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MS St. Louis was a diesel-powered ocean liner built by the Bremer Vulkan shipyards in ... Fritz Buff's account of his voyage aboard the ST. LOUIS, May and June 1939 ...
Based on historic events, this dramatic film concerns the 1939 voyage of the German-flagged MS St. Louis, which departed from Hamburg carrying 937 Jews from Germany, bound for Havana, Cuba. The passengers, having seen and suffered rising anti-Semitism in Germany, realized this might be their only chance to escape.
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 ...
Ships named SS St. Louis include: MS St. Louis, a diesel-powered passenger ship sometimes referred to as "SS St. Louis"; built in 1925 by Bremer Vulkan for the Hamburg America Line. It carried Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in 1939 in an unsuccessful emigration attempt; scrapped in Hamburg in 1952
SS St. Louis (1894) 1894 USS Louisville (1918–1919) Scrapped in 1924 at Genoa: SS St. Louis in 1900 MS Stockholm (1941) 1940 MS Sabaudia (1941–1944) Bombed by British aircraft, and sank on July 6, 1944. Scrapped in 1949 Stockholm after her launch in 1940 SS Stockholm: 1946 Völkerfreundschaft (1960–1985) Volker (1985–1986)
The MS St. Louis arrives in Antwerp, Belgium, in June 1939 after being denied entry to Cuba, the United States and Canada. The ship carried over 900 mainly German Jewish refugees from Nazi ...
The German ocean liner MS St. Louis departed Hamburg for Cuba with 936 passengers, mostly Jewish refugees. The Cuban government had already canceled their landing certificates, but many passengers boarded the ship anyway hoping the Cubans would honor the certificates they had already obtained. [12]
Pages in category "1939 in the United States" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... MS St. Louis; 1939 State of the Union Address; T.