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    A Twitter Tribute to Holocaust Victims

    A new social-media project commemorates refugees turned away by the United States in 1939.
    by Candice Norwood Jan 27, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Bettman / Getty

    Software developer Russel Neiss and Rabbi Charlie Schwartz have collaborated on a number of projects that use technology to bring awareness to Jewish issues, history, and culture.

    But last night they dreamt up the , a Twitter project sharing the story of some 900 Jews who fled Nazi Germany in 1939 on the MS in an attempt to gain entry into the United States. After having to turn back, the passengers were forced to return to Europe, where a number of countries accepted them as refugees; in the Holocaust. This story, Neiss and Schwartz believe, serves

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