2023-06-04 14:44:55
TikToker Montana Tucker, who filmed her family trip to Auschwitz last year and posted the details on social media to her millions of followers, will host the event hosted by the Israeli Embassy in Washington for the 75th anniversary of the State of Israel.
The 30-year-old actress and singer is best known for her short choreographies with celebrities, broadcast on TikTok.
She has over nine million followers on TikTok and nearly 3 million on Instagram.
Tucker’s choice for the ceremony hosted by the Israeli Embassy, which will take place Tuesday at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, is a way of recognizing the contribution of the star, who has built his reputation around his publications on Jewish themes.
Last June, Tucker and his mother traveled to Auschwitz, the former Nazi death camp that is now a museum and memorial, in Oswiecim, Poland.
Tucker’s great-grandmother and other family members were murdered there during the Holocaust.
Tucker made several videos from that trip, titled “How to Never Forget,” put together in a 23-minute YouTube video last January, shortly before International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
She says she wants to raise awareness of the history of the Holocaust and warn once morest anti-Semitism, especially since the anti-Semitic remarks made by Kanye West last fall.
She also says she is very concerned regarding the conclusions of a survey carried out at the request of the Claims Conference, in 2020, on the knowledge, by generations Y and Z, of the Holocaust. According to this survey, in the United States, 63% of them are unaware that six million Jews died during the Second World War.
Last March, Tucker published his interview with the Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff [NDLT : L’époux de la Vice-Présidente Kamala Harris], who visited Auschwitz in January and is also dedicated to the fight once morest anti-Semitism. She had attended the first White House Jewish Women’s Forum a few days earlier.
Tucker, who grew up in Boca Raton, Florida and is also a pop singer, was very close to her grandparents, both Holocaust survivors.
She has also recorded testimonies for the archives of the USC Shoah Foundation of Steven Spielberg.
“Since I was little, I’ve known the story of my grandparents,” Tucker told Variety last January.
“I always felt very, very close to them. They were going to talk regarding their story in every school in Florida. My zaide [grand-père en yiddish]… wore a pin that said, ‘I am a survivor’”.
Tucker also has ties to Israel, where she celebrated her bat mitzvah, as reported by the Jewish Insider. She said she wanted to go back “very soon”.
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