At 83 years old, my going viral on the internet is the last thing I would have expected, but a video of me confronting the UK home secretary, Suella Braverman, at an event on Friday has so far been viewed more than 5m times. For a long time, I have listened in horror to the language used by many politicians to demonise certain groups in this country. As a child survivor of the Holocaust, I had to speak out.
Let me tell you why. Next week, on 27 January, we commemorate one of the worst atrocities committed in human history. The theme for this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day is “ordinary people”. This might seem a strange choice; after all, most of us would assume that it would require a population of inhuman monsters to enact a genocide. But in reality, these horrific acts were carried out by one group of ordinary people against another.
