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Letter: Cartoon was disrespectful to murdered millions

This is not about anti-Semitism, and it’s not about being too sensitive, which often is code for don’t be sensitive at all.

Pat Bagley’s May 8 cartoon, with the use of the image of the Auschwitz gate, with “Drill Baby Drill” written across the top to depict the threat of extinction of wild animals, is hurtful to our families and disrespectful to the murdered millions.

All I know of one side of my family is a group photograph from the 1930s of about 20 Russian Jews who were murdered. As a teenager, my aunt out-swam her attacker at a lake while the Brown Shirts drowned her girlfriends.