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bobbieinok

(12,858 posts) Sun Jun 24, 2018, 12:35 AM Jun 2018

Anne Frank's father applied many times to emmigrate to US, was refused. She died in KZ! [View all]

KZ=Konzentrationslager=concentration camp

His many applications were, of course, for the whole family.

Found this information at the blog faithonthefringe [patheos.com/blogs/faithonthefringe]

Title of the post 'Did we kill Anne Frank today?'

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Anne Frank's father applied many times to emmigrate to US, was refused. She died in KZ! [View all] bobbieinok Jun 2018 OP

Sadly, the US has a checkered history with respect to immigration oberliner Jun 2018 #1

America refused to take any Jews, as did many other countries. onecaliberal Jun 2018 #2

No, America took many GeoWilliam750 Jun 2018 #4

History onecaliberal Jun 2018 #5

No, we didn't. The only western country that took many was the Dominican Republic, pnwmom Jun 2018 #7

South American countries accepted Jewish refugees at various points of the 30s and 40s... a la izquierda Jun 2018 #9

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum GeoWilliam750 Jun 2018 #11

That's nothing compared to the story of the St Louis ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #3

Wow! SMH. Has this country ever had a 20-year stretch of no government sanctioned atrocities? ecstatic Jun 2018 #6

Well, you know ... those Jews were white ... so, at least that shows we're not 'racist' in mr_lebowski Jun 2018 #10

No Jews weren't white back then dsc Jun 2018 #12

K&R smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #8