Jochen “Jack” Wurfl knows the horrors antisemitism can breed. He was forced to hide out and conceal his family identity — and lost nearly every family member during Adolf Hitler’s reign.
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Wurfl, who shared his harrowing story in the book “My Two Lives,” told CBN News he never thought he’d see such rampant antisemitism in America, where he settled in the years after the Holocaust.
“It’s frightening, because it could end up in the same sort of situation eventually,” Wurfl said of spiraling antisemitism that many have compared to the situation before Hitler launched his murderous quest. “I just don’t understand it. How people can feel like this again — that they don’t know what happened during the Holocaust, back during Hitler’s regime?”
The survivor lamented the loss of millions of lives and expressed his severe sorrow and fear over where the situation currently stands after Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack and the antisemitism that followed.
“One would think that, once this happened, it could never happen again — that people have learned from this,” Wurfl said. “But I’m beginning to wonder, because the younger people nowadays don’t know anything about the Holocaust.”
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