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appalachiablue

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2. K & R Tragic story and humanitarian event. The US, Cuba & Canada

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Wed Jun 26, 2019, 01:34 PM

Jun 2019

refused the passengers, around 600 were taken by France, Belgium and the Netherlands. But many died in the Holocaust when the Nazis occupied these countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis

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In 1939 the U.S. turned away a ship carrying nearly a thousand Jewish refugees from Germany. [View all] tblue37 Jun 2019 OP

Kick for visibility. nt tblue37 Jun 2019 #1

K & R Tragic story and humanitarian event. The US, Cuba & Canada appalachiablue Jun 2019 #2

I read after WWII US passed immigration (?) law to keep this from happening again bobbieinok Jun 2019 #3