Updated at 5 p.m., June 5 with information about a new location for the event — The lecture and vigil will now be held at the Missouri History Museum to avoid traffic issues during the St. Louis Blues ...

NEPTUNE – Imagine a ship full of genocide-fleeing refugees approaching Miami, only to be rebuffed by the U.S. government. It happened in June of 1939, and Neptune resident Eva Wiener was on board as a ...

On Friday night's show, Rachel highlighted an incident in 1939 in which the United States turned away the MS St. Louis, a ship carrying over 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany. After the United ...

The documentary “Voyage of the St. Louis” will be screened in Miami Beach on Oct. 24 in memory of the 80th anniversary of the MS St. Louis voyage. In the summer of 1939, the German luxury liner, the ...

On Jan. 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the twitter account @StL_Manifest sent its first message at 2:15 a.m. My name is Herbert Ascher. The US turned me away at the border in 1939. I was ...

A group of 937 Jewish refugees from Germany set out for freedom on the MS St. Louis on May 13, 1939. Their destination was Havana where they were denied entry by the Cuban government, then by the U.S.

Jennifer Andrews received a SSHRC IDG 2014-2017 which helped to fund the research for this article. In an effort to acknowledge historical injustices, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to ...

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, designated by the United Nations General Assembly to remember the victims killed by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. In commemoration of the ...

The mood is somehow cheerful and foreboding aboard the MS St. Louis ship carrying hundreds of passengers fleeing Nazi Germany. The Jewish people aboard this virtual ship are hoping for a new life and ...

Frank Sobchak is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel and a contributor at the MirYam Institute. Mark R. Jacobson served as the first Deputy NATO Senior Civilian Representative – Afghanistan and ...