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Holocaust Survivor Recounts Voyage of the St. Louis

Ronnie Breslow was 8 years old when she boarded the MS St. Louis with her mother, Ellie Reutlinger, on May 13, 1939. They planned to meet her father, Gustav Reutlinger, in Cuba, with the ultimate goal of joining a distant cousin in Philadelphia. Instead, Cuban officials refused to allow the nearly 1,000 Jewish passengers to […]