Sir Ben Kingsley: Another Holocaust Is ‘Going to Come from a Very Surprising Place’ By Nicholas Ballasy
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WASHINGTON – Sir Ben Kingsley, the Academy Award-winning actor who stars in the new film Operation Finale, told PJM that another Holocaust will come from a “very surprising place.”
Kingsley, who won an Oscar for Gandhi, plays Adolf Eichmann, one of the key architects of the Holocaust, in Operation Finale, which tells the story of Nazi hunters finding and capturing Eichmann in 1960.
Kingsley recently warned that downplaying the humanity of Holocaust victims puts the world at risk of genocide happening again.
“If we dismiss them in a sort of capsule, an aberration of history, saying ‘well, they weren’t really human, so they don’t count,’ then we’re really letting history off the hook and we are in grave danger of allowing it to happen again,” Kingsley said during a recent interview.
PJM asked Kingsley why he is concerned about another Holocaust.
“I’ll tell you who told me it might happen – that it probably could happen again: that’s Simon Wiesenthal and Elie Wiesel, have both said that openly and publicly. So it is not for me to voice that concern. What do I know?” Kingsley said at the Washington premiere of Operation Finale on Wednesday evening at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
“I’m just an actor but they are the voice of the Holocaust, and if those men are saying that then we better sit up and listen. And I’m not saying it’s going to come from Europe. I’m not saying it’s going to come from any part of the world that we think it’s going to come from. It’s not. It’s going to come from a very surprising place,” he added.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, more anti-Semitic incidents were recorded in 2017 inside the U.S. than any year since 1994.
“What do you attribute that to?” Kingsley was asked.
“I find anti-Semitism after the Holocaust absolutely baffling and unbelievable,” Kingsley replied. “I have to quote Elie Wiesel when I was last with him. He shared with us the fact that he had been talking to God and, after the Holocaust, he asked God, what more do you want? That’s all I can say. What more do you want?”
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