There have been times when we failed to live up to our own ideals and our own values. and when hateful statements are made by Presidential candidates. it calls on us to remember our history and to remember triumphant moments and sad moments as well. It was May of 1939 when the ship SS St. Louis left Germany with 900 Jewish passengers. They were trying to escape Hitler and the Nazis. They went to Havana. Cuba. and they were turned away. Then they came to Miami. FL. asking if they could be refugees. Jewish refugees. coming to the United States. and they were turned away as well. The 900 Jewish passengers went back to Germany. According to the records of the Holocaust Museum. 200 of them perished in the Holocaust.
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