Articles by Human Rights First-USA

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THE ST. LOUIS REFUGEE SHIP BLUES: ART SPIEGELMAN RECOUNTS A SAD STORY 70 YEARS LATER
Human Rights First-USA, 22 Jun 2009

In this cartoon commentary in The Washington Post on World Refugee Day [June 20], Spiegelman uses the familiar character from his graphic novel, Maus, to look back on how we treated refugees in 1939 – notably the refusal of the U.S. to grant entry to 900 Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. Spiegelman connects this to the […]

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