“What is the lesson to be learned from the Holocaust?”

An interview with Hedy Epstein

“What is the lesson to be learned from the Holocaust?”

By Silvia Cattori

St.Louis, Missouri

Hedy Epstein, is a German Jewish Holocaust survivor, born in 1924, whose parents were sent to Auschwitz in 1942, where they perished. In 1948, Hedy Epstein went to live in United States. In 2003, she decided to make a trip to Palestine. Shocked by the oppression that the Israeli government is imposing on the Palestinians, she is, since then, devoting herself to make it known to the world. In the interview she gave to the Swiss journalist Silvia Cattori, Hedy Epstein speaks, with her gentle and mild voice, about her last travel to Palestine after a moving visit to one of several concentration camps to which her parents were deported. And she said: “I would like to dedicate this interview to the children of Gaza, whose parents cannot protect them or send them away to safety as my parents did when they sent me to England in May 1939 on a Kindertransport” (1)

1) http://www.kindertransport.org/history.html

2) About Hedy Epstein’s abuse by Israeli security officers: http://www.jkcook.net/Articles2/0165.htm http://www.counterpunch.org/cattori06072007.html

3) http://www.counterpunch.org/cattori06072007.html

http://www.voltairenet.org/article150755.html

4) http://www.unrast-verlag.de/unrast,2,18,5.html

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