MS ST. LOUIS Voyage of the Damned -- The MS St. Louis, AKA SS St. Louis, was a ship, which in 1939, under the command of Captain Gustav Schroder, attempted to save just over 900 Jewish refugees from the horrors of 1930s Germany. Since 1933, the NAZIs had been establishing a vast network of concentration camps and ghettos, setting the stage for the deadliest genocide in history. Just under 6 million Jews would die, and five million others, including ethnic Poles, Soviet POWs, Serbs, Romani, Free Masons, Disabled people, Slovenians, LGBTQ, Jehovah's witnesses and Spanish Republicans.
But those aboard the MS St. Louis had high hopes of escaping the oppression and violence already underway in Europe, and find refuge in the new world. The passengers had purchased landing certificates and transit visas for a then-US-friendly Cuba. Failing that, there was always the immigrant-friendly United States, or its goody-two-shoes sister nation to the north. The holocaust would take the lives of millions either way, but if the St. Louis succeeded in its voyage, there would salvation for 937. But that's not what happened.
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