Opinion: The story of my family’s journey to America is the story of refugees anywhere, writes David Molton
My father’s family tried to come to America 80 years ago. They were among more than 900 passengers on the M.S. St. Louis, a German refugee ship that was turned away from North American ports. The lessons from that saga are relevant today.
My family’s journey began in 1935. My grandfather impersonated a Nazi official and removed the Jew-hating Der Sturmer newspaper from the newsstands of Fischhausen, a rural town in East Prussia. The following year my grandparents, father, aunt and uncle—known by their surname Motulsky—fled....
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