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Module 5: Forced Labor Camps
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A view of the quarry at the Mauthausen concentration camp, where prisoners were subjected to forced labor. Austria, 1938-1945.
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Jewish refugees aboard the MS St. Louis attempt to communicate with friends and relatives in Cuba, who were permitted to approach the docked vessel in small boats.
Additional Resources
The United States and the Nazi Threat
The United States and the Refugee Crisis
SAN ANTONIO SURVIVOR CONNECTION: See Oscar Michal Ehrenberg (pp. 34-37), Margaret Turk Hopkovits (pp. 78-80) and David Scharff (p. 173)
Survivor accounts in Our Voices, Our Lives: Twenty Holocaust Survivors Remember, Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio, Becky Ebner Hoag, Grace Hoffman Mueller, Roxann Patrick, and Jeanette Pierce.
See photographs of on the back wall in the survival section of the museum local gallery.