The German ocean liner St. Louis sailed out of Hamburg in 1939. The 937 passengers onboard were trying to escape genocide. The Nuremberg Laws of Hitler's Germany had classified Jews an inferior race.

A telegram from Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, head of the boycott committee of the American Jewish Congress, to George Meany, head of the New York State Federation of Labor, was made public today, protesting ...

Prior to the advent of easy travel by air, if you wanted to get across the ocean, you needed to take a boat. If you wanted to get there in style, you took an ocean liner. One such example was the ...