Cuban Government Dept: They had visas for Cuba, but the Cuban government changed and the visas were revoked. America didn t want them. Neither did Canada, according to The Star. They were left with no choice but to return to Germany where many were eventually killed in concentration camps and they started out from Hamburg on May 27, 1939, on the MS St. Louis. They were a small group about 900 plus Jews looking for a place to escape the Nazi Holocaust. In fact, when they sent word from the ship asking for a safe haven entry into Canada they were refused. It was, historians wrote, part of an exclusionary anti Jewish immigration policy by the Canadian government. As
reported in the news.
@t immigration policy, concentration camps
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