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Books: Part history, part mystery — the passengers of the S. S. St. Louis

Sarah Ogilvie and Scott Miller set a difficult task for themselves. Writing their book was easy. So, too, was researching what happened on the voyage of the St. Louis, the Hamburg-American line ship that traveled from Germany to Cuba in May 1939, carrying 937 passengers who were escaping Nazi Germany. The authors\’ greater challenge was to uncover the fate of the passengers after the ship had been turned away from numerous ports. Their dogged pursuit of all leads yielded some surprising results.

A Jew from Nogales

Fred Rochlin can\’t understand all the fuss over his monologue, \”Old Man in a Baseball Cap,\” about his adventures during World War II.\n\”I\’m not an actor,\” he insists. \”I\’m an old guy.\”

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