Refuge Denied
The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust
Sarah A. Ogilvie and Scott Miller, United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum
"Thanks to the publication of [this book], the world knows with certainty the fates of each and every passenger
onboard, often in heart-wrenching detail.”—Andrew Cohen, Forward
The ordeal of the refugee ship St. Louis has become a symbol of the world’s indifference to the plight of European Jewry on the eve of the Holocaust. In the spring of 1939, more than nine hundred Jewish refugees boarded the St. Louis in Hamburg, Germany, hoping to
escape escalating oppression by the Nazi government. Except for a small group that had special visas and was able to disembark in
Havana, the ship and its passengers were denied entry by Cuba and the United States. Returning on an uncertain voyage to Europe, the refugees eventually were accepted by four western European countries. Other than the 288 sent to England, most once again fell under the Nazi grip that closed upon continental Europe a year later.
Although the episode of the St. Louis is well known, the actual fates of the passengers, once they disembarked, slipped into historical obscurity. Prompted by a former passenger’s curiosity, Sarah A. Ogilvie and Scott Miller of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum set out to discover what happened to each of the 937 passengers. Their investigation, spanning ten years and half the globe, took them to unexpected places and produced surprising results.
“Ogilvie and Miller successfully bring the harrowing story up to date; their meticulous and persistent research deserves accolades and congratulations.”
—Morton I. Teicher, Buffalo Jewish Review
• Visit ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/stlouis
Sarah A. Ogilvie is director of the
National Institute for Holocaust Education at the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum. Scott Miller is director of curatorial affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION
March 2010
LC: 2006007518 DS
224 pp. 6 x 9
38 b/w photos, 2 maps
"Prodigiously researched and generously
illustrated with photographs. . . . This
valuable contribution to Holocaust studies provides emotionally satisfying closure as the authors, staffers at [the United States]
Holocaust Memorial Museum, track the
passengers and give a human face to mass tragedy.”—Publishers Weekly
• 2006 hardcover, University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 978-0-299-21980-2
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