Review: The Good Ship St. Louis At Upstream Theater
Upstream Theater is presenting the world premiere of The Good Ship St. Louis, an impressive and moving new play by Philip Boehm with original music by Anthony Barilla. Produced by Upstream Theater, the world premiere play with music by Anthony Barilla is, at times, incredibly evocative and haunting. Sources: Parts of this article are reprinted with permission from Jennifer Rosenberg, a Guide at The Mining Company. The landing papers were made to look as official as possible. Nov. 3-6, 10-13, 17-20. at The Marcelle Theatre (3310 Samuel Shepard Dr. – free parking lot across the street). On 4 June 1939, when the fate of the St Louis was still undecided, an American newspaper, the Galveston News passed comment on the 'ship of sorrow. Jewish organizations (particularly the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) negotiated with four European governments to secure entry visas for the passengers: - Great Britain took 288 passengers. Lots of newspaper reports were published and we do not know what the reporters really thought and how their readers responded. Many Cubans resented the relatively large number of refugees (including 2, 500 Jews), whom the government had already admitted into the country, because they appeared to be competitors for scarce jobs. They suffered degrees of loss and displacement that we can never know.
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On May 13, 1939, the ship MS St. Louis left Hamburg flying the German Nazi flag and carrying over 900 Jewish refugees. Sarah Burke and Tom Wethington portray another Jewish couple whose story takes a tragic turn even sooner than Herbert and Rosa's. Only a half an hour after the S. Louis set sail, it received a message from Claus-Gottfried Holthusen, the marine superintendent of Hapag. You know, we always cling to the hope something is going to happen. Refugees from Bosnia, Syria, and Ukraine speak about what forced them to seek asylum. Review: THE GOOD SHIP ST. LOUIS at Upstream Theater. He opened an unofficial tourist office and through it sold landing papers for 150 American Dollars. Sailing so close to Florida that they could see the lights of Miami, some passengers on the St. Louis cabled President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking for refuge.
It also fueled antisemitism, xenophobia, nativism, and isolationism. Maximum HE Shell Damage 1, 100|. Library and Archives Canada, Department of Employment and Immigration fonds, RG 76, volume 440, file 670224 "Department of External Affairs - Confidential telegrams to Prime Minister at Washington, D. C., United States, on immigration matters (German Jews on SS ST. LOUIS), " (hereafter File 670224) telegraph from King to Skelton, Parkton MD, 8 June 1939. Three months before the St. Louis sailed, Congressional leaders in both US houses allowed to die in committee a bill sponsored by Senator Robert Wagner (D-N. Y. ) By now the plight of the St Louis, or the 'ship of sorrows' as reporters named her, was appearing in newspapers around the world. Breaking News Video – 2. This may be good gossip, but it's not good drama. The owners of the St. Louis, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, knew even before the ship sailed that its passengers might have trouble disembarking in Cuba. Their final separation is heartbreaking. He could not enter the harbour without a pilot from the shore who would come aboard to guide the ship into port. Many perished in the camps.
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Most were later allowed into the United States. St. Louis Cardinals. Those who received shelter on mainland Europe faced the Nazis again and many were sent to concentration camps. On June 6, 1939, Laredo Brú ended the negotiations. "They are about taking that perspective into today and tomorrow.
Captain Schroeder began to fear mass suicides on board. King instructed Skelton to consult with Minister of Justice Ernest Lapointe, and the Director of Immigration, Frederick Blair, as he "would like to be advised immediately as to powers of government to meet suggestion which communication contains" as well as requesting that they send a reply to George Wrong. Touching departure scenes have taken place. The German Foreign Office and the Propaganda Ministry also hoped to exploit the unwillingness of other nations to admit large numbers of Jewish refugees to justify the Nazi regime's anti-Jewish goals and policies both domestically in Germany and in the world at large. Further inflaming public opinion were rumours—which some believe were spread by Nazi agents on the island—that the Jewish passengers were communists and criminals. Total Information AM. Laid down: 31 July 1902. On Friday morning, the S. Louis roared up its engines and began to leave.
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Copyright © 1998 Jennifer Rosenberg. Ordinary people responding to what they read about asylum seekers. And the Cuban president got wind of it and decided that he would invalidate a lot of the documents that this man had issued. Kari Ely plays a retired nurse who discovers a suitcase in her late mother's attic, full of foreign language correspondence and odd memorabilia.
The four scenes take place in: - A café in Havana in 1939. The Canadian government's exclusion of the passengers of MS St. Louis reveals the anti-Semitic public and official climate of Canada in the 1930s, and underscores the harsh restrictions of Canada's Depression-era immigration policies. Rotation Speed 6 deg. He died in 1957 and was declared a 'Righteous Amongst the Nations' by Yad Vashem in 1993.
Burke is Lidia, a Ukrainian Latin teacher whose knowledge of a dead language helped her more than once on her journey to Sacramento. Painful impressions on land disappear quickly at sea and soon seem merely like dreams. They planned to seek asylum in Cuba. File 670224, Blair to Skelton, Ottawa ON, 16 June 1939. As the saga continued, the Nazi regime used it as propaganda to support its anti-Jewish policies. She was designated as "C-20", the 20th protected cruiser of the United States Navy.
Stock turrets rotate more slowly. Sent directly to Captain Schroeder, Hoffman used the influence of the Abwehr to force Schroeder into allowing the crew to go to shore.