Chelsea Coach visits Auschwitz

Owen · 02-05-2008, 11:07 PM

Lots of coverage in the press about this story.
Anything that highlights The Holocaust has to be a good thing.
It was even on the back pages on some newspapers.
I know for alot of people those are the only pages they read.
Maybe a few people learnt something today.

Avram Grant confronts horrors of past - Football News - Telegraph

Chelsea coach Avram Grant joins 'March of the Living' at Auschwitz in memory of Holocaust victims | the Daily Mail

Chelsea boss at Auschwitz | Holocaust nightmare of Avram Grant | The Sun |HomePage|News

Quote:

He told crowds at the camp for Holocaust Remembrance Day that he first learned the story at 15, when he heard his father screaming in his sleep.
He said his father Meir, now 80, fled his Polish home with his family in 1941 to escape Nazi occupation – and had to live in a Russian forest.
It was freezing, and there was little food. And the 15-year-old Meir watched as both his parents and five of his six siblings died.
The manager continued: “He dug their graves and buried them with his own hands.

Gotthard Heinrici · 02-05-2008, 11:18 PM

I have a lot of respect for Grant as a man, even if I might not like his team.

02-05-2008, 11:18 PM	#2 (permalink)
Gotthard Heinrici Ostfront is where its at! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 3,468	I have a lot of respect for Grant as a man, even if I might not like his team. __________________ *"The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse."* - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino)

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