Refuge Denied: The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (906 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0299219801 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Scott Miller is director of the Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.. Sarah Ogilvie is director of the National Institute of Holocaust Education at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
All rights reserved. While 288 of the more than 900 passengers found sanctuary in Great Britain, 620 were forced to return to mainland Europe, and close to half of those passengers sent to Belgium, France and Holland were murdered during the Holocaust. Another, Hannelore Klein, who in her 70s confesses to still feeling like a displaced person, was 12 when she was sent to Holland, survived Auschwitz (her mother was gassed) and returned to Amsterdam to live with her grandparents, Theresienstadt survivors. . Prodigiously researched and generously illustrated with p
James C. Sparks said An essential volume on the aftermath of the tragic St Louis voyage. Exceptionally researched and documented. This is a well written epitaph for the lost St Louis passengers. I read this after reading Voyage of the Damned. It is thoroughly readable, dignified & respectful in its straightforward style, and a must for any study of the toll of the Holocaust.. Refuge Denied I had heard about this event in history before reading the book but I didn't know the details. While it saddened me to know that these people were denied refuge in Cuba and also the United States by President Roosevelt, I was happy to see that intensive research on the part of determined people did indeed find some but not all who went on to survive in spite of the odds against their survival. It was a well written book that I would recommend. It is also a wake up call to all of us to see how the fear of our own eco. important history told in compelling way People traditionally assumed that most, if not all, of the passengers of the St. Louis who had been turned away from refuge in Cuba, and then returned to France, Belgium and The Netherlands, had perished in the Holocaust. This book reads like a detective story; it tells of the ten year search made by two researchers from the US Holocaust Museum to determine with certainty the fate of each and every passenger on the St. Louis, to find out if the traditional assumption was accurate. In so doing, they learned that cons
Louis, which carried more than 900 hopeful Jewish refugees escaping Nazi Germany. Prompted by a former passenger’s curiosity, Sarah Ogilvie and Scott Miller of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum set out in 1996 to discover what happened to each of the 937 passengers. Louis has come to symbolize U.S. In May of 1939 the Cuban government turned away the Hamburg-America Line’s MS St. Finally, the St. Their investigation, spanning nine years and half the globe, took them to unexpected places and produced surprising results. Louis had to embark on an uncertain return voyage to Europe. Refuge Denied chronicles the unraveling of the mystery, from Los Angeles to Havana and from New York to Jerusalem. Some of the most memorable stories include the fate of a young toolmaker who survived initial selection at Auschwitz because his glasses had gone flying moments before and a Jewish child whose ap