Jewish Refugees: German Jews

Bernie Farber Dept: Today, 72 years after the German ocean liner and its Jewish refugees were denied safe haven by Canada and its neighbours, the CJC and the federal government will unveil on the Halifax waterfront the world's first monument to this ignoble episode in North American history, according to Montreal Gazette. The MS St. Louis departed Hamburg on May 13, 1939, with 937 passengers, almost all German Jews fleeing persecution in their homeland in the months before the Second World War and of all the campaigns pursued by the Canadian Jewish Congress since the end of the Holocaust, one of the most important, the group says, was building a memorial to the tragic voyage of the MS St. Louis. "We're thrilled this has come to fruition after so much time," says Bernie Farber, the CJC's chief executive. "It's a crowning event for us, because 72 years ago the Canadian Jewish Congress tried, and failed, to help these refugees." As reported in the news.
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