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by Warren St. John
(Spiegel & Grau)
Outcasts United is the story of a refugee soccer team, a remarkable woman coach, and a small southern town turned upside down by the process of refugee resettlement. It's a tale about resilience, the power of one person to make a difference, and the daunting challenge of creating community in a place where people seem to have little in common.
Excerpts from "The Chronicle of the Łódź Ghetto, 1941-1944" that record events such as births, deaths, and deportations that took place in February and March, 1942.
THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY, 1942
DEATHS AND BIRTHS
Men play soccer in front of residential houses at the Sumte refugee shelter in Sumte, Amt Neuhaus, Germany, May 2, 2016. The village of 102 people housed up to 1,000 migrants. Six months after the first arrivals, not only have fears of violence and overtaxed utilities not materialized, but the shelter has brought benefits including dozens of jobs to the village and the isolated rural region of northern Germany where it is located.
Consider the connection between the refugee crisis facing Europe in 2016 and the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust.
Immigration lawyer Hope Frye describes the conditions at child migrant detention centers in her congressional hearing testimony.
