and with google you can do anything these days. i put kurt meyer into google and discovered he was a cataloger of german books at the library of congress in washington, practically our next door neighbor to the u.s. holocaust memorial museum. kurt is still very attached to kippenheim. and the childhood that he remembers in jamir. he goes -- he is invited to go back every year to germany and gives talks in churches and schools. and he -- one of the slide that he always shows is this foeft of his american visa with all the other stamps on it, including exit stamps from france. and he -- i went with him to school actually called the anne frank gym nas yum. he ended like this. these stamps saved our lives, kurt said. if you are missing just one stamp, you could die. this was the most precious document i ever possessed. it saved our lives. well, thank you very much. [ applause ] >> so i think we have time for a few questions, or -- there is just one caveat. since this is being filmed by cspan they would like you to wit for the microphone before you ask