On 28 Jun 2009 05:56:29 -0700, arosen2@cox.net (Andy) wrote:
[...] His Jewish mother was an Argentine citizen at the time of WWII. Her father (my friend's grandfather) lived in Vienna, Austria and was deported to Dachau Concentration camp at the onset of the time that the Nazis were removing all Jews >from this country.
Through a series of connections and bribery, she managed to have her father taken >from this death camp and deported to Argentina.
Can anyone authenticate if occurrences like this one ever occurred with any relative frequency? I never heard of this happening before.
If you put Dachau emigration as keywords in a search engine such as Google, you will find a number of instances.