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and i don't mean to start then if. this is the only think that we do is music because everybody fights his way. to. the floor you can install a 50 pound is bill frist would be a very radical movie about a lot of the. what i think is this is the funds that is a constant thank. right ok constantly carry the ball. for. us so have a seat at these 2 like force the green and the blue and them all to a quick sound check with them so you'll wear these headphones but there's just a ball here the size it's just that it's make sure that we're going to make sure
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that your hair's ok and open tomorrow. it's. all right and here and there. you know minute change of all you. can hear anything in there so she can oh she can't yes good. do you hear me well you hear me when you're. so newish asking lives in kansas city her granddaughter leah is a seattle based filmmaker and she's making a documentary about her grandmother's past and more recent past follow sonja you know oh you did i'm curious how do you think those experiences of your youth those experiences that are so hard to imagine for most of us how how they shaped this woman that you are 7 decades later. never.
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this. time. last i'll have time any time so. that's pretty chill yeah ok 32 you know this other get out if they have been coming here for 14 years this is a place like not only does he just say ok say that we met someone and i think it's been 2530 years he's going to come. down. i usually have a good. drag i say if someone doesn't ask me at all say it to. me they can do it you better bet.
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it's better ok. look for. thanks. bye. you are no offense but you're no longer a young woman in fact you're one of the last living survivors of the nazis. and i'm aware of it. and i and i'm wondering how clear your memories of 70 years ago actually are. i think very clear you leave it. all your life. they forget. they. know i was in the.
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add a normal person would not even on the stand. because those horrible things what i have see in the skeletons of those people. and only dead looked around was dead dead to me. so i have them etched there is no doubt about that if i would be not i would be like. so i keep myself always busy in this is helps me not to think. so much about what i went to this dark terrible spot. in my great honor to introduce. dr regina.
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to my mother is the only holocaust survivor in the kansas city area who is out speaking regularly about her experience. so i'm going to start my presentation with an overview of what happened to my mom chronologically before during and after the war then my mother would come up and speak. i want to star was one of the only remaining of my family for the war my mom is highlighted there you medal her sister is a little girl the back row with pigtails. everyone else in this photo was murdered . his sister survived the war in the forest with the partisans and lives in israel. my mom story of survival is incredible to.
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capture as a teen just like you to witnessing the worst in 3 different doesn't he and 2 her liberation and marrying another survivor my father. then settling here in kansas city to raise me and my brother and sister. i know that you have made it your part of your business to tell people firsthand what happened and i wonder what what happens to that he. what happens to the stories when you are gone and this is there isn't speaking about speaking up and i will tell you what to prompt me. it was an awakening for me when i heard the skin it's denying. my mind to say hey sonia. this was the reason you survived you have to speak for
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them. in better than now auschwitz when one day when we are count that and s.s. men went to order the order rose and just you know how to talk our numbers and they start calling all of those numbers where they supposed to go to the guest i used to say to my daughter if i reach one hard company something my greatest fulfillment is speaking to a disturbance in schools because this is our future generation and then in a few minutes when you see this horrible horrible. clouds. from the chimney. so you can imagine i don't know if you can imagine. because you never knew where it
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would be you are. speaking from your heart and speaking what took place and you were the witness if their hearts in their make a change in their lives and take out the hate this would be my greatest accomplishment. well i want to take your very him out for coming and listening to me i was a little narrow as and i hope you'll forgive me for that. i'm for . the world is driven by.
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the day there's things. we dare to ask. during the vietnam war us forces also bombs neighbor unless it was a secret war. and for years the american people did not know. how much it is officially the mouth of rebound country per capita and all human history millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country jordyn wieber they went on a kind of a tap and they even today kids in laos full victim to bombs dropped decades ago is
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a little have this is your hand i want to hear. from are 14 anger up in a really small town in missouri and. my mom grew up in illinois and she saw. her dad i never had a grandpa my mom's side because when they were a little someone from oregon jerome came out of him and he got shot in the house and. i just know that it was something that she had to go through. and i really you know appreciate all my life because she is a survivor and she is a fighter she can i smear you because. howard so she's only with example for you. my name is caroline i was 14 i am a catholic clone shark injure 14 years old i grew up in wilmington delaware
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my singe of age i am from new york age 13. and muslim but i do relate to. the jewish people and how they survived the holocaust because they are like a brother religion tourists knowing that there was someone who just one person could kill over a 1000000 people makes me feel. i don't know how to put it it's hard for a good person. but there it is and it is but you young people i hope and if you do you will be strong and really stand up for the right things. for the right things because all the bad underline the main thing is not to close your eyes when something is gong not the right my name's chris
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those are like all those years of your life that you never going to get back. you have their wisdom. you know 40 year old would be 50. that's crazy i just respect. i don't think i would ever be able to. i was young your age you know when the war were. time and forward thinking. and to see. witnessing things what i have seen. it is like i say i don't care who you hate i will not get no i cannot this have to come from a higher both i am not the one to forgive what i see. taking
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place. no buck i will not hate because the hate. will destroy me and now be a hate there like them. and your ability to say that you're not ever going to hate . when you're fighting with will be like oh i hate you or whatever but you don't hate them obviously but even just to say that is just wrong considering the fact that he actually have a reason to hate me. and i think it. says thank you for that. thank you thank. you. thank you. that is you know you.
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like something was pushing for me. so i. switched to. trying to find a little inn and it was a little tiny hole. and i looked out exceptionally in the time that corner. and women's corner wanted to. get into. it. and especially when i saw my mouth. displeased. like. that so they're holding up yes please please please. please. this is no.
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all this i want to show you. ok. this is my bed they're almost still the king sized the bet who had to sleep on this side as you can tell it's it goes a little doubt all on the field ok yeah this is this is a really unbelievable. this. at least had to be 75 years and this huge hit. in this is was my. this is what's left of this. 6 yeah you can see the color was of the beautiful yes. you know.
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this is a cherry. it's so dear to me that no. no one can. understand and i cannot even describe it myself when i hold my hand. whenever i go to sleep she is with me she is always. after the day that we all met so. i thought about it almost every day. she has impacted me in ways i could have never imagined like what she was telling us about her mom that's what got to me the most because my mom. is everything to me and i watched her walk away from me knowing what was going to happen.
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i can't even imagine being strong enough to go on from that point. teenagers are really hard to reach now they're just structed with their internet social networks and i think that sonia change that for me at least. she had such a personal message it was hard not to put yourself in her place and think about what it would be like to be her and i think. god all of our intentions she made me want to change things the way things are she made me want to make an impact on the world and i think that's why it's so important that she keeps talking to people and keeps changing people's lives like she did mine. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be
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when i came out from this hell i really could not even shill happy ever and sometimes even people were joking about something i would catch myself if i was even letting i feel guilty. and to it's very probably difficult for a normal person to grasp and understand you live with that all your life i want to ponder that you will live with it but we did not receive help like now when our boys are coming here know from the wars in then knowledge finally they need to mend you know for the how do you call it depression when we didn't have to tell. the big things are all the time gone.
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