There are an untold number of tragic stories from the Holocaust — indeed, the entire horrific event was an unimaginable tragedy — but one story that has resonated for the past eight decades is the ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis. In 1939, the German passenger liner carried more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing oppression in the Third Reich. The ship was refused entry by three countries: Cuba, the United States, and Canada — a stain on the history of all of them. Eventually, the St. Louis was forced to return to Europe, where many of its passengers were murdered in the Holocaust.
Quote: “The world’s refusal of the St. Louis’ desperate refugees was a death sentence for 254 refugees—approximately half of the number who had returned to the European continent in 1939. Many who did not die were interned in concentration camps, like Max Korman, who built on lessons learned on the ship to help organize inmates of the Westerbork concentration camp in the Netherlands.”
Sources: Wikipedia, History.com
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