- Headline
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Jew Refugees on German Ship Appeal to F.D.R.
- Sub-Headline
- Aimless Odyssey Ended, 907 Sailing Back to Hamburg Today.
- Publication Date
- Wednesday, June 7, 1939
- Historical Event
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Jewish Refugees Desperately Seek Safe Harbor
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- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- MIAMI, Fla., June 7. AP —Their aimless odyssey apparently ended, 907 Jewish refugees were reported on their way back to Germany today aboard the liner.
St. Louis, which wandered along the Florida Coast for five days while welfare agencies sought to gain permission for them to land in Cuba.
Their hope crushed by the Cuban government's refusal for the second time to give them asylum, the victims of one of the strangest sagas of the sea renewed an appeal to President Roosevelt for last minute intervention.
"Help them, Mr. President, the 900 passengers of which more than 40 are women and children," a passenger committee wirelessed from the big German liner.
The ship reported to tropical radio shortly before midnight it had set its course for Europe. The final decision apparently was made reluctantly by Capt. Wilhelm Schroeder, for a few hours before it was flashed ashore the vessel had reported it still was bound toward Cuba. The ship's master reported before leaving Havana Friday he feared mass suicides or a passenger mutiny if the vessel set its course for Germany again. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Karen L.
- Location of Research
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Hamerow, Theodor. While We Watched: Europe, America, and the Holocaust. New York: Norton, 2008.
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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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