Please join the community for the first ever public archival exhibit of the US State Department Apology to the Jewish refugees of the ocean liner, SS St. Louis, featuring:

• Commemorative ceremony for Yom HaShoah and the 86th Anniversary with a Proclamation of Remembrance presented to the local and state officials.
• Tour of the Exhibit with creator and curator, Robert M Krakow, Executive Director of the SS St. Louis Legacy Foundation.
• SS St. Louis passenger eyewitness accounts of the transatlantic voyage and life aboard the ocean liner on the way to Havana.
• Live Zoom engagement with surviving SS St. Louis passengers who will relate their emotional responses to the US and Canadian apologies.
• Dramatic and tearful passenger accounts of being turned away by the Cuban and US governments and the frightful prospects of having to return to Germany and face death and torture in the concentration camps.
• Recognition of the outstanding contributions the SS St. Louis passengers made to America in the fields of medicine, science, law, religion and education.
• Video from the American and Canadian apologies to the delegations of SS St. Louis passengers that attended the ceremonies in Washington, DC (September 24, 2012) and Ottawa, Canada (November 7, 2018).
• A video segment of The Trial of Franklin D Roosevelt that was performed as part of the State Department Apology Ceremony. The play explores the political motivations of FDR in refusing to assist the Jewish refugees during the prewar and wartime period.
• Special SS St. Louis artifacts section including excerpts from St. Louis Captain Gustav Schoeder’s diary describing his efforts to land the ship on the Miami coastline, newspaper coverage of St. Louis from May 27 – June 7, 1939, never before seen diplomatic exchanges between the German Foreign Ministry, the German Legation in Havana and the Cuban Secretary of State, describing the intense debate on whether the St. Louis passengers should be granted asylum by the Cuban Government
• Senate Resolution 111 passed by the Senate in 2009 to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the SS St. Louis and signed by 36 St. Louis passengers. This document is housed in the National Archives and the Museum of American Diplomatic History.

To sign up to read from the list of names of lives lost during the Holocaust during Yom HaShoah, register here.