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Exhibit No. 1 (Page 6 of 8) Holocaust Survivors' Network
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...Uncle Harry's Secret
(6-87) In the fall of 1941, Harry was stationed to Buenos Aires. Here, too, was a country in violent flux. As a very young child, John remembers peeking through holes cut into the thick velvet curtains hanging in their apartment and seeing PerÛn agitators running in the streets and carrying flares. Harry became convinced that Nazi gold was being brought into Argentina by submarine, and that the Nazis were being aided and abetted by not only the PerÛn government of Argentina but by U.S. corporations as well.(6-88) He wrote memo after memo to his superiors at the state department. They were all ignored.
(6-89) He insisted that the state department reassign him to Washington and put him in charge of investigating Nazi infiltration of Argentina. Not only was this request denied, but in return he was offered a humiliating lower post in Havana, a backwater at that time.
(6-90) Feeling that he had no other recourse, Harry resigned in protest and returned with his wife and their eight children to Connecticut. Silence began to reign in his life.
(6-91) Rose would not let him talk of what he had done.
(6-92) "Mother was adamant that he had not disobeyed orders or broken the law. Therefore there was no need to talk about it. The silence sustained the family," says John, "That wall, a tenacious hanging on to some form of rightness, of correctness. . .In a world gone absolutely berserk, where the institutions in which my father believed were all screwed up, his structure, his belief that the world was going to be a great wonderful place was shattered."
(6-93) John paused. "Eventually, my father turned to his religion."
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