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The SS St. Louis Worldwide Student Experience

The SS St. Louis Legacy Project’s Global Vision to bring the story of the SS St. Louis to the North American, Latin American, UK and European Student and Academic Community

LANGUAGES

The film and the passenger oral histories will be available in the following languages:

English, French, Spanish, German, Hebrew, Polish, Dutch, Ukrainian, Russian, Czech, Portuguese, Swedish, Hungarian, Danish, Arabic

The saga of the St. Louis deeply resonates with today’s university and high school students who are searching for lessons of the past to make sense of relevant contemporary issues.

The direct interaction with students will allow us to record and document their responses and to build a bridge between the past, present and future generations.

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The saga of the St. Louis can be studied in the context of:

Holocaust history and the antecedents to The Final Solution including the Nuremburg Laws, the Evian Conference, Kristallnacht, the White Paper of 1939, the Wannsee Conference, the Bermuda Conference et al.

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The saga of the St. Louis can be studied in the context of:

Holocaust history and the antecedents to The Final Solution including the Nuremburg Laws, the Evian Conference, Kristallnacht, the White Paper of 1939, the Wannsee Conference, the Bermuda Conference et al.

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The saga of the St. Louis can be studied in the context of:

National and international immigration and refugee policy using the saga of the SS St. Louis as an object lesson for the current immigration/refugee crisis.

The saga of the St. Louis deeply resonates with today’s university and high school students who are searching for lessons of the past to make sense of relevant contemporary issues.

Bringing this material to a worldwide student body in their native language will allow us to record and document their responses and to build a bridge between the past, present and future generations.

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The saga of the St. Louis can be studied in the context of:

Government accountability in dealing with human rights issues and the catastrophic consequences of the political failure to act during a humanitarian crisis. The US Department of State and Canadian Government apologies to the SS St. Louis passengers will be used as a platform for this discussion as well as to highlight the ongoing crisis in the Ukraine, and other ongoing refugee crises throughout the world.

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The saga of the St. Louis can be studied in the context of:

Government accountability in dealing with human rights issues and the catastrophic consequences of the political failure to act during a humanitarian crisis. The US Department of State and Canadian Government apologies to the SS St. Louis passengers will be used as a platform for this discussion as well as to highlight the ongoing crisis in the Ukraine, and other ongoing refugee crises throughout the world.

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The saga of the St. Louis can be studied in the context of:

Antisemitism, racist ideology, Nazi anti-Jewish propaganda and its relevance to contemporary examples of extreme political ideology and the consequences of hate speech including its connection to the Russian invasion of the Ukraine and the use of extreme nationalistic propaganda to demonize the Ukrainian people and to delegitimize their sovereignty.

The use of the theater piece The False Witness: The Trial of Humanity’s Conscience can be used as supplemental material.

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The saga of the St. Louis can be studied in the context of:

Heroic people and deeds during the Holocaust including the saga of Captain Gustav Schroeder, Captain of the SS St. Louis. Over the last decade, the SS St. Louis Legacy Project has brought its St. Louis documentary film and passenger experience to over 20 universities including Harvard University, Columbia University, Brandeis University, George Washington University, West Point Academy, Hebrew University, University of Maryland,

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The saga of the St. Louis can be studied in the context of:

Heroic people and deeds during the Holocaust including the saga of Captain Gustav Schroeder, Captain of the SS St. Louis. Over the last decade, the SS St. Louis Legacy Project has brought its St. Louis documentary film and passenger experience to over 20 universities including Harvard University, Columbia University, Brandeis University, George Washington University, West Point Academy, Hebrew University, University of Maryland,

IN SUMMARY

In addition to these universities, the Foundation has worked with important international human rights organizations such as Yad Vashem, the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation, the Johannesburg Holocaust Center, the Association of Jewish Refugees of the UK, the US Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, the Holocaust Education Trust of Ireland, Georgetown University Law School Human Rights Institute, B’nai B’rith Europe, The European Union of Jewish Students, Centre Communautaire Laic Juif, HIAS Europe.

The Foundation has also collaborated with the world’s foremost leaders to bring the lessons of the St. Louis into our national and international consciousness.

Most notably, we have worked with Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat (former Ambassador to the European Union), Ambassador William Burns (current Director of the CIA), Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield (current US Ambassador to the UN), Dr. Walter Reich (former Director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum), Scott Miller (former Director of Curatorial Affairs of the US Holocaust Museum, Ambassador Jan Matthysen (former Belgian Ambassador to the US).