Letters: America's inhumanity to Jewish refugees

Holocaust survivor Ernest Braunstein is comforted by Betsey Windmuller Roberts after the play "The Trial of Franklin Delano Roosevelt" was performed at the Los Angeles Jewish Home in Reseda. "I don’t want anybody to forget what happened to us," said Braunstein, 89. The SS St. Louis Legacy Project produces the play that puts FDR on trial for turning away a cruise liner filled with Jewish refugees in 1939. Roberts' parents were both on the ill-fated voyage.

L.A. Times Archives

Feb. 6, 2014 12 AM PT

Re “The voyage back,” Feb. 3

Thanks to Robert Krakow for writing the play “The Trial of Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” and to The Times for printing the article about the hundreds of European Jewish refugees in 1939 who were refused entry into Cuba and the U.S. and sent back to die in the Holocaust.

This was one of America’s darkest and most inhumane decisions. Perhaps we should remember “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” when we think of American values.

Susie Brown

Sherman Oaks

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