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GW Event Commemorates the Liberation of Auschwitz Birkenau
Holocaust survivors who were refused asylum by the U.S. in 1939 take note of the date with the GW Rohr Chabad Center for Jewish Life. From left: film producer Robert Krakow and Holocaust survivors Hans Fisher, Judith Steel, Sonja Geismar and Eva Wiener. (Sydney...
The St. Louis: Then and Now
1939: when jewish refugees were turned away
The Holocaust wasn’t just about the extermination of 6 million Jews, but also showing the world that no one wanted them. Hitler proved this when a ship, MS St. Louis carrying more than 900 Jews was denied entry to the United States, Cuba and Canada in May 1939. To...
Complicit: FDR’s Refusal to Save the Jews on the MS St. Louis
Holocaust survivors denied sanctuary share their stories
Synagogue Shooting reshapes Liberals’ apology for 1939 refusal of ship of Jewish refugees
Sending Jewish Refugees Back to Nazi Europe: A Permanent Stain on Cuba’s Memory
Trudeau set to issue apology for 1939 refusal of ship of Jewish refugees
Trudeau Apologizes for Canada’s Turning Away Ship of Jews Fleeing Nazis
Remembering Buffalo’s Holocaust-Era Stories
Survivor of SS St. Louis shares Holocaust story at OJC
Journey of the Doomed
In Israel, famed pre-WWII ship survivors relate to refugees
On 77th Anniversary of SS St. Louis, Passengers Honor Their Savior at Yad Vashem
The Harry S Truman Research Institute
‘The Saddest Ship Afloat’ and America’s Response to Refugees
1939 ‘Voyage of the Damned’ raises questions about treatment of Syrian refugees
It would become known, with heartbreak and infamy, as the Voyage of the Damned. Seventy-six years ago, an ocean liner carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Adolf Hitler’s Germany hovered aimlessly for 72 hours just a couple of miles off the Florida coast...