Sarmila Bose wrote the letter below as an apology to the victims of the Holocaust for the silence of her great-uncle Subhas Chandra Bose.
This letter was sent to:
1. The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, New York
2. The Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Boston University
3. European Jewish Congress, Brussels
4. Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin (Jewish Community of Berlin)
I respectfully convey, to Jewish people, other victims of the Holocaust, and their loved ones, my sincere apology and profound remorse for the failure of my great-uncle, the Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose, to acknowledge and condemn the persecution and extermination of Jews, other minority groups, disabled people and political opponents, by Nazi Germany.
There is no evidence to date that my great-uncle, who allied with the Axis powers in his fight for India’s freedom, said anything, publicly or privately, while he was based in Berlin from 1941 to early 1943, or later between 194...