Category:MS St. Louis (subject)

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MS St. Louis (see Holocaust Children Studies)

Overview

On May 13, 1939, the Hamburg-Amerika luxury liner, MS St. Louis, sailed for Havana, Cuba, with 937 passengers (including 200 children). The plan was to wait there for permission to enter the US. But Cuban authorities denied entry to all but 28 of the passengers. After a week, the ship was ordered to leave. The US government refused to make any exception to the quota limits. The ship was forced to head back to Europe on June 6. Jewish aid organizations negotiated with European governments to admit the passengers rather than return them to Germany. The ship docked in Antwerp, Belgium, on June 17, 1939.

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