Yesterday I went to a Yom Hashoah memorial service.  I received an ID card, #3034.  The name on the card was Curt Egon Rosenberg, 6/4/15.  He was born in Goettingen, Germany.  He was the eldest of 3 children born in that famous university city in Germany.  The family owned a linen factory.  Curt's granfather founded the factory. 

Curt attended public school and the one synagogue in the city.  In 1933, the Nazis came to power.  A year later, they seized the linen factory and the family was forced to move to Hamburg. 

Curt was arrested in 1938 and sent to Sachsenhausen, a camp mainly for enemies of the state at that time.  Curt was beaten frequently and when released in February 1939, had a damaged leg.  He was ordered to emigrate and left for England.  He went to a special camp in Kent, the Kitchener Camp in Richborough.  It housed men between the ages of 18 and 35.  Curt received agricultural training for several years. 

The camp was later converted to a British military base and Curt volunteered for the British army and fought with the Allies until the end of the war.  Curt then settled in Britain.  He learned that his parents and sister had perished in the Minsk ghetto in 1943. 

This story should haunt everyone.  I can happen here.  The government of the USA has rounded up "prisoners" twice in our history.  We cannot allow it to happen again.