Some of the 907 passengers on board the St. Louis arriving in Belgium after being refused entry into Cuba and the U.S.

ID: 801 ~ Source: JDC Archives ~ Creator: Jewish Joint Distribution Committee ~ Date: June 17, 1939
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By Susan Heinemann Berman
"Finally, four countries relented-- that was France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and Belgium. Right. And there were 28 people that were allowed to disembark in Havana, because they had the documents. Twenty-two of them were Jewish, but the rest…