Leo Goldberger

Boat with Jews sailing from Falster, Denmark to Ystad in Sweden, taken between September 1943 and October 1943.

For a Jewish World War II refugee, Trump’s immigration restrictions are ‘unimaginable’

February 1, 2017Conflict

Leo Goldberger was smuggled out of Denmark to Sweden during the Nazi-occupation. He’s upset by President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel to the US by citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.

Leo Goldberger and his family came from Czechoslovakia, but they moved to Denmark before World War II. That decision was the reason they escaped the Holocaust.

Danes helped him escape the Holocaust. Today, he says Denmark should do more for refugees.

February 2, 2016Global Politics