"The saddest ship afloat" : the tragedy of the MS St. Louis /

"The saddest ship afloat" : the tragedy of the MS St. Louis / Allison Lawlor.

On May 13, 1939, the eve of the Second World War, the MS St. Louis left port in Hamburg, Germany, headed for Havana, Cuba. Among the ship's passengers were more than six hundred Jews attempting to escape Nazi rule. But most of the visas the passengers had purchased turned out to be fake and aft...

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Main Author: Lawlor, Allison, 1971- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Halifax, NS : Nimbus Publishing Limited, [2016]
Series:Stories of our past.
Subjects:
St. Louis (Ship)
Jewish refugees > History > 20th century.
Jews > Germany > History > 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Jewish refugees.
Jews.
Canada > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Canada.
Germany.
History.

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