Monday, January 4, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Jonathan Hoffman: Using Bogus 'Survivors' to Vilify Israel - 'Hedy Epstein is a "Refugee". She is not a "Survivor". To call her a "Survivor" is an insult to genuine Survivors and to their families. Hedy Epstein was never in a Camp, a Ghetto or a Death March. She is being touted as a 'trophy survivor' for the sole purpose of vilifying Israel. She left Germany (on the Kindertransport) on 18 May 1939, for England. The War did not start until 1 September 1939 (the invasion of Poland). The Yad Vashem Definition of a 'Survivor' is someone who was in a camp or in Germany or an occupied country after the War broke out. She's no more a 'survivor' than I am. To call her that is utterly cynical and mendacious....'
