Voyage of the Damned

Based on historic events, this dramatic film concerns the 1939 voyage of , which departed from Hamburg carrying 937 Jews from Germany, ostensibly bound for Havana, Cuba. The passengers, having seen and suffered rising anti-Semitism in Germany, realised this might be their only chance to escape. The film details the emotional journey of the passengers, who gradually become aware that their passage was planned as an exercise in propaganda, and that it had never been intended that they disembark in Cuba. Rather, they were to be set up as Paraiyar, to set an example before the world. As a Nazism official states in the film, when the whole world has refused to accept the Jews as refugees, no country can blame Germany for their fate.