REFUSED ENTRY TO BRITAIN
Polish-Jew Refugees
Two Polish-Jew refugees, mother and son, who were refused, admittance to England when they arrived by airliner at Croydon recently, had to return to Germany by boat, after a dramatic scene at the airport.
The German pilot refused to take them back by air because he feared that they might upset his passengers during the journey. The refugees were 70-years-old Frau Kleinmann and her son, aged 35. When told in the entrance hall at the airport that they could not be admitted, Frau Kleinmann pleaded on her knees to remain, while her son cried wildly in German, “Do not let me go back —they will kill me.” Airline officials and bookstall attendants joined the sympathetic crowd of passengers, who tried to comfort the couple.
When the pilot refused to take them as passengers, police decided that Frau Kleinmann and her son should go back by train and boat, and an officer was instructed to accompany them as far as Harwich. Because of the German currency restrictions, the Kleinmanns had arrived without money. No reason was given for tbe ban on their entering the country.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 151, 22 March 1939, Page 15
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190REFUSED ENTRY TO BRITAIN Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 151, 22 March 1939, Page 15
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