As a Jewish woman whose grandfather emigrated to US in 1912 when he was 11 I forced myself to watch the Burns program. As much as I had already known about the Holocaust and how the US and denied entry of those who were fleeing unspeakable horrors it still is so heart breaking to learn even more details. I have been to the US Holocaus…
As a Jewish woman whose grandfather emigrated to US in 1912 when he was 11 I forced myself to watch the Burns program. As much as I had already known about the Holocaust and how the US and denied entry of those who were fleeing unspeakable horrors it still is so heart breaking to learn even more details. I have been to the US Holocaust museum, the Museum of The Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, the LA Holocaust Museum and the Ann Frank House in Amsterdam and still there are things I didn’t know. While I am glad by my accident of birth to be born in the US I am appalled by the way we treated the indigenous Indians, the internment of Japanese Americans, how we have marginalized black Americans and other minorities and the continuing xenophobic behavior today of people fleeing horrific dangerous countries. Unfortunately I have a pessimistic view of our current civilization. There just aren’t enough people who see beyond the end of their own noses and as such we are barreling towards unthinkable consequences.
As a Jewish woman whose grandfather emigrated to US in 1912 when he was 11 I forced myself to watch the Burns program. As much as I had already known about the Holocaust and how the US and denied entry of those who were fleeing unspeakable horrors it still is so heart breaking to learn even more details. I have been to the US Holocaust museum, the Museum of The Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, the LA Holocaust Museum and the Ann Frank House in Amsterdam and still there are things I didn’t know. While I am glad by my accident of birth to be born in the US I am appalled by the way we treated the indigenous Indians, the internment of Japanese Americans, how we have marginalized black Americans and other minorities and the continuing xenophobic behavior today of people fleeing horrific dangerous countries. Unfortunately I have a pessimistic view of our current civilization. There just aren’t enough people who see beyond the end of their own noses and as such we are barreling towards unthinkable consequences.