Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors of Nazi genocide unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza As Jewish survivors and descendents of survivors of the Nazi genocide we unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the ongoing occupation and colonization of historic Palestine. We further condemn the United States for providing Israel with the funding to carry out the attack, and Western states more generally for using their diplomatic muscle to protect Israel from condemnation. Genocide begins with the silence of the world. We are alarmed by the extreme, racist dehumanization of Palestinians in Israeli society, which has reached a fever-pitch. In Israel, politicians and pundits in The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post have called openly for genocide of Palestinians and right-wing Israelis are adopting Neo-Nazi insignia. Furthermore, we are disgusted and outraged by Elie Wiesel’s abuse of our history in other media to promote blatant falsehoods used to justify the unjustifiable: Israel’s wholesale effort to destroy Gaza and the murder of nearly 2,000 Palestinians, including many hundreds of children. Nothing can justify bombing UN shelters, homes, hospitals and universities. Nothing can justify depriving people of electricity and water. We must raise our collective voices and use our collective power to bring about an end to all forms of racism, including the ongoing genocide of Palestinian people. We call for an immediate end to the siege against and blockade of Gaza. We call for the full economic, cultural and academic boycott of Israel. “Never again” must mean NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE! Signed, Survivors Sonia Herzbrun, survivor of Nazi genocide, Tom Mayer, son of survivor and grandson of David Rohrlich, son of refugees from Vienna, H. Fleishon, daughter of survivors, United France. victims, United States. grandson of victim, United States. States. Hajo Meyer, survivor of Auschwitz, The Ivan Huber, survivor with my parents, but 3 Alex Nissen, daughter of survivors who Walter Ballin, son of holocaust survivors, Barbara Meyer, daughter of survivor in Polish Netherlands. of 4 grandparents murdered, United States. escaped but lost family in the Holocaust, United States. concentration camps. Lives in Italy. Henri Wajnblum, survivor and son of a victim Altman Janina, survivor of Janowski concen- United States. Fritzi Ross, daughter of survivor, grand- Susan Heuman, child of survivors and grand- of Auschwitz from Lodz, Poland. Lives in tration camp, Lvov. Lives in Israel. Mark Aleshnick, son of survivor who lost daughter of Dachau survivor Hugo Rosen- daughter of two grandparents murdered in a Belgium. Leibu Strul Zalman, survivor from Vaslui most of her family in Nazi genocide, United baum, great-granddaughter and great-niece forest in Minsk. Lives in United States. Renate Bridenthal, child refugee from Hitler, Romania. Lives in Jerusalem, Palestine. States. of victims, United States. Rami Heled, son of survivors, all grandpar- granddaughter of Auschwitz victim, United Miriam Almeleh, survivor, United States. Prof. Haim Bresheeth, son of two survivors of Reuben Roth, son of survivors who fled from ents and family killed by the Germans in Tre- Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen, London. Poland in 1939, Canada. blinka, Oswiecim and Russia. Lives in Israel. States. George Bartenieff, child survivor from Ger- Eitan Altman, son of survivor, France. Marianka Ehrlich Ross, survivor of Nazi ethnic many and son of survivors, United States. Todd Michael Edelman, son and grandson of Tony Iltis, father fled from Czechoslovakia survivors and great-grandson of victims of and grandmother murdered in Auschwitz, Jorge Sved, son of survivor and grandson of cleansing in Vienna, Austria. Now lives in Margarete Liebstaedter, survivor, hidden by the Nazi genocide in Hungary, Romania and Australia. victim, United Kingdom United States. Christian people in Holland. Lives in Belgium. Slovakia, United States. Anne Hudes, daughter and granddaugh- Maria Kruczkowska, daughter of Lea Horow- Irena Klepfisz, child survivor from the Warsaw Edith Bell, survivor of Westerbork, There- Tim Naylor, son of survivor, New Zealand. ter of survivors from Vienna, Austria, icz who survived the holocaust in Poland. Ghetto, Poland. Now lives in United States. sienstadt, Auschwitz and Kurzbach. Lives in Victor Nepomnyashchy, son and grandson of great-granddaughter of victims who per- Lives in Poland. Karen Pomer, granddaughter of member United States. survivors and grandson and relative of many ished in Auschwitz, United States. Sarah Lanzman, daughter of survivor of of Dutch resistance and survivor of Bergen Janine Euvrard, survivor, France. Belsen. Now lives in the United States. victims, United States. Mateo Nube, son of survivor from Berlin, Auschwitz, United States. Harry Halbreich, survivor, German. Hedy Epstein, her parents & other family Tanya Ury, daughter of parents who fled Nazi Germany. Lives in United States. Cheryl W, daughter, granddaughter and niec- members were deported to Camp de Gurs & Ruth Kupferschmidt, survivor, spent five Germany, granddaughter, great granddaugh- John Mifsud, son of survivors from Malta, es of survivors, grandfather was a member of subsequently all perished in Auschwitz. Now years hiding, The Netherlands. er and niece of survivors and those who died United States. the Dutch Underground (Eindhoven). Lives in concentration camps, Germany. lives in United States. Mike Okrent, son of two holocaust / concen- in Australia. Lillian Rosengarten, survivor of the Nazi Rachel Giora, daughter of Polish Jews who tration camp survivors, United States. Chris Holmquist, son of survivor, UK. Children of survivors fled Poland, Israel. Holocaust, United States. Susan Bailey, daughter of survivor and niece Beverly Stuart, daughter and granddaughter Suzanne Weiss, survived in hiding in France, Jane Hirschmann, daughter of survivors, of victims, UK. of survivors from Romania and Poland. Lives Liliana Kaczerginski, daughter of Vilna ghetto United States. in United States. and daughter of a mother who was mur- resistance fighter and granddaughter of Brenda Lewis, child of Kindertransport dered in Auschwitz. Now lives in Canada. Jenny Heinz, daughter of survivor, United survivor, parent’s family died in Auschwitz Peter Truskier, son and grandson of survivors, murdered in Ponary woods, Lithuania. Now States. United States. H. Richard Leuchtag, survivor, United States. lives in France. and Terezin. Lives in Canada. Jaap Hamburger, son of survivors and Karen Bermann, daughter of a child refugee Ervin Somogyi, survivor and son of survivors, Patricia Rincon-Mautner, daughter of Jean-Claude Meyer, son of Marcel, shot as a grandchild of 4 grandparents murdered in from Vienna. Lives in United States. United States. hostage by the Nazis, whose sister and par- survivor and granddaughter of survivor, Auschwitz, The Netherlands. Rebecca Weston, daughter and granddaugh- Ilse Hadda, survivor on Kindertransport to ents died in Auschwitz. Now lives in France. Colombia. Elsa Auerbach, daughter of Jewish refugees ter of survivor, Spain. England. Now lives in United States. Chava Finkler, daughter of survivor of Barak Michèle, daughter and grand-daugh- from Nazi Germany, United States. Prof. Yosefa Loshitzky, daughter of Holocaust Jacques Glaser, survivor, France. Starachovice labour camp, Poland. Now lives ter of a survivor, many members of family Julian Clegg, son and grandson of Austrian were killed in Auschwitz or Bessarabia. Lives survivors, London, UK. Norbert Hirschhorn, refugee of Nazi geno- in Canada. refugees, relative of Austrian and Hungarian in Germany. Marion Geller, daughter and granddaughter cide and grandson of three grandparents Micah Bazant, child of a survivor of the Nazi concentration camp victims, Taiwan. of those who escaped, great-granddaughter who died in the Shoah, London. genocide, United States. Jessica Blatt, daughter of child refugee survi- David Mizner, son of a survivor, relative of vor, both grandparents’ entire families killed and relative of many who died in the camps, Eva Naylor, surivor, New Zealand. Sylvia Schwarz, daughter and granddaughter people who died in the Holocaust, United in Poland. Lives in United States UK. Suzanne Ross, child refugee from Nazi of survivors and granddaughter of victims of States. Maia Ettinger, daughter & granddaughter of Susan Slyomovics, daughter and grand- occupation in Belgium, two thirds of family the Nazi genocide, United States. Jeffrey J. Westcott, son and grandson of survivors, United States. daughter of survivors of Auschwitz, Plaszow, perished in the Lodz Ghetto, in Auschwitz, Margot Goldstein, daughter and grand- Holocaust survivors from Germany, United Markleeberg and Ghetto Mateszalka, United Ammiel Alcalay, child of survivors from then and other Camps, United States. daughter of survivors of the Nazi genocide, States. States. Yugoslavia. Lives in United States. Bernard Swierszcz, Polish survivor, lost rela- United States. Susan K. Jacoby, daughter of parents who Helga Fischer Mankovitz, daughter, niece and Julie Deborah Kosowski, daughter of hidden tives in Majdanek concentration camp. Now Ellen Schwarz Wasfi, daughter of survivors were refugees from Nazi Germany, grand- cousin of refugees who fled from Austria, child survivor, grandparents did not return lives in the United States. from Vienna, Austria. Now lives in United daughter of survivor of Buchenwald, United niece of victim who perished, Canada. from Auschwitz, United States. Joseph Klinkov, hidden