Voyage of the Damned

A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror

De: Max Morgan Witts, Gordon Thomas

Narrado por: Chris Kayser

This book is a meticulous reconstruction of a tragic episode in the history of the Nazi persecution of the Jews. The SS. St. Louis left Hamburg in May of 1939 with 937 Jewish refugees on board who thought they had bought visas to enter Cuba. Refused entry in Cuba and the United States the ship eventually had to turn around and return to Europe. The voyage to freedom was in the end nothing more than a roundabout journey to the concentration camps.

©1974 Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Heart wrenching

This book had me on an emotional roller coaster but I believe that history should teach us the good bad and ugly. We should learn it so we don’t repeat it. I loved this book. It will stay with me forever

Educational and sad

Was long amd daunting at first but as the story concluded you start to feel fear of what this voyage was like.

Heartbreaking

Well done story of the holocaust. It's hard to understand how people. in dire circumstances could be turned away so callously. This book is worth the read.

Exceptional recounting of a tragic voyage

I do not recall having heard of the voyage of the St Louis until I listened to this book. In the end some of its passengers were saved and spared the horror of the Nazis, more would have been saved if the hearts of the Cubans and Americans had opened and let the passengers find refuge on their soil.

There were Good Germans and Bad Nazi's

Excellent book about the the prelude to war and the final solution. The captain did all he could to help save the boat people. The Nazi's had spies on board, and the Cuban government was wishy washy to let the people land and then they said no even if money was paid. There were suicides, and you can imagine the desperation of these travelers trying to get free from the country that didn't want them alive. The Nazi's wanted the ship to return just to complete their final solution even though they could have let them go. Eventually many were free to land in England and France, but France was later taken over so free for a time. This is a very good read of real history of hundreds of family's fleeing a disparate situation.