Trudeau decried the rise of modern anti-Semitism. The North American nation did not give asylum to about 907 German Jews who arrived on the liner MS St. Louis. Both the United States and Cuba did the same. The refugees were compelled to return to Nazi-infested Europe, and over 250 of them died in the Holocaust. […]
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