Skokie - When the Nazis Planned A March in A Jewish Community

[Honeycombe8]

7. That scene with Danny Kaye still chokes me up.

I feel his pain. I feel his anger as he insists on "No. Not in my town." As he refuses to sit idly by and let it get started all over again, like his family had lived through. It's a powerful scene.

When you understand how unusual that was for the Jews to speak of the Holocaust, it was all the more powerful. They tended not to mention it at all. Too painful and humiliating, I suppose. The memories were tucked away deep inside. Many in Skokie didn't even know that there were so many other Holocaust survivors there. So for him to stand up, bare his arm, and show his number tattoo and speak of the death of his mother...powerful.