‘There is no neutral ground’: San Antonio series details Holocaust atrocities through letters
Edward B. Westermann, professor of history at Texas A&MUniversity-San Antonio, discussed letter sent home from by German soldiers.Anna Salton Eisen, a second-generation Holocaust survivor, grew up with parents who survived the atrocities but never spoke about it.
Antisemitism reached an all-time high with more than 2,700 reports of harassment, vandalism and assault across the nation in 2021, according to the Anti-Defamation League, whichSome of those acts — threats and protests by Holocaust deniers and flyers left near homes with messages of hate — have unfolded in San Antonio and other Texas cities. Last year, a gunman held four people hostage in a North Texas synagogue and was killed by federal authorities.
A founding member of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, where a frightening standoff occurred last year, Eisen her story in “Pillar of Salt: A Daughter's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust,” co-written with her son Aaron Eisen and published in May. The family’s faith in humanity was reaffirmed again when her son won an essay contest on the Holocaust.
Translations of letters sent home by German troops reveal how they became hardened. Viennese police official Walter Manner, writing to his wife, admitted his hands shook during his first “special action.” But on his 10th mass execution, “I calmly and surely shot at the many women, children and infants.” He and fellow policemen made a game of shooting children. He wrote he now knew the meaning of shared with his wife that “in Russia, wherever the German soldier is, no Jew remains.
“So you see this jarring juxtaposition, matter-of-factly talking about the murder of thousands during the day … and how he had a nice cozy evening,” Westermann said.“I want to give a voice back to people it was taken away from,” said Reyna Stovall, a 19-year-old San Antonio sophomore studying human rights at Fordham University in New York City.
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