Gustav Schröder
Encyclopedia
Gustav Schröder was a sea captain, who is best known for attempting to save 937 German Jews, who were passengers on his ship, the , from the Nazis in 1939.
written by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts
, which was later the basis of a 1976 film drama of the same name.
honored Schröder with the title of "Righteous Among the Nations
" by the State of Israel. In 2000 The German city of Hamburg
named a street after Schröder and unveiled a detailed plaque at the landing stages.
Voyage of the Damned
The story of the 1939 sailing of the MS St. Louis to North America with over 900 Jewish refugees is told in the 1974 book Voyage of the DamnedVoyage of the Damned
Voyage of the Damned is the title of a 1974 book written by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts, which was the basis of a 1976 drama film with the same title.The story was inspired by true events concerning the fate of the MS St...
written by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts
Max Morgan-Witts
Max Morgan-Witts is a British producer, director and author of Canadian origin.Morgan-Witts was a Director/Producer at Granada TV. He directed hundreds of popular television shows for Granada, including: 50 episodes of The Army Game, a forerunner of the American show Bilko and at the time Britain's...
, which was later the basis of a 1976 film drama of the same name.
Honors and tributes
Schröder received much praise for his actions during the Holocaust, both while he was alive and posthumously. In 1957, he was awarded the Order of Merit by the Federal German Republic "for services to the people and the land in the rescue of refugees". In March 1993, Yad VashemYad Vashem
Yad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, established in 1953 through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the Knesset, Israel's parliament....
honored Schröder with the title of "Righteous Among the Nations
Righteous Among the Nations
Righteous among the Nations of the world's nations"), also translated as Righteous Gentiles is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis....
" by the State of Israel. In 2000 The German city of Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
named a street after Schröder and unveiled a detailed plaque at the landing stages.