nazi camps points to auschwitz. this photograph was taken upon irene's arrival at auschwitz, the circled person in the lower left-hand side is irene. irene and her sister serena were selected for forced labor, they were forcibly evacuated in january 1945 to other camps in germany. this extraordinary photograph is displayed in the museum's permanent exhibition. the liberation by the soviet army of the camp where irene and serena worked near the end of the war, which is indicated by the arrow on this map, left the girls unguarded and they were able to make their way to prague to look for their relatives. of their immediate family, only irene and serena survived the war. in 1947 the girls and her aunt rose who had been with them throughout their time in the camps were able to immigrate to new york. this photograph shows irene and serena upon their arrival in the united states. after arriving in the united states and living in new york irene met and married marty weiss in 1949. they moved to virginia in 1953 where irene

why did some people end up in auschwitz and others end up in america? this was a question that obsessed me as i did the research for this book. the simp lift answer to that question is whether they succeeded in obtaining what the american journalist dorothy thompson called a piece of paper with a stamp in it that, according to thompson, could mean and very often did mean the difference between life and death. dorothy thompson had been one of the first american journalists to report from nazi germany. she interviewed hitler. and in 1938, as the refugee crisis was growing, she could see the consequences. and already in 1938, she writes that it's a fantastic commentary on the inhumanity of our times that for thousands and thousands of people, a piece of paper on a stamp on it is the difference between life and death. i wanted to dive into the lives of the people who were trying to obtain these stamps. and i also wanted to describe the decision making, the policymaking that went into whether or not you were issued with these life-saving visas. now quite a f

and subsequently to auschwitz. at the very time when they had finally reached the front of the line for american visas. we have a letter from fanny -- max and fanny's son karl who lifted in chicago. he had gone to washington to plead the case of his parents. and when he learned that their visas had had been approved he wrote to his parents in france and said, i see you my dears trying to keep the tears from your cheeks. keep your heads high. god willing you will soon be able to set foot in this wonderful country. actually as far as we know they didn't receive that letter. it was returned to the united states. so what happened to the 6500 deportees i talked about, expellees from barreden? about roughly half ended up in auschwitz. including the valfers. 25% including the grand -- the grandfather of the meyer family died in the french camps in the atrocious conditions of gers, rhee mille, the other camps. about 12, mainly young children managed to hide out in france for the end of the war, survive the war. and about 1

and they stayed there a few days and eventually they were sent to auschwitz. out of them, out of 13,000, there were 4,000 children. and none of them came back. so my parents were really concerned and very afraid about what could happen to us. and they decided to send us into hiding. they sent us into a farm out of paris. without telling the lady, it was two ladies tending the farm. i guess the men were taken prisoner with the french army beginning of the war. so there were only two women there. and i was with my sisters. my sisters would go to school, i would stay with the ladies. we spent about, i don't know, winter of 1942, '43 like that. i remember that winter was very cold. there was a lot of snow and my sisters would go to school and brought back some songs that bring me back to that period. like awe tenenbaum in french. but my parents had not told the ladies we were jewish. they said they could not feed is in paris. there was no food, too scarce, too bad. that's the only reason they gave. but in the conversation one day, i was a four-year-old, i was very

in 1943, aunt geeza was denounced and sent to auschwitz where she perished. dora remained in yugoslavia until 1957. and in 1958 emigrated to the united states. in 1957 while on her way to switzerland, dora met daniel klayman returning to new york from a year of postdoctoral study. they were married in switzerland and together they arrived in the united states in the fall of 1958. the following year dan and dora came to washington, d.c., and dan began his career as a researcher in medicinal chemistry at the walter reed army institute of research. his work culminated in his expertise of drug development against malaria. after the birth of their two children, wanda and elliot, dora resumed her education getting degrees in french and teaching english as a second language. she then taught in montgomery county, maryland, public schools, including 23 years at bethesda chevy chase high school where she headed the english as a second language department. dan passed away in 1992. both of their children live in the washington area. wanda is deputy assistant director of

people who don't, most of them end up being deported to auschwitz in 1942. but i'm trying to commit this political story, bureaucratic story and make it human story. when i was a journalist, in eastern europe and the soviet union, bring collapse of communism i was struck by the fact that the political debates in washington have very little to do with what is actually happening on the ground. so i tried to connect in the political story to the human story that was visible to me. the one of the elements was of course the obsessionwith national security . it was feared that if we let refugees into the country, they could pose a threat to us national security, they could be, the germans could be trying to infiltrate the fifth columnists, not the agents into the us. curiously enough, anotherbook i wrote about world war ii is called the saboteurs . it was about not the agents who landed sent here by submarine in 1943 and they landed in, one group landed in florida, another group landed in long island so there were attempts by the germans to infiltrate the united s

they stayed there for a few day and eventually they were sent to auschwitz. and out of them, out of 13,000 there were 4,000 children and none of them came back. so my parents were really concerned and very afraid about what could happen to us and they decided to send us into hiding. they sent us into a farm out of paris but without telling the lady -- it was two ladies who were tending the farm. i guess the men must have been taken prisoner with the french army at the beginning of the war, so there were only two women there, and i was with my sisters. my sisters would go to school and i would stay with the ladies. we spent about the winter of 1942-'43 like that. i remember the winter was very cold, there was a lot of snow and my sisters would go to school and they brought back some songs that bring me back to that period like taunenbaum but it was in french. that song brings me back. today, it's famous for safari park there. in those days, was just farmland. so i was staying with the ladies, but my parents had not told the ladies that we were jewish. they jus

all costs are vive are gathered at the auschwitz birkenau death camps to honor the 4000 ethnic sinti and roma people killed in a massacre there 75 years ago u.s. civil rights leader jesse jackson who attended the ceremony called the nazi genocide of half a 1000000 since he and roma the forgotten all accost. suspected al qaeda militants have raided a military camp in the southern yemeni province of witnesses say the assailants killed at least 20 soldiers and battled yemeni security forces for several hours the militants were eventually expelled from the camp after reinforcements arrived at by the united arab emirates. well saudi arabia has announced new travel rules that allow women to travel abroad without approval from a male guardian women over the age of $21.00 will now be able to apply for a passport starting at the end of this month the reforms are a shift away from the country's restrictive guardianship system saudi arabia considers women to be on the same level as children and gives men almost complete control of their lives there have been several recent type profile attempts

a concentration camp like auschwitz is the same as a detention center.e comparison where we boycotted nazi germany, now we're going to boycott israel. and did she never hear about martin luther king jr., and all of those brave civil rights leaders that were pelted with bottles, rocks, and fire hoses, and had dogs turned on them? marching to make this a more perfect union? >> the insult in the ignorance is stunning. there are those who do not know their children are great grandchildren because their son, their brother was murdered at kent state. young people protesting the vietnam war. her job and her position was brought to her in part by my generation, which also marched and fought for civil rights and fought regarding -- >> sean: a big part of your life, personally. >> it is. i come from that realm. this is the problem with malignant narcissism, the inability of this generation, strangely, to not be able to see past themselves. literally their own nose. just the general ignorance, her argument that the unemployment rate was low because people had two j

if the squad will like i will pay for their trip, let them go see auschwitz, let them go see what these concentration camps were really like and maybe they can come back and apologize for making these comparisons. maybe they can also be held accountable for their own bigotry, squad members spreading anti-semitic tropes, constantly attacking the state of israel. isn't it ironic the party that claims to reject hate is almost entirely silent when it comes to criticizing their own anti-semitic colleagues? it's because the radicals rule the party. if there is no more room for moderates in this new democratic extreme socialist party. have a front row seat to see all of it. fox news contributor dan bongino along with dr. sebastian gorka. it used to be if you made a comparison and minimized the horror of nazi germany, you were held accountable for that. they aren't being held accountable, nor can the democrats in congress call out their own anti-semitic colleagues. >> that's because liberals in the media newsrooms are terrified of them and so are democrats on the hill. that was interesting what

holocaust survivors gathered at the auschwitz death camps to honor those killed in a massacre there 75 years ago. u.s. civil rights leader jesse jackson, who attended the ceremony, called the nazi genocide o of half a million roa the forgotten holocaust. suspected al qaeda militants have raided a military camp in the southern yemeni province. witnesses say the assailants killed at least 20 soldiers and battled security forces several hours. the militants were expelled after reinforcements arrived back by the the united arab emirates. and moscow has a warning for those who dare to participate in saturday's rally. expect another crackdown. the warning follows violence between police and demonstrators last weekend when more than a thousand people were arrested. the protestors are angry that authorities have excluded independent candidates from the moscow city elections on september 8. they want them to be allowed to run. d.w. spoke to one of the protestors who was detained last weekend. >> these were images that shocked russia during protests for free and fair moscow city parliament elect

than 4 tons and is the largest ever confiscated in germany all the costs are vipers gathered at the auschwitz birkenau death camps to honor the 4000 ethnic sinti and roma people killed in a massacre there 75 years ago u.s. civil rights leader jesse jackson ended the ceremony called the nazi genocide of half a 1000000 since. forgotten. suspected al qaeda militants have raided a military camp in the southern yemeni province of witnesses say the assailants killed at least 20 soldiers and battled yemeni security forces for several hours the militants were eventually expelled from the camp after reinforcements arrived at by the united arab emirates. ok to russia now and moscow's prosecutor has a warning for protesters who dare to participate and saturday's authorized rally expects another crackdown the warning follows violence between police and demonstrators last weekend when more than a 1000 people were arrested the protesters are angry that authorities have excluded independent candidates from the moscow city elections on september 8th they want them to be allowed to run. spoke to one of the pr

they had seen auschwitz, and they had seen the dropping of the bomb in hiroshima.y saw the evils technology would bring. they wanted to get away from some of the pieces they had seen before. they're turning little by little, slowly to abstract expressionism. on the one hand, before they can turn to that, they kind of need to make sense of what they feel. so on the one hand, again, they saw technology as being evil, but also it helped to win the war. they saw human nature as being irrational and ambiguous. they had hope for the future, and they had this new confidence. let's talk about abstract expressionism and try to define it. it's easier said than done. so according to to the best definition i find, abstract expressionism is a term applied to movement in american painting that flourished in new york city after world war ii. sometimes referred to as the new york school or more narrowly as action painting. the varied work produced resists expressions and cohesive style. there was an interest in using abstraction to convey strong, emotional, or expressive content.

telling members of the jewish faith, "we're going to burn you and burn you like we burned you in auschwitz" never in my life have heard the language i heard. as bad, margaret, as charlottesville was, ripped the scab off of racism. i think for far too long, people felt in this country rat we had dealt with the issues ism. it's not a comfortable topic for white people to talk about but it ripped it off, and i make the point in the book, until we dealin with inequitiechool, in housing, in health care and sentencing, our criminal justice system, we're going to have racism in this country. >> so you wantedoo to write the because there's this emergence of white nationalism and neo-nazism gaining steam. >> yeah. >> why do you think it's gaining steam right now? >> well i write in the book, i think when presidentbama got elected, i think for someeople that we had a black president of the united states of america was highly offensive to them. now, they didn't really act on it. i make the point in the book... they're acting now? >> hm? >> why do you think they're acting now? >> i was just about to s

these voices, and when i was at "newsweek" in 95, we did a big cover story about the liberation of auschwitz on the 50th anniversary and i interviewed survivors from h many countries and the stories accumulate and became part of this book and in some cases other books. i think our fascination in this era, the fact that so many of you are here today it is also the fact that there is something about that era which is peculiar to the time of course to the main country germany but it's also about human nature. one of the things of the "newsweek" correspondent in the 80s and in eastern europe and the soviet union it was evident to me how certain individuals driven movements like the dissidents in the soviet union or the leaders like pope john paul, gorbachev that things happen not because they are predestined but because of individual choices and sometimes almost accidental choices and history is something that is never a set predestined pattern. so, i'm always looking for those pivotal moments, and in the early days when i first started thinking about writing books about th the scarecrow i have

some of the worst things in history, they attain auschwitz and the dropping of the atomic bomb on hiroshimathere were conflicted. they saw the evil's technology could bring, so they wanted to get away from some of the areanistic pieces, so they turning little by little to abstract expressionism. before they turn to that, they need to make sense of what they feel. on one hand, they saw technology is being evil, but it also helps when the war. they were somewhat pessimistic, but they had hoped for the .uture and this new confidence let's talk about abstract expressionism. let's try to define it, which is -- according to moma learning, it is a term that applies to painting that flourished in new york city after world war ii, sometimes referred to as the new york school, or more narrowly, as action painting. the very work produced by the abstract expressionists resistive edition is a cohesive style. instead, these artists shared an interest in using obstruction to convey strong emotional or expressive content. of that a bit of a problem with this definition. you can't go and find a painting and

but that day they said we will burn you and burn the city like auschwitz. every other word was the f thing and word or see word. and members of the jewish faith and how do we get to that place in america? that is the place how do we move america forward. >> i'm sitting here in new york and you are in dc we both know charlottesville very well. can you just described for people who have not been there how truly tiny those parks are? the town itself is just a few miles wide. there is one synagogue with a couple of african-american churches. this is not a town that people recognize if they live in a big city. >> it is small like mayberry. a main street market but it's right by the university of virginia. the bases there. is a college town. people are spectacular. they are fun-loving open and welcoming to everybody and that's why it was so shattering to have to go through this. but as i say it is a small little park and the ability for anyone to get control it was very hard that day but we knew friday night it would be bad when the torches came out they never sh

they had sent auschwitz and the dropping of the atomic tom at hiroshima and nagasaki -- the atomic bombhe one hand, they saw the evils technology could bring, so they wanted to get away from some of the mechanistic pieces they had seen before. they are turning little by little, slowly to abstract expressionism. on the one hand, before they can turn to that, they kind of need to make sense of what they feel. on the one hand, again, they saw technology is being evil, but also it had helped to win the war. they saw human nature as irrational and ambiguous. they were somewhat pessimistic, but they had hoped for the future and this new confidence. let's talk about abstract expressionism and try to define it, which is easier said than done. this is really the best definition i have found. abstract expressionism is a term applied to a movement in american painting that flourished and new york city after world war ii, sometimes referred to as new york school action narrowly as painting. the very work produced by the --tract expressionism's expressionists resists definition as a cohesive style.

that day they were screaming we will burn you and the synagogue like in auschwitz. so what they said about the members of the jewish faith had we get to that place in america? how do we move america forward quick. >> i would love to have you spend a minute we both know charlottesville very well can you describe how truly tiny those parks are? the town itself. there is one synagogue a couple of african-american churches this is not a town that they would recognize. >> as small mayberry town of beautiful maine market street but it's right where the university of virginia is. a college town that people are spectacular it is a very liberal city no matter your background or who you love and that's why it was so shattering for charlottesville to have to go through this but it is a small little park and it was very hard that day to keep control but we knew friday night would be bad with the torches came out they never should have been allowed on the university of virginia campus. you cannot bring lights onto the grounds and walk. but i made the point to file the permit tha

they had seen auschwitz and they had seen the dropping of the atomic bomb at hiroshima and nagasaki.nd they were conflicted in a lot of ways. on the one hand they saw the evils technology could bring. and they wanted to get away from the mechanistic pieces they had seen before. they are turning little by little slowly to abstract expressionism. on the one hand, before they it o can turn to that they need to make sense of what they feel. on the one hand, again they saw technology as being evil but also when it helps to win the war. they saw human nature at irrational and ambiguous. they are pessimistic but they had hope for the future and new confidence. let's talk about abstract expressionism and let's try to define it which is easier said than done. according to moma learning. this is the best definition i found abstract expressionism a term applied to movement in american painting that flourished in new york city after world war ii sometimes referred tos a the fork school or more narrowly as action painting. the work expressed by the abstract expression i was resists definition as

pillows, baby formula, medical supplies, they are going to compare that to a concentration camp come auschwitz, they are not the best place to be but i'd rather be there than in some of these big cities because they are well taken care of in spite of the media line. they are not concentration camps. we sent our own griff jenkins down to the biggest one. that is for any moral selective outrage on their part. where's the outrage about what's happening in chicago? with all the coverage of dayton, with all the coverage of el paso, because they can bludgeon trump with that, and they can make it political, four people killed, 52 shock, this weekend alone. there have been over 1600 shooting incidents over 20 some people shot in 2019. why don't they ever talk about that? let's see, because democrats owned chicago? their politics decades? where's the national nonstop coverage? the outrage? the concern for people? well, that doesn't advance democrats anti-trump narrative. they can bludgeon trump with the statistics away talk about a question like it with reaction, national syndicated radio host, larry h

they had seen auschwitz, and they had seen the dropping of the atomic bomb. and they were really conflicted in a lot of different ways. on the one hand, they saw the evils, that technology could bring. they wanted to get away from some of the mechanistic pieces that they had seen before. they are turning little by little, slowly, to abstract expressionism. on the one hand, before they can turn to that, they kind of need to make sense of what they feel. on the one hand, again, they said to they saw technology as being evil but also it helped to win the war. they saw human nature as being irrational and ambiguous. they were somewhat pessimistic but they had hope for the future and they had this new confidence. let's talk about abstract expressionism and let's try to define it, which is easier said than done. according to mola learning, this is the best definition i found, abstract expressionism is a term applied to movement in american paintings, that flourished in the new york city after world war ii, sometimes referred to as the new york school or more narrow

somebody please take her to auschwitz and police educator.s is yet another glaring example of the laughs and hypocrisy. it now, if this were a liberal program, lessee, we would be blaming the rhetoric on the left for these attacks on san antonio on the i.c.e. facilitation to detention centers. just like we would blame bernie sanders because one of his supporters shot steve scalise. just like we blame elizabeth warren for what happened in dayton with the shooter there. just like we would also blame democrats for the 59 shootings that the media doesn't care about. that happened this weekend in chicago. 59 people shot. one weekend. and not a peep out of them. why? because they can't bludgeon and lame donald trump and you can't blame tromp, why bother talking about it? joining us on, geraldo rivera, fox news correspondent at large and former secret service agent, dan bongino. you know what, it's the truth. if you can't bludgeon sean, you don't care about russia, you don't care about obstruction, you don't care about blaming people and put his eye

and my aunt was caught and deported to auschwitz . >> you only recently learned what happened to her . >> i recently, because we have the archives from germany at the museum and i was able to get to the record that she was there and it says she died of intestinal problems and of course if you have intestinal problems and you live in a concentration camp and are exposed to diseases and you could die another way . >> so aunt giza has been taken and now -- >> it wasn't a huge period of time because my uncle just happened to return at that time because he tried to go and follow her and see if he could save her but because she had gone to germany there was no way of saving her. but, i need to say that during the time i was with the family, we actually had armed forces in the backyard and we had these two houses and we were renting an apartment and that is where runjak family lived. my brother and i were told that we needed to call mrs. runjak , mom and so we did. so my brother always called her mom from then on but i was old enough to know that she was not my mom. so, i was able to switch

been responsible in dayton but all of this anti-immigration talk about detention centers being like auschwitzou think that's a contributive factor? >> absolutely. the hatefull rhetoric from the democratic leadership, nancy pelosi chuck schumer, aoc, the squad just about every democrat running for president has blamed trump and they wonder why people are doing what they are doing and this is domestic terrorism. you saw the video. this is using threats intimidation for a political end. this is domestic terrorism and they haven't said a word about it and it is upsetting. the men and women of i.c.e. are national heroes. they are patriots. they are enforcing the laws that congress enacted and yet they vilify them. >> sean: what would you say to stop the dousing the cops? the rest of the people appreciated the cops in philly what you do to stop it? we only have 15 seconds. >> you lock them up. you act at the time. l don't go back and look for them later and tell the cops to stand down and all of this nonsense. you have to arrest them on the site. you get as many cops as you can get. >> amen. amen.

also "next stop charlottesville, final stop auschwitz." their own websites and social media, co-defendants insisted there would be violence in charlottesville. a direct intended and foreseeable result of defendants' unlawful conspiracy. it was all according to a plan they spent months working out and whose implementation they actively oversaw. as events unfounded on the ground, the events of august 11th and 12th were part of defendants' coordinated campaign to intimidate, harass, incite and cause violence to people based on their religion, race and sexual orientation in violation of numerous state and federal laws. this is a call back -- that have been used in this country in the past to try to use to decapitate the terrorist organizations that have used white nationalism and white supremism as an umbrella in this country for years. in the wake of the el paso attack this weekend and other recent attacks of white nationalist and white supremacist incidents and amid worries about the trump administration's attitude toward extremism of this k

mile grandmother went to the gas chamber the day she arrived in auschwitz.ght to the gas chambers. people were worked to death. people were tortured. people were experimented on. that's what a concentration camp is. the hutzpah, the audacity of especially democrats, i mean, it's either they are completely ignorant -- i have raised the question. griff: you are a democratic, dov, coming from someone within the party pushing back on it. let me ask you this. when this comes to aapplauding president trump, secretary pompeo. is there more that they need to do considering the leaders of the democratic party aren't doing enough? >> look, the president of the united states and his team, they just get it. they understand is that when you single out one country in the world, there is no bds movement for any other country in the world. imagine this, there are 200 nations in the world. griff: understand this is a boycott divestment sanction. one country we want to sanction. the country that is surrounded by enemies who vow to destroy the state of israel. and israel defen