- Headline
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Anti-Suicide Committee Prevented Despondent Jews Leaping From Refugee Ship
- Sub-Headline
- Passengers Aboard Liner Reaching Antwerp After Fruitless Voyage to Cuba, Where They Were Barred, Tell How Decks of Steamer Patrolled To Frustrate Carrying Out of Mass Suicide Pact
- Publication Date
- Saturday, June 17, 1939
- Historical Event
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Jewish Refugees Desperately Seek Safe Harbor
This database includes 1,676 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
- Page Section and Number
- 1
- Author/Byline
- AP
- History Unfolded Contributor
- Ryan A.
- Location of Research
- Library of Virginia: Find Newspaper Archive Database
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Bibliography
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Breitman, Richard, and Alan M. Kraut. American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933–1945. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Feingold, Henry L., Bearing Witness: How America and Its Jews Responded to the Holocaust. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
Gurock, Jeffrey S., ed. America, American Jews, and the Holocaust. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Hamerow, Theodor. While We Watched: Europe, America, and the Holocaust. New York: Norton, 2008.
Lipstadt, Deborah E., Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933–1945. New York: Free Press, 1986.
Wyman, David S. Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938–1941. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.
Zucker, Bat-Ami. In Search of Refuge: Jews and US Consuls in Nazi Germany, 1933–1941. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2001.
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