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· Voyage of the St Louis [Holocaust Encyclopedia]

Victor Brombert was born in Berlin in 1923 into a well-to-do Russian-Jewish family that had previously escaped Russia at the outbreak of the revolution. As Hitler rose to power the Brombert family would once again find itself fleeing, this time to the United States.

In 1943 Brombert was drafted into the U.S. Army. Due to his fluency in French, German, and Russian he was placed in a special unit that was trained in frontline military intelligence at Camp Ritchie. Graduates of Camp Ritchie became known as "Ritchie Boys" and would be responsible for collecting more than half the actionable intelligence gathered during World War II.

In 1944 Brombert took part in the Normandy landings with the 2nd Armored Division at Omaha Beach. He would later see action at the Battle of Hurtgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge.
German-born Jew on Interrogating Nazi Prisoners of War | American Veterans Center | August 23, 2022

Yes, the St. Louis.

But FDR appointed Brandeis to the Supreme Court.

Lesson: for a Republican, there’s an extremely harsh look back. I’ve seen documentaries about the Reagan years that described nothing like what took place during his prosperous presidency.

Dems get a free pass by the press now and one later from historians.

For example - this is FDR of Japanese internment camps, mind you:

https://www.npr.org/2013/03/18/174125891/fdr-and-the-jews-puts-roosevelts-compromises-in-context

EoZ discusses Burns’ documentary and its curious treatment of Palestine https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2022/09/0913-links-pt2-anti-zionists-advocate.html:

For the past five months, in interviews and press releases about his upcoming documentary, filmmaker Ken Burns has been claiming that the Roosevelt administration accepted more refugees than any other sovereign nation during the Nazi era.
The phrase “sovereign nation” struck us as odd. Ordinarily, one would say, “than any other country.” Why emphasize the word “sovereign?”
Now Burns has let the cat out of the bag. Apparently responding to criticism of his handling of the immigration statistics, Burns admitted to an interviewer from The Daily Beast on September 4 that he has been using the term ‘sovereign nation’ to distinguish [it] from the fact that people escaped to other places, like Palestine.
Why is Burns trying to disqualify Palestine from the conversation? Why resort to a technicality about sovereignty in order to try to push Palestine out of the discussion?
Even though Palestine was not sovereign, the ruling authorities there – the British – certainly were a sovereign power and they had to make a decision about how many Jews to admit either to the United Kingdom or to the territories under its control. Likewise, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had to make a decision about how many Jews he would admit either to the mainland United States or to the non-sovereign territories it controlled, such as the US Virgin Islands