the me the was who's this is the w news line from berlin. the numbers rise by the hour. catastrophic flooding deals at least 130 people in western germany. rescuers are searching for another 1000 people missing in towns devastated by the waters. also neighboring countries are effected by the flood. belgium declares tuesday as a day of mourning for the victims of the worst floods the country has ever seen. 24 people are known to have died their exodus ahead of the festival bangladesh lifted national. last down before he prompting thousands to leave the capital dock up

while they still can. ah, unlike a local welcome record breaking floods have killed at least 150 people in western europe. most of the deaths are in germany's west, where the disaster area stretches between the districts of hines, bird, f, start, and our viola near the border with the netherlands and belgium. within 130 people have been confirmed dead and more than a 1000 or still missing. president frank vault or stein meyer has promised support for victims, families, and to the damage towns. his torrent filmed on wednesday used to be a stream. it's a slight view would have thought possible western germany but what comes

next? it's even harder to take in the house adrift. in many places, the waters are starting to recede and clean up. operations have begun, but the floods have left a trail of devastation and residence in shock level. because like i said, that was my apartment. i'm trying to think about it, but it's, it's really dreadful. sting is if you have another sort of speculation and it's not just property that has been destroyed, emergency work as a warning that as they come through the wreckage, more bodies could be discovered. many people are still stunned at the speed at which the water suddenly rose king half inch so fast. we watched the water wry and insane current. i know they need 2 more men. we saw 2

people clinging to those columns over there. we shouted from above the hold on because it took 3 hours for them to be rescued at the board. some spoke of the trauma of having to escape before the water rushed into their houses. isn't to mr. jordan, we weren't given any warning here i had between 10 and 15 minutes as much money as i left my apartment, the water was up to here. seen many communities are still without power and water. it for the damage could run into billions of euros. people say they have no choice other than to start picking up the pieces. but it's obvious that it will take a long time before anything can get back to normal. here. the w reported julia sound jelly is on the ground for us in val. portside. julia. what's happening where you are in the region, in general,

that's where we're standing right now is right by the river on which is the river that caused so much damage in this region in the viola. it went over the edge here along the entire course of the river, where all these villages are in the, in the valley. it destroyed the bridge you see behind me, but so many more that is also cause disruption to traffic in the area. it is very hard to reach many towns here and the, the police have said that up to 90 people have been confirmed dead in the vital region that is a higher number than they had declared earlier and they expect the fatalities to rise. it's a very tragic situation here at the moment. julia, as if residents weren't facing enough problems. now we're also hearing about sink holes. what do you know about that? yes, north from here, close to the city of cologne. gravel quarry collapse on

itself. basically it filled and filled and filled with water until it sunk and it brought with it some homes. and also, some cars authorities feared that a nearby road where cars were, would have been severely affected, that people would have not had, had enough time to escape. it seems like most people manage to get away, but it is really a difficult situation there too. we've had floods in germany before and yet this is a literally risen to another level. was the country unprepared for this we spoke to people here invalid part time. and what they told us was that they saw that there was a lot of rain and they expected it maybe to reach the water to reach the levels of the 2016 flooding which reached around the meter, a meter and a half here. so they were prepared for that, they had sandbags by the river and that's what they were expecting. but then what happened was this huge wave of water reaching 56 meters. and that really took them

by surprise. and there are a lot of, there is a lot of criticism being level that on forty's and at the fire department for not warning people in time. hear people have told me the fire department said to leave, but it was probably too late, but it is hard to really assess whether more could have been done to prevent such a disaster, at least for people here on the grounds. we keep going this catastrophic and it's certainly seems to be appropriate word. that's a d w report, julius l kelly, invalid for time much thanks, julia and german president, frank volter stein myra is in the town of f. start visiting those affected by the flooding areas. thought suffered some of the worst damage, as you just heard. stein meyer, who was joined by state premier armin last week on the right. who's the front runner to succeed angular medical. as chancellor, the german president says,

the scale of the laws is hard to comprehend. hillis hello, or no money has been lost and will not be easily replaced. it didn't happen again to talk about the biggest loss is the one felt my luck. relatives in the flood you're tall on mid morning with the people who have lots of friends and acquaintances, and family members when your fight is broken out, says house german president and frank walter stein meyer there in belgium, at least 24 people have died in the flooding the government has declared tuesday a national day of mourning. the cities of the edge in belgium and vandal in the netherlands have been hit hard, and when low 10000 people were told to evacuate, as well as 200 patients from a hospital in the air, the swollen moos river burst its banks. communities throughout the region describe

the worst flooding they have ever experienced. with the river still menacing the residence of pins to begin the long hard task of cleaning up the floods have wrecked home, destroyed cars and ruined live. in this small belgian town, one, everyone is crying. everyone is only now seeing the real damage of vermont. most people have had no luck deductible that they go to it is it's distressing. you were all your life to build something and then even with the water levels receding. the danger remains. during an interview with the towns mayor, a tv cru captured the moment a house partially collapsed. derek,

that is just a mute becky, with its residence still inside the such scenes of devastation, have unfolded across the country and are set to continue to new the gale and the extension of the weather related disaster. the national state of emergency was triggered yesterday afternoon. let's address your situation is changing minute by minute. it was all right, and in many places it remains stream li, critical as they sift through the wreckage pincers. residents can only hope that the worst is behind them. he w, corresponded barbara basal is there and pump on steph. barbara pep on stairs. it's right on the confluence of 2 rivers that ultimately inundated the town. what are you seeing there on the ground where you are?

we had to climb up on the hill. michael, in order to talk to you because down there in the town you see behind us here in the valley, there is no mobile network. there is no gas, no electricity, no, nothing to tell was really inundating. it looks like a war zone. cars overturned? how was this broken down and it just delivery everywhere sick could test for catastrophic images. and people are now on this day because the weather is turned, as you can see, the sun has come out. i know trying to start in slowly clean up the buildings, bought a lot of having machinery down there working in pushing a broken down car trees and everything together in order to at least clear the streets. because from where we are, there's only one way down into the valley and everything else is blocked off. it's a broken record from town or town and country country in the west. the belgian king and, and queen were there yesterday to let their support to flood victims. i understand

there will be more visitors today. yeah, at this moment the president of the european commissioners, lafond line is there was the belgium prime minister, the true. and they are trying to talk to the citizens and, and give some consolation in some sense of hope, the emergency services i would of course, now things are slowly getting back to functioning. but the european commission just this week has offered and, and published their big report on the environment, the big report on what we have to do to survive the next 1020 years with regard to climate change on this hers. so it seems so fitting that she has come here to see the immediate aftermath of one of these catastrophes. 1000 scientists say that this is clearly related to climate change. belgium has never in living memory, seen a catastrophe like this. this is peaceful. there's not very much water around here,

and it has risen within a few hours for several meters washing everything in its way away. w corresponded barbara basal in athens, belgium much thanks. south take a look at some the other stories making headlines around the world at this hour. the funeral for haiti's slain president jovan animal. louise will take place on july 23rd. luis was assassinated in his home 10 days ago. is widow was injured in the attacks is expected to return from treatment in the us to return a few muslim pilgrims are beginning to arrive in the saudi city of mecca for a downsized hodge. only $60000.00 fully vaccinated residents of the kingdom will be able to take part drastically lower than the millions who normally attend. the annual islamic thailand has tightened corona virus restrictions

as it struggles to rein in a search in cases fueled by the delta v or the go been, has banned all public gatherings with bangkok and other cities already under a nighttime curfew. it comes as authorities reported over $10000.00 you infections well, bangladesh to has seen an uptake in cases due to the delta variance. despite that, the government has now lifted a national lockdown to impose you earlier this month. the, the reason the upcoming festival of a hot on monday for many residents, the lockdown couldn't have been lifted early enough. this is getting out of town on an industrial scale. with locked down, lifted, the stack of residents rushing back to their home towns in time for each one of them. i'm taking the 1st chance to head home off to look down if it's imposed again to see, you know, if the east and i'll stay at home if everything's normal,

i'll return to deca. despite soaring corona virus cases will start to ease restrictions that you cannot make reasons. each represents a big source of income from many industries. industries that have been suffering during the pandemic. life has been very hard for us is not down for us to stay out of where we're waiting for people to cross the river with us. i don't know if we'll make any money so we have to keep the boat going on. the lines of the country, it's no stranger to overcrowded fairies between a pandemic with social distance thing appearing to go out the window some health expert warning the a. the crowding will come with additional risks. local police, the vigilant law. you can see the amount of passengers on the ferry locked down list and we've taken strict measures to make sure the ferry takes too many passengers. so again, when the health regulation comes out on the water committee

for these people though, getting home is what matters. they're prepared to do whatever it takes pandemic or not. you watching d. w. news live from berlin coming up next part 2 of our dance film. serious about being jewish in europe. i'm michael, local in berlin. we're news and 45 minutes. imagine how many portion of loans are turn out in the world climate conference stores. this is my plan, the way from just one week. how much less can really get. yes, we still have time to i'm doing all this was me.

ah, and every day jewish life in europe that's really shown away from politics, the middle east and anti semitism. it was important for us as fontane as leak over and capture what's going on. alice brown is one of the most significant jewish film producers in europe. i felt it was important to have this perspective to tell the story of europe, jewish community as we traveled across the continent. when eve kugal mine has always played a big role in our family, editor in chief of the magazine, puklich. and he's written so many articles that we discussed together over mealtimes. so i was really keen to work with the. 2 2 news

news, news. we're now meeting a woman with a very unique family history. she grew up in germany in east berlin as a socialist in a family that vehemently rejected 2 days. and now she has a very strong jewish identity. when my mother came from a very german family, a jewish family that had assimilated the temper ones they couldn't get baptized

enough to get rid of the jewish. and so i wanted to belong on boys. i didn't want anything more to do with judaism and all the funny traditions and it had a slight air of protestantism about it as, as of what i'm just gonna hope. but actually, victor klemperer, one of our more famous fellowships, wrote in his diary that he couldn't get rid of his jewishness. yeah, the same terrible switch would cut on this. when you go by this time i would and it was the same with my mother and my father came from glee in the former austro hungarian empire and then lived with his parents in berlin, sean infertile district. and he grew up at a very interesting time. he said to his father, i know what i think is the bar mitzvah is the last thing i'm going to do for you, and then you can stick it and get me on across the street. well,

there was the central committee of the communist party on the low plot. that's now rosa luxembourg plot. you just switch to the other side of the street. that's like the better there. and decided to join the movement. and there were also many, many jews. there is so he went into exile in 1933 and then fought in the spanish civil war and the french resistance and so on with a gun in his and i tend to be the us. and so when he came back to east germany, it was the question of cognitive resonances. he had to be on this side of socialism or everything he done, there would be meaningless. wonder in socialism, religion was seen as unnecessary, superfluous and reactionary. there was no longer a jewish culture because it was reduced to religion. so that meant when they returned to germany, they weren't allowed to be jews anymore. they had to leave the jewish community if they wanted to become some stuff. we also had relatives from west berlin,

who always came to our house for dinner on saturday. it was funny because as a kid, i only knew about judaism indirectly. for example, my mother would tell me and so on, you had just left the temple. and imagine this greek sample with columns and stuff in my name please. i didn't know what it was. i didn't think it was anything bad. i just thought it was something they had their dogs that fact in and don't tell them their work in the goulash. there was always middle things like that. so we didn't celebrate shabba, but it was a ritual that they would come to us after temple them. okay, so let's say you're having white white blane. yes. i do. every time i'm so much i know

in in the news we're on our way to poland and, and feeling pretty queasy about it. that's totally understandable. your parents, a holocaust survivors from poland with a history like that. it's no wonder you feel that way. yes, it's painful. response i found the journey very inspiring so far. as a journalist, i spent a lot of time grappling with the problems of today hasn't been out here. we've seen diversity being experienced in a totally different way. i know talking to you all i know is judaism is a lot of us, it's vibrant,

broad logistic and it's something that really is on about every day. it's only when you specifically ask people about it that you get into questions of anti semitism and debate about the middle east. tell us about the nice good that i never would have thought that judaism could be live so openly. and really, as i saw more say and even more so. and it makes me think, because the way i grew up was very different in berlin, and there was a huge security presence everywhere. outside the kindergarten schools, outside the synagogue community center line, the house. there were huge numbers. the security guards, mainly israelis class. i'm sure there were a few in france to guarding the jewish, but i didn't find it nearly was. it was very impressive

when we were in berlin, which is my hometown. we saw young israelis opening business making art lunching startup and it's a cool thing to do. and they themselves are very cool back to back. but i still think they don't have the confidence that jewish people in france just i don't think they can live that life is a health. stan, as i said, that you've been, i've capital a lot in poland and eastern europe. and i'm curious to see how things have changed in recent years, especially the building of new jewish communities, all my stuff. and i hope to learn something by talking to the people. and that's what i'm most excited about at the moment. we could talk from what we all know how poland has developed and i suspect that there's growing right wing population of the tax on democracy and liberalism, or another movement that directly targeting do days and it seems to have to shift.

i'm very curious about that because most of the a a lot has changed here in recent years in terms of jewish life and how it's progressed. we're on our way to the jewish school and we saw that as 30 percent jewish and 70 percent non jewish children. yes, it's nice that there are 2 schools here again at all. coaching, finished am sad. that will be such a picture to me. i

don't have to write down the prayers, but we have somebody meeting so we have to do some time on friday. so forever forever. one for everyone's christmas calibration. we don't celebrate christmas and we go through the jewish kind of we are closed for jewish holidays in the curriculum. and in the celebration, we only have jurors. they learn 3 hours of jewish subjects, 3 hours to sky room. so it's additional 6 hours, which is the last question for smoking. so it's like significant amount and they feed it, they know they're in school, the impossible to ignore the fact so and it's very important for jewish community and between among the children. is there any timing issue between on this level on jewish kids have problems with the other one saw? no, no, it's not for me. oh no. they grow up together. they know each other from being 3

years old. they start in kindergarten and usually they just grow into the next level. so that this model of exactly our nation to show you days and also propose people who now they are in the high school. and when they go to the, the may almost have nicer schools here than we do in switzerland. i'm impressed that the school have a totally jewish character. even though the majority of the children aren't jewish in our school. it's the complete opposite. we're now entering the only synagogue and was told that it wasn't destroyed during the 2nd world war. so they were to an old and being in coal and a half a dozen times in the in the 70s or eighties,

which wasn't the most popular thing to do. as somewhat supposedly normal and american jewish way from when i went in by the late seventy's, the meeting, young paul said, recently discovered the jewish identity, which really introduced me to a whole world, which certainly you know, 30 years now was talking about and that is how come there need years left unfolding today. september 1st 1939 world war 2 begins. at that point there are 3 and a half 1000000 jews in poland. the heart, the soul, dasheka nazi world. only 5 years later, 90 percent 90 percent. no longer alive, having been murdered by chairman that accomplishes statement so horrific. most people can say, well, how many do survive? 10 percent survive? meaning that in poland after the shot after world war 2, there was still 350000 jews and colon more jews in poland in

1946 in the u, then the u. k. today, where are they? the vast majority of the polish jewish survivors let fallen the 25 years after world war 2. if you wanted to feel safe saying the statement, i image you a couple 100000 left. tens of thousands stayed a small proportion, but still tens of thousands. who then had children and grandchildren many times, not even telling them you'll ever joy in this deep, dark family secret spaces chicope 50 years. $39.00 to $8989.00 fall of communism. at which point the not so young survivors are confronted with the question. do i feel safe enough today to tell my children, grandchildren fence colleagues, neighbors that i'm really jewish since 1989. we don't know how many, but since 1989, thousands and perhaps even some tens of thousands of polls have discovered they have 2 issues. and that's the story of jewish. poland today. how many choose the

living here in fossil and important right now? so i can say that without a doubt the number of jews that live in warsaw, poland. nobody knows. because of the fact that people are still discovering. i spoke last week in the small town, not famous. and they asked me very much to come. there was a group of intellectual, they wanted to hear about judaism and say, you know, i'm also go to a small place. i get in the car, the prison picking me up. when he turns to me and he says, you know, i am also something like jewish. my great grandmother was jewish. my mother's mother's mother was jewish. so i looked at what i said, you know, you're not something like jewish. you are jewish. and so how many jews are there and i don't know, but it's plus one. ah,

yes, and he'll part of the cemetery is where the resistance fighters of the 1942 was so uprising, a barrier to science here in felix. this is where the commander is buried, who died in 2009 on kelly monic edelman long. and he was a doctor and a hero matoney of the resistance, but also later in the solidarity movement, solid almost vehicle mostly in the worst ghetto, has the hero before,

during and after the war. him all these graves are a former comrades in arms, and there are lots of women among them too. and what heart warming is that all the people who live here are clearly the jews that refused to be led like lambs to the slaughter of the famous thing goes god. but alas, there so they didn't know what was coming, but it just shows that there were people who stood up thought who took action, who mustered all the courage they could to defend the jewish people. it's very impressive and never was it happen more often. people realize the traditional story of america based on how they stood up and phone back the jews and never given the credit i did done. there was so many who stood up and defended themselves from all of those in the resistance of the partisans, and under communism, it's often forgotten how many jews were involved in manuel. but edelman was also

a hero among polish people, and he's still well known today. this is a memorial for the fighters that the was to get uprising and in the center of the monumental life motor car on your leverage, which he was the young leader of the uprising, the atlantic just a few weeks. but it was barren on about out of the sale. i use that was for us, very obvious, but we don't want to focus only on holocaust. we never ever are daring to diminish this tragedy. but without showing 1000 years of reach civilization, culture, jewish life, it's kind of a you know, you're missing the whole complex,

1st of all. and that's our mission, is to bring back the history and memory about jewish life and jewish culture. so we knew that we would like to make the story about 1000 years. by the way, the only museum of this kind, you can find in fact, in television, israel bait has fulfilled diaspora museum. but we decided that we will focus on the history here in poland. and why did so many jews came to poland a 1000 years ago? well, they came in fact most may be 1000, but 800 years ago. there are few factors, 1st of all, rulers were encouraging jews to come here to settle to pay taxes. they became part of economical system. instead, rulers were giving protection to jewels so they can, they could feel safe here. please keep in mind that that's the moment, 1213th 14th century, when jews are expelled from western europe,

there expels from england from france, from spain. and they find here the shelter of their home. can you tell us something about whose cause and cinema once before world war 2nd? yeah, sure. that was really the moment of kind of a golden age for jewish culture. please keep in mind that in poland before the war there were 3000300 jews who are living here were. so was the 2nd biggest jewish city apart from new york. and the jews discovered that they can have secular culture in earlier periods juice. basically their, their culture was very connected to religion. now they found that in dish their mama wash and their, their home language, it might be useful theatres for movies, for pieces, for books. so you have to, please keep in mind that for these 3000300 people, they were so interested in everything. so they were creating their own culture.

the ah, ah saga is a question is what's happened and hungry in recent years? and what impact has it had on minority including jews out there is an undercurrent that goes way back and far right parties that was created by vic to all bond, but he can press the button at anytime. i think that's the fear that many jewish people in europe have know that this mechanism was it was lol yourself into a sense of security and someone can come along and change everything in an instant . like in germany with the a f d rat call out of their hold as soon as you put food in front of them. and that's exactly what's happening. that's the undercurrent long enough and hungry must have been preparing itself for that for a long time. surely they've always had an undercurrent of people,

maybe 15 to 20 percent or even more, for not only anti semitic, but also anti democratic who want to tricked leadership. and you really do see that in a lot of european countries. these people are generally doormats until they can come up to the surface and not only come with the fact that just shows that the world is more complex and we tried to make it seem. and some of the biggest anti semites are also defenders of israel. everything's changing a little and as long as it's not anti jewish in any way, why shouldn't you be allowed to criticize israel government, which incidentally made a pact with all man. as a jew, i should have that right? ah .

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worked with in judaism. you're right. equality is a big topic within today's jewish communities. and i have things change very soon. that's the very old tradition, which is not returned to the tom wasn't a 400100 years. we do, there is a sentence in the, in the bible in there. that's it, it's, it's very hard for me to, to translate it in the, in the, in the bible to, to, to edition we, we are, we look the boy like like 3 and there and you know, we are not allowed that the rabbi stays and those are we not allowed to for the 1st 3 years to take the fruits from the, from the 3. so the compares somehow with the, with a child that is a boy that we believe is hair for 3 years. is not because of the

power, but we do believe that when he will be 3 years or even able to recognize the midst of all i'm putting this here. it's a symbol of mixture. look, i'm putting this around, you shut up. now i'm going to put on your kip, i was the one that was already and this is 124 and okay, 100. 24. you're now in the put it in here. the me ah

ah ah, i college texting. i really do. if you ask me, who am i with cake like this? this is working a lot to find the sample. it's like so it's so it's not heavy and it's like not so sweet, but very so it's like somewhere else dying away with this. just see the arrow here and you have also typical jewish. ok? yes, i have my new for example and this, this little hungry area cake. and it's something like you dish and mom lot, you know, like other times they the, that they want to have some cake for holiday. so all the stuff in the grid,

they went in a pop up who plumb jam and not for not. how important is the jewish influence? i think in every way. so one way that slowed me, which i ring the christmas fair and the big hungry and holidays is around because i keep it very important to people get know that than people love it. and the other hand, i think everything i have in myself is something like this other music, is it like how i do business? how i love to work? how i love to make cakes? so all my ideas where they came from hall was i learn, i think it's, oh, this is better. and you said everything. sure. but every friday, cora, bad you need there is a place where you are. it's not just like days are rolling and rolling and the end

of the day you just be like, yes, want to be happens. and i don't have so many time because you know, like i your business to the and go i would go together. finally, like my husband and then in there friday. so but everybody, oh my friends, there are some of them always watch you can come or come come i come fade. but for some people it's always like on the table and it's very relaxed because you know that she will see them and received. you can give me the giving every jewish person, we talk to him, budapest and tells us it's a great place to live there too. but also hungarian heart in equal measure. how

great everything is health and tactic. life is here. it's very we read non talk about or about interest semitism from the big party. i feel like it doesn't really add up at the start. it's always because that's just how it is. when you actually go into these places, you get a much more varied perspective. you can click on the outside perspective that we have from the media and perhaps doesn't correlate with what the people tell you. but maybe that just shows that the situation isn't black and white and it's neither right or wrong go the part of the great synagogue is this way. it's an exciting thing for all europe really because it's a place that represents a modern debate about 2 days. so to see which direction should it go from y'all? should it open up reform, liberal law young about it was built a 170 years ago to much discussion. it's

a neo liberal synagogue. so not orthodox. it's because synagogue in europe owns the liberal camp, has clearly prevailed with his magnificent building style. oh i good morning, i work for myself right now for most people, dennis is a romantic city for us. jesus, it's the location of the 1st ghetto. it was here that the jewish population was 1st

separated and segregated, ah, vanished later contributed significantly to the development of jewish intellectual as, for example, in early printing and economic problems. again, just like to be a jew here in the 16th century link for the despite all the difficulties was a very exciting time, jewish life, jewish printing economy and culture developed enormously and radiated out into europe. ah ah

ah the if you would see number tooth reading of the 17th century to get though, would they have played this kind of music at the wedding? i believe so. absolutely. but what was special about the ghetto, of course, is probably if you went to a german jewish wedding, they would have german music with the little italian music put in. if you went to a what they call the 11th team juice. so from north africa, they went out of spencer partic, tooth, and they ended up, they went to africa, and then they ended up in venice lane more than a talks about their music,

their liturgical music being turkish founding. so i think they also, they're instrumental music would have been turkish bouncing spanish the same for spanish and of course for italians and were living in the ghetto at the time where the carnival and the committee of the latter day was really starting. so that would have had an enormous influence as well on the instrumental music. ah ah ah, i think i think this journey has shown me the jewish communities are very diverse and vibrant. and every day life has been shaped not by foreign politics,

which is the impression that we always get. but my question was, how can we continue to live the jewish life? can we establish on sounds like lots of jewish centers being built in people are trying to open new ones and about that i feel that there's a lot of vitality that office seated safely and i imagined it being very different . i come from berlin, where all our schools are guarded by police and israeli security. and i thought it probably be similar in other countries. poland, for example, my parents are both holocaust survivors from poland and there's been such positive progress in warsaw below the foundation has allowed them to build these new schools . there's a really young jewish life growing and flourishing and blossoming. there was such a surprising momentum. there is a woman put up as and in the past,

you see how briefly they go about life and maintaining a jewish community of 60000 people. if you look at it from the outside, without going there might assume they're doing badly. that political situation is terrible. today, and it is terrible, but they're making something of their own from it. if i don't just adapt to the regime, they had their own position, very stablish in jewish life there because they think it well along our lives. the regime regime links. on the other hand, you have a big interest in medic, racist movement, that in certain circumstances can lead to jews either assimilating completely or believing leaves aware of that. so you wouldn't have had the free decision to leave then they've just lived in it. there's nothing holding them back in an environment. the marginalized is all threatened, some good examples of that on these trends in families and communities that are primarily concerned with day to day long enough with big politic. i'm just trying

to establish a good life as best they can and if they can't adjust to the community and vice versa, if the community and above all the politics can't keep them out and they simply leave here in venice. in particular, you can see how everything just close together. it's foster father juice asked the lemon juice. and it's actually a good ending our journey in the get the older canto in europe. and because it shows that time on the one hand you had exclusion and control of and on the other hand, you had protection. that was about the canto here with a wonderful cynical, with much better than many, many other ghettos. where it was radical exclusion at the gym and it also reveals a picture that's much bigger than it was still open in involved and be me

you don't get to go to the all day in the ghetto, there are synagogues and the community offices repeatedly called you see, i was born 100 meters from here and attended a jewish school here in the ghetto. he's nice. it was a small school with classes of 10 students when he dates hybrid today from the community is very small. so i see some of the ways i'll bring the 1st person from my family arrived in 1500 phone devi. there was an old metal foundry. a hellion for foundry is ghetto. so it's thought that's where the word comes from, or to the when the war between spain, france, austria, and the holy seats,

a place against the troops arrived here, and bennet and the jews, he saw refuge and venice. a mona operator, please easy. they arrived in the early 1500 to follow me the venice resist in all the military efforts of spain, france, and austria, and the holy c. mission. patricians decided to do god a favor and to build a ghetto and venice to keep the use here. it did on a fairly good so they've been easy. while e, c, u, the old ghetto was to control the jews who were considered foreigners. already in the from the mid 16 hundreds, another 5000 jews came here. which was the most there ever was something. and after that you'll things slowly started to decline this on the see many are there today. i'll just say goal for the 2nd world war there were 1200 jews here.

204 were deported. and after the war, there were 1000 gaily me today there are 400 of song capital. so you feel more anti semitism today than you used to was is i need not remote but they say no, i don't feel any anti semitism here. but of course, there are problems with the conflict in the middle east. we all but relation here are fine. was it by then? i have nothing official talking about that, but it's not a problem in italy. italy is the country of disorder. sometimes a bed chaotic lamp may dollar men, but for now the country is keeping the disorder under control and more long use of the capacity. the gold or li live is all i. ready the whenever and here my heart just burst

yes, there's a very special atmosphere on a friday afternoon and the fan is cancer. and so it's nice that we're ending our journey here today. people prepare for shabbat and go to the synagogue, and then for dinner. ah, i'd normally be doing that right now to lighting candles with my family, saying the kiddish. but i'm very happy to see how they do things here. ah, today you have to spend it with me. we've been invited along later and were meeting after the synagogue. ah, you have the feeling in many parts of europe, that jewish light, it's blooming and blossoming again, pricing. but whether it will continue to develop this lee in the future, it's hard to say, ah, if civil society continues to work to protect the fundamental rights of minorities

. and when they're threatened to stand up for them, then i'm not too worried about the future of judaism in europe. law the on do b. o. i o. r. o in. i lose

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