Jh82

I was born in Fulda, Germany. In March 1939, my parents took us to Frankfurt where we said our tearful good-byes and were placed on the Kindertransport for England where I lived with a foster family. After the war, I learned that my parents had perished in the Holocaust. Anti-Semitism, as well as discrimination, is developed at the kitchen table where children who were born ‘tabula rasa’ are taught to hate. It is up to our schools and religious institutions to teach the history of intolerance and its devastating effects. Name-calling and ethnic humor are too prevalent in our society and should not be tolerated. Be proactive. Stop discrimination wherever and whenever it is encountered.

 

Fulda, Germany

Joe Hess