Racist bus rant teen ‘visibly moved’ by meeting with Holocaust survivor at Sydney Jewish Museum

[Behind the Aegis]

A TEENAGER who hurled anti-Semitic abuse at a bus full of Jewish schoolchildren has come face-to-face with a Holocaust survivor.

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The teenager was part of a group of intoxicated juveniles who subjected 25 school children as young as six to a vicious display of verbal racist abuse on the 660 bus on Allison Rd, Randwick, on August 6 last year.

Shouting “Kill the Jews” and “Heil Hitler”, the group threatened the children in a display of anti-Semitism that shocked the community and led to increased security at Jewish schools in the eastern suburbs.

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The youth was shown pictures of Mr Enoch’s murdered cousins in the children’s memorial and a blank yellow square placed below them for his brother.

No photograph exists of the brother because the Nazis deemed him “too young to work” and not worthy of documenting. He was executed.


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[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. K&R

[Behind the Aegis]

2. Thank you!

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. My pleasure. This story ought to be on the greatest page.

It shows that our common humanity will bring us together more than our cultural differences can separate us. If it were possible for any good thing to come out of a horror such as the Holocaust it was this moment. I hope healing can begin.

[Behind the Aegis]

10. Well said!

It is much harder to hate when you have an actually person in your presence.

[zappaman]

3. Big kick and rec!

[leftynyc]

5. They can't name the kid

for legal reasons but how about the parents? The kid didn't get to be an anti-semite on his own. That said, good for the survivor to care enough to try and educate the little shithead.

[William769]

6. "thrown under the bus" has more than one meaning.

This kid got off lucky.

To be dealing with this madness still to this day is despicable.

[jwirr]

7. Thank you for this. I fear that we are failing to educate our children in the schools and this will

lead us to forget the past. Too much of the hate propaganda today.

[Behind the Aegis]

9. This is very, and sadly, true.

It is good this person was actually educated by someone who was there. Soon, that won't even be possible.

[jwirr]

11. When I was working at a museum in MN we had a program where we went around and taped all

the elderly people in our town that had been involved in various historical events such as helping to create the unions. These tapes are all in the archives in that museum.

I hope that many of the survivors of the Holocaust have done this. That is the kind of things we are going to have to use to educate the next generation.

[beam me up scottie]

8. K&R

For all the victims.

[LeftinOH]

12. Kids don't come up with this stuff on their own.. they had

some "help" from the adults in their lives.

[FLPanhandle]

13. Teenage boys can come up with lots of stuff on their own.

Sometime they take the exact opposite views of their parents as part of rebelling.

I remember back to those days, if my parents said the sky was blue, I would disagree.

I wouldn't be so quick to condemn the parents.