Laura F. Deutsch is a writer who lives in Sharon, Massachusetts. She is a columnist for "The Jewish Advocate" and is currently working on a novel about wartime Austria.
The Polenaktion was a precursor to sudden arrests, roundups, deportations, violence, seizure of property and countries making clear Jews were not welcome.
We met a history teacher in Greece who denied the Holocaust and equated the murder of 300 Jews on a ship headed for Auschwitz to death by natural disaster.
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