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city of us, me just say they were killed in a joint attack. us officials suspect the tax was scattered out fine as on back to minutes. and with that showed up to date for to stay with us for the documentary on the phone across the wible and how well control many of them showed you as far as thank you for watching. the can you see is what old car tires have to do? with the production. here's a hands on so we'll need the the snow on youtube. of the
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large portrait photographs of holocaust survivors taken by luigi toscano were exhibited in german trained stations in summer 2021. the small god. friedlander was among the
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it's the kind of location main she's been. yeah. i do. i've done file 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,
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m e e n and then these 1011 is 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 her parents were divorced. her mother was not able to plead 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 to the easy and she thought concentration camp. she survived, her mother, brother, father and her entire family were murdered in our streets shortly after the liberation of tony's installed. and before she left, she married out of fleet, linda, 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 miss guns should, i should call soon. but i never really. so gave america. because when i had needed america, they didn't let me in as missing each. i just assume the snow. by 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 just come to america with my mazda company, i might have been very happy being placed, they should just replace the v as in 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, the main for each, the moment i arrived in the cities when 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 must be some 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 before me and they to the publisher who voice heard about. it's got the whole book because up to they
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said they wanted to publish it and that's how i should work with the cosa. i just thought that was 2006 in december. i met tomorrow and try to 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 berlin who you buy in building 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. issue you for do not malice because i switch my what this statement showing disappears. i stand in front of the neighbors building and in a moment i will see my mother. he dictates guessing doc, you show the jewish couple is waiting up the little window. i can recognize the silhouette behind the curtains. i look for 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. at 1st i didn't understand. did i get to too lazy? she out looking for me best to call me she left a message for you. this is steve. i am. 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 still are you, 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 in the best to 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 lucas in 2008, 6. when i was still on the plane on my way back to america. i asked myself in new york, what so you really doing in new york? yeah. there's so much more you can do in germany. in berlin committee comes in 2009. she decided to leave new york and return to berlin for good point to him. i definitely had 88 years old, my god, friedlander has been re petri a to and this back for good people or not. today she officially became a to them and citizen again, interior administer coating presented her with the certificate thing. i mean
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the good to send that to send it to cutting. that seems to me, i should probably say a few words of to receiving this documents for an i think was of sikes. are expected of up to one vote to just on guess the condition i come do that. did the how? because you have simply returned what belonged to me in the 1st place. best when me what was taken away from me many decades ago. almost back then they left the roots of a young sapp claims to dry out to us. and if we knew, i haven't come back to germany, come, i've come to my friends or me. thank you. oh, okay, so the ship. but i'm often 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 lift that for 64 years of port to soften friends. say to me is it feels like you were here the whole time of this the mission? i have that same strange feeling. i'm totally here. been to college here. one of her greatest objectives is to tell her story to young people in schools, church communities at adult education centers. my, the zip for 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, and it's $12000.00. no,
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i received the 900 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, signed and not diesel. deeper. i noticed how silent these young people, uh, yona, mentioned the school students this in doing and how as soon as i started to speak, they wanted to know is it what's next? best, what's next? what is this woman's life need for these up? what did she lives through the n a? i wouldn't, and i always said it see you. so that we live through never happens again. that's who of us you, that machine go. must be a leap top, but i don't blame many of you have a dish. cable is kind of show it then because we can't forget to sit in those use.
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the parents and grandparents with cheering is told on who was it? of course i knew that you be top spot, me thought good. here i was speaking to the 3rd or 4th generation who had nothing to do with it to own the stuff me to, to nothing. the readings have become too exhausting for her. so friedlander has started using a video recording infinities, and that's not good. it is we asked the company honish tasa in a truck out of berlin spending the tool will show us the doors closed behind us for this. and 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 issue just to shrink it. that is my new c furnished in my num code, but my soul was not in my body in this truck on its way to to crazy and stuff cause
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easy instead was like a large scale study, an experiment. and i know one question rules our lives. these, how much can a person take, pacey and stuff easy, instead was an in between place. you can either life, know dest about that in the depth, 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 sit themselves, a loan for some humana see some close to this new 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 without time insight. moderately 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 except 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 couldn't get anybody would like to tell you that we won't forget you and that we will pass everything we've learned onto the next generation desk. if your cost 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 class stuff k as a see sure. what i'm telling you might not get through to all of you, but you can reach to full 3 or 4 of you. i've achieved something. then i'll be
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stress of ice. because it's for you. then what can i do after all? nothing. i don't have any children. i need to this. you will have children, families need. yeah. be smotts. i make a good life feel so thankful to 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 the strangers have been good to me. i'm diminishing strangers. who had nothing to do with me in my life and lead me to nothing when death of me should put guess, i'll never forget that year and 3 months i spent getting to know people in berlin came who had done something extraordinary. even demos at
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1st, aton, i'll never forget that i was head cuz that's how i actually discovered a true human. assuming she's, i can get it out. i can please good . and i'd like to give some of that back. the, it's been you for life. maybe i don't really realize is also really i do that. i've done a lot of it and all the dunc. so when i look in this folder, i see all the words of thanks in the email for the dental side of the readings and hundreds and hundreds of the ongoing good. then not for not single mission for them
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. if they are all expressions of gratitude to you, junk, so go so yes i have been the of was who's someone writes the surely we didn't know how bad it was back then all those you've made me see it so much more clearly, hollis few best. they're forced air. people have written lessons like that is in, in believe that sometimes the same to the interesting thing is how they suddenly really learn what was going on my spot. the other cost you believe in the model, the cost survivor margot friedlander is $1.00 of 10 berliners. the tool guide is now offering a ma god friedlander to keep that one's gone. all 66466 years. berlin was little
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more than a memory for ma, godfrey, bland. the plays denazi's once took her prisoner up to we'd have to walk, you hollow costs the cost of the month, but friedlander was awarded to the standing. the dictation in germany awarded only the very citizenship, the highest accolade of the state of berlin. both were persecuted by the nazi regime and eaten by both linens for years and both as still active today. they remind us of the atrocities and criticize anti semitism and racism process. hitler, good. the good thing is we're also on a very citizens hoyde 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 not to mention other times who they wanted to kill you own and almost managed to own just in fast the little today. a jewish woman who to even has become
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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 these on shows her how different and varied the portraits are 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 that style.
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the uh, the astronauts deals the so yes, there's a list of honorary citizens from east gemini. this is of sigma and yeah. and, and valerie because sky so show that to look for an artist stephanie found out of it 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 freshly sketched. uh i a push. i'm going to, oh god. so this is that to 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 and house line. so to
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this from the tradition 1st, i was overwhelmed just and surprised by it. because monkwood put so much trust in me and for how long cushion kept you can't say no to that woman snyder come or is it here being mama mission here being one is b as in period. gabriel g. a minus the phone trans hosting probably needs to go on via via high t s. this needs to be the good thing, uses friedlander. thank you for deciding to live among us again with your work for
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democratic values, 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 station with school students. when you visited us in the house, i'm a true belinda, and i love my city. you can even mine instead of all in the big, loose palm at all by security there. sophie's does. it's to visit no being near him, being d as in v here. no, being the big d as in tv and the 2019 cleveland became patriot of article one of the german constitution,
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the glen because that everyone has the right to express their opinion on whether it's gender, nation or background of face. no one should be deprived or favorite human dignity is involved in a level human dignity is one environmental, the, the refund, done. they're done. so i'm very happy that you're my good 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, you busy, teach and keep unimpressed. our 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. she
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received an award for outstanding integration work. miracle thing's been 97 year old, who has been telling the story of her life under the nazi regime in schools for years . and she also became patriot of article one of the constitution. human dignity is inviolable. the dimension is on test, the spend that to release and know i'm very touched of course. so who i i don't really know what to say. bessie sutton. so chipped from my notes and i did write to speech. you could see that 1st of all, i just like to say move, sign key, visit to these them as a me, it's incredible. just to experience this desk to enable the she wrote the book of interviews each to s,
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voice. i do it for you together with the anti semitism representative of the state of north fine west valia, sabina lloyd toys ashen off in america. it's also meant as a warning to people to learn the lessons of history a to z me too small as you should, you should desk i, its anti semitism is not the only thing mainstream. they're against to this, pete poll newton without obviously know whether it's dues or foreigners, can both people with other opinions that just they want everyone to be like them. that's v d 's in the future. so level of sleep linda, more tv, a 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 and z. and i think all of that
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makes her 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. he doesn't shed margaret in the can catherine fine because i have my plus 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 smyrna, please. it wasn't possible for her to come here to the studio, but because of this, the change struck back on and, and will i have to add to this building, design, and stress? and number 17, it's
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a very poignant place. and guns is all out is by because this was her last hiding place to feel before she was taken to, to raise the inch dense inch to come on. this is in the frugal a dish and that's to twist a site to clean ways springs me to tease bending when i climb these full flows overnight into the stairwell here. i think of mock on each step. kind of a history think is a lot of younger sister eh, what she experienced to was the wonderful come play a family. hi, deb hung up on for me and your company. you went and she couldn't remember which
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floor she lived on and they to it houses a couple in touch. but she had thought she has a postcard. she sent to the come plays from teresa inch. that completes of interest at chick tut, cause the i saw it will she showed it to me when it said send, come play a family, focus on and stress. so 72nd floor by to stuck i to see. so she was on the 2nd floor, 2 floors below me. all right, so i stuck back a point in time. yeah. absolutely. and you should have given that that's what i looked like for a long time. quotes. yeah,
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there i am with my cross that's. that was when i was in hiding with dell coincides look how beautiful my have was. you haven't done. your hay 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 tech $11.00 tech a tough, tough the once he says are as though and i was so astonished that it wasn't silver with then i guns. she was a very simple cold hodges as the quotes, the quotes here, i didn't have any money for a chain. 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 just it looks like silver. i forgot it's just when i saw you in the settings, a new tab, i could sense exactly how you felt the tools,
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the stuff or do you recognize yourself? oh yes. the kind of the shift on it so. but i know at that time visit max once or twice every summer, that window shortened his house. he has a beautiful house right on the roof, tessa, and moved towards agnes. and a little note about on that boy, i usually bring something with me, mid profit chickens or a whole one,
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depending on how many people of that comfortable must come. and he brings coffee and cake to the garden. and then we get into the boat for an hour or so of board that though if i'm even allowed to drive it to sport fun, i love doing that to michigan, mostly i'm sure i don't i'm, i'm to have we go as far as post them under the bridges, i don't to lake funds a while. we looked at the sailing booths and other boats of buttons the on who was to see the board to an under 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 mall got friedlander award, which is bestowed on school projects that cheap a live the memory of the nazi era terrors. so this is done. so we're all sitting in very different constellations in front of our screens in so many places. and
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some of you are together. some of you are alone. i'm just happy, it's working out. my name is peter land. my name is ron, with the support of survivors and 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 is, 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 to go best 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
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a one year later she can start working again. this time outgoing chancellor. ongoing miracle will give the speech in honor of the prize winners. he told us by the websites and you do this because you believe that is to stream the important to most of the young people to turn the box on exclusion violation racism, anti semitism, and all forms of hostility to the group talking. but so now i mention 5, this type, so then you have on go small must 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 my describe. i should cause guy sometimes think about what i might have done in life is gone, is that i can't imagine it. you put a plus b s, stay at the house is probably a dressmaker. space. 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 stones until 19 associates to occur until the cust on the we tried to more or less have a life. i mean i, you got a lot of needs. so if,
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if i say it was too short, 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 it is guys, or how should i put it in to have time regret not having that is 5 dolphin. i was always some fishing this me because guy too much makes us let's have a look in here to discuss this household. that house book type plots where the monument is here is with philip levine used to do his dress may can
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be size for cluster michel. i see. so i left school. i didn't do my final. yeah. oh school leaving exams. not been hiking or did station i went to the fashion design school. that's where i met philip living. so the, 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 help on the sleeping whole of the day closing because the stressor itself. yeah, yeah. they usually they have a d, p, f, i, i agree is the change. there was a huge table whether pumpkins were caught p as
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a guess. is that to dish that would be my well i have things that one nice, that's the other. yeah, the photographer, i'm a ts siegler to 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 embed, these are brought to my know, i always think my mothers was to take to me. but i am the process them in late 2 years. when i was here, this please backdate. as you could try to make your life. now i'm making a life, indeed, 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
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. i tell them that there is no christian jewish or muslim blocked that is only human black and t i m o still this know who own was on the t s to talk to people 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. so the, 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 change, the type, the witnesses that you're a go know you have the, the new ways of remembering the show must be found, especially when racism and anti semitism are emerging once again in society. here in germany there to appear in duration of the politicians as society. we can and we should all work to look back to reflect us to
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remember and to think about the future. we have 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 to feelings information please. the last time you kind of flushed daniel, i don't imagine much will be left after i've passed away up leave life. great people have done things. but what i do is very, very little about my tool and this is done well. see, i see how does a 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
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