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documentary missing us, a 5 of nazi germany who returned decade later to tell his story, to him, the logical for myself and the team. thank you for your company. the bees do for fun via do gravitational waves squeeze out body. how do i the drums for the to the feet and what's the perfect kill for approx side? find the on says get smaller with dw signs on the picked up channels. of the
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large portrait photographs of holocaust survivors taken by luigi toscano were exhibited in german train stations in summer 2021. the small godfrey plant was among the
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it'd be a kind of location main. she's been. yeah. i gave it down. wow. a my jesus, i don't, i'm nothing unhappy personally. i'm grateful really? yeah. i got to change. i've had 4 different lives as tight a wonderful childhood and a few beautiful years of i did that. but to show good, cool me several extremely difficult years was where i went through a lot field and he was done. and then marriage m e e s
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and then these 1011 is a totally different to see if the souls portray here the today. model, the lender lives in berlin again. she was born here in 1921 into a jewish family. they were persecuted after the nazis came to power. in 1933, the parents were divorced. her mother was not able to leave germany just
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before she was about to go into hiding with her children. margaret's younger brother ross was arrested, hoping to help her son. her mother turned herself into the authorities. ma god went into hiding in berlin. after 13 months, she was caught and deported to the easy and she thought concentration camp a. she survived. her mother, brother, father and her entire family were murdered in outfits. shortly after the liberation of today's installed, and before she left, she married out of cleveland, a man she knew from berlin and whose family had also been murdered. and now she bits. they emigrated to america in 1946 the
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america ms. guns should. i should also, but i never really see gave america because when i had needed america, they didn't let me in. it's missing each. i just assume the each. now, if i, the time i came to america, i was free and a vice and could have stayed here anyway. wanted to be up. it was my own free wells on my play up. and if i could have come to america with my mazda company, i might have been very happy beach placed. this dispute is the reason, the in 2003. she returned to berlin for the 1st time in 57 years to participate in a documentary. the english
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sometime in the new good rating on bass. some of it had to be shocked in berlin. my lead that was what changed my life. it made me for this the moment i arrived in the city where my roots will bundle. so i realized was it meant to me get mess, tougher bus. these are steps of mission victoria. that was the essence of it. space in the dish and i knew i should be one year and they tempted 15 in 2005. so i, the documentary was officially screened here at the jewish film festival. a did help each other. and then i began to write my book and ideas one year later to the publisher who voice heard about. it's got the whole book because as they said they wanted to publish it and the tie should work with the
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coal side a dislike that was 2006 in december i met to mullins trad figure that december and worked with have for one year up and you helped me to get the i was in america and she was in button and he by in bending her book, try to make your life was published in 2008. since then she has been doing regular readings from it. sometimes several, a week is due for do not malice because i should be addition mind what does interest them much would this be by stand in front of the neighbors building? and then in a moment i will see my mother. he dictates guessing delta you show the jewish couple is waiting up the little window. i can recognize the silhouette behind the curtains. i looked from my mother's familiar form. well, you see, she's note that the lazy opens the door for me to be where is she?
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i asked gas express. he's the woman waits until i'm inside. then she shuts the door . she left me see me. but 1st i don't understand. did i get to you too lazy? she out looking for me, best to call me. she left a message for you. this is steve, i'm for, i am waiting for the woman to hand me something, but she just stands that i look for a slip of paper in her hand. something my mother would have written down for me. you saw, i'm supposed to give you a message and done that. then she tells me what my mother could no longer tell me herself. that if i have decided to go to the police, i speed i am going with ralph. wherever that may be, it must try to make your life so badly. so the only things she still has from her mother are this amber nicholas at
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a small address book, a side 1000 as ish. so who could fill in 2008, 6. when i was still on the plane, on my way back to america, but i asked myself in new york, what so you really doing in new york via this so much more you can do in germany in berlin committee. he comes in 2009. she decided to leave new york and return to berlin for good point to him. i definitely have 88 years old, my god. friedlander has been re petri a to and this backs a good today. she officially became a to him and citizen again. interior administer coating presented her with the certificate thing. i'm gonna
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dig it this is soneta can send it to cutting. that gives me, i should probably say a few words of to receiving this documents for and i think was of sikes are expected of of to month. voltage system goes the condition i come do that, did the how? because you have simply returned what belonged to me in the 1st place. best when it was taken away from me many decades ago, almost back then they left the roots of a young sapp claims to dry out us. if we knew i haven't come back to germany, come, i've come to my friends or you. good. thank you. oh, okay. so the keys. yeah. but i'm also not asked if i miss america, be sure to help me. i don't to, to have been people versed
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a few jobs. i know i was in america so many years is you just concerns me. see, but i don't really feel like i live in the for 64 years of of port to southern friends say to me, it feels like you were here the whole time of this for mission. i have that same strange feeling. i'm totally here. been to todd is here. one of her greatest objectives is to tell her story to young people in schools, church communities at adult education centers. my visa, the book i use for readings since this is what it looks like now. here you can see the stuff you have in austin. gosh, dad, it's 12000. no,
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i received the ein hot prize for the book in 2009 for best autobiography based out to be oak of t. so i was invited to berlin again to do readings. assign cannot these on deeper, i noticed how silent these young people uh, you'll know, mentioned the school students came to the center and how as soon as i started to speak, they wanted to know is it? what's next to us? what's next? what is this woman's life the funds of? what did she lives through the end? it wasn't. and i always said it to you so that what we live through never happens again. that's who are best you that machine go best to be a leap top. but i don't blame many of you have a dish. people, if i initially then because we can't forget to sit in those use the parents and
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grandparents with cheering is told on was it? of course i knew that you because the spot me got here. i was speaking to the 3rd or 4th generation who had nothing to do with it to own denise stuff, me to tune that the readings have become too exhausting for her. so friedlander has started using a video recording. decent that's not good. it is, we left the company, honish, tasa in a truck, out of berlin, spending the tool will show us the doors closed behind us for this. and we from that moment on, everything passed me by like a nightmare. you immediately forgot. as soon as you wake up but which still leaves an indelible tyra behind on to taught steam, i'm going to us an ocean just to shrink it. that is, mine is the lead. furnished and lined them cool, but my soul was not in my body in this truck on its way to,
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to hazy and start to do these instead was like a large scale study, an experiment. and i know it's one question rules our lives. these how much can a person take place in stuff easy instead was an in between place. you can either life no desk about the to the desk, waited for us in the camps in the east to in the get towed. there was hung up cells and cramped conditions and it was everyone for themselves a hi loan to the some she minus see some closeness, the and it was difficult for me to, to allow those things in and a, everyone existed in a kind of isolation hooked up to hazy and stat was of that q 5 cool, a place devoid of and light or do without time it site? honestly, 6 of us. after the readings,
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the young people are curious to know more. each have is the shaft. i made it shipped. i feel like i can do something to those who didn't make who can't dismiss dish of time. i have a duty to speak for those who can no longer speak english mesh. question could you would like to tell you that we won't forget you and that we will pass everything we've learned onto the next generation. i can just give you a tough escape bill that gives me strength. so strength to do this because you are listening to me because i believe that my was being heard. well, of course, this flagstaff k as a see sure what i'm telling you might not get through to all of you, but you can reach 2 or 3 or 4 of you. i've achieved something, then i'll be suppressed. because it's for you. then what can i do after all?
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nothing. i don't have any children, highly attendance. you will have children, families, emilia, be smotts. i make a good lie for yourselves. include none things. now the quote, because knowledge really is every single piece of this lilia within lovely name. oh, the best time to binge and have you, strangers have been good to me. i'm diminishing strangers. who had nothing to do with me in my life and lead me to not the death of mister pick, guess i'll never forget that year and 3 months i've known that i spent getting to know people in berlin came who had done something extraordinary between the demos at 1st, aton hopper,
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i'll never forget that i was head cuz that's how i actually discovered a true human assuming solution. i can get it out. i please good. and i'd like to give some of that back. the . it's been news for life because maybe i don't really realize is also really i do see i've done a lot of it and all the dunc. so when i look in this folder, i see older words sanks in the email for the dental side of the reasons in hundreds and hundreds of the one doing that. then not for nothing. oh this for this,
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they are all expressions of grassy to you junk. so so yes i have been the of was who someone writes, the surely we didn't know how bad it was back then all those you've made me see so much more clearly, hollis few best air force day. people have written lessons like that is in, in believe some stuff i'm tired. but same to the interesting thing is how they suddenly really learn what was going on last bot net, the cost of leaving them all the cost survivor margot. friedlander is one of 10 berliners, the tool guide is now offering and modeled friedlander to keep that one's gone. all
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606 will be 4. 66 is berlin was little more than a memory for my godfrey glenda. the place denazi's once took her prisoner and up to we'd have to hold the cost, the cost of $5.00 a month, but friedlander was awarded to her own standing dictation in germany. would it only rarely citizenship, the highest escalated the state of berlin? both were persecuted by the nazi regime and eaten by the linens for years. and for sloth is still active all the days. they remind us of the atrocities and criticize anti semitism and racism. one process. hitler, good. the good thing and good was, well also honorary citizens or to they ton in the graves. now, if they had graves to do then and you do choose who they didn't consider a human mention at that time who they wanted to kill them and almost managed to own
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just in fast the little today. a jewish woman who to even has become honorary citizens. so that's fine. with her honorary citizenship. friedlander is now among the great names and berlin's history. her portrait will now hang in the gallery of eminent figures and berlin's house of representatives. the presidents of the berlin house of representatives house, villani shows her how different and varied the portraits are, the some of the to the very different style here. and that one of the twist denture is almost realistic. human schmidt with his ever present cigarettes and the snuff tobacco. he always used g. and look at
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that style. the uh, the astronauts. lots of deals the so yes, there's a list of honorary citizens from east gemini. this is of sigmund, yeah. and, and valerie because sky all that, so look for land artist stephanie found targets is working on a number of sketches for the official portrait. yeah, it's just ok showing it 1st, but do you the i is a bit more complete than the fresh. the sketched on a push i'm going to, oh god. so this is that just be on the coat. it's my god's image hoc. when michael asked me if i would paint a portrait for the house of representatives of the house line. so to
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this from the tradition 1st i was overwhelmed just i'm surprised by because margaret put so much trust in me and for how long cushion kept you can't say no to that woman snyder come it is it here being momma mission here being one is b as in period, gabriel g a minus the fun princess in cobbling sinister going from the high to hear this needs to be the end of good uses friedlander. thank you for deciding to live among us again with your work for democratic values,
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your contribution towards keeping memories, the live, and your work with children and young people. you have done a lot of good for our city, benoit, monterey. we citizenship is the highest accolade we can award here in berlin, and that's why i'm very happy about something you said recently in conversation with school students. when you visited us in the house, i'm a troop atlanta, and i love my city. you can even minor stuff out of all in the big, loose palm at all by security that does it's to visit know of india here being d as in v here. knowing the being to using and a 2019 cleveland became patrons of article one of the german constitution, the glen because that everyone has the right to express
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their opinion or whether it's gender, nation, or background of faith. no one should be deprived or favorite human dignity is involved in level human dignity is one environmental, the refund, done. they've done. so i'm very happy that use mock friedlander someone who reminds us why the constitution came to be are accepting this. tell us man, today in the spirit of diversity and difference, he busy teeth and keep unimpressed. active ceremony was held by the german integration foundation to mark the 70th anniversary of the constitution. even pulling this alongside. chancellor america was holocaust survivor mar godfrey lender. he received an award for outstanding integration work miracle things for the 97 year old who has been telling the story of her life under the nazi regime in
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schools for years. she also became patriot of article one of the constitution. human dignity is inviolable to dimension is on. i'm to spend that to a leash and know i'm very touched. of course i don't really know what to say bessie sent and so chipped from my notes and i did write to speech that 1st of all, i just like to say move sign keys. this to dish them. it's a me, it's incredible just to experience this desk to enable the she wrote the book of interviews each to a s voice. i do it for you. together with the anti semitism representative of the
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state of north wine west valia, sabina lloyd toys ashen off in baccha. it's also meant as a warning to people to learn the lessons of history, the gc mitch's most you should, you should desk i, its anti semitism is not the only thing mainstream. they're against to this people in or that i was letting me know whether it's dues or foreigners, can vote people with other opinions that just they want everyone to be like them. that's v d 's in the future. so i would speak linda multi via human mention side. so again, as a witness evolve as a person with a mission. margot to friedlander motivates young people and stuff. she puts her heart into it. she's very authentic us z and i think all of that makes her
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a great supporter of prevention, which is the most important thing when it comes to dealing with and addressing anti semitism you getting on to me to some of the fish. this is the doctor. she doesn't, she clocked in the can catherine fine because i have my cluster around me every day in some food. yeah. and i'm dealing with those so closely. no. no. i feel like i'm always with her. this is an antique bite. yep. and it's fun. yeah. northern new smooth place. it wasn't possible for her to come here to the studio because of this day to change stuff back on and, and will i have to add to this building, design and stress? and number 17, it's a very poignant place and goes bizarre a lot out is by because this was her last hiding place to feel
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before she was taken to, to raise the inch dense inch to come on . this is in the frugal i did wish and that was to site to clean ways brings me to to use vendors to when i climb these full clothes or when i entered the stairwell, the i think of mark on each step kind of a history think is a lot of younger sister is what she experienced to was the wonderful come play a family by the phone up on for me and here come clear when she couldn't remember which floor she lived on and they to it houses
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a couple in touch. but she had thought she has a postcard, she sent to the come please from theresa instead. complex of toby's interest a sick tut cause the i sort will. she showed it to me when it's said vent. come play a family, focus on and stress. so 72nd floor by to stroke i to see. so she was on the 2nd floor to flows below me. i slashed back a one time. yeah. i still finish activate that. that's what i looked like for a long time. quotes yeah, there i am with my cross. that's. that was when i was in hiding. would tell
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coincides look how beautiful my have was. you ever done a heel. he is still beautiful. it's hot today i asked you where you got this cross. and you said someone gave it to you, you broke you into hiding them. this one sec, $11.00 tech a tough, tough the once he says are as though and i was so astonished that it wasn't silver . so then i guns, she was a very simple cold hodges as to nicole to cool is her. i didn't have any money for a chain if so if it was crochet, he'd code this so it's so beautiful and of it isn't in this photo. and on the original, it looks like sofa for that is when i saw you in the settings, a nice that i could sense exactly how you found the tools,
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the stuff or do you recognize yourself? oh yes. the kind of the shift is it so, but i don't have that time visit max once or twice every summer. that window showing his house. he has a beautiful house right on the roof, tessa and moved towards agnes. and the little no to boat on that. but i usually bring something with me. miche profit chickens or a whole one, depending on how many people of that comfortable mazda come, and he brings coffee and cake to the garden. and then we get into the boat for an
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hour or so of boat. that though i'm even allowed to drive it to sport fun. i love doing that to michigan most of the restaurant and i'm, i'm to have we go as far as polt stem onto the bridges. i don't to lake funds a while. we looked at the sailing booths and other boats of buttons the on whose to see good board to and on the board in spring 2020. when the corona virus pandemic brought public life in germany to a standstill. friedlander had to slow down too. but at $99.00, she was online to present the ma got friedlander award, which is bestowed on school projects that cheap a life the memory of the nazi era terrors. and i didn't get it. so we're all sitting in very different constellations in front of our screens in so many places . and some of you are together. some of you are alone. i'm just happy. it's working
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out inside the snap. my name is peter land. my name is ron. with the support of survivors in volunteers, the association presents readings, stories, and contemporary witness statements to the public. now, why did you have to get on the train as charging gal? this michelle felt and i think i'd like to assign to you again in just what i think it's great that you're doing this most f as it's very close to my heart as it says, my name, if it has become my mission, is so hard to fully show it today at 99. i'm very eager for you to continue the walk. said that whole the guy that's out of this, it will be forgotten by the i just want to make just finished tickets and do the listing we can take off. i'm a one year later,
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she can start working again. this time outgoing chancellor. uncle america will give this speech in honor of the prize winners determined by the websites and you do this because you believe that it seems stream be important to most of the young people to turn the backs on exclusion violation racism, anti semitism, and all forms of hostility to the group talking, but so now i mentioned 5, this type. so then you just aren't guzman left in this works give special significance to the world named often monkwood friedlander. and i'm delighted to see the interest this award is attracting among young people all over germany, which front of the
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stink of much club i should cause. i sometimes think about what i might have done in life is gone. but i can't imagine it. you push days, press the stay at the house is probably a dressmaker. but he's, i don't know if i had a frenzy. i was very young when hitler came to power. com. so it just wasn't an option anymore. just got to kind of swear. we had to grow up too quickly calling to see if you have box don't put steam still until 19 associates took until the cust on the we tried to more or less have a life. i mean i, you got my needs. and so even if i say it was too short,
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be those young is 1824 is when you meet someone and start dating that your mind can support those years. were missing. config. he's not real frivolous. see who is guy or them? how should i persists? don't to have time regret. not having that is 5 dolphin. i was away some fishing this me because i do not make us. let's have a look in here to the 12 discussions household. that's house book type plots, where the monument is here that it is with philip levine, used to do his dress, may can be cited her questionnaire. i. so i left
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school, i didn't do my final. yeah. oh, school leaving exams. not been hiking or did station. i went to the fashion designed school. that's where i met philip living. so see if he was very nice and, and i was very much in love scales latasha and i think that was the 1st and only time, at least it was the 1st time i got drunk, can pull some hop on the sleep of the building, closing because the stressor itself. yeah, yeah. they usually they have the p, f i, i agree is the change. there was a huge table whether pumpkins were caught p as a guess. is that to dish? that would be my well trying to say is that one nice. that's the right. yeah.
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the photographer, i'm a ts siegler. it's a portrait. so free lender for a photo book for her 100 birthday locations that played an important role in her life. like here at house, full time slots for her parents shop with the the presents or as a modern woman who has grown from her difficult fast. the
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thing to do is have brought to my number. i always think my mothers was to take to me, but i am the prosystems in late 2 years isn't when i was here. this please, a bite. it says you could try to make your life. now i'm making a life and i'm doing something in my life. i believe, awareness of what friedlander does is not confined to germany. when us secretary of state anthony blinking and his german counterpart, tyco, moss arranged a joint conference to commemorate the holocaust. once again, it was presented who was there to remind people of the equality of all human beings . i tell them that there is no christian
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jewish or muslim blocked that is only human black, n t i and and go still this know who own was on the g. s to talk to pizza. it this for you. thank you. so that's a nice thing to me. i always say i hope i can keep going for a while longer yet sleep the life gave me the chance to do this. this mission is in this show on that i don't just if my own life, but this i speak for those who comp speak for themselves the
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the, the change the tight. so the weaknesses of that era, a goal know you have the new ways of remembering the show must be found, especially when racism and anti semitism are removed. gene once again in society here in germany is there to appear in duration of the politicians as society. we can and we should all work to look back to reflect us, to remember, and to think about the future. we have
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a huge responsibility to do our best here when we follow this call to your memory. and i very much hope, mrs. friedlander that we will be worthy of your legacy. does sealants information this bill to come by the last time you kind of flushed and oh, i don't imagine how much will be left now after i passed away. i believe life. great people have done things. but what i do is very, very little about my tool and this is still so c as c o v e as to nice may be the current generation listening to me in schools will talk about it to the children. yeah, and kid done at the side of the how far it will go. i have no idea what is tied because so many people keep saying they don't want to talk about this anymore. stay
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