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Captain Schröder was a German who went to great lengths to ensure dignified treatment for his passengers. Food served included items subject to rationing in Germany, and childcare was available while parents dined. Dances and concerts were put on, and on Friday evenings, religious services were held
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and 14 survivors of the incident. The survivors presented a proclamation of gratitude to various European countries for accepting some of the ship's passengers. A signed copy of Senate Resolution 111, recognizing June 6, 2009, as the 70th anniversary of the incident, was delivered to the Department
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to Cuba, as laws related to these had been recently changed. On May 5, 1939, four months before World War II began, Havana had abandoned its pragmatic immigration policy, by virtue of decree 937, which "restricted entry of all foreigners except U.S. citizens, unless authorized by Cuban secretaries
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passengers who returned to continental Europe, we determined that eighty-seven were able to emigrate before Germany invaded western Europe on May 10, 1940. Two hundred fifty-four passengers in Belgium, France, and the Netherlands after that date died during the Holocaust. Most of these people were
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As Captain Schröder negotiated and schemed to find passengers a haven, conditions on the ship declined. At one point he made plans to wreck the ship on the British coast to force the government to take in the passengers as refugees. He refused to return the ship to Germany until all the passengers
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After the ship had been in the harbor for five days, only 28 passengers were allowed to disembark in Cuba. Twenty-two were Jews who had valid United States visas; four were Spanish citizens and two were Cuban nationals, all with valid entry documents. The last admitted was a medical evacuee, a
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agreed to take 288 (32 percent) of the passengers, who disembarked and travelled to the UK via other steamers. After much negotiation by Schröder, the remaining 619 passengers were also allowed to disembark at Antwerp. 224 (25 percent) were accepted by France, 214 (23.59 percent) by
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left Hamburg on March 28, 1929, for her maiden voyage to New York City, and was then mainly used in the North Atlantic service from Hamburg to Halifax, and then to New York. In addition, however, she also undertook cruises of 16-17 days each to the
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was covered by a tablecloth. Swimming lessons took place in the pool. Lothar Molton, a boy traveling with his parents, said that the passengers thought of it as "a vacation cruise to freedom".
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had been given entry to some other country. US officials worked with Britain and European nations to find refuge for the Jews in Europe. The ship returned to Europe, docking at the
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roundups of Jews in the occupied countries of Belgium, France and the Netherlands, and some historians have estimated that approximately a quarter of them were killed in
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of state subject a bond of US $ 500." None of the passengers knew that their landing permits had been invalidated a few weeks earlier.
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Based on the survival rates for Jews in various countries during the war and deportations, historians have estimated that 180 of the
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wheel. Symbolizing the policies that turned away more than 900 Jewish refugees, the wheel incorporates four inter-meshing
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was turned away from the United States, a group of academics and clergy in Canada tried to persuade Prime Minister
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by Kathy Kacer (2011) is a young adult nonfiction account of two children's experience on the voyage.
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had made efforts to persuade Cuba to accept the refugees, quite like the failed attempts by the
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on May 13, 1939, carrying 937 passengers, most of them Jewish refugees seeking asylum from Nazi
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for its role in the fate of the ship's passengers. The apology was issued on November 7, 2018.
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in its exhibits about the history of shipping in the city. In 2009, a special exhibit at the
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refugees in France, 152 of those in Belgium and 60 of those in the Netherlands survived the
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aground along the coast to allow the refugees to escape but, acting on Hull's instructions,
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but was denied entry to the usual docking areas. The Cuban government, headed by President
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and the remaining 907 refugees towards the United States. He circled off the coast of
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desperate passenger who attempted suicide, and was allowed hospitalization in Havana.
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intending to escape antisemitic persecution. The refugees first tried to disembark in
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The St. Louis Refugee Ship Blues, Art Spiegelman recounts a sad story 70 years later.
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Upon reaching Cuba, the ship dropped anchor at 04:00 on May 27 at the far end of the
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announced the Government of Canada would offer a formal apology in the country's
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The St. Louis Crisis in the Canadian Press: New Data on the June 1939 Incident
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chose to intervene to admit the refugees. Captain Schröder considered running
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No Reply: A Jewish Child Aboard the MS St. Louis and the Ordeal That Followed
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The Dutch applied a special marking inside passports of those they accepted.
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Captain Gustav Schröder negotiates landing permits for the passengers with
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Robert Rosen, "Carter Center Library Speech" on "The S.S. St. Louis"
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Rosen, pp. 447, 567 citing Morgan-Witts and Thomas (1994) pp. 8, 238
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to provide sanctuary to the passengers. The ship could have reached
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formally apologized in a ceremony attended by Deputy Secretary
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in Washington, D.C., tells the story of the voyage of the MS
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but were denied permission to land. After Cuba, the captain,
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Denied Entry: A Survivor's Story of Fate, Faith, and Freedom
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in two days. The director of Canada's Immigration Branch,
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The Saddest Ship Afloat: The Tragedy of the MS St. Louis,
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Refuge Denied: The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust
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None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933-1948
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Refuge Denied: The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust
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Refuge Denied: The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust
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Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust
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Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust
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on August 30, 1944. The ship was repaired and used as a
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was launched on August 2, 1928, at the Bremer Vulkan in
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George Axelsson, "907 Refugees End Voyage in Antwerp",
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was built for both transatlantic liner service and for
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American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives
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Canadian Jewish Studies / Études Juives Canadiennes
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Index

List of ships named SS St. Louis
SS St. Louis surrounded by smaller vessels in its home port of Hamburg
home port
Hamburg
Germany
Hamburg-America Line
Weimar Republic
Hamburg
Nazi Germany
Hamburg
Allied-occupied Germany
Hamburg
West Germany
Hamburg
Bremer-Vulkan Shipyards
Bremen
gross register tons
MAN
knots
diesel
Bremer Vulkan
Bremen
Hamburg America Line
St. Louis, Missouri
sister ship
trans-Atlantic route
Hamburg
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canary Islands
Madeira

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