Soccer helped my family survive the Nazis. Our community has lost sight of that story's meaning

Soccer helped my family survive the Nazis. Our community has lost sight of that story's meaning

A new exhibit at the Holocaust Museum LA should be telling my great-grandfather’s story as part of its study of soccer, Jews and the Holocaust. But it won’t, because the museum failed to internalize the great moral lesson that my family learned from surviving the Holocaust: to never value the safety of one group over that of others. The museum describes The Beautiful Game: The Untold Story, which opened this week, as an exploration of “the deep …