Former President Donald Trump has promised mass deportations if he wins the 2024 presidential election in November.
Yet according to reporting by Andrew Silverstein in the Washington Post, the grandparents of Jared Kushner — Trump's son-in-law and a former senior adviser in his administration — came to the United States as refugees from Eastern Europe.
Silverstein notes that an ad appearing in The Forward, well-known Jewish publication, on May 17, 1946 sought help for Kushner's grandparents.
The ad, translated from Yiddish, read, "Bussel, David and his daughter Esther Lotker from Novogrudok, currently in New York are sought by Nachum Kushner."
"Nachum Kushner was the great grandfather of Jared Kushner, former President Donald Trump's son-in-law and White House adviser," Silverstein explains. "A hatmaker from what is now Belarus, Nachum survived the Holocaust with his daughters Rae (Jared's grandmother) and Lisa by tunneling out of the Novogrudok ghetto and living among resistance fighters in the forest."
Silverstein adds, "In the same woods, Jared’s grandfather, Joseph Berkowitz, who had escaped from a work camp, hid with his siblings."
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