library-mermaid: On Holocaust Remembrance Day, this twitter account is posting the names and photos
library-mermaid: On Holocaust Remembrance Day, this twitter account is posting the names and photos (when available) of refugees turned away from America who became victims of Naziism. #NoBanNoWall #RefugeesWelcome (Please leave this caption in place.) The account is posting the names and photos of refugees from the ship MS St Louis, which brought 900+ Jewish refugees to Cuba in 1939. Cuba turned them away. Then the US turned them away. And then Canada made it clear they weren’t welcome. They were forced to return to Europe, and 254 passengers died before the end of the war, mostly in concentration camps. Canada could have saved their lives. We should never forget the consequence of turning away. -- source link
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