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allowed to participate for the 1st time we ended there coming up next we have a documentary film which tells the story of a jewish german woman who survived the horrors of the whole cause. i'm like looking more news at the beginning of the next down. the one on 6 times to increase the current g. more people than ever on the move worldwide and such kind of one. great timing is very hard to say very difficult to find out about time on student info. my grands 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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be a 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 other cool me several extremely difficult years was where i went through a lot field and he was done and then marriage m e e n
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and then these 1011 is a totally different to see if the souls pull through here the today model with 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 leave germany just before she was about to go into hiding with her children. margaret's younger
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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 raising and started concentration camp. she survived, her mother, brother, father and her entire family were murdered in outfits. shortly after the liberation of tony's installed, and before she left, she married out of the fleet lender, 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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you have a much amazing miss guns should. i should also, but i never really for gaze america because when i had needed america, they didn't let me in as missing each i just assumed v. each now, by the time i came to america, i was free and a vice and crude estate here anyway, wanted to he 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 be 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 sometime in the new good rating on bass. some of it had to be shocked in berlin. my
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lead that was what changed my life or more made for each 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 don't q menchie 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 late to the publisher who voice heard about. it's got the whole book because up to they said they wanted to publish it. and that's how i should work with the cable side. i just thought that was 2006 in december. i met tomorrow and try to
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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 for do not malice because i should be at each mine what this image should disagree. i stand in front of the neighbors building and 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 not that the lazy opens the door for me to be where is she? i asked gas express, see the woman waits until i'm inside. then she shuts the door. she left me see me,
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but 1st i didn't understand. did i get to too lazy? she outlooking for me as to call miss. she left a message for you. this is steve, i'm for, i am waiting for the woman to hand me. some of the things that she just stands that i look for a slip of paper in her hand, something my mother would have written down for me. you sold you, i'm supposed to give you a message and done that. then she tells me what my mother can no longer tell me herself that if i have decided to go to the police, right, so be i, i'm going was ralph. wherever that may be, in that, that try to make your life that lead to the only things she still has from her mother or this amber nicholas at a small address book,
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a side 1000 as ish. so we'll go through into 1000 dates because when i was still on the plane on my way back to america, i asked myself in new york, so you really doing in new york? yeah, there's so much more you can do in germany and balance to be comes in 2009. she decided to leave new york and return to berlin for good point to him. i definitely have 88 years old ma godfrey linda has been re penetrated and this backs for good people or not. today she officially became much of them and citizen again that door to the interior minister coating presented her with the certificate, the dig. it says the send that to send it to cutting. that seems to me, i should probably say
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a few words of to receiving this documents for an i think was of sykes, are expected of up to one vote to just on guess the condition i come do that. did you know 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 stop claims to dry out to us. and if we knew, i haven't come back to gemini, come, i've come to my friends or me. thank you. oh, okay. so the chairs uh the most and 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 port to some friends say to me is 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 tie the here one of her greatest objectives is to tell her story to young people in schools, church communities at adult education centers. by 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, it's 12000. no, i receive the i'm hot prize for the book in 2009 for best autobiography based out
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to be oca p. so i was invited to berlin again to do reading, assign cannot leave. so deeper i noticed how silent these young people, uh, you'll know, mentioned the school students this into and how as soon as i started to speak, they wanted to know is it what's next to us? what's next to what is this woman's life? the funds these up, what did she lives through the end a i wouldn't and i always said it to 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 people if i knew shortly, then because we can't forget to sit in those use, the parents and grandparents with cheering is told on. who was it?
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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 on the new stuff me to, to not the readings have become too exhausting for her. so friedlander has started using a video recording decent. 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 put steam, i'm going to austin ocean just to shrink it. that is my new scene furnished in my new co, but my soul was not in my body in this truck, on its way to test lazy and stuff that cause easy instead was like
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a large scale study, an experiment spinning. and i know one question rules. our lives, these how much kind of person take face instruction so 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 tow. in the get towed, there was hung up cells and cramped conditions and it was everyone set themselves a loan for some humana see some close to this d u and it was difficult for me to to allow those things and it, everyone existed in a kind of isolation hooked up to phase in stat, was of that q 5 cool, a place devoid of and light, or without time insight? honestly, 6 of us, after the readings, the young people are curious to know more. each have is the shaft. i made it
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except i feel like i can do something for 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 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 flagstaff case, that's a see sure. what i'm telling you might not get through to all of you, but you can reach to for 3 or 4 of you. i've achieved something. then i'll be specify because it's for you. then what can i do after all?
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nothing. i don't have any children. i need to this. you will have children, families, amelia, 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 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 not the death of mister pick. guess i'll never forget that year and 3 months i spent getting to know people in berlin can who had done something extraordinary been done let's it 1st a ton of memphis to get that was had cuz that's how i actually discovered
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a true human. assuming she was, i can get it out. i 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 see i've done a lot of it and all the dunk. so when i look in this folder, i see all the words phenix and the email will be done on the side of the readings and hundreds and hundreds of the ones that they not for not single mission. for this, they are all expressions of gratitude to you. junk. so go so
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yes i have been the of was who someone writes, the surely we didn't know how bad it was back then. those you've made me see so much more clearly, hollis few best. the 1st day people have written lessons like that is in and believe that sometimes the same for the interesting thing is how they suddenly really learn what was going on . best buy the other cost you believe in the model, the cost survivor margot to friedlander is $1.00 of 10 berliners. the tool guide is now offering and modeled friedlander to keep that one's gone. 664. 66 is berlin was little more than a memory for ma, godfrey bland. the plays denazi's once took her prisoner up to we'd have to hold
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the cost the cost of the month, but friedlander was awarded to the standing. the dictation in germany awarded only the very citizenship, the highest escalated, the state of berlin bows, persecuted by the nazi regime and eaten by those units for years and 50 both as still active today. they remind us of the atrocities and criticize anti semitism and racism on process. hitler. good. the good thing and good was, well also honorary 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 test google today, a jewish woman who to even has become honorary citizens,
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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 in 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, indiana. and, and valerie, because ski will 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 fresh the sketched. uh i the push i'm going to, oh god. so this is that to just be on the coat. it's market image hot. 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 trinity shop 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 it is it here being momma mission here, being one is b as in period? gabriel g, a minus the phone princess in cobbling say needs to go involving via high to influence people in the uses friedlander. thank you for deciding to live among us again with your work for democratic values, your contribution towards keeping memories alive,
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and you'll 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 mine, instead of all in the big, loose palm at all by the community that does it's to visit no being near him being v as in v here. no being the being to use and tv and the 2019 cleveland became patron of article one of the german constitution, the glen because that everyone has the right to express their opinion, whether it's gender, nation,
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or background of faith. no one should be deprived or favorite human dignity is involved and level and dignity is one environmental the so i'm very happy the use market 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 does the teeth and keep unimpressed. ceremony was held by the german integration foundation to mark the 70 at the anniversary of the constitution. even foreigners. alongside chancellor america was holocaust survivor mar godfrey lender. she 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 schools for years. and she also became patriot of article one of the constitution. human
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dignity is inviolable. who to dimension is on tough, but spend that to a leash in know i'm very touched. of course. i don't really know what to say. bessie sat so chipped from my notes and i did write to speech that 1st of all, i just like to say thank you, visited each with them as a me it's incredible just to experience this desk to and the she wrote the book of interviews each to s voice i do it for you. together with the anti semitism representative of the state of north fine west valia,
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sabina lloyd toys ashen off in america. it's also meant as a warning to people to learn the lessons of history. and to see, meet you smooth as it 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 i to 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 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 makes her a great supporter of prevention, which is the most important thing when it comes to dealing with and addressing anti
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semitism you getting on to me to some of the fish the stays, the doctors, this is margaret in the can catherine fire, because i have my costs around me every day in some food. yeah. and i'm dealing with those so closely. nothing does. 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 because of this, the change stuck 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 guns. 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 dish and that's which was to site to clean ways. brings me to tease venice when i climb these food clothes or when i into the stairwell the i think of mock on each step kind of a history think is a lot of younger sister. it which he experienced to was the wonderful come play a family. i do, pulling up on for me and your company, you went and she couldn't remember which floor she lived on and they took it houses a couple and tucked away. so you had thought she has
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a postcard. she sent to the come please from theresa instead. complex of took a, it's interesting shape to cause the source. well she showed it to me when it's said vent come play a family focus on in straw. so 72nd floor by to talk 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, there i am with my cross that's. that was when i was in hiding would tell coincides look how beautiful my have was. you ever done
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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 demons, one tech 11 type of hofstadter when it was there as well. and i was so astonished that it wasn't silver. so then i guns. she was a very simple cold hodges as a no called the cool is her. i didn't have any money for a chain to see it was crochet the heat goes does. so it's so beautiful and of in this photo and on the original just it looks like sofa. the issue is when i saw you in the settings, a new tab, i could sense exactly how you felt the tools, the stuff or do you recognize yourself? oh yes. the
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kind of the status of it so but i know that i visit max once or twice every summer, that window showing his house. he has a beautiful house right on the roof, tessa, and moved to applied this and a little note to boat on that. but i usually bring something with me, mid profit chickens, or a whole one, 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 boat.
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that though i'm even allowed to drive it to support fun. i love doing that to mission emergency, i'm sure, and i'm, i'm to, we go as far as pope stem under 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 say 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. this is done. so we're all sitting in very different constellations in front of our screens. and so many places and 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 schrupo with the
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support of survivors and volunteers. the association presents readings, stories, and contemporary witness statements to the public. no. why did you have to get on the train? as so think dell is? michelle felt like, i'd like to thank you again for this. 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 all the gosh, best of the sit will be forgotten by the i just want to make just finished. i guess the last thing we can take of mazda one year later, she can start working again. this time outgoing chancellor. ongoing miracle will
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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 when you have on go small, must in this will excuse special significance to the world named off the market friedlander. and i'm delighted to see the interest this award is subtracting among young people all over germany, which front of here, the
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stink of my describe. i should cause god, i 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 as well. it just wasn't an option anymore. just got to got it. yeah. we had to grow up too quickly calling to see if you have bucks. double put stream. sto until 19 associates to occur until the cust on the we tried to more or less have a life. i mean i, you got minus the so if you, if i see it was too short be those young is 18. 24
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is when you meet someone and start dating that you my kids out for those years were missing config. he's not real frivolous. c, fluid is guy or them. how should i push hits? 8 docs to have time regret not having that is 5 dolphin. i was always some fish in this mid. because kite d must make us, let's have a look in here. distresses household, that house folk type plots where the monument is here. that's it is west phillip play being used to do. his dress may can be size for cluster michel. i see so enough to school. i didn't do my final. yeah. oh school leaving exams. not
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been hiking or did station i went to the fashion design school. that's where i met philip living. so see if he was very nice 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 sleep of the building, closing because seems trust yourself. yeah, yeah. they usually they have the p f i, i agree is the change. there was a huge table where the pumpkins were caught as a gas. is that true dish? that would be my well trying to say is that one nice. that's the right. yeah. the
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photographer, i'm a ts siegler supporter. it's a free lender for a photo book for her 100 birthday at 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 passed the
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thing to him. uh, the zip brought to my mom. 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, a ton of nitrate. as you could try to make your life. now i'm making a life, indeed, i'm doing something in my life. i do believe awareness of what friedlander does is not confined to germany. when us secretary of state anthony blinking and his german counter par tyco, moss arranged a joint conference to commemorate the whole the cost. once again, it was presented who was there to remind people of the equality of all human beings . i tell them that it is no christian jewish or muslim,
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blocked. that is on the u. n. t i m o. still, this now who own was on the g. s. to talk to people in 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. that's the key 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 it tight. so the weaknesses of that era, a go know you have 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 own work to look back to reflect us, to 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.
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and i very much hope, mrs. friedlander that we will be worthy of your legacy to feelings information due to the last time you kind of flushed and no, i don't imagine much will be left after i passed away up leave life. great, and people have done things. but what i do is very, very little about my tool and this is delta c as c o v 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 will be 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. the volume definitely by dish bass question. the
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