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Eva Schloss is using her experience of Auschwitz and the Nazis to fight knife crime

is using her experience of Auschwitz and the Nazis to fight knife crime.

August 28, 2008 11:43

ByCandice Krieger, Candice Krieger

1 min read

The growing incidence of knife violence by young people bears an alarming resemblance to the way the Nazis behaved during the Holocaust, warns survivor Eva Schloss.

Ms Schloss, 79, step-sister of diarist Anne Frank, who died in the Holocaust, is a campaigner against hatred. She aims to show young people that using a knife or shooting someone for no reason is an act of extreme hatred, and no different to how the Nazis behaved towards the Jews and other innocent people.

Ms Schloss, who has devoted more than 20 years to spreading the message of tolerance, says: "We have become too tolerant. There has been a breakdown of family life and society, resulting in increased crime. We need to exert more discipline.

"Children need and want authority. Teachers have become scared to discipline children properly; scared they will get into trouble if they touch them. It has become ridiculous today. Children should be disciplined and know where they stand."