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The Bombing of Auschwitz

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Senator George McGovern, acclaimed humanitarian, is also a decorated WWII B-24 bomber pilot who flew 35 missions over Poland and Germany. He never received orders to target the gas chambers or railroad tracks to Auschwitz. Werner Coppel and Anna Ornstein were teenaged prisoners in Auschwitz while Allied forces held the skies in 1944. They dreamed for the pilots to notice them, to stop the trains, to stop the gas chambers, to show that they cared about the mass murder. For the first time in public, in this groundbreaking meeting between the WWII war hero and the Holocaust survivors, they will explore the many questions about the possibilities of the bombing of Auschwitz: Was it feasible? What impact would it make? What good would it do? What were the expectations of the victims? Who would be in a position to do it? Why wasn’t it done? Who is responsible for non-action? What conclusions can we make? What legal, ethical, social and political questions do the answers now raise? Why put energy and thought into this question today? Who is there to encourage, help protect, and serve the innocent victims of genocide post-Holocaust?

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