So horrific were the events of the Holocaust that for many years scholars avoided the subject. Not Raul Hilberg. Born in Vienna. Austria. he and his family fled the Anschluss of Hitler and the Nazis to emigrate. first to Cuba. and ultimately to the United States. While In Cuba. he saw the fate of the S.S. St. Louis. a ship full of Jews who had fled Germany seeking asylum. The ship was denied permission to land In Havana. and only after a long voyage from port to port were its 936 Jewish passengers finally allowed to disembark in several European countries. In the United States.
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