1933 to 2017: Declaring “Never Again” on Holocaust Remembrance Day
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1933 to 2017 – Never Again! Drive Out the Fascist Trump/Pence Regime. Refuse Fascism in NYC presented the “Goebbels Award” to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the “Eichmann Award” to Homeland Security head John Kelly.
April 24: At a time when Homeland Security head John Kelly and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have been touring the U.S./Mexico border leading the charge to demonize and terrorize immigrants, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, Refuse Fascism sounded the alarm about the dangerous direction the Trump/Pence Regime is headed in, how its actions echo that of Nazi Germany, and sent a powerful message that Never Again will we allow another Holocaust to happen to any people.
In New York City, about 25 people gathered on Holocaust Remembrance Day in front of the Jewish Heritage Museum in NYC, and marched in a procession to the Federal Building. Travis Morales opened by speaking directly to the connection between the escalating attacks on immigrants and Muslims by the Trump Regime and the demonization and targeting of the Jewish people by the Nazis, how this has a logic and momentum that can lead to real horrors, and why our answer to that must be Never Again.
Scott Gilbert, whose parents were Holocaust survivors, his mother a childhood friend of Anne Frank, spoke about the parallels between Germany in the 1930s and Trump’s America—citing, for example, the quote from Trump’s senior advisor Steven Miller that the president’s authority “will not be questioned,” and comparing it to a similar quote from Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. He described his own process of questioning how it was that the German people could’ve allowed such an atrocity and coming to dedicate himself to making sure that something like that would never happen again. And he put a challenge to everyone, that if “Never Again” is going to mean anything, it has to mean something now – when immigrants, Muslims, and people all over the world are being threatened by the Trump/Pence fascist regime in the most powerfully militarized country on earth.
Statements in support of this action were sent to Refuse Fascism from David Meyerhof, grandson of Holocaust survivor Otto Meyerhof; Fidel Acosta-Fajardo, and othersThen the group, led by a procession of people in orange jumpsuits stamped with the words “ICE DETAINEE,” marched to the Federal Building. John Kelly was presented with the Adolf Eichmann Award for Leadership in the Field of Detention and Deportation of “Undesirables,” in recognition of his “outstanding achievements.” Jeff Sessions was presented with the Joseph Goebbels Excellence Award for Demonizing and Persecuting “Undesirables,” for his “outstanding achievements.”
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Read reports from Chicago and Los Angeles here.
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Video of NYC event.
Read reports from Chicago and Los Angeles here.
Read Statements from Holocaust Survivors, their descendants, and Resisters.