Sidney Zoltak, 89, said he is worried about global indifference towards hateful politics and modern genocides.
And according to one Holocaust survivor, hate has become the"slogan" of prominent leaders and is undermining the work of all those who seek to banish genocide to the history books.
After the war, the family returned to Siemiatycze. After Sidney's father died in 1945, the family relocated to Italy and then in 1948 to Canada, where Sidney still lives today.that divisive and nativist politics win votes but risk facilitating fresh crimes."I can probably name quite a few that I would call hypocrites," he said of world leaders marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz this week.
In the U.S., for example, Zoltak said,"The head of the present administration is very close to some of those racists that are roaming freely and having demonstrations in the country." Zoltak said Polish lawmakers are trying to"rewrite the the history books." During the German occupation, he said he was"afraid also of some of the Poles. And the Poles did not collaborate with the Germans—they were not working together in order to kill Jews. But did killing of the Jews themselves because of anti-Semitism.
He argued that education is the only solution. People everywhere must be fully aware of the Holocaust and how it came about, while those responsible for that or other genocides must be punished. Education is the only way to break the indifference that allows genocides to this day, Zoltak argued. Hate"is spread all over the world now," he said,"and is certainly not doing it any good."
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