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a la izquierda

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9. South American countries accepted Jewish refugees at various points of the 30s and 40s...

Reply to pnwmom (Reply #7)

Sun Jun 24, 2018, 06:48 AM

Jun 2018

namely Brazil, Peru, and Argentina (but for the latter, only until the late '30s). Mexico did as well at various points, both accepting Jewish refugees from Russia and those escaping the Nazis.
The exact figures for most of these places is tricky to determine.

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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