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Judith Koeppel Steel - Love Brought Me Through the Holocaust
Judith Koeppel Steel – Love Brought Me Through the Holocaust
Aired Wednesday, September 23, 2020 at 5:00 PM PST / 8:00 PM EST
In 1939, the ocean liner SS St. Louis left Germany with more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing anti-Semitic persecution. Arrangements had been made for them to disembark in Cuba with proper papers. Cuba denied them permission to land. The captain then attempted to bring them to Florida. Again they were denied. After a final denial of entry by Canada, the ship returned to Europe where some of the refugees were accepted in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and France. Many…
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