Hermina Vlasopolos - April 9, 1984
American Jewish Community
Have you maintained any ties with the Jewish community here in the States?
Here, not very much no, no. Because I uh, I was very disappointed, very disappointed. And uh, then it was Mrs. Foyer who is a Jewish community, it was for the uh, ??? from Germany and was extremely nice to me and who was very, very understanding and it was the only time when I went back. I don't know if she's retired now or not because she told me she was going to retire when she's my age. She was very nice but she is uh, she is German, I mean, origin. Only she came before the war. She did not have to go through whatever happened, so. No, I was uh, I was disappointed. I didn't think that I was treated, you know, rightly. I was disappointed by my, by my, by my relatives too. They, they had become very, I don't know. It's true that my aunts--I was a very little child when my aunts came to the United States, but we had corresponded and they seemed to me so open-minded in, in the letters. I would have never come here, I would have gone to Israel, I tell you the truth. But they insisted very, very much. I, I didn't even think I would come to America. I did not have for one second the mirage of America like other people thought, they are coming here and, you know, the trees will just pour...
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