Jewish refugees aboard the MS St. Louis look out through the portholes of the ship while docked in the port of Havana, 1939
The MS St. Louis was a German ocean liner most notable for a single voyage in 1939, in which her captain, Gustav Schröder, tried to find homes for 937 German Jewish refugees after they were denied entry to Cuba, the United States and Canada, until finally accepted to various countries of Europe. It is estimated that approximately a quarter of its passengers, back in Europe, died at the hands of the Nazis.
