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Hate is
aDirty
Word
Love, Peace and Diny Adkins
A t the tender
young age of 4,
Diny Adkins was
forced into a cal-
dron of unspeak-
able horrors. She
emerged from
the living hell foisted upon her for the
crime of being
a Jewish child
in occupied Europe before and during
World War II with uncommon op-
timism and a rare obsession to make
the world a better place to live.
Separated from her family,
Adkins survived two Nazi concentra-
tion camps, sadistic nuns, shrapnel
wounds and living on her own in the
forest, subsisting on little more than
grass. She watched as her best child-
hood friend was murdered by a Ger-
man soldier, and she witnessed people
trampled to death desperately fighting
over bits of food. Even after World
War II came to an end, her life was
torn asunder by the untimely death of
her son, mother and husband.
Despite the tragic events that have
plagued her life, her heart is void of
hate; she seeks no revenge on those
who have wronged her. Instead, she
preaches love and peace to all who
will listen. If that sounds a little like
the outlook of a flower child of the
1960s – well, Adkins looks the part of
a refugee from the 1960s.
Inspired by a doll she has lost and
found three times in her life – a pres-
ent from her grandfather – her belief
in angels and in the innate goodness
of mankind, she spreads her message
of optimism at schools, churches,
synagogues, colleges, conferences and
retirement homes in the Lowcountry
and throughout the nation, charging
only for her expenses. Now 78 and
a resident of The Palms of Mount
Pleasant for the past eight years, she
was born Jewish but later baptized as
a Catholic. She tells her avid listen-
ers about her experiences during the
Holocaust, but she also talks about
subjects such as bullying and the dan-
ger of firearms.
Her goal is, quite simply, to make
the planet a better place for all.
“There is so much hatred in this
world. I wish everybody could hold
hands and be peaceful,” she said.
“There are still good people in the
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