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Journey of 900 jewish refugees aboard the cruise liner ss st. Louis that departed hamburg germany may 13, 1939. The ship was denied landing in cuba, the United States and canada and ultimately forced to return to europe. This is about one hour and ten minutes. Welcome to todays program cosponsored by the Library Services at the library of congress and the library of congress professional association of the language table. The program is presented today in honor of the 75th anniversary of the sailing of the st. Louis. One of the passengers of the st. Louis is with us today. Eva is sitting right there and im wondering if there are any other passengers or families of passengers that are here with us today and if so, could you sta stand. There is another one. [applause] i would like to think that u. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum who is the reason that the program is here today. She arranged the speakers and then have the idea for the program. Roberta schaefer of the librarian of congress, A
New-yorkUnited-statesCanadaHamburgGermanyShanghaiChinaAustriaRussiaWashingtonDistrict-of-columbiaUnited-kingdomI would also like to thank a few people. From the u. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum whos the reason this program is here today, she arranged the speakers and had the idea for the program. Roberta schafer, associate librarian of congress. Beecher wiggins, our aba director, Audrey Fisher and the staff of the Public Affairs office, suvita who let us have the wonderful pavilion, and galena of the ij section. Also, of course, marvin kalb and our panelists, Martin Goldsmith and Diane Afoumado. I will be stepping aside as soon as i introduce mr. Be kalb, and he will take over the program. Marvin kalb spent 30 years as an awardwinning reporter for cbs news and nbc news. Hes written or coauthored 11 nonfiction books and two fiction books, and hes currently working on a new book, the soviet spring the rise and challenge of putins russia. Hes a nonresident senior fellow with the Foreign Policy programs at brookings and is a Senior Adviser to the Pulitzer Center on crisis reporting. He focuses on th
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