Dear President Trump: Our Grandparents Were Refugees. This Is Their Story.

by Dramelin 9:00 PM 0 comments dear esther frieda germany grandparents jewish jews max nazis president refugees segall trump war

But even after the horrors of the Holocaust, the U.S. still refused to open its doors to Jewish refugees. Because Max?s birth father was born in a disputed area between Poland and Germany, Max was never able to obtain citizenship. So Max and Esther did what most refugees spend huge periods of their lives doing: They waited. President Harry Truman permitted some 35,000 to 40,000 displaced persons, most of them Jewish, to come between 1945 and 1948. By August 1939, with war looming, Esther had obtained two visas ? one to Peru and one to Chile.