Holocaust Survivors Call for More Bullying Laws
In Glen Cove, activists said anti-Jewish sentiment that led to tragic event began with the same cyber-harassment that is sweeping the Internet today.
Holocaust survivors and relatives of those who died by the hands of Adolf Hitler called on local citizens to quit the recent trend of cyber-bullying – as they said bullying of Jews in Germany and Poland was a precursor to the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II. The survivors and the families met at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center Nassau County in Glen Cove this morning to commemorate the upcoming Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day. Highlighting their own stories of survival in death camps and ghettos, two Nassau County residents told of how they slept in pig sties, jumped off trains and came within "inches and minutes of death," as Annie Bleiberg put it. "I was lucky. I survived …
