A sur­pris­ing twist in this sto­ry: Leslie Sus­san’s father was a U.S. film­mak­er who blamed his fatal ill­ness on the atom bombs that fell on Hiroshi­ma and Nagasa­ki. I like her attitude:

Being Quak­er hasn’t made me any less Jew­ish. Ever since I was a young teen, basi­cal­ly, my atti­tude toward being Jew­ish has been that I will nev­er argue with a Jew who says I’m not Jew­ish and I will nev­er deny to a goy that I’m Jewish.

Her father doc­u­ment­ed the dev­as­ta­tion at Nagasa­ki and Hiroshi­ma — now she’s con­sid­ered an hon­orary second-generation survivor 

Leslie Sus­san’s father was a film­mak­er who blamed his fatal ill­ness on the atom bombs that fell on…

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