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Anniversary. I grew up during the 1950s and 1960s. Two events that i most remember from my early life where the legacy of the holocaust and the ongoing struggle for civil rights. In fact, one of the unforgettable moments of my new jersey childhood was witnessing firsthand the heart of all race in 1967. Ewark so tonight, these two strands of my life come together as we anor congressman john lewis, very special american. [applause] a very special human being. As my parents would say, a true mench. My parents had been in this country less than 20 years when the Civil Rights Movement began. Thatwere probably unaware the knots is often justified their antisemitism was not much different from american racism. Nor did they realize that american soldiers who liberated europe and liberated them, were part of a segregated u. S. Army. 1960s, the in the holocaust taught us urgency of speaking out. So it was not surprising that several of the jews most active in the Civil Rights Movement had links

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