Author/Speaker, Holocaust survivor, MBE, Hon. Doctor of Letters, Sheffield Uni. 2018, Hon. Doctor of Arts, Oxford Brookes 2018 both for my work on the Holocaust
Yes and I will continue to speak up for the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis - those poor souls have no voice but mine. You should be ashamed. Read my books and learn what the Nazis really did.
I have never known such love and support in my life than I’m getting this morning (England World Cup goals aside, possibly). I want to thank each and every one of you. It means a lot. I’ll continue to try and speak up for those poor souls that have no voice. Cheers all. 👊🏻
He is not alone. I am a 73 year old survivor of the Holocaust who is terrified of Corbyn moving into No. 10. My parents brought me to England in 1946 because they thought it was a safe and fair country. What would they say if they were alive to see this?
There is something seriously wrong in this county when a 17 year old Jew is terrified that the leader of the opposition (
@jeremycorbyn
) will become Prime Minister, because of his tolerance for
#LabourAntisemitism
Meghan talks about 'her pain and suffering'. I think of my mother in the Budapest Ghetto in the winter of 1944/5. Having almost no food, she breastfed me & kept me warm in the bitter cold with Hungarian fascists taking shots at the Jews. She knew about pain & suffering. (Revised)
I have just complained to the House of Commons about David Lammy's use of the term Nazi on the Andrew Marr show this morning. It was disrespectful to the millions of people killed by the Nazis, like members of my family.
Jews were welcomed back to England by Cromwell in 1656. I think 362 years is long enough for Corbyn and his ilk to get used to us and our sense of humour. We understand British irony better than he thinks.
John McDonnell's comment on this just now:
"Whatever Jeremy has said throughout the years has always been about securing peace.. .This has been taken out of context."
Explain, please, how a reference to British 'Zionists' not understanding English irony is about securing peace?
Yes I did thank you. But only just, because the Nazis wanted to kill me when I was a baby. However my mother and I survived the Budapest Ghetto even tho I was only 6 months old. Now I'm enjoying my life. Are you enjoying your's?
I am 73 and don't understand what is going on. I was at a college last night with 'gender neutral' toilets. There was a male cubicle and a male/female one. That is not gender neutral - that is putting men in a privileged position. Why can't we keep the women's toilets?
I don’t agree with the notion that trans women are men (though I do recognise we are biologically Male). But the idea of people being censored for expressing thoughts should worry us all. Free speech means hearing things you don’t agree with!
Exactly. If Israel had existed in the 1930s the Holocaust would not have happened because the Jews would have had somewhere safe to go. Most countries slammed their doors shut to them and they were murdered by the Nazis.
We can never be reminded too often that 1.5 million Jewish children were murdered by the Nazis because they were Jewish. They must have been so frightened.
#OTD
in 1944, Eva and Leah Munzer were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau. "The only comfort I can find lies in the hope that the world might yet learn the terrible consequences of prejudice and hate," said brother Al Munzer. 1.5 million children were killed during the Holocaust.
I have never understood the anti-semites' obsession with the Rothschilds. They came from the 18th century Frankfurt Ghetto with no inherited advantages or wealth & became the wealthiest family through shrewd business sense & hard work. Surely an example to be admired and copied?
Corbyn Labour and
@PeoplesMomentum
supporters just can’t understand why talking about “Rothschild Zionists” is Jew hatred!
Because they all want to talk about the evil Rothschild Zionist bankers!
As a Holocaust survivor, I was upset that in all the talk about the new memorial teaching the lessons of the Holocaust, nobody spoke of the elephant in the room - the
@UKLabour
tolerates a level of anti-Semitism amongst its members never seen before in Her Majesty's Opposition.
Holocaust survivor Agnes
@GrunwaldSpier
launched a scathing attack on the Labour party moments after
@EmilyThornberry
addressed the opening of Shoah exhibition:
'..I was incensed she came, as I have seen her defend what Corbyn said .."
Don't forget whilst Oxfam staff were abusing the local Haitis, Israel created a full field hospital, treated more than 1110 patients, conducted 319 successful operations, delivered 16 babies including three by Cesarean section and saved many from within the ruins.
Yep, Oxfam lost me too over the Sodastream debacle. Then I dug deep and found their antisemitism, their anti-Israelism, their links to Palestinian terrorists, and I knew that Oxfam is a bad bad deal.
Isn't it interesting that the Labour Party sings about Jerusalem at their Conference after waving their Palestinian flags? King David declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel over 3000 years ago.
The Jews of Greece had a terrible time because they had so far to travel to their deaths in great heat and terrible conditions. They are often overlooked in the history of the Holocaust and that's why I wrote quite a bit about them in my book on betrayal.
#OTD
in 1943 Nazi deportations of Jews from Thessaloniki & Macedonia to Auschwitz-Birkenau began. Hanna Hemmingway recalls the Nazi invasion:
"I heard a hell of a noise & went out of the house, I was told not to. As I peeped behind that wall, I saw the first tank…"
1/9
Palestinians in Gaza protest against Hamas as the Iran regime funded terror group cracks down on civilians.
Suddenly the world is silent on the oppression of Palestinians? 🙄
As a Holocaust survivor I am shocked by this treatment of
@ThangamMP
:
1. Why did her local party behave like this?
2. Under what rules did the Chair not permit her to defend herself?
3. Why the MSM are not covering it this morning - not BBC radio ir TV?
The treatment of the highly capable, popular
@UKLabour
MP
@ThangamMP
epitomises the dark heart of the Corbynist movement. If she is driven out of British politics by hard-left thugs, it will be an affront to democracy.
On this
#InternationalDanceDay
we remember Jewish ballerina Franciszka Manheimer-Rosenberg, known as Franceska Mann.
She arrived at Auschwitz on Oct 23 1943 & multiple interpretations of her defiance & revolt have endured.
Learn more: RT
@hmccord78
I was very lucky - I was born 5 days later in Budapest on 14 July 1944. Just missed the last of the trains. The child with the dandelion was gassed shortly after the photo was taken. Horrific.
9 July 1944 | 5 trains crossed the border in Košice. It ended the main phase of deportation of Hungarian Jews to
#Auschwitz
. Between May 14-July 9, 142 trains brought some 420k of them to the camp
Including a child who found a dandelion near a gas chamber
I made a mistake last night by watching a bit of
#bbcqt
for the first time in years. I remembered why I stopped watching - did anyone on the panel apart from Melanie Phillips know or care that Diane Abbot had lost the Labour whip for antisemitic comments?
The amazing Melanie Phillips, who always was a superb explainer of Israel's battle to survive (see below), is currently battling both most of panel & an unhinged
#bbcqt
audience.
Go on Melanie! 🇮🇱🇬🇧
#standwiththetruth
#standwithisrael
@MelanieLatest
Why are the women's toilets made 'Gender Neutral'? I am 73 and I don't want to find men in the toilet. This is nonsense - it it's such a good idea take the men's toilets away - women need privacy.
@bbcthisweek
@Centre_RightSam
@afneil
Perhaps they could read my books written by a survivor of the Budapest Ghetto. I was six months old when we were liberated in January 1945. They might begin to understand where anti-Semitism leads.
This elderly Jewish lady knows where prejudice against Jews leads. Not only do I know from my family's experience but I have researched and written three books on the Holocaust for which I have received an MBE and an Honorary Doctorate. So please don't patronise me.
@GrunwaldSpier
@PhilDurling100
Why would his elderly Jewish lady be terrified of Jeremy Corbyn becoming PM. She should be more afraid of this Government. If she becomes ill she will experience the lack of care for the elderly.
I have reported this to Twitter as I find it deeply offensive. It will be interesting to see if they decide it doesn't breach their guidelines which is often their response. I'd like to see these guidelines. I am 79 year old Holocaust survivor who was a magistrate for 30 years.
Yes it is difficult to comprehend. How can someone spend all day killing and torturing people and then go home to one's family in the villa on the site of Auschwitz and sit and eat a cosy family dinner. But they did day after day.
One of the biggest challenge when we study the tragedy of
#Auschwitz
, is to understand that the perpetrators were not monsters. They were people - fathers, husbands and dog owners - who accepted the ideology of hatred & evil and were able to do monstrous things on its behalf.
Remember these scenes.
This is what we want the world to see.
This is who we are.
We stand against antisemitism and we proudly stand with our Jewish friends.
Never forget 🇬🇧
#NeverAgainIsNow
#MarchAgainstAntisemitism
Corbyn is like an anti-Semite's advent calendar. Every day you lift a flap to reveal a new nasty story. Dame Louise Ellman is a fine MP & spent years as Chair of the Commons Transport Committee. She is a hard working woman of integrity and this snide remark is a further disgrace.
👇This IS antisemitism.👇
#LabourAntisemitism
"
@jeremycorbyn
faced a new anti-Semitism storm last night after it was claimed he mocked a leading Jewish Labour MP behind her back by calling her 'the MP for Tel Aviv'."
It's good that you are highlighting Eva Heymann and her diary. She is not as well known as Anne Frank but she writes very well about life in the Ghetto and how she fought to keep her precious red bicycle when the Nazis too it away. She died in Auschwitz.
OTD in 1944, German forces occupied Hungary.
Help YP explore the fate & experience of Hungarian Jews, like 13yrs old Eva Heymann, whose family were forced into a ghetto, & later told they would be 'resettled in the east' using our textbook.
Eva made a last diary entry 30/05/44.
One of the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis simply because they were Jewish. Imagine the fear and terror she went through on the journey to Auschwitz, even before she was killed.
6 May 1940 | Betty Vredenburg, a Dutch Jewish girl was born in Amsterdam to Abracham and Rachel. She was murdered in a gas chamber of the
#Auschwitz
camp on 21 May 1944. She was 4 years old. (Photo:
@yadvashem
)
.
@MetCC
I have been advised by
@CST_UK
that I should report the harassment from
@holidayspice
yesterday where amongst other things I was called a 'murdering wh0re' in two tweets. I am a 79 year old Holocaust survivor and was a magistrate for 30 years.
We decided to look into
@holidayspice
who has been harassing
@GrunwaldSpier
a Holocaust survivor.
Guess what we found, Suana Zembo is a Holocaust denier who supports Hamas.
Please report her to
@TerrorismPolice
She lists The Holiday Consultants Group LTD as her employer 🤯
Israel has the highest skin cancer rate outside Australasia.
Like in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, this is what naturally transpires when white neo-colonial Europeans claim the land as their 'own'.
Indigenous apparently?
Great Stand Up To Racism meeting in Leeds last night.
Proud to be there in solidarity with the practical work they’re doing under the banner of:
■ Refugees Welcome
■ No to Islamophobia, No to Anti-Semitism + No to Scapegoating Migrants
■ Black Lives Matter
I'd forgotten that - what a creep? Thanks for reminding me - please RT. My father committed suicide and it is no joke. He now wants to lead
@UKLabour
.
Do those Brits who believe it’s ok to sing an 18th Century song about never being enslaved, written when the UK was enslaving and killing millions of innocents, also believe it’s appropriate for neo-Nazis to shout, “We will never be forced into a gas chamber.”
#RuleBritannia
If Yasmin hates this country so much why doesn't she go back to her native land. Idi Amin is no longer in charge. We came as refugees in 1947 when I was 3 and I have always been grateful to this country for accepting us.
Very privileged to be present at today's funeral of 6 unknown Jewish people. Very poignant unique ceremony - my grandfather Armin Klein was killed at Auschwitz on a date unknown to us and has no grave. He was taken off a bus and had no chance to say goodbye to his family.
Chief Rabbi on today's Holocaust funeral: The souls of those whom we're burying are crying out: "Please remember what happened to us... not only did people mercilessly murder us but the world turned its back." Where antisemitism is flourishing, it has to be checked and combated.
Gabor Neumann was born on February 10, 1940 in Bekescsaba, Hungary. He was Jewish. He was 4 years old when he was murdered in
#Auschwitz
on 29 June 1944.
The military equipment being used to stop further drone disruption at
#Gatwick
Airport includes Israeli-developed
#DroneDome
system, which can detect and jam communications between a
#drone
and its operator.
#DroneGate
#drones
My father was taken for forced labour in 1943 - he survived but he was very bitter about his experiences. I don't have any siblings because he said it wasn't a world to bring children into. In 1955, when I was 10, he committed suicide. Those who don't remember are still scarred.
Hungary's oldest Holocaust survivor, Elemer Spiegler, passed away aged 106. As a shoemaker, he was forced into mandatory labour for Jews under the regime of Miklos Horty. In 1944, Spiegler was sent to the Mauthausen camp where he was liberated in May 1945:
Our stolen children are being held in dark tunnels by bloodthirsty armed terrorists who tortured and slaughtered their families and neighbors.
Phenomenal front page by
@TheSun
drawing attention to the inexcusable ongoing war crime of their abduction.
You are right Brett. Silent Labour moderates should remember the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the anti-Nazi German theologian who was hanged in 1945: 'Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.'
Israel is defending itself and its people and children from the assaults on its borders by Hamas and the 100s of rockets. You only know one side of the story. Hamas send children to the border deliberately to provoke retaliation. Why not criticise Hamas instead?
@GrunwaldSpier
Hello!!! Have you seen what Israel is doing ? They’re murdering children and if criticising that is in any form anti-semitism then I hold my hand up to it. You got no heart or soul. ?
Today, the Jewish cemetery in Whitefield, Manchester was vandalised and graves were smashed. These cowards picking on the dead trashed the place. This is a horrible act of antisemitsm.
My father Philipp Grunwald who was a forced labourer in the Holocaust committed suicide in 1955 when I was 10. He left a terrible void in my life - I am now 75 and still feel that loss.
What ignorance? If it wasn't for the sacrifice of the Allied soldiers, my mother and I ensconced in the Budapest Ghetto might not have survived. I will not forget even if the privileged youngsters at Cambridge don't understand. Shame on them.
“Cambridge University students vote against Remembrance Sunday motion over fears it 'glorifies' war.” — RT if you WILL be honouring the heroes who’ve made the ultimate sacrifice so that we may live in freedom and peace.
#WeWillRememberThem
Why do they always show pictures of the ultra orthodox when they want to show Jews. Most of us who didn't vote for Corbyn look just like the rest of you - please don't stereotype us as well as everything else.
Elton John: No-one will stop me playing in Israel via
@JewishChron
I can just hear the Zionophobic bullies screeching, "He refuses to wear The Ribbon!" ("Seinfeld" reference)
Just received update from
@metpoliceuk
. Thanked officers & expressed my concern at small number of reports of violence.
I'm sickened at George Floyd's death. But protests must be peaceful & in accordance with social distancing rules.
This virus remains a threat to us all.
Irena Sendler repeatedly risked her life to rescue hundreds of Jewish children.
#OTD
20 October 1943, Sendler was arrested & later sentenced to death.
She was later released & continued her underground activities despite being under close surveillance
Bowen has never been impartial about Israel. In 2015 he accused the Israeli PM of playing 'the Holocaust card' when he mentioned the presence of survivor Eli Wiesel at his speech to the US Congress. Bowen never apologised - see
.
@BowenBBC
Jeremy Bowen, You constantly criticise Jews and the State of Israel. Why don't you criticise the palestinians? Look at how palestinians treat each other and their children. They are not fighting for the concepts of individual rights, free speech and a free society.
100 years ago young men were laying down their lives for the freedom this Cambridge Students Union grinning fool enjoys!
So she repays the debt by blocking promotion of Remembrance Sunday!
The 100th anniversary of the end of WW1.
RT and spread her face far and wide.
The beheading of babies has now been confirmed by international news outlets.
Far-left cranks, please get the hell out of my mentions and spend a bit of time rethinking your entire lives.
As we approach the 4th week since the barbarity of Hamas in Israel, I want to pay to tribute to my non-Jewish friends for their love & support at this time & also the many people who have sent messages of support here. It means a great deal and is so very important to all of us.
Meghan talks about 'her pain and suffering' & I think of my mother in the Budapest Ghetto in the winter of 1943/4. She had Having virtually no food she breastfed me & kept me warm in the bitter cold with Hungarian fascists taking shots at the Jews. She knew about pain & suffering
I am not a cyclist - if only white men choose to cycle what is the £98k cycling czar going to do? Make it compulsory for everyone? I see stacks of bikes for hire on pavements round London. Obviously people have made choices. Sack the czar and do something useful with his salary.
“Is cycling sexist and racist?” Is this the most cretinous take on diversity in the history of humanity? Well, so far this week... Tune into
@SkyNews
6.40am for my take... 😫
Anyone foolish enough to compare Rees Mogg with the Nazis should read about what was done at Naztweiler - a camp in Alsace where 25,000 were killed. Himmler was creating a museum of Jewish skulls and skeletons and some were killed there for that purpose. Read my book on betrayal.
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We will not tolerate any form of Antisemitism from everyday hate speech, offline and online, to physical attacks.
We are working hand-in-hand with all EU countries to combat this menace and guarantee the security of Jewish communities in Europe.
#ThisIsTheEU
What a chutzpah? Who does Billy Bragg think he is and when did he become an expert on Jews? I think 'the work' needs to come from the other side going right back to Baroness Chakrabarti's misguided report.
Billy Bragg says British Jews “have work to do” to rebuild trust with Labour, accuses Jews of “pouring petrol on the fire”, says “they make things difficult” and “it takes two to tango”
Great day on Friday. Received an Honorary Doctor of Arts
@oxbrookesuni
for my work on the Holocaust. Glorious day and after a splendid Lunch with the Chancellor Dame Katherine Grainger, went punting with my 3 sons and two old college chums.
It has literally gotten to the point where celebrities at the Oscars wore a button celebrating the Oct. 7 massacre symbolized by one horrific event in 2000 where a violent lynch mob slaughtered & dismembered 2 IDF reservists who got lost & ended up in Ramallah.
I did an MA in my 50s which led to me publishing three books on the Holocaust. I have received two honorary doctorates this year from Oxford Brookes and Sheffield Universities for my work on the Holocaust. I am 74 - you are never too old.
Mine graduated at 76! She brought 3 of us up on her own,had 2 successful careers, told at school girls like her(council estate, scholarship to grammar)didn't go to university.On graduation day she wished her dad could've been there; he'd have been so proud!
Congrats to your mum!
I get really fed up when actors I like and have enjoyed watching in the past reveal themselves as anti-Semitic and anti-Israel. There are too many. They should visit before they take that stance.
Mark Rylance is not a neutral observer. He supports the BDS movement; he signs letters banning Israelis from performing in the UK. Rylance is antisemitic.
In addition many who are not Jewish have told me how shocked they are by the Labour party under Corbyn and that they will never vote for them again. I've had some amazing messages.
Emily Thornberry was speaking in Sept, at the launch of the design for the Holocaust Memorial in Westminster, about the need to fight anti-Semitism. I asked how she could stand there saying that when her party was doing nothing about the AS in their party. She just looked cross.
.
@HolocaustUK
&
@JLC_uk
criticise Labour MP
@DerbyChrisW
for signing of HET's Book of Commitment:
"You cannot be opposed to antisemitism whilst simultaneously promoting antisemites."
I will be supporting this action - Twitter does not take AS seriously & I am still waiting for a response when I complained about a tweet saying there were no gas chambers in Auschwitz. I was a baby in the Budapest Ghetto & write books about the Holocaust.
#NoSafeSpaceForJewHate
Hi
@MetPoliceUK
,
A yellow Star of David has been daubed on the window of Iceman stationers in Lower Clapton.
Needless to say, this is extremely concerning.
Is this being looked into?
It is an absolute disgrace - that poor man and his family. Remember what happened to the French teacher. What sort of example is this setting to the pupils who seem to be the only ones with any guts and sense?
That's exactly why Anne Frank and the other 1.5 million Jewish children who were murdered in the Holocaust died. Appeasement never works and the owners are being pathetic. I hope the other parents take their children elsewhere.
Cancelling Anne Frank to appease parents from a different background, it is a reflection of everything that’s wrong in this world
After migrant parent pressure, Anne Frank daycare center to be renamed - report
WATCH: 50 years ago today, Golda Meir became Prime Minister of Israel. A female leader of a democratic nation that led Israel with strength, compassion, and determination. We remember Golda Meir.
Jonathan Dimbleby recently revealed that
@BBC
originally refused to broadcast his father's Belsen report. After he threatened to resign, they agreed but cut it from 11 to 6 minutes & all mention of Jews was removed. He called that day at Belsen 'the most horrible of my life'.
It's Holocaust Memorial Day today.
In this clip from 1965, Richard Dimbleby returned to the site of the Belsen concentration camp where he had reported from shortly after its liberation in 1945. You can listen that original radio report here -
But under Corbyn you have permitted anti-Semitism to thrive. That vast majority must speak out and say it is not acceptable because otherwise you are tainted by it.
I have not killed anyone and blaming me is a breach of the IHRA agreement on anti-Semitism. If you are seeking the truth, you may care to reflect how many Israelis have been killed by Palestinians.
.
@KenLoachSixteen
a non Jew who recently appeared to be unable to condemn holocaust denial, who actively supports antisemites such as Jackie Walker & Tony Greenstein, is now calling for
@UKLabour
MP’s who stand up for Jews to be deselected.
They might be even more shocked to know that when the Nazis decided the fate of European Jewry at the Wannsee Conference, 20 January 1942, of the 15 who attended, 8 had doctorates. As USHMM said 'Never before had a modern state committed itself to the murder of an entire people'.
Today in my class on the Holocaust, my student learned that university students were heavily involved in the book burnings of 1933.
They were shocked that education was no barrier to prejudice.
It’s a lesson that
@DrDavidDuke
and
@AaronBastani
could do well to understand.