I submit the full text of Professor Mandels address at the Days of Remembrance ceremony to be placed in the The occasion for a new exhibition which opened yesterday here in Washington at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is the 60th anniversary of the voyage of the German ship. the St. Lots. into the pages of a shameful history. Many people have heard about this ship carrying over 900 human beings whom no one wanted. or have seen newspaper photographs of the refugees crowding the ships railings. peering across the short distance between exile on the high seas and rescue on the land. The land. within easy view. was entirely outside of reach. Denied entry by Cuba and shunned by the United States. the ship turned back toward Europe.
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