DeSean Jackson accepted an invitation to visit Auschwitz during a Zoom call on Friday with a 94-year-old survivor from a Nazi concentration camp, according to the Jerusalem Post.
The wide receiver was disciplined Friday by the Philadelphia Eagles for conduct detrimental to the team for his posts on social media, which included an anti-Semitic message he attributed to Adolf Hitler. Jackson was fined, a source told ESPN’s Tim McManus. The wide receiver also intends to donate a significant amount to the efforts of the Jewish community, a source told McManus.
Jackson, who apologized for his posts last week, was on the call with Edward Mosberg, a Holocaust survivor who was dressed in his concentration camp uniform. Jackson posted to Instagram about the call on Friday, including a screenshot of Zoom’s call.
“I grew up in Los Angeles, and I never spent much time with someone from the Jewish community and didn’t know much about their history, this has been such a powerful experience to learn and educate myself,” he said on the call. , according to the Jerusalem Post.
According to the Post, he added: “I want to take appropriate measures so that people know that I never intentionally had hatred in my heart, I never wanted to discourage the Jewish community, I want to educate myself more and help bridge the gaps between all the different cultures.”
Mosberg invited Jackson to visit Auschwitz last week in an open letter after Jackson’s social media posts. Mosberg survived multiple concentration camps, including Mauthausen, and said his late wife was an Auschwitz survivor.
From The Depths, an organization that supports Holocaust survivors, is organizing details of the trip with Jackson. Mosberg is honorary president of the organization.
“We are working with DeSean and his team to set dates for this journey to continue and we are pleased that DeSean has accepted,” said Jonny Daniels, founder of From The Depths, who originated the Zoom call between Jackson and Mosberg. .
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest concentration camp in Nazi Germany; 1.1 million men, women, and children were killed there.
New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman, who is Jewish, has invited Jackson to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. On Friday, Edelman posted that he and Jackson had spoken.
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