The Caribbean Island That Saved Hundreds of Refugees From Hitler's Holocaust, After the Major World Powers Balked
All over the world, a year before World War II even started, doors were closing to Jewish refugees. One of the worst examples was Stalin's Soviet Union, whose complicity with Hitler to divide Poland proved to be the war's catalyst. He refused to send any delegates to the conference, and he also ordered that any refugees fleeing from Germany to the USSR be arrested for espionage.