安妮特·芬利-克劳斯怀特著

2005年，联合国指定Jan. 27 as 国际 Holocaust Remembrance Day to honor the 6 million Jews and millions of other victims killed during the Holocaust and other genocides.

最靠谱的网赌软件 will recognize this day by retelling 党卫军的故事 Quanza, a passenger ship that brought Jewish refugees to Norfolk during World War II. 的 University will host a screening of the documentary film “Nobody Wants Us” at 5:30 p.m. 2月. 15点在大学剧院.

After the film, the following panel of speakers will address the film to the audience:

  • 劳拉Seltzer-Duny, producer and director for “Nobody Wants Us” and an award-winning PBS documentary filmmaker.
  • Eric Mazur, 宗教研究教授, Gloria and David Furman Endowed Professorship and Fellow of the Robert Nusbaum Center at Virginia Wesleyan University.
  • 斯蒂芬妮·霍桑, alum of Institute for the Humanities at ODU (with a project on the Quanza) and financial manager of academic departments in 斯特罗姆商学院.

的 event is sponsored by ODU’s Institute for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding, 教师发展中心, 艺术与文学学院, the 巴顿工程学院 and 技术, 斯特罗姆商学院, 大学图书馆, 历史系, 海上, 港口与物流学会, the Annual Campus 的me Blue Connections and the Office of Maritime 倡议.

的 screening is tied to “Maritime 历史 of the Holocaust,” a special course that’s part of ODU’s 蓝色连接年度校园主题, a multidisciplinary initiative to explore the crucial role oceans and waterways play in society and the global economy.

的 SS Quanza was a passenger liner that set sail from Lisbon, Portugal on Aug. 1940年9月9日，载有317名乘客. 这些航海者中有许多是犹太人, desperately fleeing antisemitism in Europe during the Nazi oppression. 的 Quanza was one of the last ships to leave Europe before Germany banned emigration in October 1940 and before the United States prohibited most refugees from entering the country. Other ships had already been turned away, including the SS St. 路易斯被拒绝进入美国.S. 1939年6月返回欧洲, after which 254 of its 937 passengers were killed in the Holocaust.   

的 Quanza called in at 港口 in New York and Veracruz, 墨西哥, where most of the passengers with valid visas disembarked; however, 88 were denied entry and when the ship docked in Norfolk on Sept. 11, 1940 to refuel, it was met by armed guards. 的 desperate passengers sent telegrams to anyone they thought could help them. One of those telegrams went to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt who was sensitive to refugee issues and aware of what happened to the St. 路易. Jewish leaders throughout the nation advocated on behalf of the refugees. It was at this point that a local lawyer from Newport 最靠谱的网赌软件 became aware of the passengers’ plight.

Jacob Morewitz was a maritime lawyer well-versed in admiralty law. 许多地方律师提出 人身保护令 petitions for the passengers on board, but they were quickly dismissed. 然而，莫雷维茨采取了不同的方法. He launched a libel suit against the ship’s owners alleging that they had fraudulently charged passengers for delivery to the U.S. while knowing they would be unable to disembark. 海事案件编号. [6594]莫里茨·兰德等. al. vs. Steamship Quanza” was eventually thrown out of court, but not before the ship was impounded for three days in Norfolk, giving Eleanor Roosevelt time to convince her husband and the U.S. 国务院将采取行动. 的 Quanza passengers were granted entry on Sept. 14, 1940. 81 disembarked and seven opted to return to Europe (numbers vary slightly in document sources).

当地的犹太社区, particularly members of the National Council of Jewish 女性 (NCJW), 也来到乘客的救援. 的y arrived at the dock in their cars and drove the passengers to local hotels and to their own homes. Many members of Norfolk’s Ohef Sholom Temple welcomed the weary travelers, offering them hot meals and warm beds before they made their way to other destinations in the U.S. 的 archives at Ohef Sholom, as well as the Slover Library, house documents telling the Quanza story.

Unfortunately, the events surrounding the SS Quanza also roused antisemitic sentiment in the country and angered U.S. 助理国务卿布雷肯里奇·朗说. 他打给了匡泽 passengers “undesirables” and subsequently worked to deny entry to most refugees arriving in U.S. 港口. 

“In a world where antisemitism is again on the rise and immigration issues continue to make headlines, 党卫军的故事 Quanza 仍然是相关的,安妮特·芬利-克劳斯怀特说, director of 教师发展中心 at ODU and a professor of 历史 at the University. “We are thrilled to welcome 劳拉Seltzer-Duny to Norfolk and to honor 党卫军的故事 Quanza.”