It was Could 1939, and Elisabeth Broder had a plan to flee Europe, the place Nazi Germany was ascendant. She would board a ship to Cuba, the place she can be reunited together with her boyfriend. They’d marry, and immigrate to the U.S. However Broder ended up a part of a historic second wherein the U.S. and different members of the worldwide neighborhood may have performed one thing to helps Jews fleeing Nazi persecution, however determined to not. She was one in all 937 passengers on the German ocean liner St. Louis, which crossed the Atlantic solely to be turned...