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Turned away in 1939: The voyage of the MS St. Louis
Jared Sichel
June 4, 2015
Hans Fisher vividly remembers his excitement on May 27, 1939, the day the MS St. Louis and its 937 refugees, most of them German Jews, reached Havana’s harbor in Cuba two weeks after leaving Hamburg, Germany.
Are Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims the world’s ‘least wanted’ people?
Jared Sichel
June 4, 2015
Abu Tahay, a Rohingya Muslim activist who lives in Myanmar, says his people face a simple calculus when deciding whether to remain in their western Myanmar homes or escape via the Andaman Sea on overcrowded, hopelessly equipped fishing boats: “Do — or die.”
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