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Tue Jan 31, 2017, 07:21 PM Jan 2017

'The world's doors were closed': Jared Kushner's grandma on refugee life - Guardian

Grandmother of Trump’s son-in-law gave interview criticising America’s refusal to accept Jews fleeing Holocaust

An interview with the late grandmother of Donald Trump’s son-in-law and close aide Jared Kushner has re-emerged in which she describes her anguish over America’s refusal to accept Jews fleeing the Holocaust.

The rediscovery of the video comes amid an international furore over the US president’s executive order denying entry to citizens of seven Muslim countries.
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“The German shot them as [a band] was playing,” she said. “We put the dead bodies on a wagon. The heads of the people were hanging off the back of the wagon.”

Kushner’s account of her arduous journey through an unwelcoming Europe reads like some of the accounts given by Syrians fleeing war today.
- The Guardian
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'The world's doors were closed': Jared Kushner's grandma on refugee life - Guardian (Original Post) ffr Jan 2017 OP
Chances are this lady would be heartbroken C_U_L8R Jan 2017 #1
Shame on the Republicans Achilleaze Jan 2017 #2
They are the party of They Got Theirs, now you get yours. ffr Jan 2017 #3
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