now simon gone off ski only managed to escape the auschwitz concentration camp by sheer luck belgian resistance fighters stall the deportation train him that he and his mother were riding at 75 years after the end of the 2nd world war the 88 year old is living through another worldwide crisis the coronavirus pandemic now in brussels this holocaust survivor is tapping into his talents to spread joy during this uncertain time. a bit of jazz music drawing people out of their homes. a rather unusual picture in times of covered 19. 20 because it makes me happy to bring a bit of happiness and hope to the people and to cheer them up. on chernoff's he says jazz is his life music helped him to overcome the trauma he experienced as a jew in belgium during the 2nd world war. as a child i lived through the persecution of the nazis barbarism. you know they killed my mother and my sister in the gas chambers of auschwitz birkenau. my father died in despair just after the war this is in july 945. in one when i was 11 the nazi secret families the gestapo it took me and threw me in prison measure the

in january 1045 the soviet red army liberated auschwitz concentration camp most of the prisoners had already been deported by the s.s. more than a 1000000 mostly jewish inmates were murdered in the camp. by february soviet troops were engaged in house to house fighting cross train on the river in poland was the bridgehead for the assault on berlin. early that month allied commanders met in yeltsin on the crimean peninsula stallin roosevelt and churchill sat down to decide how germany would be carved up and the future shape of europe. in mid february british and american bombers dropped 4000 tons of munitions on the german city of dresden setting off a hugely destructive fire storm which killed 25000 people. by mid march the british and americans occupied the whole of the west bank of the rhine. german attempts to destroy the bridge at ramo. going on the east bank would doomed to failure. u.s. and red army troops converged in late april it took out on the river elbe a symbolic handshake showed the world that germany's eastern and western fronts were broken the end of the 2nd world war

mother on a deportation train more than 1500 people crammed in cattle cars destination auschwitz concentration camps. but he was lucky 3 belgian resistance fighters stopped the train his mother told him to flee and he ran into the night she didn't jump because she didn't want to threaten his escapee says. you need your . every night i dreamt i was being chased by the gestapo. goes your heater or 3 times i change family for security reasons. whenever i arrive somewhere i went to the attic 1st to see how i could escape over the roofs if they came to get me. even here she after the war returned to brussels and made good on his dream of studying law. but at 23 i was a doctor of law and a lawyer i'm still a lawyer today because i'm far too young to stop i did. not ski says he has been confined twice in his life once during the war and now due to covert 19 very different experiences but it was always jazz music that helped him to cope. the 77 percent. special edition from kenya in the year 2011 kenya passed a law that basically said that female genital mutilation was illegal despite this is still being pr

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mother on a deportation train more than 1500 people crammed in cattle cars destination auschwitz concentration camps. but he was lucky 3 belgian resistance fighters stopped the train his mother told him to flee and he ran into the night she didn't jump because she didn't want to threaten his escape he says. every night i dreamt i was being chased by the gestapo. goes or 2 or 3 times i change families for security reasons this is. whenever i arrived somewhere i went to the attic 1st to see how i could escape over the roofs if they came to get me we were given him here she after the war returned to brussels and made good on his dream of studying law. at 23 i was a doctor of law and a lawyer i'm still a lawyer today because i'm far too young to stop. any. says he has been confined twice in his life once during the war and now due to cope with 19 very different experiences but it was always jazz music that helped him to cope. now for a brief look at what impact the current of ours is having around the world unemployment in the us has surged to almost 15 percent the highest level since the great depressi

representing yourself and your movement for what it is that phrase was the slogan of the auschwitz concentration camp where countless jews and others were exterminated it means work sets you free and the nazis worked their prisoners to death so you can understand why holocaust memorial groups are getting a little upset about stress or ironic all plain stupid people using words they don't understand. the bite mark foley was a full cynical allusion to the s.s. gifts of prisoners of all schmidt's those of course became one of the i can save human hatred it's painful to see the symbol instrumentalists and used again to spread hate it's a symptom of moral and intellectual degeneration as i said quoting you would jewish gov nazi could only be motivated by 3 things colossal stress or a grill smith understanding of what irony is or astounding stupidity. her. mother her 6. during. her. these people even officials taking knocked down hard as i said this fad in america the more you hate someone the more of a nazi they must be i mean it's no different than the. nazi germany where you have a government yelling pe

she was sent to a series of concentration camps including auschwitz.rated in 1945. two years after that, she moved to new york. that's where she met harvey. they married in 1953. they had two kids. with harvey's help and support marjit dedicated her life to teaching young people about those who died during the holocaust. marget feldman was 90 years old and harry feldman was 91 years old. renny johnson wasn't able to be with his family when he died from the coronavirus. he had five children and they all gathered together every day outside his hospital window in new hampshire. they wanted him to know they were there. they made signs for their dad telling him they loved him and missed him. they also made signs for the nurses who were caring for him. every day the nurses at the medical center would look for the family and always wave to them from inside. after rene passed away the nurses posted two signs from the window where they usually waved. the signs read he's at peace, we are so sorry. rene's family said they found great comfort in these nurses knowi

concentration camps. it was a work camp. people get them confused with the extermination camps. a camp like auschwitz in poland was designed to kill people at the rate of 1000 a day, gas theman dburn their bodies. buchenwald was a work camp. they had a quarry. they had a factory which made v1 rockets. and if you had people working in a quarry and a factory, there was no point in feeding them so little that they couldn't function, which would have been the case at a place like auschwitz. but still over 50,000 deaths occurred at buchenwald through brutality, through machine gunning. 7000 russians were all killed in a few days, i think in retaliation for germans -- in a few days, i think in retaliation for germans killed in russia. there may have been a reason for doing it. in any case, there were 56,000 deaths attributed to buchenwald. we arrived there week after third army had liberated the camp and we were the first camp administration. the week after we had been there, captain paul, the commander -- i was his executive officer -- captain ball put me in charge of buchenwald. here i was at 22 in charg

but the concentration camps that were fascist run, organized, again,t death camps, and by comparison, they were quite humane, right, in terms of comparisons to our general image of say, auschwitz. they could wear their own clothing, they can have packages sent to them. but by any other measure, they were pretty notoriously miserable places where both italian jews and foreign jews were kept after 1938. >> one more question here. answered partly of my question in relation to somebody else, but i wanted to know how italy regarded itself as a colonial power both in arabion to the french with north africa, and the british and germans and french and black africa. pre-1936 --so, well, throughout, they think of themselves as more humane good they think of themselves -- as more humane. they think of themselves like the french as more of catholic colonizers and inc. of themselves more as people, they are there to civilize these populations and they are there just to help them realize the great riches of their lands, right? a.k.a., take them. but the reality is much more wars in libya and ethiopia are some of the most gruesome of the period, and it was during the ethiopian invasion that

austrian jew from vienna was a prisoner in auschwitz henry starr was brought there in august 1904 on one of the last deportation trains from the german concentration camp at that in today's czech republic when i saw what it did to some of us. the platform of its. slaughter. a. shot of the earth came down like it's in front of the muscle. this is the place where. you know we go like this and my my uncle told me the story when they arrived on the train from to raise a child into. the world war one veterans were treated better because there was some level of jewish self-government enter a sense that some level but these 3 or the veterans were treated better and mangled they were lined up 5555 and they were in the same line as some vets world war one veterans and mengele sent the veterans straight to the gas chambers. and my uncle and his brother followed immediately with them figuring they were going to a better place based on their experience in theresienstadt and then mengele had his guards kicked my uncle and his brother to the other side saying that you jew can't decide your fate. those you couldn't leave and you can even decide to be killed. and so i