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Title

Jewish emigration : the SS St. Louis Affair and other cases / John Mendelsohn, editor ; Donald S. Detwiler, advisory editor ; introduction by John Mendelsohn.

Publication

Clark, NJ : Lawbook Exchange, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Mendelsohn, John, 1928-1986.
• Detwiler, Donald S.

Description

270 p. : ill.; 29 cm.

Series Statement

The Holocaust series ; v. 7

Uniform Title

Holocaust series (Clark, N.J.) ; v. 7

Subject

• St. Louis (Ship) > History > Sources
• Jews > Germany > History > 20th century > Sources
• Jewish refugees > History > 20th century > Sources
• Germany > History > 20th century > Sources
• Cuba > History > 20th century > Sources

Note

• Originally published: New York : Garland Pub., 1982, as v. 7 in series The Holocaust : selected documents in eighteen volumes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Report by the American consul in Havana on European refugees in Cuba, Mar. 17, 1939 -- Supplemental report by the American consul in Havana on European refugees in Cuba, May 9, 1939 -- Report by the American consul general in Havana on the Jewish refugee situation in Havana, June 7, 1939 -- Dossier of the German Foreign Ministry on the SS St. Louis affair, May 11-July 27, 1939 -- Report by the chargé d'affaires of the German embassy in Havana, Walter Kaempfe, for the German Foreign Ministry on Cuban Decree 937, May 11, 1939 -- Telegram from Kaempfe to the German Foreign Ministry on the SS St. Louis affair, June 2, 1939 -- Excerpts from the German News Service (DNB) reports, June 5-11, 1939 -- Letter from the director of the Hamburg-Amerika Linie to the German Foreign Ministry pertaining to the SS St. Louis affair, June 2, 1939 -- Telegram signed by Volckers of the German embassy in Havana to the German Foreign ministry pertaining to Cuban Decree 55, Feb. 1, 1939 -- Report by Kaempfe to the German Foreign Ministry on growing anti-Semitism in Cuba, May 25, 1939 -- Report by Kaempfe to the German Foreign Ministry on the SS St. Louis in Havana, June 2, 1939 -- Letter from Kaempfe to the Cuban secretary of state re. the Cuban order to the SS St. Louis to leave Havana harbor, June 1, 1939 -- Report by Kaempfe to the German Foreign Ministry less inserts on the SS St. Louis affair, June 6, 1939 -- Correspondence between Kaempfe and the Cuban secretary of state pertaining to the German note protesting Cuba's action, June 5, 1939 -- Report by Kaempfe to the German Foreign Ministry on the SS St. Louis affair, June 7, 1939 -- Reports and comments on the German protest against the Cuban action, July 3-27, 1939 -- Telegram from the American embassy in London on the distribution of the SS St. Louis passengers among Holland, Belgium, France, and Great Britain, June 13, 1939 -- Telegram from the American embassy in London on arrangements for the disembarkation of the passengers of the SS St. Louis in Antwerp, June 14, 1939 -- Correspondence between Professor Philip C. Jessup and Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles pertaining to a proposed amendment to Cuban immigration law that would involve confiscation of cash bonds posted by Americans, Nov. 17-21, 1939 -- German report about forty-one German emigrants aboard the German steamer Wangoni, Sept. 27-Oct. 5, 1939 -- Desperate sea letter to President Roosevelt pleading for help for seventy-two European refugees aboard the English steamer Orduna refused landing in Cuba, May 29, 1939 -- Order by the Reich leader of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, prohibiting emigration of Jews from Aachen. Nov. 4, 1941 -- Note to Eichmann pertaining to proposed interference with Jewish transports to Palestine from Bulgaria. Mar. 26, 1943; with SEA -- Report on refugee children in France, Belgium, and Switzerland by the director of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, Dec. 11, 1944 -- Telegram from the German ambassador in Sofia, Adolf Heinz Beckerle, on attempts to prevent the transport of five thousand Jewish children to Palestine, Feb. 4, 1943; with SEA -- Telegram from Legation Counsellor Rademacher advising obstructionist tactics to stop the transport of Jewish children from Roumania to Palestine through Bulgaria and Turkey, Mar. 12, 1943; with SEA -- English translation of a telegram to Legation Counsellor Rademacher on his position pertaining to the emigration of Jewish children from Hungary and Roumania to Palestine, Mar. 11, 1943 -- Telegram from Legation Counsellor Wagner re. interrogating the Bulgarian government about the safe transit of seventy-seven Jewish children to Palestine through Bulgaria contrary to German orders, Apr. 1943; with SEA -- English translation of correspondence of Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and other members of the German Foreign Ministry pertaining to the proposal by Ambassador Feldscher to let five thousand Jewish children emigrate, May 7, 1943-May 27, 1944; with SEA -- Notes by Legation Counsellor Wagner and von Thadden of Abteilung Inland of the German Foreign Ministry on attempts to prevent the emigration of the five thousand Jewish children, Feb. 8-July 29, 1944; with SEA -- Telegram from the German Foreign Ministry to the German embassy in Sofia on preventing the emigration of the five thousand Jewish children to Palestine, Feb. 13, 1943; with SEA -- Dossier of the German Foreign Ministry on the emigration of over two hundred predominantly Polish Jewish families to Ireland, Jan. 6, 1944-Sept. 25, 1944.

ISBN

• 9781616190071 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1616190078 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009039391

OCLC

• ocn444112520
• SCSB-14422942

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library