A Long Island town's Nazi past is finally exposed
If you’re living in cramped Brooklyn and that sounds like a bargain, think again though. There are no shuls in the area, and the closest Chabad center is 21 miles away. Yaphank was fertile territory for the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi adherents in the 1920s and ‘30s, and according to the Suffolk Center of the Holocaust, Diversity and Human Understanding, anti-Semitism is still endemic in these parts. But who knows? Like the Kneers proved, anything can change.
Rachel Ginsberg contributed to this report.
(Originally featured in Mishpacha, Issue 936)
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