before world war i, there was not a czechoslovakia. calledere regions bohemia, arabia, and there was a great leader and .zechoslovakia austrian hungry empire was defeated. the country was a 20 century country. he is the first president of the thiszechoslovakia and statute represents this important person, but itself also has an interesting story. prizedrobably our most artifact and when the unit agreement happened in nazi germany came in, it had to be hidden. plus, it could have been melted down. three times during world war ii, this was hidden and the way they did it was varying it into the ground. it is quite heavy, over a hundred pounds. ther world war ii ended, statue came to light and again it was a free country and then they [no audio] they did not belong to the there. it got stored the original owners of the statue eventually discovered it in storage at one of the basements and when the family came to the notice they, they were allowed to bring it with them. it had been in the united states 1977 and in the year 2000, the family

the arrow on this map of czechoslovakia indicates the general location. irene's father owned a lumberyard and her mother cared for irene and her siblings. in this photograph, irene is on the lower left with two of her sisters and two cousins. when nazi germany took over and divided czech slovakia in 1939, it fell under hungarian rule. irene and her siblings could not attend school and her father, along with thousands of other jewish men, were conscripted into forced labor for six months in. 1942 fogelsl 1944, the were moved into a get out where they lived in a brick factory. in may 1944, irene and her family were deported to auschwitz. the aero on this map of major nazi camps points to auschwitz. this photograph was taken upon irene's arrival. the circled person on the lower left-hand side is irene. irene and her sister serena were selected for forced labor. they were forcibly evacuated in january 1940 52 other camps in germany. this extraordinary footer graphics displayed in the permanent exhibition. the deliberation -- liberation of the army where irene

above that and now things are all beginning to change those so this is what it looks like in czechoslovakia at the moment you can see a bit more cloud that things are tending hazy and that's an indication of things to come there is a lot of cold weather marching its way across europe at the moment and it's turning things rather wet and windy as well so you can see all of this cloud edging its way eastwards on his behalf. mind bad weather cooler weather is headed towards the east this is where it's been very hot for those not quite the entire story you can see some speckled clouds and speckled rain storms that are developing there that's what's happening in that heat we are seeing some very lively thunderstorms lots of thunder a lot me there's a risk that we could see some damaging hail well maybe some very strong gusty winds out of that but it's all being pushed out of the way the whole weather is edging its way eastwards of his cooler weather makes its way in we're also seeing very very windy conditions over punch of britain and ireland and the temperatures look twelve that's your maximum

holocaust survivor irene weiss recalls what happened to her family after nazi germany invaded czechoslovakia in 1939. she was 13 when her family was forced into an overcrowded ghetto and sense of the auschwitz concentration camp. her mother, father and four siblings were killed. this event is part of the united states holocaust memorial museum's first person series. it is about one hour. bill: good morning and welcome to the united states holocaust memorial museum. my name is bill benson. i'm the host of the museum's public program, first-person. thank you for joining us today. we are in our 20th year of the first person program and our first person today is miss irene weiss who you shall hear from shortly. first-personson of is made possible by the generosity of the lewis frkl

in 1914 would have an effect on us, or that the german seizure of a little piece of land from czechoslovakia in 1938 or a bunch of ragtag terrorists living in afghanistan in 2001. so, the notion that we can ignore the rest of the world and just do our own thing i think is downright ignorant. pres. bush: can i tell one story? on september 12, 2001, the japanese prime minister calls me and he says the united states and japan will stand shoulder to enhance our mutual security and we will work to spread security to the ideology of the murderers. in a remarkable conversation. because 60 years prior to that, my dad chooses not to go to college but to fight the japanese. i bet in the late 1940's if somebody said one day japan and the united states will stand shoulder to shoulder to enhance our mutual security, they would have said you are a hopeless, idealistic person, naive. and yet it happened. and one reason it happened is because there is a universality to freedom. people want to be free. doesn't matter if you are a methodist or a muslim, they want to be free. andy japanese adopts a japanese-st

a few months later, czechoslovakia was placed in the the muniche nazis at conference. in spain, one cicity after anotr was falling to franco's forces. fell.ry 1939, barcelona that was the end of the spanish republic. the remarkable popular revolution, and arcucus revolutn 1938 had d already been crushed by force. it looked as if f fascism was going toto spread without end. it is not exactly what is happening today, but if we can borrow mark twain's famous phrase, "history doesn't r repet but sometimes rhymes." too many similarities to overlook. fell, there was a huge flood of refugees from spain. most went to mexico, about 40,000. some went to new york city, established anarchist offices in union square, secondhand bookstores, and danforth avenue. that is where i got my early political political education, roaming around the area about 80 years ago. now it is today.y. butid not know at the time the u.s. government was also beginning to think about how the spread of fascism might be virtrtually unstoppable. they did not view it with the same alarm that i did as a 10 yea

and north africa and he became captured as a prisoner of war said he spent time in germany and czechoslovakia and while there she started writing a book on the only paper that he had which was the rest of the paper that the gestapo gave to him, but it turned out that the gestapo discovered the buck and took it away from him and destroyed it. much to the other prisoners surprise, he started again to write this book on another roll of toilet paper. and when you think about it, they thought that he would never climb again. he was in near starvation mode, they kept kicking the puck away from him but he finally got out and the work was published in 1947 and it was followed by another one in 19 of the one. he was credited with getting people excited about going back out into nature and mountain climbing again, this is a quote from his book called the scottish himalayan expedition 1951 and it opens the chapter on the untethered adult. here's what he said. until one is committed there is a hesitancy the chance to draw back always ineffectiveness. concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there

>>actually he didn't say that because that spanish, but i don't know how to say no more in czechoslovakiaarks get plus last night's win was not easy ditto that for this entire series against the golden after being down 3 one the sharks and stare death in the face. in large part because the guys keep sacrificing their teeth. coles. but he had to take it on the chin and this one. goalie martin jones though did have to stand on his head he stopped 88 of 91 shot. what crazy game tied at one and down a man the sharks win it. 2 to one the pot dropped. i was wanted to do that puck drops at 7 o'clock tomorrow night at the tank klay thompson is obviously not afraid of sharks, the real ones, i mean the splash brother went into the ocean writing a little warm wave of the playoffs. >>and came. come dying. >>in the first 3 games against the clippers. just one point shy of kevin durant's and those who really did need to step it up a step best just 12 points for him warriors win game 4. one 13 to one oh 5 clay says he must have been right the way he got from his sudden decision to take a swim on saturda

winston church hill and franklin roosevelt and how did they flip countries and how diw they take czechoslovakia, was a very pro free market kind of place and flip it commune ift, without any tanks. they laid out a plan. it took them three years to do it. i believe we are three to five years from seeing the end of this republic if we don't wake up. turn to god. turn back to god. beg him for forgiveness, ask him for help and then just name the enemy. the enemy is very clear. please visit youtube and look for the glen beck site and watch that video. >> i'll recommend one other thing i read many years ago. but it's relevant today. the russian mind control techniques. actually scary. glen beck, always interesting. >> is that the name of the book? sean i will get you a copy.f i promise. lawrence jones, went to oocasio-cortez tez's district. they taught about the congresswoman. here's a quick preview. >> what do you love >> i h love that she's from the bronx and she's hard core, she don't keep her mouth shut >> this is going to be her one and only time, her 15 minutes is running very short . >> next w

how did they take czechoslovakia, which at the time was a very pro-free-market kind of place, and flipy tanks? they laid out a plan, it took them three years to do it, i believe that we are 3-5 years from seeing the end of the republic if we do not wake up and turn to god, turned back to god, bake him for forgiveness, ask him for help, and then just to name the enemy. the enemy is very clear. please visit youtube and look for the glenn beck site and watch that video. >> sean: recommending one other thing that i read many years ago, relevant today, the synthesis of russian language, that is actually scary. glenn beck, always interesting. >> is that the name of the book. >> sean: i will get you a copy, i promise. lauren scholz went to ocasio-cortez's district, guess what they thought about the congresswoman? we have the answer, here's a quick preview. >> what you love about her? >> i love that she is from the bronx, she is hard-core. >> this will be her one and only term, her 15 minutes is running very short. >> sean: next with reaction as we continue this busy breaking news night, strai

actually he didn't say that because that spanish, but i don't know how to say no more in czechoslovakiaworld. >>plus last night's win was not easy did old after this entire series against the golden knights after being down 3 one the sharks and stare death in the face. twice in a row now and survive 5 in large part because the guys keep sacrificing their teeth. for coles. but he had to take it on the chin and this one. goalie martin jones though did have to stand on his head he stopped 88 of 91 shot. a crazy game tied at one and and the sharks win it. 2 to one the pot. i was wanted to do that puck drops at 7 o'clock tomorrow night at the tank klay thompson is obviously not afraid of sharks, the real ones, i mean the splash brother went into the ocean writing a little warm wave of the playoffs. >>and came. after scoring only 42 points combined in the first 3 games against the clippers. just one point shy of kevin duran and those who really did need to step it up because steph curry did not have his best night just 12 points for him but worriers win game 4. one 13 to one oh 5 clay says he

-- europe came together, we have a situation where there is a shortage of labor in poland and czechoslovakia and the baltic states. you have people in spain and portugal, you will find out it is much more likely you will get better results looking at this whole european economy, rather than a single country. this is the one thing. the second is, they have been taking a decision by corporates and germany, and especially, the famous company of 500,000 or 2000 employees being successful on the world market with three or four competitors, one possibly from japan, one might be from italy or finland or the united states. they met the challenge of being globally competitive. it is not just their neighbors, it is not exports and imports to the countries right at the border. this is the reason for the success. this is a reason for when there is slower growth in the global economy, we will have a slower growth in germany because we cannot avoid it. you should understand there is different with the german economy that many people view it, i learned that researchers are not happy with the idea but there

. >> the other side is, the germans, before they invaded poland and czechoslovakia, already supporting paramilitary groups. once they crossed the border it opened up for them. the question is, a couple of hundred pilots is not so different. then we have the other issue of clear cases where there are just two forces. but what is typically the case is, just the thing with pakistan. pakistan said it is a rogue group of terrorists we cannot control. the u.s. says you cannot control -- you can control it, legally you are responsible to control it. you do not have to put covert conflict into that context? >> i was wondering about allies in covert intervention. some of these are trilateral, a couple of actors, than the space gets messy and you need to coordinate. even if you have allies that are not intervening, when do you let them in? that might be something you are working on in your second project. prof. carson: the first set of comments, first on the spectrum, all the combat operations, is it really that different to put them in the cockpit versus not? two comments on that. number one, i

meanwhile, hitler annexed austria in march 1938 and the british and french had czechoslovakia into the hands of the german dictator six months later in munich. then in a series of incredibly shocking jolts that rocked the entire globe, joseph stalin signed on with hitler in 1939. hitler's armies overran poland inset timber in october 1939. the soviet union, the new german ally would take finland in 1939 until triumph in 1940. in a searing nightmare, hitler significantly outnumbered forces and subdued denmark, norway, holland, belgium, france and sending campaigns between april and june 1940. through december 1940, only the front of britain in the battle of britain provided any solace for the allied cause and at that time however it is not clear whether this was a permanent deliver rents or a reprieve. in mid-1940 even the italians got in. they kick the british -- let me rephrase that. the italians from abyssinia otherwise known as ethiopia reddish somali kicked the british out of british somaliland. at the end of 1940, british armies triumphed over the italian armies on the coast of no

really only czechoslovakia made it to world war ii. the rest had seized to be ceased to be- had democracies. we've come a very long way since then. you can worry about what happening in poland, hungary, and say democracy is in retreat and they are playing fast and loose with the constitution and rule of law. but compared with what we've experienced in the past, i don't think it's a huge amount to get worked up about. european union has many defects, but one obvious benefit is to constrain member states from stepping too far away from democratic norms. you can see that right now with poland and hungary. i think the picture is a bright one. the problems that europe is grappling with, partly demographic in nature, have to do with slow economic growth, countries like italy. i don't think they are problems that fundamentally undermine democracy. they just make it hard to run a democratic government. there's the old joke, we know the structural reforms that we have to do, we just don't know how to survive doing them. it's extremely hard to b