Mark Zuckerberg Had This Powerful Message To Trump After He Banned Refugees Entry Into US On Holocaust Remembrance Day

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg has expressed his concerns over US President, Donald Trump's decision to ban Muslim refugees from several countries in the Middle East and North Africa, saying that the US is a great nation that has welcomed refugees from all over the world throughout its history. Here's what he wrote in one of the most powerful posts on the issue:?

Maybe it is just coincidence or a cruel irony that US President Donald Trump signed the executive order suspending the entry of refugees from seven countries to America on January 27, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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The day commemorates the Nazi genocide of Jews in Germany under Hitler.

It is particularly significant to US as the country still holds the 'guilt' of turning down a boat carrying Jewish asylum seekers fleeing the holocaust in Germany.

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the boat named St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany, on May 13, 1939, to Havana.

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Upon arrival, most Jewish refugees were refused permission to disembark by Cuban authorities. Shortly after, the Cuban president at the time, Federico Laredo Bru, ordered the ship out of the port of Havana and Cuban waters.

The ocean liner then floated off Miami, so close that passengers could see the city's lights. Some of those passengers pleaded in telegrams to the White House and State Department for asylum. The United States did not allow them to disembark, and the ship was forced to return to Europe.

According to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum 254 passengers from the St. Louis died in the Holocaust. ??

Many pointed out the irony of the executive order on the same day.