A Story Told!

As many of you know I am on the Governor's Advisory Council on Hate Crimes, at one meeting we had a guest, a rabbi from West Hartford who survived the Holocaust and he told his story of how he survived from the Nazis, now other have come forward to tell their stories

As Children, They Fled the Nazis Alone. Newly Found Papers Tell Their Story.

Just under 10,000 Jewish children fled to Britain from Europe from December 1938 to September 1939. Not much was known about their journeys, until recently.

Hartford Courant

By Claire Moses

March 19, 2025

When Hanna Zack Miley boarded a German train in July 1939, she did not know that the journey would permanently change her life.

She was 7 at the time, about to travel to Britain without her parents. She remembers saying goodbye to them on the platform of the train station in Cologne, Germany. “They told me it was a nice trip, and I believed it,” Ms. Miley, an only child, said. “I think they were trying to make it easy for me. I was the apple of their eye.”

As her short legs took her up the steep steps of the train, she wanted to take one more look at her parents. “I turned around, and I saw that they were crying,” Ms. Miley said. “It must have been awful for them.”

In that moment she realized that this was not, in fact, a nice trip.

She never saw her parents again.

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Canada...

Trans families consider leaving U.S. after Trump's re-election

Fear over bathroom bills, loss of health-care funding forcing families to make tough decisions

CBC News

By Perlita Stroh 

Feb 04, 2025

Barbara Fowler has a go bag in the trunk of her car. In it are her family's documents, burner phones, clothes, medications and an address of a house in Canada — ready, should her family need to flee their country. 

Fowler lives in the United States.

Her daughter is one of the 1.6 million American citizens who identify as transgender — one in five of which are between the ages of 13 and 17, according to the Williams Institute think-tank at the University of California, Los Angeles. 

Donald Trump's re-election as president has filled Fowler with extraordinary anxiety.

"I cry and I rage and I carry so much fear for my family," said Fowler, who asked CBC News not to use her real name, location or the name of her daughter. "I don't know with this administration what will happen."

Germany: 1930s

United States: 2020s

Almost 100 years later.