To the editor: Thanks, guest collaborator Karen Musalo, for this article (“The United States failed refugees during the Holocaust. Trump Libya's plan would also.” May 19). Yes, we have to remember that what President Trump is planning is a repetition of the horrors of the Nazi era and that there are legal procedures today to avoid this.
My deceased husband was in St. Louis at the age of 7 with his brother, grandmother and father of 3 years. They were Jewish refugees from Berlin. The father's store burned during Kristallnacht. My mother -in -law, through friends, learned of entering Cuba through this trip when the entrance to the United States was denied at that time. Germany convinced Cuba to reject them, after which the ship turned to Europe and its concentration camps.
Fortunately, there were interventions drawn by the captain, the organization of Jewish refugees and passengers on the trip to avoid returning. The Vendig family ended in Belgium, then Vichy France and was finally rescued with the help of Switzerland. The family finally arrived in the United States in 1946. They were lucky.
Stephanie Vendig, Los Angeles
