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"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; Matthias Loeber, “Swept back into the unseen vastness of the sea” - Fritz Buff's account of his voyage aboard the ST.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. SS Patria sinking in Haifa port The Patria disaster was the sinking on 25 November 1940 by the Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah of a French-built ocean liner, the 11,885-ton SS Patria, in the port of Haifa. Patria was about to depart with about 1,800 Jewish refugees whom the British ...
In May 1939 Frossoula was in Sulina in Romania, where she embarked 658 Czechoslovak Jewish refugees. [12] They were reported to have paid $1,000 each for their passage. They included 194 women; 77 children; [13] and more than 100 former members of the Czechoslovak Army, [14] which had been disbanded after Germany occupied Bohemia and Moravia.
The MS St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany for Cuba, who had issued transit visas for more than 900 Jewish refugees, on a voyage that occurred from May to June 1939. Once the ship had arrived, the Cubans cancelled the refugees' visas. The ship was denied permission to land in the United States and Canada and it had to make a return voyage to ...
The St. Louis left Hamburg in May 1939 in a desperate search for a safe haven from persecution by Nazi Germany. After it was rebuffed by Canada and other nations, it returned to Europe, where ...
Another Panamanian-registered ship, Frossoula, had left Sulina in Romania on 29 May carrying 658 Czechoslovak Jewish refugees. [15] Frossoula had docked in Beirut on 16 July, [18] but French authorities had refused to let the refugees enter Lebanon or Syria. By 27 July Frossoula had left Beirut, but she had remained off the Lebanese coast ever ...
The Struma disaster was the sinking on 24 February 1942 of a ship, MV Struma, which had been trying to take nearly 800 Jewish refugees from the Axis member Romania to Mandatory Palestine. She was a small iron-hulled ship of only 240 GRT and had been built in 1867 as a steam-powered schooner [ 3 ] but had recently been re-engined with an ...
On 22 March 1939 passengers embarking on Manhattan in Hamburg included 88 unaccompanied children who were Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. [12] The 24-hour journey from Hamburg to Southampton was part of the Kindertransport, as it later came to be known, between December 1938 and the outbreak of war in September 1939.