A Brother’s Keeper

Abstract

Meyer persevered, finding ways through the bureaucracies here and abroad to get my father out. He negotiated with officials, the mayor of the town, local judges, his congressman, the senator, the relief agencies in the United States, the bank, the ship company, to make it possible for my father to enter the country. This was a time when the gates to immigrants from Eastern Europe were closing, fast. It must have seemed interminable for both brothers.