Refuge denied : the St. Louis passengers and the Holocaust / Sarah A. Ogilvie and Scott Miller, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The ordeal of the refugee ship St. Louis has become a symbol of the world’s indifference to the plight of European Jewry on the eve of the Holocaust. In the spring of 1939, more than nine hundred Jewish refugees boarded theSt. Louis in Hamburg, Germany, hoping to escape escalating oppression by the...

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Main Authors:Ogilvie, Sarah A. (Author)
Other Authors:Miller, Scott (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006
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A mystery beckons
Fateful voyage
Kaddish
Archives, answers, and anomalies
The first Israeli survivor
A total American
It depends what you mean by survived
Reluctant witness
Shadows
Frankfurt-on-the-Hudson
Graveyards
Cruel calculus
Washington Heights portrait : the fortunate
Washington Heights portrait : exile in America
Sowing in tears
States of insecurity
Displaced persons
Kew Gardens portrait : a song at Auschwitz
The missing