I still can't wrap my head around it all. My best friend's parents fled Poland in 1925 after seeing what was coming. If not for that, she wouldn't be here. Two books that taught me a lot about those times were Sebastian Haffner's 'Defying Hitler' and of course, Victor Klemperer's two volume 'I Will Bear Witness'. Volume II, the insanity of it all, the sometimes randomness of surviving ...
I don't think most Americans know anything about the Evian Conference (1938), where 32 countries met and 31 of them -- including the US, Britain, and Canada -- refused to accept Jewish refugees fleeing Germany and Austria. Only the Dominican Republic agreed to accept them.
Then story of the MS St. Louis (1939) is a bit better known -- 900 refugees denied entry by Cuba, Canada and the United States. The ship returned to Europe, where one-quarter of them later died.
Wow. That is an awakening experience.
I still can't wrap my head around it all. My best friend's parents fled Poland in 1925 after seeing what was coming. If not for that, she wouldn't be here. Two books that taught me a lot about those times were Sebastian Haffner's 'Defying Hitler' and of course, Victor Klemperer's two volume 'I Will Bear Witness'. Volume II, the insanity of it all, the sometimes randomness of surviving ...
I don't think most Americans know anything about the Evian Conference (1938), where 32 countries met and 31 of them -- including the US, Britain, and Canada -- refused to accept Jewish refugees fleeing Germany and Austria. Only the Dominican Republic agreed to accept them.
Then story of the MS St. Louis (1939) is a bit better known -- 900 refugees denied entry by Cuba, Canada and the United States. The ship returned to Europe, where one-quarter of them later died.