Voyage Of The Damned

The Story

In May 1939, the SS St. Louis set sail from Hamburg carrying 937 German Jews seeking asylum from Nazi persecution. But all was not as it seemed ... Amongst the crew were members of the dreaded Gestapo, and the steward himself was on a mission for the SS. Voyage of the damned is the ... day-by-day account of how those refugees on board the liner struggled to survive. The ship sailed to Cuba where the refugees were refused entry either as tourists or political asylum seekers ... They sailed on to America where President Roosevelt refused the passengers permission to land. In Canada they were refused again. And they found themselves returning to Europe and an uncertain fate.

A hardcover edition from 1974 of Voyage Of The Damned by Gordon Thomas. It runs to 317 pages, in very good condition. We hold one copy, so once it is gone it is gone. Shelved under Biography & Memoir. Wrapped with care for collectors and shipped from Kuwait.