To the editor: Thanks, visitor contributor Karen Musalo, for this text (“The U.S. failed refugees during the Holocaust. Trump’s Libya plan would too,” Could 19). Sure, we now have to be reminded that what President Trump is planning is a repeat of the horrors of the Nazi period and that there are authorized procedures right now to stop this.
My late husband was on the St. Louis on the age of seven along with his 3-year-old brother, grandmother, mom and father. They had been Jewish refugees from Berlin. The daddy’s retailer burned down throughout Kristallnacht. My mother-in-law, by means of associates, discovered about moving into Cuba through this voyage after they had been refused entrance into the U.S. at the moment. Germany satisfied Cuba to reject them, after which the ship turned again towards Europe and its focus camps.
Happily, there have been interventions plotted by the captain, the Jewish Refugee Group and passengers on the journey to keep away from going again. The Vendig household ended up in Belgium, then Vichy France and had been lastly rescued with assist from Switzerland. The household lastly obtained to the U.S. in 1946. They had been fortunate.
Stephanie Vendig, Los Angeles
