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Phone:
+32 3 232 98 72

Address:
Lombardenstraat 2, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium

MS St. Louis was a German ocean liner. In 1939, she set off on a voyage in which her captain, Gustav Schröder, tried to find homes for over 900 Jewish refugees from Germany. Due to countries' immigration policies based on domestic political sentiment, rather than humanitarian grounds, they were denied entry to Cuba, the United States, and Canada. The refugees were finally accepted in various European countries, including Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, and France. Historians have estimated that approximately a quarter of them died in death camps during World War II. The event was the subject of a 1974 book, Voyage of the Damned, by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts. It was adapted for a 1976 U.S. film of the same title, a 1994 opera titled St. Louis Blues by Chiel Meijering, and adapted in one third of the 2016 Alan Gratz novel for young adults, titled Refugee.
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