Researchers at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum are nearing completion of a compilation that will detail what happened to all the passengers who were on board a 1939 refugee ship that was turned away by the United States. The stories of 40 passengers on the S.S. St. Louis remain unknown. Many of the 936 passengers on board the ill-fated ship, which was forced to return to Europe, perished in the Holocaust.
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