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In Hollywood’s version, now deeply engrained in American popular culture, the 937 German-Jewish passengers of the MS St. Louis undertook the “voyage of the damned.” The president could have...
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.
The "Voyage of the Damned" Under the command of Captain Gustav Schröder, St. Louis set sail from Hamburg to Havana, Cuba on May 13, 1939, carrying 937 passengers, most of them Jewish refugees [4] [5] seeking asylum from Nazi persecution in Germany .
MS St. Louis, German ocean liner that gained international attention in 1939 when Cuba, the U.S., and Canada denied entry to its more than 900 Jewish passengers. Several European countries eventually took the refugees, though 255 of the passengers are believed to have later died in the Holocaust.
Dec 11, 2019 · It was May 13, 1939, and the next few weeks would bring the 15-year-old to the doorsteps of Cuba and the United States, where she and the 936 other Jews aboard the steamliner pleaded for...
May 24, 2022 · Voyage of the damned is the ... day-by-day account of how those refugees on board the liner struggled to survive. The ship sailed to Cuba where the refugees were refused entry either as tourists or political asylum seekers ...
In 1939, 1,937 German-Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany are bound for Cuba aboard the Hamburg-America liner S.S. St. Louis. They are refused permission to land in Cuba (and everywhere else) and must sail back to Germany and certain death. Based on the novel by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts. 155m/C VHS, DVD .
