How we Americans saved the passengers on the ‘SS St. Louis’

May 27, 2014, is the 75th anniversary of the arrival in Havana harbor of the star-crossed ship, the S.S. St. Louis, which sailed from Hamburg, Germany in May 1939, carrying over 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany.

A SHIP waits to be unloaded off of a port in Cuba. A refugee ship tried to land in the country in 1939.

(photo credit: REUTERS)

ByROBERT N. ROSEN

JUNE 17, 2014 00:00