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"St. Louis affair", US Coast Guard's official FAQ "American Responses to the Holocaust - St. Louis", U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum "The Story of the S.S. St. Louis (1939)" American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives "SS St Louis: The ship of Jewish refugees nobody wanted" BBC News
1939–1945: Events: The St. Louis Affair – June 1939 Battle of the River Plate – December 13, 1939 Operation Bolivar begins – May 1940 Sinking of the Toltén – March 13, 1942 The Lüning Affair – August 1942 The sinking of U-176 – May 15, 1943 Revolution of '43 – June 4, 1943 The Strike of Fallen Arms – May 5–11, 1944 The ...
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 ...
Vyacheslav Molotov became the new Foreign Affairs Minister of the Soviet Union. A Gallup poll found that 84 percent of Americans surveyed believed that the United States should stay out of a European war. [4] The All India Forward Bloc was created as a left-wing alternative to the Indian National Congress. [5]
Since the 1890s, St. Louis had attempted to control its air pollution problems with little success, but damage to buildings and flora made the issue more visible during the 1920s. [168] Problems came to a head with the 1939 St. Louis smog, which blackened the sky and lasted for three weeks. [169]
The 1939 St. Louis smog was a severe smog episode that affected St. Louis, Missouri on November 28, 1939. Visibility was so limited that streetlights remained lit throughout the day and motorists needed their headlights to navigate city streets.
Cuban-American soldiers. The history of Cuba during World War II begins in 1939. Because of Cuba's geographical position at the entrance of the Gulf of Mexico, Havana's role as the principal trading port in the West Indies, and the country's natural resources, Cuba was an important participant in the American Theater of World War II, and it was one of the greatest beneficiaries of the United ...
In 1939 and 1940, Marlowe was a voice actor in two network radio programs. ... Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944) – Joseph I. Murdock; ... Meet Me in St. Louis ...