BenLesser_Grandson

Hi u/keanuismyQB. This is Ben's actual grandson Adam here. I helped transcribe the answers here for my grandfather earlier today.

I'll bring this up to him but I dont think my grandfather would disagree with you at all. His age definitely shapes his memory of political shifts before his birth.

It was also the case that the political shifts in Germany and Poland were different, and in both countries Jews were in many cases outside of those political processes.

I have also heard him speak about how America has very different actual legal protections in place that just never existed in Germany - and that is accurate. People are and can be very vulnerable everywhere but part of the alarming nature of political shifts in America recently are even more alarming because we are far more alert to oppression in the US today than Germany or Poland were a century ago.

We're far from perfect and its not equally distributed but progress is real.

This is my opinion on the matter and I am not speaking on his behalf.

Hi u/cannabisized. This is Ben's actual grandson Adam here. I helped transcribe the answers here for my grandfather earlier today.

This answer from him actually somewhat surprised me too, but I appreciated his candor.

Even for myself, after a lifetime of hearing the stories somewhat assumed that there were moments of normalcy. I loved how he responded though and hope we never get complacent about these types of vivid crisies actual people experience, even today.

You are correct. We were both unaware of this report. I’ll share it with him. I appreciate you bringing more awareness to it.

I’m Adam, Ben’s grandson.

One of his favorite things to say is to remark on his number of kids, grandkids, and great grandkids and add “…to spite Hitler!”

Living a long time is a great way to have more happy ways to spite Hitler!

I’m going to ask my grandfather this question but my sense is that he’s a very joyful person, uniquely so! But he is always very focused and determined. Far more than anyone I have ever met.