One of the last survivors of the Holocaust has a powerful message for the mainstream media and politicians comparing America’s immigration detention facilities to the Third Reich’s concentration camps.
David Tuck was born in Poland in 1929. At the age of 10, some 1.5 million German troops invaded his country. After front line troops swept through his village, SS personnel arrived, identifying and executing Jews at random.
David was relatively fortunate. He had a golden Star of David embroidered on his clothes and received an armed escort to an enclosed ghetto. However, the threat of death – through starvation, disease, and criminal abuses by the most fanatical guards – grew every day.
Gradually, German authorities begin “liquidating” their ghettos in occupied Europe. In 1941, David – deemed eligible for slave labor – arrived in Posen, at a Nazi labor camp.
By 1943, the so-called Final Solution to the Jewish Question was in full swing. David’s German overseers transported him – and eventually countless millions – via cattle cars to death camps. David arrived at the most infamous of them all: Auschwitz.
With the Soviet Red Army rapidly advancing in 1945, SS guards deported David and Auschwitz’s surviving prisoners to Mauthausen labor camp. The forced march in the bitter cold alone killed thousands. With the end near, but fanatical Nazis hellbent on eliminating as many Jews and other “undesirables” as possible, David was deported once again.
By the time American forces had liberated his camp, Gusen II, 16-year-old David weighed 78 pounds.
Being among the roughly 10 percent of Polish Jews to survive the war, David Tuck felt compelled to speak out against those who have so vehemently compared America’s immigration detainment facilities to history’s worst atrocities. (The Daily Caller)
Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal likened America’s zero-tolerance immigration policy to the “cattle cars of Nazi Germany.” Pundits and politicians have echoed the sentiment.
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“I don’t believe it when I heard it,” Tuck said when he heard Blumenthal’s statement, “They know nothing of the Holocaust.”
“They are politicians, looking to get paid,” he said, repeating that those who make the comparison “know nothing.” When asked to compare the American border detainment facilities to actual concentration camps, Tuck said, “This is a country club.”
“I was given a piece of bread in the morning. A piece of bread in the evening,” Tuck said, “I had to survive with my life. I have a number on my arm to prove it — from Auschwitz.”
Tuck says that seeing many Americans, including members of the political class – who should know better – nonchalantly embrace the term Nazi to describe their opponents is deeply disturbing to him.
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