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The JDC produced this film to record what it thought would be a successful effort to save over 900 Jews, including 200 children, by sailing them from Nazi Germany to Cuba on the ship the St. Louis in 1939. When Cuba refused to allow the passengers to land, the ship sailed to the Miami area where the U.S. government also barred the refugees' entrance. The St. Louis languished in the waters around Cuba ...

Collectie 243b: Nederlands Informatiebureau - New York Organisatie Bedrijven, instellingen en personen Correspondentie over publicaties

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Fonds consists of one folder containing a metal pin commemorating the MS St. Louis (November 7, 2018) and an invitation to a live broadcast of the government’s statement of apology for the MS St. Louis incident, written in French and English

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CU "St Louis: Hamburg" written on ship's bow. LS ship from dock as ship enters harbor. Passengers walk down gangplank or are carried off on stretchers. Waving from dock. Boarding train.

Passengers from SS St. Louis returning to Europe. CU of ship's prow. People waving from the deck. Disembarking.

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 11, No. 777, Part 2A. Release date, 05/28/1939. Various MLS of ship St. Louis (shot from sea level looking up to bow). At harbor. From starboard, people at rail. MS well-dressed and good looking men in white jackets, uniforms stand on ground/dock. LS "St. Louis" on side of ship. LS ship pulling out of harbor (backwards). People standing around on land. Intended narration according ...

Herbert Karliner was born on September 3, 1926, in Peiskretscham (Silesia) Germany (now Pyskowice, Poland), on Sept. 3, 1926, to Josef and Martha Weissler Karliner. Herbert had an older sister, Ilse, born in 1923, an older brother Walter, born on August 11, 1924, and a younger sister Ruth, born 1927. The family owned a grocery store, which Martha managed much of the time while Joseph was engaged in ...

Contains written testimonies of St. Louis survivors compiled by Terry Healy's Woodrow Wilson elementary students in Manhattan, Kansas.

An identification card for Elisabeth Haas, a passenger on the MS St. Louis, dated May 27, 1939, the anticipated date of arrival.

Cover title. 26 pages, [8] folded out pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Lit. opg.: p. 152-153. 155 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Location unknown. Titles read: " REFUGEES WITHOUT A COUNTRY" LSs of the 'St Louis' ship with 900 hundred Jewish refugees on board. The commentator says that "900 Jews have found a haven at last. They crossed from Hamburg to Cuba. But in Havana they were refused entry and had to return to Europe and possibly to Hamburg, the city they dreaded. In every harbor, friends come out to give them words of cheer ...