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(Statement by David Meyerhoff, grandson of Otto Meyerhoff, Nobel prize winner who survived the Holocaust.
My parents and my grandparents escaped from Germany and survived the Holocaust. My grandfather was a world-famous scientist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology. If you Google my last name, it will come up a 1000+ times. My father and his parents were rescued by Varian Fry, the American Schindler who saved 2000 Jewish artists, authors, scientists, musicians and political leaders. My mother was rescued by the Kindertransport, which saved nearly 10,000 children from the Nazis. Here is her story:
My mother was 17 and living in an apartment in Berlin in 1938. She was studying to be a nursery school teacher. On the night of November 9, 1938 the young men living next door to her told her not to go out. That night was Kristallnacht (Crystal Night) when the Nazis attacked every Jewish person walking on the street, threw over 30,000 Jewish people in concentration camps, and smashed every window in every Jewish home, school, business, and synagogue so that the ground was filled with so much glass it looked like crystals.
Within 3 weeks my mother was able to go on the Kindertransport to England to safety and a new life. During World War II she took care of children in Anna Freud’s Children’s Center in London.
My mother passed away in June 2015 at the age of 94.
Life, as you know it, will not be the same, if we don’t fight against fascism. How you live, how you go to classes, how you work, what you see, what you care about, and who you care about are all threatened by this racist, fascist government. If we don’t take a stand and fight back against this dangerous fascist system being put into place, we face a Hitler-style dictatorship and it will be too late.This quotation is from a speech by my grandfather, Otto Meyerhof, winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology. He discovered basically how sugar is converted into energy in the human body and the Embden-Meyerhof Pathway, which is part of your digestive system.
“Distinguishing between Germans and Nazis …. is in itself a propaganda lie. I know what all, or 90%, of the professors did in 1933 when their Jewish colleagues, whom they had themselves appointed, were deprived of their rights and made homeless — and the same thing occurred in all academic circles and at all levels in society, except in certain areas of the church: maintained their cowardly silence or even satisfaction, and not even 1% of the professors were party members. In the same fashion, broad sections of the population, though overall a somewhat smaller percentage, willingly served as slaves and helpers to the tyrants, even helping as torturers and executioners. It is doesn’t help that a powerless minority kept their hands clean, or that hundreds themselves became martyrs through the strength of their convictions, if hundreds of thousands turned into murderers. It would have been physically impossible for five million Jews, 80-90% of all Jews in the countries that Germany occupied — 10 million Russian, Polish, Serbian and other civilians — to be killed by a few Nazi criminals: hundreds of thousands were necessary for this. A people without any sense of morality were behind these mass murders….”
This quotation further explains why this is critical:
Because you care about the future of this planet and you know that in these times the gravest problem is silence:
Don’t stop… Don’t conciliate… Don’t accommodate… Don’t collaborate.
“In the Name of Humanity, REFUSE To Accept a Fascist America.”
In the next week, we will have critical marches and demonstrations throughout this country. We must all support each one, but must set our sights even higher, if we are going to stop this country from becoming a Nazi America. The Trump/Pence regime is indeed Fascist and as such poses a mortal threat which must be defeated! We must unite all who can be united to get rid of this tyranny which is destroying our future.
My father once said, “One person can make the difference.” I AM ASKING YOU TO BE THAT PERSON.
A CALL TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES:
A DECLARATION OF RESISTANCE TO FASCISM
We call upon all the people of the United States:
All nationalities,
All religions,
All sexes/All sexual orientations,
All ages,
All walks of life-employed, unemployed
TO UNITE AND RESIST FASCISM!