Svideteli

While speaking about the Spirit of St Lewis being rejected by the USA, she says most of the passengers perished in the holocaust. That is inaccurate in fact all but 200 of the nearly 1000 survived the war once returning to eastern Europe. It's a fact that the shipping company knew before they departed Europe the immigration policy in their destination had changed but no one informed the passengers. Denial entry into the USA and Canada was far less to do with religion than it was the Great Depression. if you are unable to feed and house the people you have, adding more would be irresponsible. The passengers for the St Louis actually fared better than most people caught up in the holocaust and horrors of WW2 Facts matter when talking about the holocaust.

Edited from Tufelki (2012)