Overview
- Summary
- The ship St. Louis left Nazi Germany on May 13, 1939 with over 900 Jewish refugees bound for Cuba to escape Adolph Hitler's Third Reich. Despite insurance's Cuba refused them entry. For these refugees returning to Hitler's Germany would mean facing hatred, persecution and almost certain death. Archival footage, plus interviews with survivors document this experience of refugees.
- Variant Title
- Doomed voyage of the St. Louis
- Format
- Video
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A&E Home Video 1996
- Locale
- Germany
- Notes
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AAE-17039--Container.
Digital reproductions are made available for private study, scholarship, and research purposes only.
VHS format.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Additional Form
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- Physical Description
- 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
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