they're with us for all time by. the sound of fresh starts february 7th w. . this is deja vu news live from berlin survivors and world leaders gathering today to mark 75 years since the liberation of auschwitz more than 1000000 people most of them jews were killed after nazi death camp and with anti semitism all arise there's a sense of urgency to remind the world what happened there. and grief

and shock after the sudden death of us basketball star kobe bryant he died along with the dollars including his teenage daughter in a helicopter crash outside los angeles. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us today marks 75 years since the liberation of the auschwitz extermination camp by soviet troops in the final months of the 2nd world war survivors and world leaders are gathering at that site ahead of the official ceremony. the morning began with a wreath laying ceremony to honor the victims by some of the last remaining auschwitz survivors more than 200 survivors are expected to attend today's events.

germany's nazis established the camp in occupied poland in 1940 in total some 1300000 people were deported to auschwitz most of them were jews from across europe nearly all of them were killed. t w correspondent hans braun joins me now here in the studio good morning to you all it's a 75 years after auschwitz hans and what can we expect at today's ceremonies well they'll be dozens of heads of state and government from across europe and from across the world at the ceremony today one can expect that all of them will warn against a rise of anti-semitism that one has observed all over war over the world also here in germany enter in europe the warning that something else like happened in the 2nd world war the symbol of which all she was is this kind of extermination should

never happen again but at the same time obviously it's a memorial ceremony for those hundreds of thousands that were murdered at this camp and also a show of respect for the about $200.00 thought $200.00 survivors who will be attending today now today's of course as you mentioned very much about the remaining survivors here's the story of one of them the feed living. at home in this one bedroom apartment in berlin dotted levine lives here alone his wife is new to a nursing home he's one of the last remaining survive us his parents and siblings were murdered they have a 75 years ago. that's me that's my brother and another brother and my sister. the 94 year old was born in warsaw to a jewish family during the nazis reign of terror he was sent to 4 different concentration camps. i give all the question why.

i can't answer that today. i can't even think about it why. why a 9 year old girl who hadn't done anything who hadn't sinned why did they murder why. all 4 sons again she hadn't done anything in life only because she had a different tree. i doubt it was 19 when auschwitz was liberated while there he was forced to work in the gas chambers as a slave labor of the german company that produced the deadly gas. i worked down in the gas chambers. we collected the cycling gas. you just turn into stone you know what i mean. the horror is hard to

comprehend for many years it has returned to auschwitz at the end of january. this day is an anniversary for me. it's an anniversary of death. this year is no different krakow airport every year the custodians of our shirts bring survivors together on the anniversary marking the liberation of the german extermination camp but the interest this year is higher than usual. the press contingent for the 75th anniversary is huge they're here to listen to the last living witnesses and their stories of the hell that was our schmidt's. one day i found out that my brother was shot. to this day i still don't know why. and i can never get over the. oh.

sorry i can't go on. i'll start crying. start crying. i can't continue. it. it has to cut his talk show what it's like he can still feel the beatings today he tells us 75 years after the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp. on server real concerns that as the memory of the holocaust fades with all its many lessons for for so many of us for all of us. that future generations will have a hard time connecting to stories like those of the living is obviously i mean these people that we're talking about children or a best young adults and 945 when auschwitz was liberated when the 2nd world war

ended so they're all well into their eighty's of a 90 many of them so the likelihood is that within the next 10 years of those they will no longer be with us no longer be able to talk about what they themselves experienced so it becomes much more important to keep the memory alive and other with in other ways through memorials through museums through education and that's something for instance the german government is trying to push very hard there are german politicians on the right that on maintaining that nazi history is insignificant compared to the entirety of german history and that kind of tendency to try and don't play the importance of the holocaust to play the lessons that we have to learn from that continue to have to learn that is something that needs to be conduct and certainly within germany strong efforts are being made to try and come to that thanks very much for that and we'll have special coverage marking the

75 years since the liberation of auschwitz throughout the day here on you and you can also follow our coverage on our website of you dot com. let's get your brief down some of the other stories today dutch prime minister mark wrote to has apologized for his country's role during the holocaust saying it did too little too late to protect jewish citizens from persecution he's the 1st dutch premier to make such an apology some 100000 jews from the netherlands were killed by the nazis. while. italy's right wing legal party appears to have failed in its bid to win a key regional election us according to exit polls party leader mattel's leni campaigned relentlessly in northern a millionaire manya hoping a victory against the center left democratic party there would help him bring down is fragile national coalition government. all china has extended the lunar new year national holiday to keep people at home in an attempt

to curb the corona virus outbreak the death toll is jumps to 80 people with more than 2700 infected travel bans and the lock downs of entire cities have put tens of millions of people under quarantine. in brazil at least 44 people have died from to rental storms of calls flooding and landslides entire buildings have been washed away in the southeast of the country more than 14000 residents have had to leave their homes authorities are warning that more landslides are possible. while fans and fellow players are mourning the sudden death of american basketball legend kobe bryant the retired l.a. lakers player was traveling on a private helicopter with his teenage daughter and $7.00 when it went down near los angeles sunday morning. investigators are trying to determine what caused that

crash kobe bryants das has led to an outpouring of grief around the world. he was the smiling face of n.b.a. basketball for 2 decades kobe bean bryant dribbled and scored with the formidable los angeles lakers his entire career. his death has shocked fans from around the world many say his influence expands beyond just the basketball court. this is more than basketball. it was just a mentality to get through life. never even meant 45 years of living i have not filled this much grief in love for one man i bryant was a shooting guard for the l.a. lakers he went straight from high school to the n.b.a. he was an 18 time all-star who won 5 n.b.a. titles and 2 of them picked gold medals only 41 years old he died alongside his

13 year old daughter giana his daughter also showed on court talent and was aiming to follow her father's footsteps into professional basketball he even credited giana after winning an unexpected oscar in 2018 all of it. my daughter gave me the best piece of advice i was a little. worried about turning this into a film i've never done that something before and we're in a house and we're talking about as a family and i will live in your john i goes 'd will that you always tell us to go after our dreams so. man up. she's a lot of it made out so i had to man up and go for. bryant and his wife had 4 daughters and after retiring in 2016 he became a vocal advocate for human sports. even outside of sports people around the world are mourning the loss of

a longtime icon. let's go straight to los angeles now i'm joined by jason camp and he's the bureau chief for n.b.c. news radio there good day to you jason and this story this loss has affected so many people where you are what more do we know about the crash right now not very much we know that he asked in a helicopter from orange county felt 40 miles south of los angeles and was traveling to northern los angeles county for a basketball tournament that his daughter was going to play and some other parents and coaches and their children were also on board plus the pilot were hearing that fog may have played a factor in the crash i can tell you that sunday morning i mean it was extremely foggy it was very thick in southern california and it just kind of blanket it the

entire region that's not official but you can you can surmise that from just walking outside going why would you risk. being in a helicopter when you're flying through the hills and things like that. when such dense fog is hard to believe to be honest with you ok jason momoa what made koby bryant more largely such a giant in sports during his career and even afterwards as well in retirement. you know kobe is a competitor he would loves to win and that's what we liked about it when it was a win at all costs he wasn't guy that said ok here's the challenge and the goal is to win a championship now i'm either going to i'm going to win this championship either with or without you and people love that he played with a chip on his shoulder and then off the court he was becoming more of

a renaissance man he became a filmmaker he became an author he became you know it's a lamp post and bringing in kids programs in is mamba cademy in northern los angeles county and teaching kids the proper way to play sorts and not letting them get hurt because these he's bringing in these coaches in these experts to teach these kids say there's a line we're going to work on it we're going to make it better jason. n.b.c. news radio thanks so much for that from los angeles. and we're staying in l.a. . performance performers joined paying tribute to the. singer alicia keys. and so. to say. to.

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