This ship carried Jews from germany to america and cuba during ww2 but were refused entry and were taken back to germany
2006-11-12 07:36:52 · 7 answers · asked by Nick 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
It did NOT sink.
The Voyage of the Damned as it is known.
On May 13 1939 the SS St. Louis set sail from Hamburg for Havana. On board were 937 Jewish refugees fleeing persecution from Nazi Germany after the horror of Kristallnacht, the pogrom of shop-burning and mass arrests the previous November. Each passenger carried a valid visa for temporary entry into Cuba. It was one of the last ships to leave Nazi Germany before Europe was engulfed in war.
As the boat approached Havana, the Cuban government declared the visas invalid and refused entry to the passengers.
Similar attempts to seek entry to the United States also brought no respite.
Four weeks to the day after the St. Louis had set sail from Hamburg the Belgian King and Prime Minister agreed that 200 passengers could land in Belgium.
The ship became a German naval accommodation ship from 1940 to 1944. It was heavily damaged by the Allied bombings at Kiel on August 30, 1944, but was repaired and used as a hotel ship in Hamburg by 1946. The ship was eventually scrapped in 1952.
2006-11-12 07:43:52 · answer #1 · answered by Muinghan Life During Wartime 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, you pretty much covered its most important voyage - see links below, please.
"The ship became a German naval accommodation ship from 1940 to 1944. It was heavily damaged by the Allied bombings at Kiel on August 30, 1944, but was repaired and used as a hotel ship in Hamburg by 1946. The ship was eventually scrapped in 1952."
2006-11-12 07:42:14 · answer #2 · answered by johnslat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None of the passengers were taken back to Germany. At the last moment the passengers could stay in France, Netherlands, Uk and Belgium.
Problem was that some months after this, the war started and the passengers who lived in the occupied countries were taken to concentration camps.
Other information has already been mentionned.
2006-11-12 10:11:54 · answer #3 · answered by Rik 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scrapped, i'm afraid. In Taiwan if I undergo in ideas good. She finished trooping in 1962, become laid up and switched over to an academic cruise deliver, first sailed as such in 1965 and become scrapped some years later.
2016-11-23 17:46:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was scrapped in Hamburg, Germany in 1952.
2006-11-12 07:44:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it sank
2006-11-12 07:38:47 · answer #6 · answered by del 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I REMEMBER NOW!
2006-11-12 08:05:24 · answer #7 · answered by carolinefordssuperbragirl 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋