it is even for me, for one that was living in auschwitz, living -- living in auschwitz. existing in auschwitz. it's impossible to describe. even if you'll give me the rest of the evening. of what a death camp -- you must remember, auschwitz was not only a concentration camp. it was a death camp. auschwitz was one of six death camps in poland. where when i was there in 1944 what was called the busiest time, 10,000 people -- please. 10 -- we're talking about 10,000 human beings were being gassed, cremated, in auschwitz every day. transports were arriving from all over europe. men, women, children, babies. the ones like myself that were picked out from my transport to place for slave labor for work, some were thinking and talking out loud, not knowing who is better off, their relatives, their friends who were sent this morning from their transport to the gas chambers, or those the ones that were picked to live in the camp. that's what the situation were. every day people not being able to take the conditions, live under those condition, threw themselves on the high voltage

i was a ga i spent three years in auschwitz and i survived only because a christian doctor in the camp made me and my two brothers under the floor in his house my mother and father worked for him and at night they would crawl in with us and give us drive bread so it's in hot water we sold well they are murderers and we . still feels fear when she hears loud knocking at the door. i think they are coming to kill me i remember the bones the bodies legs hands the people this barbed wire fence i remember terrible beatings in the camp i cry a lot when i cry my heart is calm. after she was freed from the camp or immigrated to israel when she was sixteen she met her husband a local arab man. i was working. in she brought me something to drink we liked each other and decided to get married it did not matter to me that she was jewish. but had matter to layla's family her father didn't speak to her for a year and most of her israeli jewish cousins have disowned the young couple moved here to. an arab village in northern israel later converted to islam she says so that her children would not have

if you have a question about what it was like to be in auschwitz, we are going to be passing around at. and we encourage you to please ask questions. we want it, again, to be as interactive as possible because so many of you have seen the series. so many of you have read about auschwitz and the killing of over a million people in the most infamous concentration camp in world war ii. so we're going to start the panel off with a couple questions from the floor down here. and then please don't be shy. please raise your hand when we call for it, and we'll get some great audience participation from you guys tonight. so we're going to begin actually way question tonight for the actors. for jimmy madio and ross mccall. we've talked about this in the past, jimmy, ross, and i, about what it was like to play these men, these veterans, and what it took. and it took a lot more than people realize. and these guys went through a boot camp. and they were put through a boot camp by dale dye, who played colonel sink in "band of brothers." and dale dye loves to put people through boot camps because dal

i was a jew i spent three years in auschwitz and i survived only victims are christian daughter in a camp and my two brothers and i said lauren he's my mother and father worked for him as night they would crawl in with us and give us dry bread soaked in hot water with salt still when they are members and make a. list to feel safe here when she hears a loud knocking if they do a lot of my things they're coming to kill me i remember the bone in the body legs. it's barbed wire fence i remember to. terrible beatings in the camp i cry a lot when i cry my heart is in the army. after she was freed from the camp or immigrated to israel when she was sixteen she met her husband a local arab man. i was working in. and she brought me something to drink your very decided to get married. she was jewish. but it mattered to layla's family her father didn't speak to her for you know and most of her israeli jewish cousins have disowned the young couple moved here to. an arab village in northern israel layla converted to islam she says so that whole children would not have to serve in the israeli army

so many of you have read about auschwitz and the killing of over a million people in the most infamouson camp in world war ii. so we're going to start the panel off with a couple of questions from the floor down here and then please don't be shy. please raise your hand. when we call for it, we'll get some great audience participation from you guys tonight. so we're going to begin actually with a question tonight for the actors. for jimmy madio and ross mccall. we've talked about this in the past, that jimmy, ross and i, about what it was like to play these men, these veterans and what it took. it took a lot more than people realize. and these guys went through a boot camp. they were put through a boot camp by dale dye who played colonel sink in "band of brothers." dale dye loves to put people through boot camps. he was a highly decorated officer in vietnam and also a very talented actor. in order to play these guys, they had to experience their own form of boot camp. ross and jimmy -- we'll start with ross. what was it like heading into this and your evenings expectations and you reali

not even when all the family was liberated in auschwitz. we knew then what happened. >> so now you have this book, ann frank's family. what would you like people to take away from it? >> i didn't quite understand. >> from the book, what people shall take away from it? >> that this book is so informative about everything of the family, from what the old ages on up to the modern times. it's hard for me to say which part is the most interesting one because the whole book is so interesting. >> i'm sure it's all very interesting. certainly her diary was read by so many, and i'm sure this book will be as well. buddy and elias, thank you very much for your time. >> thank you for inviting us. thank you. >> it's been nearly two decades since it happened, but tonight is the night. get ready to view the moon and the sun in a way that is sure to leave you captivated. ♪ sun, sun, sun, here it comes [ male announcer ] imagine facing the day with less chronic osteoarthritis pain. imagine living your life with less chronic low back pain. imagine you, with

what qualities that you had in your life made you be able to survive being in auschwitz and survive the other camps you were in. was it something internal? was it youth? what was it? >> thank you. >> ion't think that you need any special quality. you needed a little luck and help. and i was fortunate enough to get help from people in different camps that i know. keep in mind i come from a family my father, my mother and weere five brothers. my mother used to say she has a basketball team, five boys. in 1942, in a town in the middle of the night without any prior rning, s.s. troopers came into the ghetto with barking dogs and flying rifle bots, and ordered all the entire jewish population o to assemble in the center of the town. over there, selection took place. the germans selected those who in the opinion were cable of performing slave labor. they needed workers to work in their industries because the young men and women were in the military. that dayas the darkest day of my life which is still wh me today. because during the selection, i and two of my brothers were selected to one col

it's like auschwitz there. auschwitz. you get down there you wanna get your crabs, you wanna get your lobsters or you go to fisherman's wharf and you wanna order a nice lobster dinner. now how do you-- what do you think that-- with that lobster you're eating, what do you suppose-- the fate of that lobster is before you eat it? they come out and say, "hey, do you want this one here?" and this old charlie go like this, you know, "hey, hey, not me, not me." [laughter] and take you on your charlie's. what do they do to that lobster? boiled. they boil that lobster. now, is there any concern for the lobster's well being? no. you want that lobster right away, right? you want it quick 'cause you got things to do. you know what they do? they take that lobster, open up a big pot, a boiling water that's boiling, boiling and they throw the lobster in. let me ask you a question, what do you suppose the lobster thinks about that? [laughter] what happen to that lobster-- [makes sounds] the lobster freaks. so you get your lobster, your l

ok father was at auschwitz concentration throughout my my rubber was in my prime concentration camp every single member of my family on both sides was exterminated both of my former who of course i know are rising. profile and exactly the crux of the right foods my parents taught me and my proof simply that i will not be silent when israel commits its crimes against the palestinians i consider nothing more obvious pick a bow to use there are suffering and very well we're going to try to justify not work you're not brutal was very few can become a member of my for the threat is real very clear it's against the house to be and so i reply no and the longer could be him a day or browbeaten by my peers if you had you know you would be crying for the promise then you know that. norman finkelstein is a classic anti-semite. invokes the oldest stereotypes against the jews if he were not a jew that is she i don't think he is a jew he is as someone once put it he's jewish only honest parents' side. if he were not a jewish person or a person of jewish heritage with a name like finkelstein nobody woul

we had no idea, not even when ott tow frank was liberated in aush auschwitz. knew then what happened. >> now you have this book "anne frank's family." would wha would you like peop--e people to take away from it? >> this book is so informative about everything in the family, from the old ages on. our forbearers up to the modern times. it's hard for me to say which part is the most interesting one because the whole book is so interesting. >> i'm sure it's all very interesting. certainly her diary was read by so many and i'm sure this book will be as well. buddy and gerti, thank you very much for your time. >> thank you for having invited us. thank you. >> thank you. >> and you can catch that interview and much more later on today. check out my "newsroom" blog. just go to cnn.com/randi for stories and guests that you may have missed or they were so good you want to see them again. >>> an stargazers, get ready to view the moon and sun in a way that hasn't been seen this century. we are just a few hours away from it happening. ♪ you ain't seen nothing yet >> and g

going through the different concentration camp in auschwitz in 1945, in the last camp where i was, the american air force came and destroyed the camp. we could hear the artillery and seeing that the war is coming close to an end. we just didn't know whether we were live another hour and see the uniforms, to see the liberators coming and freeing us. we were placed on the dead march. the destination which we found out afterwards was to take us to the salt mines, place us in those salt mines and there destroy us. on the third day on the dead march in the middle of the forest, if anybody heard about the brick forest, the middle of the highway, we were walking and our guards left us in the middle of the highway, and, of course -- so i'm saying this. i wouldn't be able to finish without telling you. i have the deepest, deepest respect and gratitude for men and women that i see in the uniforms. it is for the men in the uniforms, what we first saw, and especially you guys, you, in our opinion, called the liberators. because if you wouldn't have come, another three months none of us, none of us

you get a lost your kids and kids in the stolen labor camps it's not freedom to the inmates of auschwitz. who can model. and. think if that got you did you not intrude for an boundaries you need sky neither did you seek fame these issues sure just defended your motherland as a she defended your family. spoke set us today remember being free of those who place their lives on the altar of the free. that is barlow too that's . what it all as the years and decades past as each year. in your generation takes the place of another notice good motion now but is it possible to pass into oblivion with such a heroic deed of the warriors who defended not only our lives each of the very notion of a human being to you that flashes and bush wanted to crush. the p.d.p. but in the day of the great the trees school in your name we bow our heads in bright memory as the years leap i meet you who did not get in return if somebody will send the sons the cittie daughters at some others. not yours dear and fathers more free husbands. their lives but others sisters i've known region arms. relatives. and friends.