Amid outrage over photos that showed high school students giving Nazi salutes over a swastika fashioned from cups during a drinking game, Eva Schloss, Holocaust survivor and stepsister of Anne Frank, will meet privately with some of the students involved.
in Costa Mesa was attended by students from Newport Harbor, Costa Mesa and Estancia high schools, students said.
Anne was captured by the Gestapo in Amsterdam in August 1944 and died at age 15 at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in early 1945. A study commissioned last year by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany showed that 66% of U.S. millennials didn’t know what the Auschwitz concentration camp was. Four in 10 millennials thought 2 million or fewer Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust; the actual number is around 6 million.
A Snapchat conversation among some of the students at the house that night included jokes about the Holocaust.The students had titled the conversation “master race.”One student said to be at the party posted an Instagram story with what initially looked like an apology, saying he was “very sorry for my actions as I am guilty by association.” In the next image, he wrote that he was just joking, that “last night was awesome” and that he had “absolutely no sympathy” for anybody who was offended.
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