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St. Louis was built for both transatlantic liner service and for leisure cruises. [2] In 1939, during the build-up to World War II, the St. Louis carried more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany intending to escape antisemitic persecution.
The SS St. Louis refugees were ultimately denied entry into both Cuba and the United States. [3] Dublon was sent back to Europe, settling in Antwerp, Belgium. [4] As Nazi extermination policies intensified, the Dublon family was rounded up and subsequently exterminated in the Auschwitz concentration camp. [5] SS St. Louis
By using statistical analysis of survival rates for Jews in various Nazi-occupied countries, Thomas and Morgan-Witts estimated the fate of the 621 St. Louis passengers who were not given refuge in Cuba or the United Kingdom (one died during the voyage): 44 (20%) of the 224 refugees that settled in France likely were murdered in the Holocaust ...
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. Disembarkation of nearly all of the passengers at ...
The most famous example of anti-immigration policy towards Jewish refugees was the fate of the steamship St. Louis, which left Hamburg for Cuba on May 13, 1939, with 936 passengers on board, including 930 Jews. Even though large sums of money were paid for tickets and a guarantee of return in case of refusal to accept, and the majority had a ...
Some 937 Jewish passengers aboard the SS St Louis were turned away from the U.S. and forced to return to Europe in 1939; many perished in Nazi camps.
A group of passengers from the SS St. Louis arrive in France after the ship returned to Europe. The Zionist movement facilitated the rehabilitation of displaced Jews in Mandatory Palestine, which was a destination for 18 000 Jews escaping the Nazi regime through the Balkans between 1937 and 1944.
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