Remembering All Holocaust Victims

The article about Long Beach Opera’s outreach program in the March 22 edition of the Southeast section of the Times contains a commonly made mistake:

I am described as having been in a Nazi concentration camp as a Jewish teen-ager.

The understandable emphasis on the destruction of Jews has obliterated the memory of those of us who were prisoners but not Jewish. I was known to be anti-German (the word “Nazi” was not used much in those days) and that was enough to be taken as a hostage.

Those of our group who did not return home deserve to be remembered as much as all other victims of Hitler’s regime.

JAN H. VISSER

Long Beach