In the Editor: Thank you, best contribution Karen Muslo,“Failed US refugees during Holocaust. Libya in Trump’s Libya,” May 19). Yes, President Trump’s plan should be reminded that a repetition of eater’s horrors of Nazi and with legal procedures today to prevent it.
My last husband is in St. Louis at the age of 7 of his 3-year-old brother, grandmother, mother and father. They are Jewish refugees from Berlin. The father’s shop was burned during the Kristallnacht time. My mother-in-law, by friends, knowing about going to Cuba by this journey as soon as they were rejected in the US at that time. Germany convinced Cuba to reject it, after the ship turned to Europe and concentration camps.
Fortunately, there are intrusions that lead to the captain, the Jewish refugee organization and travel passengers to avoid. The Vendig family ended in Belgium, then Vichy France and finally survived help from Switzerland. The family finally reached the US in 1946. They are lucky.
Stephanie Vendig, Los Angeles
