miami herald either supporting or opposing admitting passengers of the St. louis to the US?

Question

I need to like do a esassy on this 4 my halocuast class and i have no clue what to do Please help!!! in any way

Answer 1

The St. Louis: a ship of refugees:

Throughout Nazi Germany, tens of thousands of Jews lined up at consulates. They were desperate for exit visas. Few countries, not even the United States, were willing to expand their refugee quotas. In May 1939, the ship St. Louis departed Hamburg with 937 passengers holding landing permits for Havana, Cuba. After being denied entry by the Cuban government the ship sailed toward the coast of Miami. Entry into the United States was refused and the ship returned to Europe.

What happened to each of the 937 St. Louis passengers remained an unsolved mystery. One historian in the 1960s even asserted that it would be impossible to know what happened to every passenger. Now, after seven years of painstaking searching, investigators at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have uncovered the fates of all but two passengers aboard the St. Louis.

Sailing so close to Florida that they could see the lights of Miami, passengers on the "St. Louis" cabled U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking for refuge. Roosevelt never answered the cable. The State Department and the White House had already decided not to let them enter the United States. A State Department telegram sent to a passenger stated that the passengers must "await their turns on the waiting list and then qualify for and obtain immigration visas before they may be admissible into the United States." American diplomats in Havana asked the Cuban government to admit the passengers on a "humanitarian" basis.

Quotas set out in the 1924 Immigration Act strictly limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted to the United States each year. In 1939, the annual combined German-Austrian immigration quota was 27,370 and was quickly filled. In fact, there was a waiting list of at least several years. Visas could have been granted to the passengers only by denying them to the thousands of German Jews who had already applied for them. President Roosevelt could have issued an executive order to admit additional refugees, but chose not to do so for a variety of political reasons.

Newspaper and the Press

I have been unable to see any direct references to articles in the Miami Herald at that time, but I did come across this: "When the "St. Louis" passengers were denied entrance into Cuba, the American and European press brought the story to millions of readers throughout the world. Though U.S. newspapers generally portrayed the plight of the passengers with great sympathy, only a few suggested that the refugees be admitted into America."

Answer 2

Look for Holocaust (compared to holocuast) on google with St. Louis.... lots of articles.