Erich Dublon

Erich Dublon was a German-Jewish man living in Erfurt, Germany during the rise of Nazi oppression. He fled Germany and attempted to immigrate to Cuba with his brother Wilhelm Dublon, his sister-in-law Erna Dublon, and his two young nieces, Lore and Eva.[1] The Dublon family boarded the SS St. Louis, a Cuban-bound ship that carried hundreds of European Jews desperate to escape persecution.[2] After a sixteen-day transatlantic journey, the SS St. Louis reached Cuba.[1] Dublon and the other passengers remained in the Harbor in Havana while the authorities deliberated over allowing the refugees entry into the country.[3] The SS St. Louis refugees were ultimately denied entry into both Cuba and the United States.[3] Dublon was sent back to Europe, settling in Antwerp, Belgium.[4] As Nazi extermination policies intensified, the Dublon family was rounded up and subsequently exterminated in the Auschwitz concentration camp.[5]

SS St. Louis
  1. ^ a b Reinfelder, Georg (2002). MS "St. Louis": die Irrfahrt nach Kuba : Frühjahr 1939 : Kapitän Gustav Schröder rettet 906 deutsche Juden vor dem Zugriff der Nazis. Germany. ISBN 3933471303.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ Ther, Philipp (2021). The Outsiders: Refugees in Europe Since 1942. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691207131.
  3. ^ a b Long Mullins, Robin (2013). "The SS St. Louis and the importance of reconciliation". Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. 19 (4): 393–398. doi:10.1037/a0034610. ISSN 1532-7949.
  4. ^ "Voyage of the "St. Louis," May 13-June 17, 1939". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
  5. ^ Ogilvie, Miller (2010). Refuge Denied: The St. Louis Passangers and the Holocaust. Ukraine: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299219833.