Holocaust survivors and their immediate family talk about fighting antisemitism, surviving the war, and making sure that the generations of people that follow will never forget.
Tuesday is the third night of the holiday that marks the way the Jewish people rose up o defeat an enemy that tried to end religious freedom. A Largo couple is celebrating Hanukkah in a way that carries on family tradition while honoring a lineage torn apart by the Holocaust.
Holocaust survivors John and Toni Rinde of Largo were devastated to hear that the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg, a place they know well, was desecrated with Nazi symbols early Thursday morning.
Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., on the rise of anti-Semitic attacks in the United States.
Anti-Semitic graffiti tagged outside the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg this week has angered and upset Holocaust survivors and others in the community. We left Europe to come to a free country like the U.S. where we thought this would not happen, John Rinde, a Jew who emigrated from Poland as a child to escape Nazism, told FOX 13 of Tampa.
Police were investigating the crime after officers on patrol early Thursday noticed a swastika and the phrase Jews are guilty graffitied on the wall of the museum but had yet to arrest any suspects.