Holocaust survivor visits Harvard to discuss modern antisemitism [Video]

After months of tumult on the campus of Harvard University following the Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the university’s reaction, a holocaust survivor visited a Jewish organization at the prestigious school on Thursday. Karmela Waldman visited Harvard Chabad for a fireside chat comparing the history of the Holocaust to present-day antisemitism and recent incidents. Waldman was joined by her son, author and podcaster Joel Waldman, who recently published a book about his family’s experience. The mother and son are on a book tour. Karmela Waldman survived the Holocaust in what was then Yugoslavia. Her mother and grandmother also survived, but her father and grandfather were killed at Auschwitz. “My mother took me through a hole in the fence,” Karmela Waldman said. “They came to take us to the trains to take us to Auschwitz.” Her mother asked a non-Jewish doctor for help, and he brought her to a …