My grandparents supposedly were on a boat to Cuba and were turned away. They subsequently died in the gas camp called Chelmno, 1942. My own mother took the USS Cunard from Liverpool to the US in December 1939. What people were kept from was that the atrocities happening to Germany and Poland, started in the 1930’s. America was late to th…
My grandparents supposedly were on a boat to Cuba and were turned away. They subsequently died in the gas camp called Chelmno, 1942. My own mother took the USS Cunard from Liverpool to the US in December 1939. What people were kept from was that the atrocities happening to Germany and Poland, started in the 1930’s. America was late to the game because communications here were totally misconstrued by our “intelligence”. Jews who were already here kept pleading with government officials about the devastation. They got letters and telegraphs from their homeland. Tragedy abound!
My grandparents supposedly were on a boat to Cuba and were turned away. They subsequently died in the gas camp called Chelmno, 1942. My own mother took the USS Cunard from Liverpool to the US in December 1939. What people were kept from was that the atrocities happening to Germany and Poland, started in the 1930’s. America was late to the game because communications here were totally misconstrued by our “intelligence”. Jews who were already here kept pleading with government officials about the devastation. They got letters and telegraphs from their homeland. Tragedy abound!
I’m so sorry about your grand parents. I can’t even imagine such horror.
Thank you, Theresa. Yes, we all were robbed.
Requisitioned by the Government, RMS “Mauretania” was armed with two 150 mm guns and some smaller weapons & was painted in battle grey.
Sailed to NYC on 10th Dec 1939 with 166 passengers and 2,000 tons of cargo. Arrived on the 16th, and was docked at Cunard's Pier 90.