Sam Zell, Jews

Still, he acknowledged that his family’s history has had a great effect on him. “How could it not?” he told me. “I’m an immigrant’s kid. I have a very different perspective on the world than somebody who grew up in Chicago and led what I would call a normal life. I think that being Jewish means that you’re vulnerable forever. Was there a stronger Jewish community anywhere in the world—more intellectual, more successful—than Germany in the late twenties and early thirties, before Hitler? And seven years later they’re building concentration camps! So, do I expect something like that to happen in the United States? Of course not. Do I think it could? Absolutely.”
Link from The New Yorker article November 12, 2007;
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/12/071112fa_fact_bruck?printable=true
I too am an "immigrant's" kid having had the good fortune to be born in America in 1941. We owe an enormous amount of gratitude to my Aunt Minnie who pleaded with her congressman Dickstein in Manhattan to save her brother's family in Poland. Immigration was restricted in 1924 and anti-Semitism was rampant here in the States as Henry Ford preached hatred in his Dearborn Gazette and published the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Father Coughlin the infamous Jew-hating Roman Catholic priest broadcast his vitriol from Royal Oak Michigan to an audience estimated at 30 million Americans, Charles Lindbergh as head of America First _"no war for Jews" and Joseph P. Kennedy, father of JFK, as Ambassador to the Court of St. James in London didn't hide his support for Hitler and claimed: "Jews get what they deserve" my parents brother and sister managed to flee their small town in Easterm Poland that was soon to become Hell on Earth and landed in America on July 14, 1938. that's what drives me to act in support of Jews and Israel.