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Refuge Denied: The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. Sampson, Pamela. No Reply: A Jewish Child Aboard the MS St. Louis and the Ordeal That Followed, Atlanta, GA, 2017; Lawlor, Allison. The Saddest Ship Afloat: The Tragedy of the MS St. Louis, Nimbus Publishing, 2016. ISBN 978-1771083997
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 ...
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 ...
The SS St. Louis sailed out of Hamburg into the Atlantic Ocean in May 1939 carrying one non-Jewish and 936 (mainly German) Jewish refugees seeking asylum from Nazi persecution just before World War II.
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
The St. Louis Holocaust Museum & Learning Center was founded in 1995, publicly opening on May 1, 1995. [2] It operated as a department of Jewish Federation of St. Louis. [3] [4] The museum's opening was dedicated to Gloria M. Goldstein, the wife of museum benefactor Samuel Goldstein. [2] [5] Samuel Goldstein would die five years later at the ...
In 1939, Hull advised Roosevelt to reject the SS St. Louis, a German ocean liner carrying 936 Jews seeking asylum from Germany. Hull's decision sent the Jews back to Europe on the eve of the Holocaust. Some historians estimate that 254 of the passengers were ultimately murdered by the Nazis. [citation needed]
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.