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Today Meili lives with his wife Giuseppina and their two children in a cramped apartment in West Orange, N.J., courtesy of a Polish-born developer who escaped the Holocaust. "I am the first Swiss person in history to get political asylum," Meili tells his audience here, drawing laughter. (Congress passed special legislation last August granting the Meilis residency.) Other Jewish benefactors have provided furniture, English classes, driving lessons, two 10-year-old cars, the $31,000-a-year doorman job and synagogue schooling for his children, ages five and three. "The Meilis are among the righteous gentiles," says Toby Goldberger...
...uniform, he spends most days in a Manhattan office building "just standing," he says. "Sometimes I give directions to the elevator, or I tell people to sign in. It gives me a lot of time to think. That's what I do all day long. I think about the Holocaust. Sometimes I go crazy." Back home in New Jersey, Giuseppina Meili is baffled by the American suburbs. "They have big, big castles," she says, "and a lot of people think only about money...
...compensatory damages for slander and retaliatory firing and up to $2.5 billion in punitive damages for thwarting justice, Swiss papers ran stories claiming that Meili had been a teenage member "of a shoplifting gang." (Meili, who acknowledges a troubled childhood, says any punitive damages awarded will go to Holocaust victims...
...theme among those people who read names was realization of how many families were exterminated in the Holocaust...
...million Jews died [in the Holocaust] and the least we can do is stand in the rain for eight hours," she said. "We always say never again, but the only way to do that is to make sure we don't become desensitized...