Passenger ship St. Louis

Emigration of Jews from Germany from 1933-1939: The American passenger steamer St. Louis'. On May 13th 1939 over 900 refugees, almost all were German Jews, left the harbor of Hamburg with the German ship St. Louis, which was to bring them to Cuba, in order to escape persecution by the Nazis. Their hopes were crushed when the Cuban government rescinded their permission to enter Cuba. After days of uncertainty, only 23 Jewish passengers could disembark in Havana. While searching for another host country to save the remaining refugees on board the ship, Captain Gustav Schroeder undertook an odyssey of several days with the St. Louis'. The whole world was aware of the fate of the desperate passengers. The voyage of the St. Louis ended on June 17, 1939 in the harbor of Antwerp, because the Netherlands, Great Britain and France granted the passengers asylum

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