A hate-filled attack made a grandson of Holocaust survivors understand their experience a little more. But he decided to buck their advice
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As a child in Austria, Elie Rosen was told to keep his head down. But as he suffered amid rising anti-Semitism across Europe, he decided to stand up for his faith and his heritage.
That changed when a man wielding a baseball bat came after him in front of his synagogue in Graz, Austria. The building had been repeatedly vandalized and while Rosen managed to reach his car and escape unharmed physically, he was shaken to his core. "After the attack, those warnings of my grandparents had kind of a flashback," he told CNN. "This made me very, very sorry and brought tears to my heart and to my face," he said.More Related News