The ICE shooting in Minneapolis shattered my Holocaust survivor father’s American dream
People march during a “Stop ICE Terror” emergency protest in Minneapolis Jan. 8. Photo by Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images
By Beth Gendler
The fatal shooting of Renée Nicole Good by an ICE agent has made terrifying family memories feel too close to reality.
Last fall, I visited a train platform in Zbaszyn, Poland, where my father saw his parents for the last time.
There, he and his brother boarded a Kindertransport to seek refuge in England in 1940. They survived the Holocaust; my grandparents and my aunt were murdered by Nazis. The years before that separation were marked by profound betrayals by the German government, which lied to them, their neighbors and the rest of the world about the violence being enacted against them, and what their future held.
