ARNIE IN ANTI-HATE NAZI DEATH CAMP TRIP
■ Irish holidaymaker trapped in her hotel
ARNOLD Schwarzenegger has visited the Auschwitz death camp, meeting a Holocaust survivor and the son of survivors to deliver a message against prejudice and hatred.
The actor and former California governor viewed the barracks, watchtowers and remains of gas chambers that endure as evidence of the German extermination of Jews and others during World War II.
He also met a woman who as a three-yearold child was subjected to experiments by the notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.
“This is a story that has to stay alive, this is a story that we have to tell over and over again,” Schwarzenegger (75) said after his visit to the site of the death camp, speaking in a former synagogue that is now home to the Auschwitz Jewish Centre Foundation.
He stood alongside Simon Bergson, who was born after the war to Auschwitz survivors, and mentioned his own family history.
Soldier
“I was the son of a man who fought in the Nazi war and was a soldier,” he said.
He said he and Mr Bergson, who are close in age, were united in their work.
“Let’s fight prejudice together and let’s just terminate it once and for all,” said The Terminator actor.
His visit to the site in southern Poland, which was under German occupation during the Second World War, was his first and came as part of his work with the Auschwitz Jewish Centre Foundation, whose mission is to fight hatred through education.
Schwarzenegger received the foundation’s inaugural Fighting Hatred award in June for his anti-hatred stance on social media.
After his visit to Auschwitz, Schwarzenegger vowed it would not be his last. “I’ll be back,” he said. ‘NO WORRIES’: Chef Philip Moore is prepared for storm
AN IRISH woman was “counting down the hours” until she could leave her Orlando hotel as Hurricane Ian barrelled towards Florida, U.S.A.
Holidaymaker Pip Kelly described how the streets are deserted and shelves in local shops are empty as Floridians stockpile supplies in scenes reminiscent of the first Covid-19 lockdown.
Millions across the Sunshine State were bracing yesterday as the life-threatening category four storm was expected to strike last night.
Hurricane Ian, which was causing wind speeds of up to 250km yesterday, was just under the threshold to placed in category five — the highest classification which has only ever been given to four storms that have made landfall in the US.
The violent winds, torrential downpours and storm sturges caused by the hurricane have already resulted in country-wide power outages in Cuba and severe flooding in the Florida Keys.
Speaking from the Endless Summer Resort Hotel in Orlando, Dubliner Pip told The Irish Daily Star: “I have to stay in the hotel for the next two days. Everywhere is closed.
Parks
“All theme parks and restaurants are closed. Today and tomorrow I’ll be in this hotel. In a weird way it kind of feels like Covid again.
“I’m counting down the hours until I can leave the hotel.”
The 28-year-old, who arrived on Saturday, said people living on the Florida coast have been