An Immigrant’s Plea to a Powerful Man

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There was no response from the White House. The following month the Graber family was taken to a detention facility on Ellis Island originally used to quarantine immigrants. Several weeks later, the Grabers were sent by train to a former women’s prison in Seagoville, Texas. In June 1944, they were transported to another internment camp in Crystal City, twenty miles from the Mexican border. Worried about his youngest son’s health, and exhausted by his family’s experiences, Theodor Graber accepted the government’s offer to ship him and his family to Germany, where they could live with relatives. After the war, the two eldest sons, Werner and Gunther, chose to return to the United States when they each turned eighteen. Theo and Emmy stayed in Germany with little Teddy, who died in 1948 at the age of six.

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