Step Sister of Anne Frank & Holocaust Survivor, Met With CA Students In 'Nazi' Party Photo

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- Photograph showed the high school students giving Nazi salutes around a swastika formed by drinking cups during a party.- Assoc. Press, March 7, 2019.

Eva Schloss met with California high school students who were photographed giving Nazi salutes around a swastika formed by drinking cups at a party. The stepsister of Anne Frank met privately Thursday with the group of US high school students. An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor, Eva Schloss said afterward that it was an emotional meeting in which she described her experiences at the Auschwitz death camp. “I think they have learned a lesson for life,” she said. The students of the Newport, California, high school indicated they didn’t realize what the actions really meant and apologized, she said. “They thought it was a joke,” Schloss said.

The meeting occurred at Newport Harbor high school in Newport Beach, where some of the teens in the photo are students. School officials said Schloss met with a group of about 50, including students who were involved, student leaders, parents and community members.



The party photo surfaced last weekend, shocking the wealthy seaside community. School officials and other leaders condemned antisemitic actions, and hundreds of people came to a meeting at the school Monday to express outrage. “I thought it was horrible what they did,” Alan Ramirez, a 15-year-old sophomore at Newport Harbor, said Thursday. He said he was disappointed because the photo gave the school a bad image, but he did not think any of those involved were actually embracing Nazism. Rather, he said, they were “caught in the moment, going with the crowd”.

“The majority of these kids were blown away by this,” Kathy Mader said as she picked up her sons. Mader said she and her children were thankful it was discussed at school. “I have to hope it was just stupidity,” she said.

Like Frank, the world-famous Jewish diarist who died in the Holocaust, Schloss and her family went into hiding in Amsterdam during the second world war but were betrayed and sent to the Auschwitz death camp. She was eventually liberated by the Russian army in 1945. Schloss, whose mother married Frank’s father, Otto Frank, in 1953, has told her story in talks to schoolchildren and in books including Eva’s Story: A Survivor’s Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank.

Frank was born in Germany and fled to the Netherlands with her family as Adolf Hitler rose to power. After Germany invaded the Netherlands, her father created a secret living space where she kept her now famous diary for two years before being discovered. She died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at age 15.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/07/newport-beach-swastika-anne-frank-stepsister



Anne Frank--- Eva Schloss as an adult--- Eva Schloss as a child

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. This mainly shows to what extent young people have absolutely no knowledge of history.

History is a subject, along with biology, that is often badly taught in our public schools, and all too often the biology or history teacher is also known as "Coach".

The underlying problem is that history is rarely taught in elementary school, and it should be. It shouldn't wait until 7th or 8th grade.

[appalachiablue]

2. The ignorance and rising antisemitism is appalling. Recent surveys

show that many, many young people in the US, Canada, Britain and Europe are clueless about the holocaust and WWII.
It's dangerous and inexcusable like the lack of proper history education.

> CNN, "Ignorance About The Holocaust Is Growing," Jan. 2019.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/27/opinions/holocaust-education-importance-wall/index.html

Ignorance about the Holocaust is growing, particularly among young people. In the United States, a 2018 survey showed that 66% of millennials could not identify what the Auschwitz concentration and death camp was. A recent CNN poll in Europe revealed that about a third of the 7,000 European respondents across seven countries knew "just a little or nothing at all" about the Holocaust. In France, nearly 20% of young adults between the ages of 18 and 34 said they had never heard of the Holocaust.

These studies paint a disquieting picture of widening gaps in the knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust with the passing years. The concern isn't only that the Holocaust is fading from memory, it's that the lessons that can be applied to the ongoing human rights abuses and threats to democracy are also being lost. Today, January 27, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and there is no better time to call for a renewed effort to educate young people about the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews.

As awareness of the Holocaust declines, we have witnessed, perhaps not coincidentally, a surge in anti-Semitic attacks. The FBI reported a 37% spike in anti-Jewish hate crimes in 2017 compared to the previous year. In October, a gunman shouting anti-Semitic slurs opened fire at a Pittsburgh synagogue, killing 11 worshipers in what was the deadliest attack against Jews in US history. And in Europe, the very continent where six million Jews perished by Nazi genocide, it is alarming and appalling that anti Semitism once again threatens Jewish communities...

[Behind the Aegis]

3. It is NO surprise there are rising numbers in anti-Semitism.

Also not surprising, is the lack of interest and the "tut-tuting" of any mention of anti-Semitism. With more Holocaust survivors dying off, we will only see an increase in ignorance, denialism, minimalization, and revisionism.

[GWC58]

4. The Holocaust deniers

will then be out in full force! 😡👺👿😈☠️

[Behind the Aegis]

5. And they will be emboldened by all types of anti-Semites.