Voyage of the Damned

Voyage of the Damned (1976) was more ambitious, a dramatization of the 1939 voyage of the ocean liner St. Louis, which transported German Jewish refugees who hoped to land in Havana; when permission to dock was denied there and elsewhere, the ship had to return…

…later adapted (1976) into a film. In subsequent years the ill-fated voyage occasionally received attention during discussions about immigration. In 2018 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally apologized for his country’s failure to grant asylum to the Jews on board the St. Louis.