 Wyman characterized Breckenridge Long as a nativist, more anti-immigrant than just antisemitic.The SS St. Louis sailed out of Hamburg into the Atlantic Ocean in May 1939 carrying one non-Jewish and 936 (mainly German) Jewish refugees seeking asylum from Nazi persecution just before World War II .On 4 June 1939, having failed to obtain permission to disembark passengers in Cuba, the "St. Louis" was also refused permission to unload on orders of President Roosevelt as the ship waited in the Caribbean Sea between Florida and Cuba.During the Holocaust, antisemitism was a factor that limited American Jewish action during the war, and put American Jews in a difficult position.