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tv   World Stories  Deutsche Welle  January 31, 2021 11:15am-11:31am CET

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and there are many stories. make up your. claim. made for minds. but there was still don't you i've also heard you're lucky to be alive so keep quiet well. lest we forget a project by luigi toscano. far more than we were brought to bear cannot get you to
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die and they're going to. luigi toscano travels around the world photographing contemporary witnesses of the holocaust. now he's on his way to paris for his largest exhibition to date. the project is a race against time. you're seeing there won't be any survivors left. because it's all the picture that i take around or that much on and i don't have that job. soon his portrait of 95 year old jeanette coalinga will be joining them she survived the auschwitz be a canal concentration camp 36 year. high.
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as you net coalinga was lucky upon arrival at the camp her father brother and nephew were all sent straight to the gas chamber jeanette was 19 at the time of the . call so. the bright light remind some of the survivors of the interrogations by the guest apo. is nervous but a staff member of a jewish organization reassures her the woman knows the survivors she translates and helps the photographer establish a sense of trust. ok can you open guys please a little bit more. please you know i don't i don't know. get it built my eyes are burning ok so so. hard to
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shake up right place. she stared at the picture with pretty after the photo session she met calling because dory is written down. like many jews in france she kept it to herself for years not even telling her husband for a long time magazine. made up richard know. i'm a little embarrassed about being famous for my story. yet they're not they're going so many people dying in europe during that time on your book and me because of that period i'm considered a celebrity. gossip. when i think about it i feel ashamed seizure of a free sheet. you know very much else each of these encounters is difficult for luigi toscano he has to maintain an emotional distance as a means of self protection. i
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think read to me if i'm pretty sure that if it were allowed we would embrace one another through them all and of course there's a sense of powerlessness knowing the people who've been through such horrible suffering by it really gets to. unesco had quarters in paris luigi toscano is exhibition will soon be on display in and around the building. there trash town this is just like the fence of the united nations in new york. research i wish i could set up straight away but unfortunately that's not possible the pictures on here yet i'm feeling antsy. to do you have security here we must speak about what's going on when something happens you know what we were doing together and they start to made us what the sky are so you know we we must of course when there's. what we call sensible
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exhibitions it's these one unfortunately we check every day. with a little later security you know tunisia sort of give us i was always the fear in the back of my mind that something might happen to me like you know time might be made the target of an attack but we expected it to happen eventually but i see in viet. in 2908 dead while on display in vienna several portraits were vandalized the incident made headlines around the world the shops i'm gonna matar the gun i just couldn't bear it or those pictures destroyed the swastikas over their faces or so that was really tough it tore me out survivors cooled me and of course they are appalled by what happened about the force of what they said luigi what young don't give up we didn't see the boy. beyond us all an
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issue must. measure for we are about to meet another wonderful person i don't know much about. we've. already heard if you like. your laugh we all know we have the. mic battle sold. my parents were picked up and sent to auschwitz. shipped after exists and lost 17 family members in paris alone or in poland all of them killed assess. them so i fled from
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a detention center with my sister because my mother wanted us to escape us asked me of course says shot she said and i didn't want to leave her i was scared oh so she slapped match my mother slap me. it was the 1st love of my life and i later realized the slap saved me since. i left through the fire as it puts the policeman on duty and not my sister and me leave they simply look the other way. called cold when you're 8 years old and they take your mother your father practically your whole family away and you grow up quickly you're no longer a child. mannheim germany a week before the opening. cuts just as i
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did and this is one of the few places where i can really relax and unwind this for the coffee and taking the photographs is not all aspects hack you learn itself that this isn't it's in countering the people i'm more interested in their stories shifting i can't get them out of my head. at supper so much it's affected me so deeply there were times where i couldn't sleep for days on end and i suffered a sudden hearing loss it's something that i really needed time to get used to or i had to get used to because otherwise it's impossible to come to terms with all that insanity. demotic disorder because of the holocaust is something i've always grappled with. and that's why i developed this concept of displaying portraits in public spaces just to intentionally provoke to say hey there are still people around
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people who survived that madness. and yet in some places and communities around the world we act as though the whole thing never happened. she's entire. final preparations are made in a warehouse on the outskirts of paris. the latest photos have just come back from the printers. i don't. and you look at the details to make sure everything's all right on the other when you're standing here face to face so to speak you have flashbacks of the true encounter. 4 days later installation begins portraits from the igi toscano was lest we forget series have already been
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exhibited in new york berlin and washington d.c. . it's pretty impressive i have to say this is the biggest exhibition to now so it's a whole new dimension in itself. we're presenting over 200 photos here and people are starting to come and look at them and read the stories and that's just what i'd hoped to achieve. the exhibition inside the unesco building includes a portrait of 86 year old russian d.d. knock to date toscano has photographed some 400 people for his series he doesn't have a favorite what matters to him are the people they represent he knows all of them by name. susan who was actually the 1st woman i was able to photograph and she made a last impression on me. she said something very profound those who forget the
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past but to repeat it. i think she entrusted me with this saying and said take it and internalize it and keep this saying in mind when you need it most. when people start to relativize or even denying the holocaust it's a fine line. it's the day of the opening all the portraits are in place and the photographer is feeling a bit nervous. for survivors a coming of course a nervous because we're talking about survivors who allowed me to take that poor traits and now they'll be seeing the pictures for the 1st time. hope everything goes well schooled. he's worried about the reaction of one man in particular a lead designer father of on yes who's all former health minister of france.
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so. the. circuits really exciting. the good groove i guess this is the reality because i can't stand to see such a sad old my soul. food too. good to be you know what though that because. it's the exact you. remember beza. she seems to like it a lot that's a nice feeling that i could stay past so momo it's not just my fortress because it represents so much more all those deaths to see the entire show on it's important for this exhibition to exist and to travel around the world it can't shift your back to.
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