In 1939, the Cuban government, and then the U.S. government refused entry to hundreds of Jewish refugees fleeing Germany. They were forced to return to Europe, and many perished in the Holocaust.
The story of the S.S. St. Louis – popularly known as the “voyage of the damned” – remains one of the darkest episodes of the Roosevelt administration. And it should serve as a cautionary tale for the Trump administration today.
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