By Dec. 3, 2015 9:23 a.m. Meg Jones of the Journal Sentinel recently wrote an article featuring 84-year old Phil Freund of Menomonee Falls, and it is well worth reading.http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/syrian-refugee-crisis-hits-close-to-home-for-menomonee-falls-man-who-escaped-nazis-holocaust-b996218-358139081.html Jones tells us that Freund is Jewish and a former refugee. As a child in 1939 he left Germany aboard the MS St. Louis, along with other Jews, to escape the Nazis. The ship was headed for Cuba where Freund, his mother and sister were to live, but Cuba would not accept them. Nor would the United States or Canada, So, the boat returned to Europe, leading to the...
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