Israeli president recalls Irish-born father’s role in liberating Nazi death camps
Israeli president Isaac Herzog has described the role his Irish-born father, Chaim Herzog, played in liberating Nazi death camps. Video: European Parliament
Chaim Herzog, when president of Israel, inspects a guard of honour at Dublin Airport in 1985. His son Isaac told the European Parliament: "He described to me the horrors that unfolded before his eyes as one of the first liberators of the death camps, including Bergen-Belsen. The human skeletons in the striped pyjamas, the hell on earth, the stench, the heart of darkness.
“Anti-Semitism, like an auto-immune disease, made Europe attack part of its own DNA, and a shared story going back millennia was erased as though it had never existed,” he said.
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