A couple of nights ago, on July 5, 2019, my wife and I watched the award winning documentary "Big Sonia" on the Scientology Network. Lately, we have watched a few documentaries on this network which still leaves me somewhat apprehensive as it should since I firmly believe that the so-called "religion" is nothing more or less than one of the most dangerous cults in the world. For that reason, I have not included a link to their website in this blog post. Enough said about that topic. The documentary was released in 2016 and I had never known about it until now. It is a documentary about Sonia Warshawski who was 91 at the time the movie was made. She is a Jewish Polish born survivor of the Holocaust and was imprisoned by the Germans when she was in her early teen years. Nearly her entire family were victims of the Holocaust and she had to watch her father and brother removed by the SS never to be seen again. She watched her mother marched into the gas chamber but somehow managed to survive until liberation by the Allies. She met and married her husband in the death camps and they came to America where they ran a tailor shop until his death.
Sonia continued to operate the shop in a dying mall until she finally received an eviction notice as the owners prepared to sell the severely deteriorated property. But, simultaneously, she was speaking in any forum available to her, about her experiences in the Holocaust including prisons and schools. Sonia Warshawski is presumably still alive at this writing and is a tiny force of nature in her 90's at a time when most of her age peers are long dead. Her story should be required viewing for every student in school in America, in every prison and jail, and in every church of the more mainstream denominations. I have not seen a more inspiring, and on some key levels, terrifying documentary in many years.
At this time in America, we have seen racism, hate speech, hate crimes, and all other forms of Right Wing Radical acts expanding and sweeping across the country just as any other virulent disease would. Those acts have included murder as seen in Charlottesville, Virginia; beatings, harassment, and arson all across the country. And as this has been happening, the nameless TRAITOR who currently illegally occupies the White House based on his TREASON with Russia has not attempted to say or do anything stop it because of his own clearly delineated acts of hatred, racism, ignorance, and up to the caging of babies. America and American Democracy are in greater danger than they have been in more than 60 years and we need a thousand people like Sonia Warshawski speaking out against hatred, calling the perpetrators to task for their crimes, and serving as examples for the entire human race. As a nation, we simply cannot afford to allow these crimes to persist! We cannot allow their perpetrators to go unpunished! We cannot stand by and watch our country turned into a Third World bastion of all these destructive, racist, misogynistic, debilitating, and corrosive values. Watch this documentary the first chance you get! Tell every friend you have to watch! Practice the values which Sonia Warshawski expresses in the movie and tell the entire world that Sonia Warshawski is an American Heroine.
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