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URL:https://kindertransport.org/events/together-in-welcome-hias-moth-of-vi
 gils/
SUMMARY:Together in Welcome\, HIAS month of Vigils
DESCRIPTION:HIAS is creating “Together in Welcome” – a month of commu
 nity vigils in cities and states across the country between June 6th and 
 July 6th to reclaim our national commitment to welcome.\nMany Kindertrans
 port survivors and their families were helped by HIAS\, before\, during\, 
 and after World War II\, and we join with them today. We\, our parents or 
 grandparents were once unaccompanied child refugees\, saved by being able 
 to escape to the few countries that allowed Kindertransport children safe 
 haven\, while many family members found no refuge and were murdered in the
  Holocaust. We were refugees\, we believe in welcome.\nJune 6th marks the
  anniversary of when the MS St Louis was turned away from US shores in 193
 9 and July 6th is the day in 1798 the Alien Enemies Act was signed. Betwe
 en these dates\, we celebrate World Refugee Day on June 20th.\nFrom refuge
 es on the St. Louis sent into the hands of Nazis to asylum seekers deporte
 d to an El Salvadoran prison\, the United States has experienced historica
 l lows in which we have abandoned core values and succumbed to xenophobia.
  When leaders weaponize law and bureaucracy against those seeking safety\,
  it hurts us all. These vigils are a declaration to the public and the ele
 cted leaders who represent us that we will not relinquish our identity as 
 a nation that welcomes immigrants and thrives because of them.\n\n\n&nbsp\
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