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Learning tolerance with every generation

Thu, 10/18/2012 - 8:48am
By
Patrick L. Sullivan
patricks@lakevillejournal.com

LAKEVILLE — Diplomat John L. Loeb shared a startling memory with students at The Hotchkiss School in a talk on Tuesday, Oct. 9.

It was the fall of 1945 and Loeb was one of a handful of Jewish students at the school.

During movie night, the students saw newsreel footage of Nazi concentration camps.

Far from being horrified, Loeb said his fellow students “cheered and hooted.”

Afterward, one young man told Loeb, “We don’t like Hitler but at least he killed Jews.”

Loeb said this singular event formed his passion for finding the basis for anti-Semitism.

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