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Born for America: The Story of Inge Meyring Smith

Born for America: The Story of Inge Meyring Smith

Friday, July 12, from 1 pm to 4 pm at Franklin Synergy Bank’s 722 Columbia Avenue location, Inge Smith, the author of Born for America will be signing books.  Below is an excerpt from the Williamson Herald.  For the complete story, click here.

Born Jewish in Dresden, Germany, Smith narrowly escaped the concentration camps of the Holocaust by fleeing to America in 1938 with her mother and father. There were no survivors in her extended family in Germany. As a young girl, she experienced prejudice, injustice and oppression that she was helpless to fight against.

The threat from Hitler and his growing army ostracized her family further and further from the lives they had made for themselves. The school that Smith loved banned her from attending, and the government seized her father’s small silk wholesale business leaving the family with little hope for a future. Thus, her parents decided that in order to survive, they must escape to America. To continue reading, click here.