On the same day President Trump signed his new immigration ban, a Twitter account launched to shine the spotlight on what happened to a group of refugees that were turned away from the U.S. in 1939.
About 900 Jewish people had attempted to escape Nazi Germany on the MS St. Louis. But the ship was turned away by the U.S. because of immigration restrictions. Later, more than 250 of those passengers were killed during World War II and the Holocaust.
Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson speaks with Russel Neiss ( @russelneiss), co-founder of the Twitter account “ St. Louis Manifest.”
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