Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man, a Jew living in Washington D.C., just writing down an account of his travel to Germany last year, where his mother was invited to participate in the ceremony marking 80 years since the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

Read it in a quiet moment.

»My 83-year-old mother survived a Nazi concentration camp as a child. She has been plotting potential escape routes her entire adult life. She is a citizen of the United States, but spent years working to get me a second passport, “just in case.” She worries about my safety because, as a high-visibility advocate of Palestinian civil and human rights and a senior staffer at a prominent, left-wing civil society organization in Washington, D.C., I could be targeted by the Trump administration.«

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Remembering ‘Never Again for Everyone’ at Bergen-Belsen - New Lines Magazine

At the height of the war in Gaza, a Jewish activist for Palestine accompanied his mother, a Holocaust survivor, to Germany for a ceremony to mark 80 years since liberation

^{Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man (New Lines Magazine)}