“We who personally witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust never thought we would ever again see atrocities like those committed on October 7th: the murder and mutilation of innocent babies and children, the savage rape of women and the elderly, and the massacre of entire families.”
“There was no Jewish nation to which we could flee.”
“Take it from those of us who have been subjected to the most brutal and deadly antisemitism of all time: it will never go away, and Jews will never be safe until Israel is safe and secure,” he wrote in the letter.
Schaecter was 11 years old when he was sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where he was starved and tortured for nearly three years. After his liberation, he never found another survivor in his family.
“Mr. Spielberg, Schindler’s List was about one man having the moral courage to risk his life to save others. We are not asking you to risk your life. We are asking you to use your voice,” he wrote, referring to Spielberg's moving 1993 Holocaust biopic.
The letter was signed by HSF’s executive committee and sent to Spielberg a week ago, though the director has not replied.
