Last night I attended Kristallnacht, Night of Broken Glass. November 9, 2011 at the Edmonton Talmud Torah, Guest Speakers Robbie Waisman survivor of concentration camp, and Dr. Leon Bass, Afro American who was in US military to saw the concentration camp first hand.
It is an amazing story of how a black man seemed to be an angel to a Jew. They made initial contact in a concentration camp just after the allies liberated it. Amazing the similarities between both stories. Most people know about the holocaust. There are still some survivors. Dr. Bass talks about being discriminated against in the US wearing his soldier uniform and being made to stand in the back of the bus wearing his uniform. His experiences were mild compared to what he saw in the concentration camp. I don’t have time to detail everything,(apparently the CBC did a documentary about it) just to say there are many similarities between these two stories and stories of the Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Let us remember the holocaust, the American civil war, the Riel Rebellion, the Battle of Frog Lake, . . . . . . we must tell the stories. SO THEY WILL NEVER BE REPEATED. “The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing.”
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