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Stephen Kapos was seven years old when Nazi Germany invaded Hungary
and hunted down Jews such as himself <
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/3/25/i-am-a-holocaust-survivor-uk-police-interviewed-me-for-protesting-genocide>:
A year ago, in April 2024, I gave my first speech on a stage in
Hyde Park where I told the huge crowd about Adolf Eichmann coming
to Hungary to organise the deportation of 400,000 Jews to
Auschwitz. I also spoke about the 15 members of my own family who
perished there and about my father who was taken to Belsen and
Theresienstadt concentration camps – although eventually he did
return. I ended the speech like this: We Jews who survived all
this pain, killings, humiliation and destruction are against the
use of the memory of the Holocaust by the Government of Israel as
cover and justification for the ongoing genocide against the
Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank.
What was most striking about the speech was not what I said but
that the huge crowd listened in such respectful silence and then
applauded with such enthusiasm. To suggest that such a crowd was
anti-Semitic – let alone potentially violent – is absurd. Yet that
is exactly what several newspapers did when they published
evidence-free articles the next day falsely claiming that the
crowd had threatened to vandalise Hyde Park’s Holocaust memorial.
He is not the only Holocaust survivor who says “not in my name”.
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