“I really didn’t think about being arrested or doing anything like that,” Ms. Epstein told Newsweek after the confrontation in St. Louis. Ms. Epstein often addressed audiences at schools and community events about the Holocaust. PhotoOn Aug. 18, 2014, a crowd gathered outside the downtown St. Louis office of Jay Nixon, the governor of Missouri. “I was a terrible child,” Ms. Epstein told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 2000. “They did not wish to live in a country that was run by Jews and for Jews only,” Ms. Epstein told The Jerusalem Post in 2014.

Source: New York Times May 28, 2016 20:37 UTC