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Refuge Denied: The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust
In May of 1939 the Cuban government turned away the Hamburg-America LineSome of the most memorable stories include the fate of a young toolmaker who survived initial selection at Auschwitz because his glasses had gone flying moments before and a Jewish child whose apprenticeship with a baker in wartime France later translated into the establishment of a successful business...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
September 13th 2006
by University of Wisconsin Press
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A historical and even statistical look at the passengers onboard the St. Louis. The ship was bound for the Americas full of Holocaust refugees but it was sent back to Europe, resulting for some, in recapture and death at the hands of the Nazis.
Interesting story to discover what happened to the refugees but the writing is awkward.
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