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Jared Kushner’s grandmother on being a refugee: ‘The doors of the world were closed to us’

After surviving the Holocaust, Rae Kushner and her husband spent 3 1/2 years in an Italian displaced persons camp because they could not find a country to take them in.

By Josefin Dolsten January 30, 2017 5:49 pm

When Jewish immigrants were detained, and Jews took to the streets

On Nov. 15, 1923, 2,000 Jews rallied at the Lower Manhattan headquarters of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society to protest the detention of 3,000 of their relatives at Ellis Island.

January 30, 2017 3:33 pm

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Jared Kushner’s grandmother on being a refugee: ‘The doors of the world were closed to us’

When Jewish immigrants were detained, and Jews took to the streets

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Jared Kushner’s grandmother on being a refugee: ‘The doors of the world were closed to us’

When Jewish immigrants were detained, and Jews took to the streets

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