Last night I was privileged to attend a showing of the play The Trial of Franklin Delano Roosevelt at Creighton University. The play is presented by an organization called The St. Louis Project.
In 1939 a ship called the SS St. Louis left Germany to Cuba with over 900 Jewish passengers seeking asylum for Nazi persecution. The boat was denied entry into Cuba and subsequently into the US and was eventually turned back to Europe.
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