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...Cabo de Hornos the new passengers found friends-57 other refugees from the Alsina and the same Dakar camps. The Cabo de Hornos turned her white bows north and east again toward Rio and Hitler's Europe...
...their first ship, the Alsina, set out from Dakar, Vichy changed its mind. For four and a half months the refugees were held aboard the ship while it lay at anchor off the African port. It was worse than a concentration camp. There was no torture, only heat, hardship and the constant reminder that they had once almost been free...
...Cabo de Buena Esperanza was no improvement over the Alsina. The Cabo ships are called "whited sepulchers" in South America, a reference to the smart white paint of their top sides and the filth, crowding, misery and disease inside their hulls. The whole ship stank, the food was nauseous, the ship's hospital used dirty newspapers for sheets. On the slow voyage across the Atlantic two more refugees died...
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