Not all cries for help...
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Not all cries for help are heeded. As it became more and more apparent what the Nazis were intending to do with Jews within their venomous reach, many Jews emigrated from Europe to America in the 1930s and very early 1940s.
Irma Czerner and her husband and children safely arrived here. As the situation in Europe grew worse, she attempted to expedite the emigration of her brother and mother. Irma wrote a heartfelt and persuasive letter to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. She explained how her brother, a renowned physician, would be an asset to America's health care needs. She vowed her own family as sponsors to provide for their needs until they could get settled.
We do not know if Mrs. Roosevelt ever read that appeal for help. Irma did receive a letter from the government stating that due to lack of consular offices within German-controlled areas, nothing could be done. Irma's mother was eventually sent to the extermination camp at Treblinka. Irma's brother was killed at Auschwitz.
Irma Czerner and her husband and children safely arrived here. As the situation in Europe grew worse, she attempted to expedite the emigration of her brother and mother. Irma wrote a heartfelt and persuasive letter to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. She explained how her brother, a renowned physician, would be an asset to America's health care needs. She vowed her own family as sponsors to provide for their needs until they could get settled.
We do not know if Mrs. Roosevelt ever read that appeal for help. Irma did receive a letter from the government stating that due to lack of consular offices within German-controlled areas, nothing could be done. Irma's mother was eventually sent to the extermination camp at Treblinka. Irma's brother was killed at Auschwitz.
