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US Congress had blocked most efforts to allow fleeing Jews to immigrate to the US leaving them stranded -
Almost one-third of the St. Louis passengers died in the Holocaust due to them running out of food forcing them back into Europe -
The laws had been decreased as Congress had thought to eliminate all immigration from Europe -
A ship carrying 907 German Jews halts for two hours as the Coast Guard patrols nearby. -
Thousands who had booked passage from Libson now face rejection many Visa’s voided -
Gerhart Riegner stated that the Nazis were implementing a policy to annihilate the Jews of Europe. -
Only in November 1942 did the State Department finally confirm its accuracy and allow the Nazi policy of mass murder to be publicized. -
The board led efforts to get neutral countries to accept refugees; it funded boats to ferry refugees out of Romania, and it established a temporary refuge for some Jews -
Hungarian authorities deported around 440,000. Although the War Refugee Board is credited with saving as many as 200,000 lives, more than 800,000 Jews were murdered from the time the board was established until the end of the war. The majority of these Jews were from Hungary. -
100,000 Jews had been gassed weeks after this event.