Holocaust Survivor Stephen Kapos Says Israel Is Committing A Holocaust

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🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Stephen Kapos is an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor from Budapest who has been protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza, which he describes as not only genocide but a holocaust. Stephen is a member of Holocaust Survivors Against Genocide. Stephen lost 15 members of his extended family in the Holocaust and his father was interned in Belsen & Theresienstadt. He settled in London but when he visited Israel was “shocked” by the racism exhibited by Israelis, including his relatives who had also survived the Holocaust. Stephen joined The Labour Party in 1997, becoming an activist and office-holder at various local levels. Stephen resigned from the Labour party, after penning a widely circulated letter, after the Labour party warned him they would “investigate” him if he spoke at a leftist organization on Holocaust Memorial Day. He is a member of Camden branch of PSC ( Palestine Solidarity Campsign ),Camden & Islington Momentum ( affiliate of the Labour Party) and lately of the small network ‘Holocaust Survivors and Descendents Against Genocide.’ ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps

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0:35.4	I'm so honored to be speaking to Stephen Kaposh who is an 87 year old child
0:46.6	survivor of the Holocaust in Hungary. He lost 15 members of his extended family
0:52.4	to the Holocaust.
0:54.1	He is a member of the Camden branch of Palestine Solidarity
0:58.7	campaign, and he is also part of the Holocaust Survivors and Descendants against Genocide Network,
1:05.8	which attends national demonstrations for immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
1:11.8	So welcome, Stephen. Hello. yes. Thank you so much for joining. Thank you for having me on. Of course. Can you share your story as a child and then we're going to talk about how your experience turned you into a supporter of
1:25.9	Palestinian solidarity.
1:29.7	Right. I am a child survivor of the Holocaust. I was seven years old in
1:38.7	1944 when the war and the Holocaust reached Hungary and Budapest, I was born and living in Budapest.
1:51.0	Hungary, Hungary, originally... living in Budapest. Hungary originally was an ally of Germany and the leader of Hungary, the regent Admiral Horti, was a strong ally of Hitler.
2:12.3	He was particularly interested in the return of Hungarian territories,
2:18.4	cut off of the original Hungarian kingdom of a thousand years after the First World War and various
2:29.9	territories surrounding the core Hungary were taken, cut off Hungary and including Transylvania.
2:41.2	Transylvania in the eastern part of Historic Hungary was attached to Romania.
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