SAINT-MAUR-DES-FOSSÉS, France — After surviving Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ginette Kolinka developed a stock answer to shut down questioners who’d ask about her experiences of the Nazi death camp and its horrors. “‘If I had a child, well, I would prefer to strangle them with my own hands than make them go through what I went through,’” she’d tell them. “For me, that was an answer that said it all,” Kolinka says. Now, at the tail end of a remarkably long and fruitful life, the feisty 101-year-old with an easy and generous smile has become a mighty warrior against antisemitism in France, seeing...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
