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A Jewish Family Couldnt Flee Nazi Germany. So They Wrote Letters to Strangers in America Asking For Help

Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 6:35 a.m.

In 1939, as the Nazis closed in, Alfred Berger mailed a desperate letter to an American stranger who happened to share his last name. He and his wife, Viennese Jews, had found escape routes for their daughters. But now their money, connections, and...