In one of the most infamous incidents involving Jewish refugees, the SS St. Louis, a ship loaded with Jews fleeing the Nazis, sailed to the waters off of Florida in 1939, its passengers begging ...
The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank wrote Monday, “This growing cry to turn away people fleeing for their lives brings to mind the SS St. Louis, the ship of Jewish refugees turned away from ...
More than a decade after fleeing civil war and squalor halfway around the world, two families had hoped to finally reunite in St. Louis to build ...
The International Institute is asking the community to help support refugees coming to St. Louis. The director tells First ...
That they were doing all they could − even as the railroad tracks to Auschwitz were not bombed; as the St. Louis ship, full of Jewish refugees, was turned back from Florida to Europe ...