Date: November 4, 2016
Time: 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Location: 433 Paterson Hall (4th floor launch), Carleton University
The public is welcome.
RSVP: CHESatCARLETON@gmail.com.
The MS St. Louis and its Voyage.
Dr. Afoumado, a specialist on the MS St Louis will talk about the 907 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany who were denied entry to Cuba, the USA and Canada in 1939. The ship was forced to return its passengers to four European countries. 254 of its passengers later perished in the Holocaust.
HEM program: This Program is made possible by the Campus Outreach Lecture Program of the United States Holocaust Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, supported by Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller, and in cooperation with the Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies, Carleton University, the Department of History, Carleton University, EURUS, Carleton University, the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (CHES), the Embassy of France in Ottawa.
