Papers, 1935-1946, 1980-1981.

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Papers, 1935-1946, 1980-1981.

Family correspondence and documents, 1935-1942; documents concerning Koeppel family efforts to emigrate from Germany on the refugee ship ST. LOUIS, 1938-1939; correspondence and documents concerning Steel's refugee status and immigration to the United States, 1946; scrapbook on the ST. LOUIS and other matters, 1939-1946; photograph of Steel as a baby with mother, Irmagard, and father, Joseph, 1938; clippings on Steel as a singer, 1981; and tape and transcript of interview with Steel, 1980.

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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....

Koeppel family.

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Koeppel, Irmagard.

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Steel, Judith Koeppel, 1938-

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Koeppel, Josephine

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