Voyage of the Damned....The SS St. Louis was a German ship of no real distinction but for one voyage. In 1939 the ship carried 937 German Jewish refugees, Captain Gustav Schröder tried to give these people a safe haven but Cuba, the U.S and Canada would reject them, to their shame. The United Kingdom agreed to take 288 of the passengers, who disembarked and traveled to the UK by other steamers. After much negotiation by Schröder, the remaining 619 passengers were allowed to disembark at Antwerp; 224 were accepted by France, 214 by Belgium, and 181 by the Netherlands. The return to Europe would cause more than 250 passengers their lives in Nazi Europe.