Published on Monday, May 05, 2008
By Bridget Johnson
When Valerie Harper was a small girl, the lessons of the Holocaust were imparted upon her by her Canadian mother.
"I came home one day and she had her fists clenched and she was sobbing by the radio, and she said, 'Valerie, I've just heard a terrible thing has happened in Europe,'" Harper recalled as we chatted after a recent screening of her film "Golda's Balcony," in which she plays former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.
"I said, 'Is the war back, Mama?' She said, 'No, no, the war's over. But a lot of innocent people have been killed just because of who they were. ... You know Eleanor Risenberg, your best friend? It's as if the police would drive by us, the Harper house, and every other house on the block, and then stop at Eleanor's house and take her little brother, and her, and her mom and dad, and her grandma - and we'd never see them again.'
"And I said, 'That's terrible!'" Harper continued. "And she said, 'Yes, because they're Jewish
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