FELDSTED: Looking back at 1939, knowing about the horrors of WW II and the holocaust, is far different from trying to look forward to the six years between 1939 to 1945
Trudeau apologizes for Canada's 1939 refusal of Jewish refugee ship Steve Scherer ~~ Reuters News ~~ November 7, 2018 OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally apologized on Wednesday for the country’s 1939 refusal to take in a ship carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees, adding that the country would do more to protect Canadian Jews from violence. The St. Louis left Hamburg in May 1939 in a desperate search for a safe haven from persecution by Nazi Germany. After it was rebuffed by Canada and other nations, it returned to Europe, where historians have estimated that more than 250 of the passengers were murdered in Nazi death camps. CLICK HERE to read the full story Our Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, seems unwilling to understand that he can only apologize for his own actions and behaviour. There is something ironic and hypocritical about apologizing for a Liberal Prime Minister w...