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avatar by Max Elstein Keisler

1939 – Photo credit: Herbert Karliner, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives. Photo caption: Havana, Cuba. A view of the SS St. Louis surrounded by smaller vessels in the port of Havana. The SS St. Louis was a German ship carrying 930 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to Cuba in May 1939. When the ship reached havana on 5/27/39 all but 22 of the Jewish refugees were denied entry. The refugees were also refused entry into the United States. Thus on June 6 the ship was forced to return to Germany. While en route to Antwerp several European countries were caj

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