Regarding Craig Wiesner’s “Flashbacks” in the Monday Daily Journal, as a native of the Netherlands and born during the war, I am very familiar with the plight and extermination of the Dutch Jewish population. Her book quite accurately describes what happened. Our next-door Jewish neighbors had trusted Christian families with their toddler daughters before they were deported to a Dutch concentration camp. They survived and fortunately were reunited with their daughters after the war. It was quite traumatic for them as it was for their kids. My mother and she became very close friends and I do not recall our neighbor dwelling on their horrific experience.
Therefore, I take issue with comparing the tragedies of the Jewish children with the voluntary children’s deportation of immigrants here illegally. The latter had a way to return to the country of their parents’ origin whereas most of the Dutch Jewish children were sent to their extermination. Also, the mother of the deported children is responsible for their well-being and had made the decision to come here without legal documentation. That is in no way comparable with the status of the Jewish parents who were legal Dutch residents. Your sob story is an insult to the tens of thousands of Jewish children who were not given a choice, and were not able to return to the country of their parents’ origin and were killed because of their ethnicity.
Craig stepped out of bounds IMO with his June 2 column titled, "Flashbacks." An overwhelming majority of Americans want undocumented criminal elements who are exploiting our legal system expelled. They also disagree with Hamas supporters who are calling for the genocidal extermination of Jews. What irony... Craig compares folks who do not share his political POV and who oppose antisemitism today with an authoritarian regime (Nazi Germany) that made antisemitism the centerpiece of that regime's warped world view.
Here's a flashback for Craig and anyone else who may be interested... check out Irena Sendler.
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Hi, Dirk
Agreed.
Craig stepped out of bounds IMO with his June 2 column titled, "Flashbacks." An overwhelming majority of Americans want undocumented criminal elements who are exploiting our legal system expelled. They also disagree with Hamas supporters who are calling for the genocidal extermination of Jews. What irony... Craig compares folks who do not share his political POV and who oppose antisemitism today with an authoritarian regime (Nazi Germany) that made antisemitism the centerpiece of that regime's warped world view.
Here's a flashback for Craig and anyone else who may be interested... check out Irena Sendler.
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