"Like many of us, Steve had been shocked to see videos of Alex Pretti being pushed to the ground by six armed men who summarily executed him on the snowy streets of Minneapolis just the day before. For Steve though, that footage stirred deeply troubling memories. His mother, Mina Zelkowicz, was a Holocaust survivor. She was a teenager when the Nazis came to round up the Jews in the Lodz ghetto in Poland on a snowy night in February 1940."
"She was a teenager when the Nazis came to round up the Jews in the Lodz ghetto in Poland on a snowy night in February 1940. When a pregnant neighbour was shoved to the ground by the SS men, Mina's father rushed to help her and was set upon by the jack-booted fascists who kicked him until the snow ran red with his blood. They dragged his lifeless body away and she never saw him again."
The 40th anniversary of Red Wedge prompted retrieval of archival photos taken by Steve Rapport during a Manchester Apollo soundcheck. Steve posted an emotional Instagram clip after seeing videos of Alex Pretti being pushed to the ground and executed on snowy Minneapolis streets. The footage resurrected memories of his mother, Mina Zelkowicz, a Holocaust survivor who witnessed her father beaten to death by SS men during a roundup in the Lodz ghetto on a snowy night in February 1940. The Minneapolis images echoed that bereavement and provoked an outpouring of righteous anger and testimony.
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