"That's Hedley!"
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Like Friedan or Dworkin
HuffPo mentioned ‘holocaust survivor arrested’ on its front page. Ha!
She sure is a liar as Front Page Magazine has proven. So much of a liar, that even on her own website she claims that as a child she lived in Nazi Germany until 1939.
That is a far cry from the real Hedy Epstein story that was uncovered by Front Page showing that she lived in England the entire time.
http://www.hedyepstein.com/abouthedy/
I have no use for Epstein’s activism, but I think it goes too far to call her a “fake holocaust survivor.” She lived in Germany until 1939 (after kristallnacht, among many other atrocities), was rescued by the British-coordinated kindertransport, and lost the vast majority of her family to the Nazis. Seems tasteless to me to say that’s somehow not enough.
From the article:
“Next week Hedy Epstein will be claiming that she’s a black man.”
:)
As the son of a holocaust survivor in the most literal sense, I think the “holocaust survivor” tag is normally associated with people who were personally subjected to Nazi persecution, such as concentration camps, ghettos or under Nazi occupation. Epstein did suffer the loss of family members, but she was not personally subjected to Nazi persecution. The use of the label is misleading because it makes the person out to be a personal victim of brutality and thus, worthy of the greatest sympathy and deference in matters of injustice.
PS. So “fake holocaust survivor” is probably a bit of overkill, but using the label without qualifying it at all is clearly a form of misleading exaggeration.
Perhaps: “Hedy Epstein, who escaped Nazi persecution...” or something like that is what should be said.
"That's Hedley!"