'I always grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust. I can’t be silent, I just can’t.'
Roger Waters' controversial show went ahead at the O2 Arena in London on Wednesday night.The daughter of a Holocaust survivor who was ejected from Roger Waters' controversial show at the O2 Arena London has told LBC she "refuses to be silenced".
Waters' show has been criticised for a segment where the Pink Floyd co-founder wears a black trench coat with a SS-styled emblem. Jewish activists gathered outside the O2 Arena in Greenwich on Tuesday and Wednesday, holding flags that showed the message: 'Hey Roger leave us Jews alone'.show - Yochy Davis, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, bought tickets for the show as a protest.
"We were outside in the two nights that he was playing, we had placards and flags and leaflets to give…a lot of his followers don’t even know why we object to his behaviour," Ms Davis toldMs Davis, who is from Israel, says she was quickly "manhandled" out of the venue. "I was dragged away by a massive, massive guy. He was holding me really tightly, at some points he was lifting me off the ground. I kept saying he was hurting me, but he didn’t want to listen. Other people were really sympathetic," she said.
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