Switzerland

As a 76-year-old Holocaust survivor who knows Switzerland well and used to love it, I do not envy Ambassador-at-Large Thomas G. Borer his task of damage management (letter, Sept. 20).

I visited Zurich in 1947, invited by my uncle, Max Rosenfeld, who paid everything. I was not allowed to work, and never did. In October I was requested to present myself to the Zurich Fremdenpolizei. The official treated me in best Gestapo style--after the war, in democratic Switzerland. He threatened and said I was lying about work, though I was ready to depart to my native Czechoslovakia and did so.

I visited Switzerland for the last time a year ago. One week convinced: I will never return. A mania has occurred and from the ordinary citizen to the millionaire, the Swiss are blaming Jews and survivors for their perfidy. Switzerland has decent citizens, for sure, but the role of their banks and the government will be infamous for the next 100 years.

FRED KLEIN

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