- Headline
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Havana Sends Police To Prevent Suicides By "Refused" Jews
- Publication Date
- Thursday, June 1, 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
- Location
- Page Section and Number
- 9
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- Havana, May 31—(AP)—Cuban authorities today placed 25 police men aboard the German liner St. Louis to prevent suicides among 919 Jewish refugees denied permission to enter Cuba.
Captain Gustav Schroeder asked for police aid saying hundreds of the refugees had threatened to take their own lives' before the liner sails rather than return to Germany.
One refugee, Max Loewe, slashed his wrists yesterday and jumped overboard, but was rescued and is recovering. The ship's doctor said another passenger who became ill probably had taken poison.
The ship is scheduled to sail tomorrow. The refugees, who arrived Saturday, lacked passport visas required by a decree signed May 5. They had come with temporary permits Issued under old regulations. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Lael F.
- Location of Research
- Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com)
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Zucker, Bat-Ami. In Search of Refuge: Jews and US Consuls in Nazi Germany, 1933–1941. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2001.
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