Eva Schloss — the stepsister of Anne Frank and herself a survivor of Auschwitz — compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler in an op-ed in Newsweek about the challenges that refugees are facing around the world.
“If Donald Trump become [sic] the next president of the U.S. it would be a complete disaster. I think he is acting like another Hitler by inciting racism,” she said.
She also condemned the resistance some countries have put up against accepting refugees from Syria, comparing it to the obstacles Jews encountered when trying to escape the Holocaust.
“I am very upset that today again so many countries are closing their borders. Fewer people would have died in the Holocaust if the world had accepted more Jewish refugees,” she said.
Wow, that’s as strong a condemnation anyone could give, let alone a concentration camp survivor. Her words bring to mind instantly the words of a churchman of that era:
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
Martin Niemöller created multiple versions of the text during his career. The earliest speeches, written in 1946, list the communists, incurable patients, Jews or Jehovah’s Witnesses, and civilians in countries occupied by Nazi Germany. In all versions, the impact is carefully built up, by going from the “smallest, most distant” group to the largest, Jewish, group, … and then finally to himself as a by then outspoken critic of Nazism. Niemöller made the cardinal “who cares about them,” clear in his speech for the Confessing Church in Frankfurt on 6 January 1946, of which this is a partial translation:[1]
It’s a fair cop.
This might have legs.
“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and spray Zyklon-B and I wouldn’t lose voters,” Trump said at a campaign rally here.
not right now.
maybe in Sept, but now:nope.