Due Process
Complicit
Special | 26m 49sVideo has Closed Captions
A chilling look back at the shipload of Jewish refugees turned away by FDR in 1938.
It's an episode that cuts to critical questions of American law and justice. Why, in 1939, was a shipload of German Jews not granted refuge? Why were they turned away by this country, turned back to Europe, where nearly a third of them would die in the Holocaust? The leaders of the SS St. Louis Legacy Project and a St. Louis survivor look back on a tragic moment in American history.
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Due Process is a local public television program presented by NJ PBS
Due Process
Complicit
Special | 26m 49sVideo has Closed Captions
It's an episode that cuts to critical questions of American law and justice. Why, in 1939, was a shipload of German Jews not granted refuge? Why were they turned away by this country, turned back to Europe, where nearly a third of them would die in the Holocaust? The leaders of the SS St. Louis Legacy Project and a St. Louis survivor look back on a tragic moment in American history.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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