The doomed voyage of the St. Louis [videorecording] / MPH Entertainment ; A & E Television Networks ; written by Christopher Meindl & Melissa Jo Peltier ; directed by Jim Milio.
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[videorecording]
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Distributed in the U.S. by New Video Group, : Distributed in the U.S. by New Video Group,
Originally broadcast on the History Channel, part of the A & E Network in 1996 as a segment of: Sea Tales.
Summary:
The St. Louis, carrying more than 900 would-be refugees, left Hamburg for Cuba in 1939. Upon its arrival in Havana, however, the Cuban government allowed only a handful of refugees in -- and then ordered the St. Louis to depart. The vessel spent a week cruising off the Florida coast -- while its passengers cabled Roosevelt, asking in vain for admittance to the United States. The ship was forced to return to Europe. Nearly 300 of its passengers were admitted into Britain. The rest were taken in by either Belgium, France or the Netherlands -- countries that were soon swallowed up by Hitler's war machine. Many of those St. Louis passengers who ended up in continental Europe later died in the Holocaust.
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