Sunday, June 16, 2013

Denied

After the Nazis passed even more laws hostile to Jews, Hansgeorg's father tried to get his family out of the country. In January 1939, he wrote a letter to a woman living in England. She was placing Jewish children in homes and boarding schools throughout England. Because their father wasn't able to pay monthly maintenance fees, the children's application was denied. After October 1941, a law was passed that forbid the Jews of Germany from leaving their country. The children were hopelessly trapped in a country that was hostile to them! They still held on to a distant hope, however - a hope that the war would end, and the Nazi party would be destroyed This dream would eventually come true... but would Hansgeorg live to see it?

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