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She says she’s ashamed of her family’s Holocaust fortune. So why is she siding with those who target Jews today?

Marlene Engelhorn, descendant of the BASF/IG Farben empire that produced Zyklon B—the gas used to murder over a million Jews in the Holocaust—has joined a flotilla headed to Gaza.

The flotilla is tied to groups with known connections to Hamas, the terror group that murdered and kidnapped Jews, including Holocaust survivors, on October 7.

Engelhorn says she wants to break the cycle of violence. But instead of helping Holocaust survivors, she’s projected her guilt onto the Jewish state—repeating history, not repairing it.

When the descendants of perpetrators side with the enemies of their victims, remembrance isn’t optional. It’s essential.