MS St. Louis passenger tells her story

Eva R. Wiener, a Holocaust survivor and who was a passenger on the MS St. Louis, tells her story at the Edison Public Library, Main Branch, on Monday, May 12, at 6 p.m. She will talk about her family’s story, her life after the war, and how she is educating the next generation on the Holocaust and stemming the tide of hate, bigotry, prejudice, and antisemitism.

In 1939, the MS St. Louis carried 937 Jewish refugees out of Germany, steaming toward Havana, where they would be free from Nazi persecution. When they arrived, the Cuban government turned them away, and so did the United States and Canadian governments. They were finally dispersed throughout Europe, where a quarter of them would die in the Holocaust.

Eva R. Wiener made that ill-fated voyage when she was 10 months old. Her family was able to relocate to England, and eventually moved to Queens.

For information, go to edisonpubliclibrary.libnet.info/event/13438549 or call (732) 287-2298.