EXCLUSIVE: ‘They don’t want to call it antisemitism’
Published in The Australian Jewish News
October 3, 2019
“I get emotional because it has been quite a year,” Karen* stumbles through tears.
Her father was a Holocaust survivor, and before he passed in 2012, he recorded his testimony on to CD. He shared the bullying he encountered as a 12 and 13-year-old in Poland, the antisemitism of the mid-1930s “that everyone was a bit blasé about then”.
“It seems that everyone is a little blasé about what’s going on now too,” adds Karen.
Her son, Taylor*, adores listening to the recordings of his late grandfather – and now, after the past six months, his zaida’s experiences resonate with him on a new and deeper level.
Taylor is the victim of an alleged series of cruel antisemitic incidents.
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