Spanish Immigrants: Ship Captain and Luxury Liner

spanish immigrants: Correa grandmother the child of Spanish immigrants was pregnant with his mother at the time, when the Cuban government, which had guaranteed a safe home to the travellers, broke its promise and only allowed 28 refugees to remain on the island, despite the fact that each had paid a 150 fee to disembark, according to Metro News. The ship captain desperately tried to find a new port to land, but both Canada and the U.S. turned the group away, and hundreds were ultimately forced to return to Germany to their ultimate deaths. Louis, a transatlantic luxury liner that, in May 1939, carried 937 passengers, mostly Jewish refugees, to safety in Havana. I think it hit her very hard when the Cuban government denied them entrance, says Correa, who is the New York based editor of People en Espa ol. The story continued to haunt Correa as well, and served as inspiration for his debut historical novel, The German Girl, about a family separated by the event and its lingering impact on future generations. She would say that Cuba would pay for the next 100 years for what they did to the refugees. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.