish Congress and other relief groups to help rescue ...
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff singled out three university presidents on Thursday after they didn’t explicitly say during a congressional hearing that calling for genocide of Jews would violate ...
A recent poll released by the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish outreach organization Hillel International found that 73% of Jewish college students and 44% of non-Jewish students experienced ...