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Mannheim, Germany. Night of November 9, 1938. A 20-year-old Emanuel Keller is arrested and taken to the Dachau concentration camp near Munich. The reason: being Jewish and having been caught trying to warn his peers about the intentional breaking of store windows, looting, arson, humiliation and the danger of death.
On the other side of the world, Natalio Berman, a 25 year old deputy in Chile, was promoting the sending to the Chancellor of the Third Reich of a telegram signed by 75 of his colleagues in the Lower House demanding the complete cessation of anti-Semitic measures.
Emanuel Keller’s story continued when his mother obtained a visa for him to travel to South America and got him out of Dachau. Thus began a long voyage on the ship Conte Grande with 68 other Jews.
On March 21, 1939, Dr. Natalio Berman was in Montevideo, Uruguay, together with other parliamentarians, representing Chile at the International Congress of the Democracies of America. By telegram he was informed that there were 68 Jews in danger of being returned to Germany due to their false visas.
Dr. Berman did not hesitate for a second and asked the President of Chile, Pedro Aguirre Cerda, to grant them the grace to enter our country with an immigrant visa to the passengers of the Conte Grande and he agreed.
Emanuel Keller, meanwhile, who also managed to bring his parents, set up a metal-mechanics factory, married, had children, grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
Ilan is the great-grandson of Natalio Berman and Alón the grandson of Emanuel Keller. Neither knew of the invisible threads of history that bind them so firmly and completely. If Natalio had not acted on his conviction, Ilan and Alon would not be friends. Perhaps they would not even know each other or, worse, (and you know what I mean), the story would have been very different.
Excerpt from the article originally published in @revistashalomchile , written by Alejandra Morales Stekel
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
@velthove1 Please check your first link which concerns another person
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