MSM Misses Another Headline On Holocaust Remembrance Day

I did change the headline as put forward by cable news channel CNN te better highlight the message on Holocaust Day.

With the failed attempts to turn dictator states in the Middle East into a democracy American style, the 21st century has turned hope for humanity into a disaster for millions of people. No European state is showing leadership and take responsibility for military failures. In hindsight, the costly endeavor by president Bush in Iraq offers a better contrast to the awful R2P hands-off policy during eight years of the Obama administration.

○ Ambassador Susan Rice advocating for R2P response in Libya and Syria

Obama has responsibility for the resurgence of Al Qaeda in Anbar province which led into a proxy war with Western allies (NATO partners and GGC states) and the Syria/Iran/Hezbollah alliance. The sad state of affairs in Turkey and its blatant support for Sunni jihadists, both al Qaeda and ISIS, made the sectarian war a slaughter fest by the most extreme foreign militants. An estimated 6,000 men from Tunisia joined the Islamists in the Levant to establish a caliphate. With Russia stepping in with military power, the civil/sectarian war may yet end through a political/diplomatic solution.

In all fairness, the Jewisdh state of Israel also evolved into an undemocratic state of oligarchs with misogyny, racism and Islamophobia. The European Nations are falling over one another to respond with harsh measures to the Syrian refugee crisis crossing from Turkey into Greece, a Schengen nation of Europe. Europe needs a wake-up call, I am quite distressed we have crossed a point of no-return.

Anne Frank’s stepsister compares European refugee response to era of Nazi Germany

(CNN)–In an essay to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Anne Frank’s stepsister accused Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump of “acting like another Hitler.”

Eva Schloss, now 86, was a friend of Frank’s in Amsterdam after their families fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Her mother, Fritzi, would marry Otto Frank, Anne’s father, after World War II.

“If Donald Trump become(s) the next president of the U.S. it would be a complete disaster,” she told Newsweek on Wednesday. “I think he is acting like another Hitler by inciting racism.”

European response to refugee crisis similar to era of Nazi Germany

Schloss survived Auschwitz while Frank and her mother died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and Anne Frank’s diary became a famous account of life as a Jewish family under Hitler’s Nazi Germany.

Schloss, who lives in London, also criticized the U.S. and Western European governments for their response to the Syrian crisis, likening the refugees’ experience in 2016 “to what we went through” in Nazi-controlled Europe.

“I remember how upset the world was when the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961,” Schloss said. “And now everybody is building walls again to keep people out. It’s absurd.”

Eva Schloss: The Stubborn Girl In Auschwitz

Eva Schloss was Anne Frank’s stepsister and a prisoner of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The friendship as well as the abuse in the concentration camp have cast long shadows over her life. But writing about it, helped her heal.

“Children, I promise you this: everything you do leaves something behind; nothing gets lost. All the good you have accomplished will continue to lives of the people you have touched. It will make a difference to someone, somewhere, sometime, and your achievements will be carried on. Everything is connected, like a chain that cannot be broken.”

Sitting in a sofa in the Dutch city of Amsterdam, these were the comforting words by Eva Schloss’ father a night in May 1940. The Jewish family was fleeing the Nazis. The 11-year-old Eva and her three-year-older brother Heinz were extremely anxious as to what would happen to them.

They had fled their hometown of Vienna when the Nazis invaded Austria in 1938. Now Hitler’s troops had reached Amsterdam, and their father and mother could guarantee them neither safety, nor an everyday life or simply a future. But what they had was the love of parents. Their father held them in his arms in that sofa and gave a promise that their lives, now that their faith was uncertain, would have a meaning, after all.

“But at that point, I had not achieved anything yet,” says 85-year-old Eva Schloss today.

The entire family was captured and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Eva and her mother survived nine long months in the camp – her father and brother died.

Eva Schloss is sitting in a brown leather chair in her living room in a small apartment in one of London’s nicer neighbourhoods, reflecting on that particular night in May more than 70 years ago. Despite the distance in time and the traumatic experiences she has been through, she still remembers very brightly the very last, safe moment she had with her family.

“I am very stubborn. It helped me survive. And I remember sitting there in the camp’s misery thinking that if I were to die now, nobody would remember me. So I decided to live,” says Eva Schloss, with a strong Austrian accent despite having lived in London for the past 40 years.