'This is real': Holocaust survivor shares story on Clubhouse to help combat hate

Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann had given speeches at many events over the years about his experiences, but none of them had lasted 16 hours or included thousands of people from around the world. That changed Jan. 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. With an invite to the audio-focused social networking app Clubhouse, he engaged in a question-and-answer session moderated by the rapper Kosha Dillz and nonprofit event producer Adam Swig.”I had never heard of Clubhouse,” Steigmann, 81, said. “When they started a room and got 1,000 people in it, for me, it was a complete shocker.”His marathon session sparked two more multihour chatrooms, including one with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.’s counsel and speechwriter Clarence B. Jones, which brought many thousands of people together to hear firsthand accounts from Steigmann, ask questions, share their own experiences with genocide and hate, and bring awareness to alleged human rights abuses in the Tigray region of Ethiopia and against the Uyghurs in China. “I fight hatred,” said Steigmann, who survived Nazi medical experiments as a baby. “I am also fighting for other ethnic groups. I am also talking about the Uyghur people. No ethnic group, no human being should be persecuted or hurt. There…
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