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Concentration camp survivor offers lessons from the Holocaust
Urges Riverside students to learn from world's past evils
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Holocaust survivor Murray Lynn speaks Tuesday morning October 31, 2017 at the Sandy Beaver Center Theater to Riverside Military Academy cadets. Lynn spoke to the cadets about the difference between patriotism and nationalism. - photo by Scott Rogers
There is a difference between nationalism and patriotism. It is not to be misunderstood. “You’re our future leaders,” Holocaust survivor Murray Lynn told cadets at Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville on Tuesday. “Please don’t confuse nationalism with patriotism … I should know. Jews were scorned as foreigners in most of Europe for many centuries.”