Epstein Secrets

ing up synagogues, and Israel had not yet established any settlements in occupied areas. » An old Soviet dissident joke went this way: The leader of Czechoslovakia asked his Soviet masters for money for a Department of the Navy. The Soviet replied, “But you’re a landlocked country and don’t need a department of

uspected that he might welcome an invitation from Harvard and the platform such as an event would accord him. I replied, “No, the debate should be at Auschwitz; that’s where the evidence is.” He said he would communicate my offer to the president, who, he told me, was on the way to a press conference on the

en of the 21* Century. When I think of how close he came to not surviving, and when I think of how many other Elie Wiesels were lost in the flames of Auschwitz, I begin to understand the full horrors of the Holocaust. 400 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017487

example of the courage to care. Your presence at the premiere would be a great honour to Nicholas Winton, and his many friends in Great Britain and Czechoslovakia, and would of course signify the US publicIz:As recognition for his efforts done 60 years ago, which could still repeated in our present day situat

nising their transport to England, leaving behind their courageous parents and EFTA_R1_01278042 EFTA02332294 siblings who were later all sent to Auschwitz and murdered. Many of the rescued children eventually made their way to the United States. A 35mm documentary film in Dolby Digital Sound, made by

parents met in Paris during the war. My father was wild and charismatic, an entirely self- made man who'd grown up in a poor Jewish peasant family in Czechoslovakia. He lost his family in the Holocaust, but he had managed to escape to England at 17 and joined the British Army. England became his adopted country

hem, Robert was also a bully to me and to the children. He came from a family of nine who were extremely poor, and all his siblings were murdered in Auschwitz. His dead mother was the personification of everything that is good. I tried to rival her, which was difficult. I had all these children, trying to