FROM FOX NEWS: Eighty-seven years after surviving the terror of Kristallnacht, a 101-year-old Holocaust survivor says the world today feels alarmingly similar to Nazi Germany in 1938.
Walter Bingham was 14 years old when Nazis and other Germans attacked Jewish businesses, stores, homes and places of worship.
During Kristallnacht, commonly referred to as the “Night of Broken Glass,” Nazis burned more than 1,400 synagogues, vandalized thousands of Jewish-owned businesses, broke into Jewish people’s apartments and homes, and desecrated Jewish religious objects, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Roughly 26,000 men were also arrested and placed in concentration camps because they were Jewish.
The 101-year-old Bingham told The Associated Press that rising instances of antisemitism after the Israel-Hamas war remind him of those times.
“We live in an era equivalent to 1938, where synagogues are burned, and people in the street are attacked,” he said. “Antisemitism, I don’t think, will ever fully disappear because it’s the panacea for all ills of the world.”
While he said today’s climate is similar to what it was like in Germany before the war, he sees an important distinction.
“In those days, the Jewish mentality was apologetic,” Bingham explained. “Please don’t do anything to me, I won’t do anything to you. Today, we have, thank God, the state of Israel, a very strong state. And whereas antisemitism is still on the increase, the one thing that will not happen would be a Holocaust, because the state will see to it.”
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