A Story of Asylum Seekers, 79 Years Ago

In The Thick

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🗓️ 14 December 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In 1939, a ship called the SS St. Louis with 900 Jewish refugees arrived to Cuba, fleeing the Nazi regime. Most of them were sent back home to Europe, where many died in concentration camps. In this episode, Maria and Julio talk to Armando Lucas Correa, editor-in-chief of People en Español and author of the book The German Girl, a fictional story based on what happened with those refugees from the St. Louis. ITT Staff Picks:

The story of the SS St. Louis, the ship of Jewish refugees nobody received, from the BBC.
From NPR's Morning Edition, a brief history of asylum laws in the United States.
A Publisher Weekly's article on the confiscation of Armando Correa's book in Cuba. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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0:23.0	Grasias.
0:25.0	Hey hey, hey, what's up?
0:27.0	This is in the thick up podcast about politics, race and culture
0:29.0	from a POC perspective.
0:31.0	Why are you making me laugh, Julio?
0:32.0	I'm sorry. I'm Maria in no Hosa.
0:36.0	And I'm Julio Ricalo-Barela.
0:39.0	We are so happy to have in the studio with us right here in Harlem, an award-winning
0:43.4	journalist, somebody whose work I knew as I was a buddy in journalist, editor-in-chief of
0:48.7	people in Espaurel, Armando Lucas-Gorea,
0:51.5	Armando it's so great to have you on the show.
0:54.0	It's my pleasure.
0:55.0	It's going to be fun.
0:56.0	It's going to be great.
0:57.0	So, you know, I do read people in Espaiol.
0:59.0	Wow, nice.
1:00.0	TVH.
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