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(Jewish Group) As anti-Semitic crimes rise and Holocaust awareness fades
Joseph Alexander lifted his left forearm to show the number.
Nazi guards had tattooed it on him just after he and scores of other Jewish prisoners arrived by cattle car to Auschwitz concentration camp along with the bodies of those who didn’t survive the train ride.
“From that moment on, we have no name,” Alexander said.
142584.
“That was your name.”
Alexander is 96. A slight man with a Polish accent, wearing a Hawaiian shirt, he is speaking on a sunny Sunday to a rapt crowd of about 30 at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. He’s telling his story about six years and a dozen concentration camps. About how he survived and his family didn’t.
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