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Refuge denied : the St. Louis passengers and the Holocaust / Sarah A. Ogilvie and Scott Miller, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006 |
| Umfang: | XX, 203 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780299219840 0299219844 9780299219802 0299219801 |
| Anmerkungen: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-185) and index |
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| Basisklassifikation: | 15.43 Deutsche Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart 15.96 Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel |
| Mehr zum Titel: | 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 |
| Zusammenfassung: | The ordeal of the refugee ship St. Louis has become a symbol of the worlds 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 Nazi government. The ship was denied entry, and nearly all of its passengers denied asylum, by Cuba and the United States. Returning on an uncertain voyage to Europe, the refugees eventually were accepted by four western European countries, but only the 288 sent to England evaded the Nazi grip that closed upon continental Europe a year later. Although the episode of the St. Louis is well known, the actual fates of the passengers, once they disembarked, slipped into historical obscurity. Prompted by a former passengers curiosity, Sarah Ogilvie and Scott Miller of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum set out to discover what happened to each of the 937 passengers. Their investigation, spanning ten years and half the globe, took them to unexpected places and produced surprising results. |