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  • As the children of survivors, the Rohingya genocide reminds us of the Holocaust

    Susan Lowenberg and Howard Unger|Nov 22, 2019

    (JTA)—She was 16 years old and alone in a refugee camp in a foreign country when we met her. Sobbing, she told us how she hoped that her brother might be somewhere in this camp, “camp number 18.” She had heard that he might be alive—if so, he would be her only surviving family member. Or maybe he was in another of the many camps that have been established in Bangladesh for the Rohingya, a Burmese Muslim minority who fled genocide in Burma. We saw displacement on an unimaginable scale. An estimated 800,000 Rohingya have endured harrowi... Full story