Louis was forced to send its frightened passengers back to Europe just months before the onset of World War I1. Many of them were eventually murdered in Auschwitz. Treblinka. and the other death camps of Hitlers Holocaust. While we cannot rectify the wrongs of generations ago. we can apply the lesson of the St. Louis to the crises of today. In the Europe of 1999. innocent civilians are once again being deported. abused. raped and murdered. While the scale of Serbian atrocities in Kosovo does not approach the enormity of the Holocaust. the precedent that would be set by ignoring this ethnic cleansing cannot be tolerated. Ruth B.
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