Previously migrants had been transferred from Lampedusa to Sicily, where those not given refugee status eventually received an essentially meaningless expulsionorder.
The museum has an original of the June 1812 expulsionorder telling all Americans to leave Quebec City, as well as a Quebec City Militia officer's uniform.
One of the shocking aspects of the tragic end of the Jewish community is Spain is that Abravanel, and his fellow communal leaders failed to anticipate the expulsionorder.