A large dark hulled ship enters a port. White smoke bellows from one of the ship's two smoke stacks. A number of smaller ships sit in the foreplan of the picture.

The SS St. Louis surrounded by smaller vessels in the port of Hamburg, June 1939. The ship left Germany carrying over 900 European Jews seeking refuge abroad. They were refused entry everywhere, including Canada. Forced to return to Europe, most of the passengers later died in Nazi concentration camps.

Source: USHMM photograph #88358, courtesy of Herbert & Vera Karliner.