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,” Might 19). Sure, we have now 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 immediately to forestall this.
My late husband was on the St. Louis on the age of seven together with his 3-year-old brother, grandmother, mom and father. They have been Jewish refugees from Berlin. The daddy’s retailer burned down throughout Kristallnacht. My mother-in-law, by pals, discovered about moving into Cuba by way of this voyage once they have 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.
Fortuitously, 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 have been lastly rescued with assist from Switzerland. The household lastly bought to the U.S. in 1946. They have been fortunate.
Stephanie Vendig, Los Angeles
