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Families of Holocaust survivors see historical parallels in the news
For Bay Area residents whose family members survived the Holocaust, the violence staged in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was personal, evoking intergenerational memories of unforgettable pain. Their takeaways were similar: They saw it coming. Hate has proliferated, despite efforts to disarm it. Truth has been a casualty.
And yes, “it” could happen again.
“For four years, people who are experts on authoritarianism and fascism have been warning us that this moment was coming,” said San Francisco journalist Dave Pell, whose mother, Eda, survived the war hidden in a French children’s home and whose late father, Joseph Pell, fought the Nazis as a teenage Polish partisan. ....

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