RE “No comparison between migrants and Nazi victims” (Letters, July 18): As a survivor of four years in the Nazi ghettos and concentration camps, I am saddened to note that we have not learned anything.

We find excuses for why we cannot and should not help migrant children, who come here to escape life-threatening conditions in their homelands.

In his letter, Michael Zack criticizes Governor Patrick for citing US barriers to European Jews in 1939 in his push to host migrant children. Zack writes that, on the contrary, helping these children would be a “violation of the sacred memory of the Holocaust victims.”