“Our family sailed on the St. Louis, bound for Cuba. When Cuba and the U.S. refused the ship entry, England, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium agreed to accept its passengers. We went to the Netherlands, where my father had relatives. In July 1939, I left on one of the last Kindertransports to England. The rest of my family went to the gas chamber.” Read about two Holocaust survivors, German Jewish newlyweds sent to America by their parents to have children to “save our people,” in One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.
A quarter of the St. Louis passengers denied entry to the U.S. died in the Holocaust
Berlin, 1937. Jewish newlyweds flee Germany for Brooklyn on the eve of the Nazi slaughter
