From mikefreemanNFL: Holocaust survivor Agnes Adachi spoke of Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens 'with such pride and, well, almost love, because she realized then what Blacks and Jews should know now: our unity is our strength.'
Woke Wars, on ice: Ron DeSantis turns anti-Black, discriminatory agenda on the NHL | OpinionI want to remind both communities, I want to remind everyone, of how this closeness goes back decades, with someone you might not know. Her name is Agnes Adachi and she is a Holocaust survivor.to the USC Shoah Foundation, which uses interviews with survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides as teachable moments.
"I was at the Olympic Games when Jesse Owens was running," she says,"and that is one thing I will never forget because were just as much against Blacks as they were the Jews." Adachi said that as Owens passed Nazi Hermann Göring, a military leader and convicted war criminal, Owens"gave him the dirtiest look."She speaks of Owens with such pride and, well, almost love, because she realized then what Blacks and Jews should know now: our unity is our strength.
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