Red Star Line Museum In Belgium Marks Journey To Americas By Famous Immigrants Escaping Nazi Rule

ANTWERP, Belgium -- In today's world of cruise ship travel, it is easy to forget how life-changing boarding a steamer once was. When young Sonia Pressman Fuentes stepped aboard the Westernland II ship in Antwerp with her family on April 20, 1934, it was the biggest leap she would ever take. `'It made it possible for me to be alive – very simple answer. Otherwise we would have been killed," the Jewish feminist leader said, recalling her family's flight from the Nazis. "We would have been killed...