In November 1938. not long after my 9^th birthday, I saw a newsreel at the local cinema that pictured the results of Kristallnacht, “The night of Broken Glass”.  German Jews had been subjected to a night of terrorism in which their synagogues and shops had been vandalized all over their nation while the Nazi government did nothing to protect them.

Little more than six years later I watched in horror as the ghastly secrets of Dachau and Auschwitz were exposed for the world to see.

I am shocked to witness the anti-Semitic riots now taking place on our university campuses.  It reminds me of Kristallnacht.   Is another Auschwitz to follow?

Are our memories so short?   Are our hearts so callused?  

I cannot believe this is happening in America, the land I love. 

Whatever it takes, we must stamp out these festering seeds of hatred and racism and revive our patriots’ dream,

“America, America, God shed thy grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.”.