ISBN:
9780299219840
,
9780299219802
,
0299219801
Language:
English
Pages:
XX, 203 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2006
DDC:
940.53/180922
Keywords:
St. Louis (Ship)
;
St. Louis (Ship)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Biography
;
Jews, German Biography
;
Jewish refugees Biography
;
Holocaust survivors Biography
;
Jews History 1933-1945
;
Jews Biography
;
Germany
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Biography
;
Jews, German Biography
;
Refugees, Jewish Biography
;
Holocaust survivors Biography
;
Jews History
;
1933-1945
;
Germany
;
Biografie
;
Juden
;
Exil
;
Saint Louis
;
Saint Louis
;
Juden
;
Flüchtling
;
Judenverfolgung
;
Geschichte 1939-1946
;
Juden
;
Exil
;
Saint Louis
;
Geschichte
;
Saint Louis
;
Juden
;
Flüchtling
;
Judenverfolgung
;
Zweiter Weltkrieg
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-185) and index
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2006007518-b.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2006007518-d.html
URL:
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/press/archives/detail.php?category=07-general&content=2006-10-06
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