Refugees Without A Country 1939

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Full titles read: "REFUGEES WITHOUT A COUNTRY"

L/S's of the refugee ship the 'St Louis' with 900 hundred Jews on board. The commentator says that "... they crossed from Hamburg to Cuba. But in Havana they were refused entry and had to return to...

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20041
Sort Number:
39/049
Time in/Out:
01:03:19:00 / 01:03:52:00
Canister:
39/49
Film ID:
1015.04
Issue Date:
19/06/1939

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British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.
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