Ss St. Louis
The
SS ''St. Louis
'' was a
steamship
which is most famous for carrying 963
Jewish
refugees, fleeing the
Holocaust
during
World War II
. It was repeatedly denied permission to land in safe harbors in
North America
and was turned back from
Florida
on
June 4
,
1939
after being turned away from
Cuba
. Forced to return to
Europe
, most of its passengers died in
Nazi
concentration camps
. The event came to be known colloquially as the
Voyage of the Damned
, a phrase that was used as a film title when the story was filmed in
1976
.
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