Press release from Mark Etkind, co-organiser of Holocaust survivors and descendants against the Gaza genocide.
Forty Holocaust survivors/descendants have just signed a letter supporting Stephen Kapos who has been called in for a police interview about the 18 Jan. Palestine rally. There will also be a demo outside Charing Cross police station from 2pm on Friday, March 21, to support Stephen during his interview.
Stephen is a survivor of the Holocaust in Budapest who has been attending pro-Palestine marches – along with thousands of other Jews – to show his deep concern for the people of Gaza. Here is more information, and here is the letter:
40 Holocaust survivors/descendants denounce the persecution of Stephen Kapos
We were extremely shocked to hear that the Holocaust survivor, Stephen Kapos, has been called in by the Metropolitan police for questioning about the 18 January pro-Palestine protest.
Any repression of the right to protest is bad enough – but to persecute a Jewish 87 year old whose Holocaust experiences compel him to speak out against the Gaza genocide, is quite appalling.
This very concerning development makes it even more important for Jews to speak out against the genocide.
We, the undersigned, fully support Stephen:
Dr. Agnes Kory (survivor of the Holocaust in Hungary)
Prof. Jacques Bude (Holocaust survivor – parents murdered in Auschwitz)
Ervin Somogyi (survivor of the Holocaust in Hungary)
Lillian Rosengarten (born Gisela Lebrecht – refugee from Frankfurt 1937)
Prof. Haim Bresheeth (son of two survivors of Auschwitz)
Prof. Anne Karpf (daughter of a survivor of Auschwitz)
Mark Etkind (son of a survivor of the Lodz ghetto & Buchenwald)
Aurora Yaacov (daughter of a survivor of Dachau & Kaufering camps)
Dr. Peter Kapos (son of a survivor of the Holocaust in Hungary)
Prof. Yosefa Loshitzky (daughter of survivors of the Holocaust in Poland)
Carolyn Gelenter (daughter of a survivor of the Holocaust in Poland)
Andrew Feinstein (son of a Viennese Holocaust survivor)
Charlotte Monro (daughter of a survivor of the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia)
Miranda Pinch (daughter of a survivor of the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia)
Vicky Moller (daughter of a survivor of the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia)
Dr. Ursula Blumenthal (daughter of a survivor of the Holocaust in Germany)
Sonja Linden (daughter of a survivor of the Holocaust in Germany)
Peter Hall (son of a survivor of the Holocaust in Austria)
Col. Chris Romberg (son of a survivor of the Holocaust in Austria)
Yael Kahn (daughter of survivors of the Holocaust in Germany)
Beatrice Hoffman (daughter of a survivor of the Holocaust in Austria)
Anthony Gimpel (son of Jewish refugees from Hitler)
Merilyn Moos (relative of those murdered by Nazis)
Prof. Miriam E. David (daughter of a survivor of the Holocaust in Germany)
Ronnie Barkan (grandson of Holocaust survivors of Auschwitz & Dachau)
Joel Etkind (grandson of a Holocaust Survivor from Poland)
Sonia Routledge (granddaughter of survivors from Czechoslovakia)
Glenn Bassett (grandson of Austrian Holocaust refugees)
Ann Jungmann (granddaughter of 3 grandparents who died in Terezin)
Prof. Lara Braitstein (daughter of a survivor of the Holocaust in Belgium)
Julie D. Kosowski (daughter of a survivor – grandparents died in Auschwitz)
Peter Truskier (son of survivors of the Holocaust in Poland)
Prof. Pedro Tabensky (son of survivors of the Holocaust in Hungary)
Elsa Auerbach (daughter of Holocaust refugees from Germany)
Debbie Field (daughter of survivors of the Holocaust in Poland)
Erica Levy (daughter of a Holocaust survivor)
Daniel Waterman (son of a survivor of the Holocaust in Holland)
Eva Turner (daughter of Holocaust survivors from Czech Republic)
Anneke Deutsch (daughter of an Austrian Holocaust refugee)
Avigail Abarbanel (granddaughter of Holocaust survivors)
