Special Program | Booksigning
Refuge Denied:
The Search for the
Passengers of the St. Louis
Wednesday, December 3 at 5:30 pm
Booksigning to follow.
In May 1939, the Cuban government turned away Hamburg–America Line’s MS St. Louis, which carried hopeful Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. The passengers sought safe haven in the U.S. but were rejected again and forced to return to Europe. Scott Miller, of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, recounts how he and a team of researchers—through historical detective work and an exhaustive media campaign—discovered the fates of the 937 passengers of the St. Louis. After an investigation that spanned nine years and half the globe, they can tell the stories of those whose plight symbolizes global indifference to the fate of European Jewry.
Scott Miller is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Director of Curatorial Affairs and the former head of the museum’s Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. With colleague Sarah Ogilvie, he is the author of Refuge Denied: The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust.
Co-sponsored with the
United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum.
This program is free, but reservations are requested. Please call the United States Holocaust Museum’s Midwest Office at 847.604.1924.
Made possible in part by the Bernard and Rochelle Zell Holocaust Center at Spertus.