St. Louis (Ship)

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The German steamship, the St Louis, left Hamburg with 930 Jewish refugees on board on 13 May 1939. Its passengers had valid immigration visas to Cuba stamped in their passports. When the ship arrived at Havana, the refugees were refused entry. The ship was turned back to Europe, where its passengers, after much negotiation were permitted to land in English and Western European ports. Those caught up by the Nazi invasion ultimately met their deaths a year later in the Holocaust.
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referencedIn Papers, 1935-1946, 1980-1981. New York State Historical Documents Inventory
referencedIn Cocke, Harrison Henry, 1794-1873. Harrison Henry Cocke papers, 1762-1876. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
referencedIn Boyce, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson), d. 1853. Journal, 1829-1852 1829-1839. New Jersey Historical Society Library
referencedIn Herbert Brutus Ehrmann Papers Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at New England Historic Genealogical Society
referencedIn Subject collection, 1914-1949. New York State Historical Documents Inventory
referencedIn Ramsdell, Lucy. Correspondence, 1845. Clarke Historical Library
referencedIn Papers of Cecilia Razovsky, undated, 1913-1971 American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish History
referencedIn Korman, Osias, 1898-1962. Osias Korman papers, 1939-1948. Cornell University Library
referencedIn George and Lillian Friedmann Collection, 1938-1983, bulk 1938-1941 Leo Baeck Institute Archives
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associatedWith American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. corporateBody
associatedWith Boyce, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson), d. 1853. person
associatedWith Cecilia Razovsky person
associatedWith Cocke, Harrison Henry, 1794-1873. person
associatedWith Ehrmann, Herbert B., 1891-1970 person
associatedWith Friedman, George, 1897-1950 person
associatedWith Friedman, Lillian, 1906- person
associatedWith Korman, Osias, 1898-1962. person
associatedWith Ramsdell, Lucy. person
associatedWith Steel, Judith Koeppel, 1938- person
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