OPINION: “[E]xclusion of people, and shutting them out, has been as American as apple pie.' -- Peter Hayes, historian NorthwesternU:
The author's grandfather, Mietek, and his sisters Stella and Gizela in Warsaw 1938. Their father was murdered in Treblinka in 1942.
Decades later, Australia recognized my great aunt, Stella Nemet, as a valued musical citizen and awarded her a medal from the Queen.Australia ultimately accepted the second highest number of Holocaust survivors, proportional to its population, after Israel. But they did not grant Mietek asylum when he first applied for it, in late 1939. He was left behind in occupied Poland, where he endured three Nazi concentration camps.
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