JOSEF

There is a loud siren on the ship, and Josef yells for someone on the boat to help his father. One of the Cuban police officers removes his hat and gun and jumps overboard. A lifeboat is dropped from the St. Louis, and several boats are sent from the shore in response to the siren. The Cuban policeman helps Josef’s father into one of the shore boats, but Josef’s father struggles against them, yelling that he would rather die. The policemen subdue Josef’s father in the small boat, while Josef thinks that the man who returned from Dachau is not the father he remembers—that man is gone.