One Response to Old World Meeting

I am a 49-year-old woman living in Orange County. I am of Jewish descent. I am neither religious nor interested actively in politics. Both of my parents were born in the United States. I had no relatives in Europe at the time of the Holocaust.

I was born in St. Louis, Mo., in 1940. When I was 3 years old my parents moved to Los Angeles, I was raised in the Beverly/Fairfax area, which has a large Jewish population. As a child I remember that neighbors of ours had family members in concentration camps.

After the war, I remember seeing the survivors of the camps with numbers tattooed on their arms. I remember hearing some of their stories, when the adults did not realize we were around. I still occasionally see someone with numbers tattooed on his arm, and it brings back to me those memories.

Two hotels did not allow the group that denies the occurrence of the Holocaust to meet in their facilities. Old World Village, which is a German village, allowed the group to meet there.

This I feel is in very poor taste since it was in Germany where this horror took place. My husband (who is not Jewish) was in Germany at the end of World War II. He saw the (non-existing) death camps.

This is a free country, and Old World can allow anyone to meet on its premises that it wishes. I can spend my money as I wish. I do not intend to spend another cent at Old World.

I hope that all other Jewish people will do the same. That seems a fair way to show our displeasure.

SANDY COLTER

Irvine