Hate is a Disease

220 people packed the 1968 Suite at Accrington Stanley FC in silence to listen to 95-year-old Holocaust Survivor and Fed My Voice Storyteller, Ike Alterman, tell his powerful and emotional life story.

Ike survived four Nazi concentration and death camps including Auschwitz–Birkenau and a death march. He came to the UK as one of the Windermere Children.

The question and answer session was equally as compelling with the audience asking Ike many questions including:

“Do you hate all Germans?” – “No, if I hated all Germans I would be as bad as Hitler. I hate the Nazis but not all Germans. Hate is a disease.”

“How did you survive?” – “I don’t know. I lived day to day, not knowing if I would live or die. It was luck and I also believe my late mother (murdered by the Nazis in Treblinka) was my guiding angel.”

“How did your experiences affect your faith?” – “I question my belief in G-d. Where was He to allow all this to happen? But I was born a Jew and I will die a Jew.”

Ike received a standing ovation at the end of the evening with many present ordering a copy of his Fed My Voice life story book “Rest Their Souls.”

Attending the event were Antony Higginbotham MP,  Sara Britcliffe MP and Marc Levy, CEO of Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester & Region

the Fed is enormously A huge thank you must go to Accrington Stanley for hosting this talk and to everyone who attended.

For more information on the My Voice project visit www.MyVoice.org.uk

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