A hate-filled attack made a grandson of Holocaust survivors understand their experience a little more. But he decided to buck their advice
By Antonia Mortensen, Melissa Bell and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN
Elie Rosen had never really listened as a child when his grandparents told him and his cousins to keep their heads down. He knew they had survived the Holocaust but he believed the world’s vow of “never again” and saw no reason for his generation of European Jews to fear.
That changed when a man wielding a baseball bat came after him in front of his synagogue in Graz, Austria. The building had been repeatedly vandalized and while Rosen managed to reach his car and escape unharmed physically, he was shaken to his core.
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