if you're going to. write a book you can start making sure it's all. worth. rather so have a seat at these 2 act 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 that your hair's ok and open tomorrow but it's. all right and here and there. you know minute change of all you. didn't hear anything in there so she can't she can't yes. do you hear me well you had me when. soon you were shot ski 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 hello sonia you know oh are you good 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. well. never. to tell you how i made. it so that was a minute at the. night

so on. and on.

there is a lot of. time to. have time any time so i think. it's pretty chill yeah ok surely you know this is a place like no other. do you just say ok say that we met someone and i think it's going to be 2530 years you're going to.

i usually. say if someone doesn't ask me at all say it to. me they can do it you benefit. of us etc ok. look for saturday. thanks. bye. you are no offense beer no longer a young woman in fact you are 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 leverage it.

all your life. they forget who they. are i was in the. sudan the liberal. they came and they come and i so i was close almost 14.

years to get to pertain to a place. i shall never forget in my life because i was like an ethic looking over that want to stay from place. and i witness myself. horrible horrible time. looking down. on me and bullets time. sometimes of people who tried to escape. the hiding place was under the bed which was. cut out. down close that we didn't have any.

linda. they had they came with. the took us out. and they were bringing other people from the hiding. and we knew it was a made even shadows that i dare. to. my father. never saw. my little sister escaped. and. the stage. to the kitchen. impassable today's.

when you have such a horrible experiences as a youngster it's left to fear some kind of fear. that you can't at 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. 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 this helps me not to think. so much about what i went

to this dark 8 terrible spot. in my great honor to introduce. her to our regina. 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 back row with pigtails. everyone else in this photo was murdered. and his sister survived the war in the forest with the partisans and lives in israel. my mom story of survival is incredible to. capture as a teen just like you to witnessing the worst in 3 different dozen him to 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. story what happens to the

stories when you are gone this is there isn't speaking about speaking up and now we'll tell you what to prompt me. it was an awakening for me when i heard the skin it's denying that never happened it was just like a tongue and to my brain to my mind to say hey sonia this was the reason you survived you have to speak for them. him better than our streets when one day when we are count that and s.s. men went door to door duros 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 would be 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 would be you are. speaking from your heart and speaking what took place in your world to witness if a reach 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 thank you very much for coming and listening to tell me i was a little narrow and i hope you'll forgive me for that mean

for 50 for one me one.

you know in the face of a pandemic virus that spread so rapidly and so quickly through out that occupation you can't really think in the short run about changing people's underlying metabolic states one hopes that we can learn something from them. in the. healthier lifestyles to create a more healthy planet. is there a great sound on this and then you do rule. was

a little matter of this is your hand i want to. write. more 14 or 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 in my mom's side because when they were a little someone from oregon jerome came out and he got shot in the house and. i just know that it's 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 karaites me every year because see how we're so she's tough only good example for you. my name is caroline i was 14 i am

a catholic on clone shark injure 14 years old i grew up in wilmington delaware. i am from new york. age 13. but i do relate to the jewish people and how they survived the holocaust because they are like a brother religion tourists knowing there was someone who just one person could kill over a 1000000 people makes me feel. it's hard for a good person. but that it is what 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 is chris morris. my mom was pregnant with me and the nurse. in the know my room did. you say. i can kind of relate to how you feel because i know like i love my family more than anything like my mom my best. and so i don't know. what i would do. just. my dad.

those are like all those years. you have. 40 or 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 broke out there for things. and to see. witnessing things what i have seen. is like i say i don't care who you hate i will not get no i cannot this have to come from my higher board. i am not the one to forgive what i see

taking place. no buck i will not hate because the hate. will destroy me and now be a hate they're like them. and your ability to say that you're not ever going to hate. it when you're fighting with to 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. and i think it. says thank you for that thank you thank. you. you know you.

are. saying you. love you love you. i never thought of that really did i wind up with this little. i had a very good eye for clothes but let me tell you that profession no tail it was really done. and it's. in the war. when the germans came mean they had allowed the use tailors. to take. but here you can see em here by demand. sawing.

still. go on you know. c.c.m. this is the machine over day you like. to let it go let's put it. memories said memory it's. just when i was seeing myself my most walking to the guest. which was really.

left. when you already. spent in the camps when it. it's. election. time once more they would still make me smile. we were all stay on watching. and no one is what you supposed to dance to. my mouth to the left and self to.

was merely a moan you can hear this time something comes to us. like something was pushing from. my. closet. trying to find intelligible in it with a little tiny piece of. a look out except in the time that call home and women is called the motive. to living is to move all it will move new leaf especially when i saw my mouth it lists please but immediately mess of a hole in it again. another limitless.

an atlanticist try. to make. this all. this i want to show you. ok. this is my bed that almost killed a king so i bet. the little doubt all. yeah this is this is a really unbelievable. it. had to be said. and this huge hit. in this is was my mom. this is what's left of this. 6 yeah you can see the color was of the view

beautiful yes. it's you know. this is what they cherish. and 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 with. 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. i just i can't even imagine being strong enough to go on from that point. are really hard to reach now they're distracted with. the internet the social networks and i think that sonia changed that for me at least. she had such a personal message that it was hard not to put yourself in her place and think about what he would be like to be her and i think that that got all of our attentions 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.

join me everything. and i'll be speaking to. we go to work so you stay whole. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person or those but.

the dares thinks. we dare to ask. when i came out from this hell i really could not even feel happy ever and sometimes even people are joking about something i would catch myself if i was even electing i feel guilty. and to it's very probably due to cooled for a normal person to grasp and understand you live with that all your life i want to punt it out to you we 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 a time bomb. and. they would take off you know where you are but never your wearing. and sometimes i would do it to diffident way. too sometimes to dead. in very good hour auschwitz your living. every moment. with fear. it was really like living in ohio. and i went to a terrible too big i want to. be dangerous says woman was leading is also the door from.

doris to beating cause. we were making some braids in each grade had to be tested to be fixed on them because this was going to read the bombs . you see. did jerram and. so one day. the main assessment from our streets. started. but. i was pushing away pushing away and there was no way for me to escape. and he was beating me. he was wearing heavy boots. and yours.