holocaust memorial museum by holocaust survivors.their voices and expenses and memories will provide, we hope, a special kind of resonance for the document that will be read to you today. there is more in the book, which has the same goal as this event, namely, to raise interest in a future study of the holocaust. you find information on the documents that are read in a handout that you hopefully have received at the door. there has been a last minute change, and so far as the number 10 on your list, document 64 has been dropped. let me now turn it over to my dear friend and colleague, mark rosen, who will guide us through the documents and provide some context as well as background information for the reading. thank you. [applause] >> one way to think about the text and the voices that you are about to hear is that they are the mournful confrontation, the moving personalization of what we already know. like the passes to visitors they offer real stories, real voices, real names amidst the millions. it's not that the past tell us som

the effect of the holocaust on anti-semitism in the world has dissipated. it is picking up. it is no longer dead, and it is no longer considered to be something one really doesn't talk about in polite society. he said it is back, and it is back everywhere. so that the lesson that we hoped we have learned may not be fully learned. we will have to be forever vigilant. >> question over here. >> from the german institute. i want to start by thanking everyone for a very enlightening and moving presentation. my question is for the two editors. i was curious if you could tell us a little bit about how you arrived at the selection of sources in this book since i imagine it was not an easy process. i am curious to what extent you started with the sources and saw where they lead you or whether you, in a way, started with what you knew had to be covered. i am also curious as you did this work what was surprising to you, perhaps. thank you. >> i think your answer is yes. meaning that the question is really an open one. we started with the sources and with a hypothesis or a perception as

>> first of all, what i found is that the holocaust is an arab story too. during three years from 1940 to 1943 nazi germany and its allies controlled arab countries and imparted the persecution of jews those countries. half a million jews. arabs in these countries played a role very much like european civilians played. most were by-standers. some were collaborators. and a small but very important number helped jews facing persecution. >> brown: why was the story untold? why is so little known? >> the story of why rescuers is unknown i think has two parts. one is jews, historians, westerners in general, we didn't look that hard. on the other side, arabs and especially the arab rescuers and their families, many didn't want to be find. after 50, 60 years of the arab- israeli conflict being an overlay of this entire period. >> brown: why does it matter? i mean, what different does it make to you to tell these stories? >> well, i set out on a mission nine years ago trying to find a hopeful , inclusive way to talk with arabs about the holocaust. in so doing tryin

museum that teaches people that the holocaust did not begin in 1939 when the war broke out one. it was six years of absolute torment in germany for the jews. no one held and no one heard them. no one cared. countries would not open up. people got out somehow, but very slowly and many, many of the german jews went to countries surrounding germany and were caught up and murdered. and there in that chapter of history is an enormous lesson. when it came to the invasion of poland in the way the nazis went into those countries, into czechoslovakia, even into austria and poland, it was too late. the signs were there from january 30th 1933, and nobody listened. they didn't even listen to the people that left her told them what was happening. in fact, in germany my parents told me that there were people who went to the concentration camps early and came out and try to tell their people in the community what happened to them and what was happening. they were furious at them. the nile. they would not listen. so this part of history is enormously enormously important for the future. if you

from "holocaust on your plate." like the jewish and the concentration camps animals are terrorized with their house did zero of both the warehouses and ascend for slaughter. the hand vegas are the moral equivalent of the of lampshades made of the people killed in the death camp" end quote. i have been to auschwitz and i have stood in the gas chamber i have seen the crematoria and i walked that rail terminus in which the jews were separated for immediate slaughter or torture in the forced labor camps and it strikes me that anybody who would conflate normal animal husbandry with the worst evil ever perpetrated against human beings has no business preaching morality to anyone. but understand the and all rights people who say these things, which i think is nuts, and i trust you think is nuts, they believe it literally, thoroughly, it is not a metaphor. when peta talks about the rape of the queen bee they think it is real and true because they believe moral value comes from suffering and the ability to steal paid not tha

holocaust memorial museum is honoring fred. this is a man -- i can't think anybody who deserves this more. fred is a leader who has guided the transformation of the museum into a global institution that challenges people to remember, to learn and to act. inspired by the survivors and their legacy, fred has placed the museum at the forefront of the holocaust education and empowered to create a more just world. the holocaust museum is stronger because of his leadership and dedication. not only is fred known for his work here in washington but a fellow text ann. i have had the -- text ann. i have worked with fred and seen his devotion to this great american institution. i recognize fred and many successes the holocaust museum has seen in recent years. thank you for your service. i look forward to your continued future leadership. the speaker pro tempore: mr. hare of illinois. mr. hare: thank you, madam speaker. i rise to recognize my chief case worker, va shelton, who will retire at the end of this month after 25 years of service

the affect of the holocaust on anti-semitism in the world has dissipated. it is picking up. it is no longer dead. it is no longer considered to be something talk about in polite society. it is back, and it is back everywhere. the lesson that we hope we have learned may not be fully learned. it will have to be forever vigilant. >> question over here. >> richard russell from the german institute. i want to the start by banking everyone for ira by the end moving presentation. my question is for the two editors. i was curious if you could tell us of the bit about how you arrived at this election of sources in this book, since i imagine that was not an easy process. i am curious as one thing, to what extent, he started with the sources and so were they lead you or whether you started with what you knew had to be covered and then look for sources to cover certain parts of the experience that were important. i am also curious, as you did this work, what was surprising to you? thank you. >> wow, i think the answer is

, without any serious world reaction to achieve the tools to create that holocaust.on the other hand, israel's military option is extremely difficult. it is israel that prevented saddam hussein from developing nuclear weapons in the early 1980's. but that was because saddam hussein put all of his efforts in one place above-ground. syria seems to have done the same thing. although, what happened in their last years of official. -- what happened there last year is on official. -- is an officiaunofficial. i do not know whether an israeli military response would be limited to trying to take out the nuclear facilities or if they would, in effect, impose sanctions through the air by making it impossible for iran to export petroleum and otherwise take out economic targets or threaten to do so. i hope, very much, that we see it a radical change in u.s. policy that would create the kinds of sanctions that could peacefully deal with the iran nuclear program. i would doubt that that would happen. i also doubt that israel will take military action. of the most likely scenario fi

i mean, here you have a country dedicated publicly to a second holocaust. and working every day effectively without any serious world reaction to achieving the tools to create that second holocaust. on the other hand, israel's military option is extremely difficult. it could, you know, it is israel that prevented saddam hussein from developing nuclear weapons in the early 1980s. but that was because saddam put all of his effort into one place above ground. syria seems to have done the same thing. though what happened there last year is unofficial. but iran, their facilities are disbursed, they're underground. they have a robust or relatively robust air defense system which they're trying to make more robust with russian materials and technology. and i don't know whether an israeli military response would be limited to trying to take out the nuclear facilities or whether they would in effect be pose sanctions through the air by making it impossible for iran to export petroleum and otherwise take out economic targets or threaten to do so. i hope very much tha

the 6 million jews killed by the nazis at israel's holocaust memorial.f holocaust survivors were there along with israel's leaders. prime minister benjamin netanyahu said a lesson from the holocaust is no one should be deterred in the face of evil. >>> and evil is how some critics are describing the roman catholic church's reaction to its ongoing sex abuse scandal. >> one official says anyone who knew about the abuse and did not act should be dismissed from the church. gloria riviera reports. >> reporter: speaking to the faithful, pope benedict once again did not address the growing sex abuse scandal. he did ask the virgin mary to help sustain the mission of the church. ann, who says she was abused by a priest as a 7-year-old girl, interprets that mission to mean protecting itself above all else. >> avoiding a scandal was important and our souls were disposable. >> reporter: this weekend the powerful head of italy's bishops delivered among the most direct calls for justice to come from within the pope's inner circle. proven cases of mismanagement, undere

she has written about a man who flees the holocaust for america and becomes a grave digger. what has she not written about? she has a range of a modern shakespeare. i am human so i consider nothing human to the alien toomey. this might well be her motto. but as deeply interesting as to be the friend of a great writer i have been privileged to be over the last dozen years. we have offices right across the hall from each other. in what days was -- i would definitely say they are equally compassionate and curious and all embracing but where as a writer deals regularly with violence joist is easily shocked by aggressiveness. the woman is as savvy as the writer, is capable of sizing up a risk you're dubious situation. she may be pure but she is not naive. i have seen her suffer through books as i recall the composition of blond nearly did hurt in. she is a lot funnier than the writer. in real life joyce is a terrific teaser though a gentle one. joyce the woman is one of the most sensitive friends i ever had. joyce has friends everywhere. many of them are here tonight. you could n

humanity and its fits of madness -- there is no rational way to explain the holocaust. is humanity going off the rails? is humanity intermittently does. sir? you next. [inaudible] >> , former russian jew. anyhow -- [speaking in native tongue] >> the people who wanted pr, why are we having such a terrible time, you know, counter pr and the palestinian, the arab networks. why does palestine have such horrible pr, even they can put three words together to defend what they believe in what they're doing, what's going on? >> you know, you have to answer that to yourself. i give you my personal experiences. look, when the canadian media is interested in which audience? canadian non-dance. the israeli media is interested in the israeli audience. i was the only civilian other than tickets residents whose data was all military in the press center is there comes a commando unit was there in the press center really weren't interested in me. i'm just pro-israel as it gets. and some friends that helped me get up there and stuff, but the press -- the press officers, they finally after

humanity in its fits of madness, there's no rational way to explain the holocaust. is humanity going off the rails, as humanity immediately does. sir? >> i am a former -- [inaudible] >> people who invented pr, the jews basically, why are we having such a terrible time count, you know, counter pr the palestinian, the air networks, why does israel have such horrible pr? given that they can't put three words together to defend what they believe in, what they are doing. what's going on? >> well, you know, you have to answer that for yourself to an extent that i would give you my personal experiences. looked, when canadian media is interested, canadian audience, the israeli media is interested in the israeli audience. when i was with, the only civilian, it was all military. depressor was there, the commandos center. the press center weren't interested in me. i was pro-israel as it gets. and some friends at help me get up there. but the press officers, they find after today's got an escort which in hebee gebee because i am much happier wandering around and seeing things o

now it is illegal to deny the holocaust or make statements that glorify the nazi regime. >> i will not give you my voice. >> these days she strongly denies ever wanting to get rid of the anti-nazi laws. she says the presidency should properly represent austria. >> it belongs to the austrian people. anybody who wants to say something must find a person to talk to. >> many austrians thing is a scandal she is running at all. -- they think it is a scandal. there have been protests against her presidency. barbara is not expected to win this election. polls say the current president is likely to get about 80% of the votes. the sensitivities about austria's past still run deep. >> the latest headlines for you. president obama is urging wall street not to fight its financial reform. there are signs of agreement between republicans and democrats. at least five grenade explosions ripped through the bangkok capital. it killed at least three people. britain's prospective prime ministers, gordon brown, david cameron and nick clegg have clashed in another televised debate. this time it was foreign a

my wife and i yesterday in washington went to the holocaust museum. there was a display bear on the number of intellectuals, artists and scientists and other intellectuals and writers, who changed mostly jewish, mostly jewish, who came ahead of the beginning of the war with the united states in many of those people's names on the list that was being projected on a screen where people whose books were in this. in effect what they were doing was providing a german p.o.w.'s with books that they would not have been able to have read in the run-up to the war, particularly after early in their 30s this mass book burnings. let's go to the book about books in how books can be used in were used in the american war effort called "books as weapons." john hench is the writer and it is the april 2010 publications are just coming out. thank you. >> thank you. >> coming up next, book tv presents after words, an hour-long discussion with the author of a new book. this week, author and journalist mark perry argues that it is necessary for the u.s. government to verbal

he has rhetoric that is -- again, causes you to shake your head, again, denying the holocaust and all the rest of this -- so therefore, those on the other side of the gulf want to embrace centcom more than ever before. >> charlie: what do they want you to do? that's the question. what do the moderate arab nations, all those who are worried to death about iran, a, because of its leadership, b, because of its capacity to develop a nuclear capability? what do they want you to do? >> yeah, again it's sort of typical, i think, around the world that a lot of folks would like the united states to solve a lot of the world's problems and i think that goes with perhaps being the world's sole remaining superpower. it is interesting there is almost a slight degree of bipolar disorder with iran and its nuclear issue. on the one hand there are concerns someone might strike iran. on the other hand, there are concerns that someone might not strike iran, and i think that really captures this whole conundrum that i think secretary gates and others have been quite -- and chairman mullen have explained t

worrying about the war fighter and not realizing it would be eight years ago we have institutionalized holocausts and have gotten the department of defense used to too much waste. general, tell me how long you think it would take? with three or four weeks be enough time? >> that would be sufficient. >> thank you, all of you. ok. let me just -- i would like you, as well, i wrestled with the fact that the department of defense still does not value, in my judgment, the contract and work within the department of defense therefore we do not see the value of that like we will like to. i am also wrestling with the fact that if half of our military effort is contractors, or almost half, with the rebuilding of these countries, i wrestled with the fact that somehow there does not seem to be an ability to trust contractors with the latest data that would help them anticipate what they need to do. in other words, i get the feeling that they are the last to know, and yet they are an integral part of the war effort. i would love it if you would be able to get back to us and tell us what you think a solution is

now, it's i legals deny the holocaust or to make statements that /tkpwhor guy the nazi regime. >> i'm not debut my voice. i hope you understand. >> these days. barbara rosenkranz strongly denies ever wanted to get rid of the antinazi laws. she says the presidency based at the palace should properly present austria. >> barbara rosenkranz belonged theous tray an people. anyone that wants to say something or criticize or needs help, must find a person to talk to in vienna. >> but manyous try answers think it's is a scandal she's running at all. they've been protests across the country against her candidacy. barbara rosenkranz isn't expected to win this election. the poles say that the current president, fischer of the social democrats is likely to get about 80 percent of the vote. but the rouse shows that the sensitivities ability austria's past still run deep. beth bbc news. vienna. >> this is "gmt" from "bbc world news". i'm david. the main headlines. arouse over the ash clouds of the shut down of europe air space. individual passengers and the airlines are seeking compensation. presid

what kept that becoming the potential holocaust it could have been is because they were a nation state that wanted to preserve that nation state. and the policy of mutual destruction worked for both nations. that's the reality of it. i believe this period that we're in dealing with these transnational actors is a more dangerous period for us. because of what their intend is. and the means to achieve that intent. and even though they are not sitting there with a government and a head of state and police force that's self-evident and an army that's even more evident for us to deal with, they are danger and threat to us is significant. and it's not something that we should ever attempt to minimize in my way shape or form or even suggest that it was less -- it's considerably less right now than any period since world war ii. >> let me shift gears from a big question to an intimate question. interrogation which is a question of our values. in the world that we've been discussing, where whatever label you give it, the danger can at any moment be very extreme. the government has taken steps i

. >> abernethy: finally, on our calendar, this sunday is yom hashoah, holocaust remembrance day.and on wednesday, sikhs celebrate one of their most important holidays, vaisakhi. often observed as a harvest festival, the day also marks the time when sikhs first identified themselves as a defined group in the 17th century. many hindus also observe vaisakhi as a time of renewal and rebirth. that's our program for now. i'm bob abernethy. we'd like to hear from you. you can follow us on our facebook page. we also have much more on our web site, including an exclusive essay about religious groups and nuclear disarmament. you can comment on all of our stories and share them. audio and video podcasts are also available. join us at pbs.org. as we leave you, music from ginghamsburg church in ohio. ♪ ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by the lilly endowment captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

together -- jerusalem thousands are coming together to remember the 6 million jews killed in the holocaust. air ride sirens went off marking 2 minutes of silence in memory of the victims. israeli prime minister netanyahu spoke at the memorial. other leaders were also in attendance. >>> you're supposed to get better in the hospital but all too often patients actually get sicker. find out how one hospital is pioneering a system that can sense how clean a nurse's hands are before they touch the patient. that's on the other side of this break. h ntis >>> a new york senator wants the federal government to ban airlines from charging fees for carry on bags. senator charles schumer says the fee is slap in the face to passengers and pointed out that carry on bags contain theys like medication. last week spirit airlines announced it would charge up to $45 per carry on bag but it is reducing ticket prices by $40. >>> you might soon be able to track your smart trip card online. you will be allowed to access your card's information with your computer but in order to do that you would have to provide pe

not far from my office in washington is the holocaust museum. it is a sobering place, like this one, and there is an exhibit that grips all who visit the museum. that is the shoes. issues that are systematically and allegedly taken from prisoners. shoes that were taken from people bound for a terrible fate. more than any other piece of evidence collected by the museum, these thousands of shoes are the objects that speak to us across time that recall for us the people who once wore those shoes, the men walking to work, women in their homes, children at play. an engraving on the wall at the museum reads in part, "we are the shoes, we are the last witnesses." there are issues in the collection here as well. these 168 shares, let the shoes of the holocaust museum, bear witness. each one asking us to remember. i am listening to these chairs right now come as are all of you, and all who will come here in the future. i am listening to ted allen, patricia nix, and to the others, and in doing so, we are all part of that great loss. we are on watch. what

chancellor and other leaders and not get into bed and breakfast with extremist politicians, the holocaust, that are not acceptable in our democracy? >> mr. speaker, if the conservative party had really changed the would've changed its position on euro. but it's the same old conservative party moving further and further to the extreme of europe. can't form an alliance with chancellor merkel or with president sarkozy or with the right democrat parties in your. so they have to go into alliance with the most extreme comments of europe, and alleged thing they did was vote against the transfer of information to do with the problem of tax havens, exactly the sort of policy lord ashcroft would want him to support. >> what did the chancellor mean when he said that the job losses resulting from the national insurance hike would be manageable? how many is manageable? >> i will tell the conservative party about jobs. jobs is helping young people. jobs is helping young people to get into work. and 200,000 jobs created by the future jobs fund now and over the next few months. jobs is also helping young

happen in the united states could we followed mussolini or hitler would we tolerate things like holocaust in this country and the sad answer was yes there is some segment of the population that has an offer tyrian personality. the book and the study was probably rightly criticized when it first came out because it was based largely on freudian psychology that has its own the problems. another record of social scientists particularly one who landed in the canada, robert altmire, decided to look up the question again, and doing get by rather solid and empirical studies by that i mean he would question people went out of the nature of the personality dispositions and what have you and what overtime collect one of the largest databases we would ever assembled and found that clearly there is an authoritarian personality type. they break down into several categories. there are authoritarian followers, of authoritarian leaders, they call them nominators and then people who have unique traits of both because the score so high on the tests they call them double highest. these became a son of the n

chancellor and other leaders and not get into bed and breakfast with extremist politicians, the holocaust, that are not acceptable in our democracy? >> mr. speaker, if the conservative party had really changed the would've changed its position on euro. but it's the same old conservative party moving further and further to the extreme of europe. can't form an alliance with chancellor merkel or with president sarkozy or with the right democrat parties in your. so they have to go into alliance with the most extreme comments of europe, and alleged thing they did was vote against the transfer of information to do with the problem of tax havens, exactly the sort of policy lord ashcroft would want him to support. >> what did the chancellor mean when he said that the job losses resulting from the national insurance hike would be manageable? how many is manageable? >> i will tell the conservative party about jobs. jobs is helping young people. jobs is helping young people to get into work. and 200,000 jobs created by the future jobs fund now and over the next few months. jobs is also helping young

i spent today, a good part of today at the holocaust museum working on something, and i came across a story. that i think goes a little bit toward explaining why people like ike do what they do. and it has to do with a story that takes place in budapest in 1944, and budapest is being bombed, and this is the memoir of a young woman who helped ron wallenberg to save many of the jews of budapest and let me just read to you what he wrote and see if we make the connection here. she talks about how the street cars were still running but then the bombing started and we had nowhere to go. there were really no shelters and it was hard to run into houses where the basements were already overcrowded, so bravely the tram went on, hoping that we would not be hit. in the midst of the noises, i heard a bird singing. for a moment, i thought i was already in heaven. then i looked up and saw a cage with a canary in it. next to the conductor. at my questioning glance, the conductor explained, i love her, and if i have to die, we will do it together. the tram went on, the bird kept singing, the bombing s

and it's a matter of fact the play was supposed to have premiered hoping that the holocaust museum last year, last june. and while we were waiting for janet to arrive and i was talking on the phone with her, he car drove up an elderly man got out of that car. he watches the museum when i was about 30 feet away in a black security guard pulled open the door to help and am a man picked up a rifle and killed a security guard. and then the security guard, opens fire on him. at the irony was that on that day, in which a play that really talks about how he kills institutionalized feature in germany during the period of time and in this country with the clan and other groups who were terrorizing black people to talk about what has happened and what needs to happen, what call to action has to take lace to have that interrupted by anand he was 88 years old carrying a bird and he talked about the patriot and killing an innocent young officer who had a young family, that really kind of captured by we are committed to talking about race and reconciliation. why were committed to taking this play and

the tragedy was of unspokeable proportions, six million people killed in the holocaust. today, there are ugly words coming out of iran -- i would ask for 30 more seconds. mr. berman: i'm pleased to yield 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 30 second. mr. andrews: there are some that say that one holocaust is not enough, that the jewish state should not exist. we should learn the terrible histories of the 1930's and not repeat it. we should act decisively, swiftly with the rest of the world to impose sanctions on the iranian government. i thank the chairman for his leadership on this issue, urge a yes vote and the swift adoption of the underlying legislation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from california. mr. berman: mr. speaker, i have one additional speaker requesting time. i believe the gentlelady has the right to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady has the right to close. mr. berman: so shall we -- my speaker and your right to close. i am pleased to yield three minut

would we toll late things -- tolerate things like a holocaust in this country? and the sad answer was, yes, there's some segment of the population that has an authoritarian personality. the book and the study was well and probably rightly criticized when it first came out because it was based largely on freudian psychology which has its own problems. another group of social scientists and particularly one who landed up in canada, a fellow by the name of robert at meyer, decided to look at this question again. and doing it by rather solid, empirical studies. by that i mean he would question people about the nature of their personality, their dispositions and what have you and would over time collect one of the largest databases that we would ever assemble on this and find, and found, excuse me, clearly there is an authoritarian personality type. they actually break down into several categories. there are authoritarian followers, authoritarian leaders, they call them dominators, and then there are people that have uniquely traits of both. it's because they score s

not far from my office is the united states holocaust memorial. sobering place like this one, and there is an exhibit that grips all that attends the museum. the issues that were systematically and diligently taken from a riding prisoners -- from arriving prisoners. more than any other piece of evidence collected by the museum, these thousands of shoes are objects that recall for us the people who once wore those shoes. men walking to work, women in their homes, the children at play. an engraving on the wall of the holocaust museum reads, in part, we are the shoes, we are the last witnesses. their shoes in the collection here as well. these 168 shares, like the issues at the holocaust museum, bear witness. each one asking us to remember. i am listening to these chairs right now, as are all of you. i am listening to ted allen, patricia knicks, and to the others. and in doing so, in listening, we are all part of that great loss. we are on watch. what greater good k museum offer us that this act of watching over the memory? who they were, what they m

he is one of the true heroes in resisting the holocaust.dapest, the swedish diplomat prevented the deportation of jews who would have otherwise ended up in nazi death camps and stopped german officers from attacking a jewish ghetto. he issued passports identifying people as swedish subjects. they looked real and were accepted by authorities, some of whom had to be bribed to believe it. as part of his effort, he rented over 30 buildings in budapest and claimed them swedish twoert. he put up signs like the swedish library, and those buildings saves tens of thousands. he handed out phony passports to people on a train, then led those people to a caravan of waiting cars and they all drove off to safety. this news that he was being interrogated in a prison in moscow in july 23rd of 1947, a week after his previously-reported death opens up the whole question of what happened to this good and courageous man. we need to learn more. we need to remember him and how a good man, even in the midst of the worst could do his best. that's this show this go

terrible violence since the worst world war and there are many letters in here from veterans and holocaust survivors and others who had been terrible, terrible things. a letter from a holocaust survivor who says that he's seen murders, shootings, hangings every day, starvation and that nothing had affected him as profoundly as the death of president kennedy. there was something about this event that was very steering and heavy nuclei, i'm not sure that the generation of kids with the horrified, they would write heartfelt letters home about what they be profoundly shocked? yes and perhaps no. so it's a long-winded answer to say that i think there was a lot of innocents in some sense here. and in no way am i trying to romanticize the early 1960's. this is the age of segregation and many descriptions of terrible violence in the society, but at this level and attack upon the president was unthinkable in a ghastly way. and the man who had been the first television president, who people thought they knew very intimately because of television. and the following of this useful first family. anyone

accurating, when i tell you that the highlight of our day was the -- were the children's drawings at the holocaustwas like there's yellow. like i hadn't seen any colors all day long. >> jimmy: there's yellow. take a look over there, you're going to see all sorts of colors. you should have brought guillermo to prague. >> i guess it kind of culminated, we were standing in some freezing, dank hallway and there was a door at the end and, i don't know where nick was, this was between me and olga, she looked at me and said i want to show you something. something terrible. now, i swear to god. this is verbatim. i'm not exaggerating. i walked down to the end of the holloway. sure enough, here is a life size statue of a decomposed picture of a woman. his punishment had to ex um the body and sculpt it as he found it. she said do you see it? do you see the horror? i was like yeah, i see it. its name is olga. freaking me out, lady. >> jimmy: what a slogan. >> that was verbatim. i don't know. >> jimmy: do you see the horror? i can see that at the airport on posters and everything. >> it's a great way to get mo

the supreme energy that went into israel reinvigorated incredibly after the holocaust when the stakeswere so under the clear, close to america as we will see on this earth. and those who can't replicate the success, because of their own failures, will hate the success. it's like the old russian joke, there's to present and one peasant has a beautiful cow and the other peasant dozen. and this doesn't in these that cow so much, loves that cow and the poor peasant one day, he's kicking around in the forest, and he sees a wooded spirit tied to a tree. and releases the woods spirit and the wood spirits is thank you, as a reward for your generosity i will get any one wish and the peasant says kill my neighbor's cow. unfortunately that is the attitude of too much of humanity instead of working. think of the incredible synthesis that could occur if the palestinians were willing to work with israel, it airs are willing to work with visual how much progress, incredible progress could be achieved? but to do that, they would have to give up israel as a say in that is blamed for their failures. so

not far from my office is the united states holocaust memorial. sobering place like this one, and there is an exhibit that grips all that attends the museum. the issues that were systematically and diligently taken from a riding prisoners -- from arriving prisoners. more than any other piece of evidence collected by the museum, these thousands of shoes are objects that recall for us the people who once wore those shoes. men walking to work, women in their homes, the children at play. an engraving on the wall of the holocaust museum reads, in part, we are the shoes, we are the last witnesses. their shoes in the collection here as well. these 168 shares, like the issues at the holocaust museum, bear witness. each one asking us to remember. i am listening to these chairs right now, as are all of you. i am listening to ted allen, patricia knicks, and to the others. and in doing so, in listening, we are all part of that great loss. we are on watch. what greater good k museum offer us that this act of watching over the memory? who they were, what they m

holocaust survivors making some of the americans who liberated them from nazi death camps.is in washington. ♪ ♪ >> it is april, 1945, hitler and nazis are trying to carry out their final solution. once and for all, to exterminate the jews, but patton's army is on the way and they will put an end to the killing. 65 years later, in what could be the last times so many of them are together, 120 american heroes gather as part of a week long holocaust remembrance. they were the first to witness the horrors of nazi germany. they were the honored guests with a special meeting with a special commander david petraeus. >> i've never seen anybody treated that way, ever, not even an animal. we were told them not to feed anything because they might die the next morning. >> despite the horrors of what they saw, many of the americans never lost their perspective on right and wrong. like leo who rather than killing 91 nazi soldiers took them prisoner. instead he took for himself a souvenir. >> i knew he and his buddies had done all this bad stuff, i came so close to killing them, but did n

to anyone who understands the paradigm of this seems that reducing the amount of holocaust making weapons, would be a good thing. but it demonstrated to me with the republican gentleman that called in earlier -- host: all right jesse, this says you were an election monitor. and the meeting in the republic of georgia, what was that like? guest: it was interesting, we have a system that monitors elections abroad. and the u.s. sends a part of monitoring of elections overseas. it's a wonderful opportunity to see democracy in progress. especially for some countries that it's >> with over 45 world leaders in washington for the nuclear summit, it is a very busy day for president obama. the president is not the washington convention center for a series of meetings. 1st with jordan's president abdullah and then with other leaders. there will be a working dinner this evening. vice-president joe biden is also holding meetings with the united arab emirates and south korea. he is also hosting a lunch meeting at his residence. it is the largest meeting of foreign leaders at the u.s. naval observatory.

humanity in its fits of madness, there is no rational way to explain the holocaust.is humanity going off the rails, and humanity intermittently does. server? euronext. >> i am a former russian jew. anyhow, i have a question -- >> people who presented they are, why we having such a terrible time, here, counter pr the palestinian, the arab networks, why does israel have such a horrible pr? even, they can put three words together to defend what they believe in and what they're doing. what's going on? >> well, you know, you have to answer that for yourself. i would just give you my personal experiences. look, when the canadian media is interested in which audience, canadian audience. the israeli media is interested in the israeli audience. when i was with, i was the only civilian, it was almost a. the press center was there, the commission was there. and the president really weren't interested in me. i was pro-israel as it gets. and some friends that help me get up there and stuff. but the press officers, they find after today's got me an escort which in hit get me becau

horror at the holocaust museum. a security guard killed by a white supremecist. new information on the man's background. >>> i'm suzanne collins. we all know that texting ask driving is not safe. now, the company that sells phones that text is getting in on the act. i'll explain coming up next. >>> clearing the air. flights finally starting to resume across europe. but the volcanic threat is not over yet. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> it is just after 6:30, 66 degrees and partly cloudy. good evening, everyone. thanks for staying with wjz. here's what people are talking about tonight. after nearly a week and thousands of canceled flights and stranded passengers, flights are finallyet going in and -- finally getting in and out of some airports. the situation keeps changing. and volcanic ash could once again shut down the sky. >> reporter: the first british airways jet touched down at heathrow airport tuesday night, since volcanic ash closed down air space across the continent. so the backlog of flight traffic worldwide should start to ease. now that planes are flying, peopl

and begin with europe, you got to understand that while the holocaust was a measurable tragedy for the jewish people, it was a great embarrassment -- >> people can't hear you in the back. can you speak into it. >> sure. it was a great embarrassment for european. an embarrassment as a potent force. when you see the irrational criticism and outright lies told about israel in europe, i think you can understand it in terms of the psychological need. the europeans know full well how monstrous they were in their sins of commission and omission. the collaboration with the nazis by many people beyond the borders of germany. so psychologically in their shame, they need israel to be bad. they need israel to be as guilty of estrousties as they were. which suddenly, it was terrible and several dozen palestinians were killed. that's concepted out u.s. wits. of course, it didn't. but the europeans leapt on it. i think there is that need. there's even something beyond their need to believe that israel is as bad as they are, therefore, the score is even. it's the astonishing pension, because it goes b

we did it to stop world wars and nuclear holocausts.s is announced in carol quigley's book in 1962. this is critical for people to understand. if you are a regular viewer of the show, sorry to repeat this. but you have to pass this on to your friends. mutually assured destruction. what they talked about is the way that we would stop is if russia sent their missiles over to us, we'd launch our missiles, we would destroy each other. but there was also something else. all of the other countries would pressure, this is all-up stuff, global government. it would -- they would pressure us and the russians and the rest of the world would say no, don't do it. don't go to war. don't go it. don't do it. don't do it. if we did it, they also tied all of our economies together. so everything was tied together. so, if we destroyed each other, it would destroy the whole world economically. they did it for a good reason. to stop world wars and nukes. but what happens if we don't launch the missiles? what happens if let's say our center of economics goes

implication is history haunts the current area and it does without question and anti-semitism and the holocaust move over the politics of the middle east we have to acknowledge it and find a way. >> there was another dimension that services in the book with paul wolfowitz of the first chapter where you cannot talk to the baathist and iraq because they are not spread pro pro -- and not some. to join back to the days of world war ii where the prime minister of england is negotiating with hitler in the chamberlain piece of our time is always upheld that you cannot negotiate. said in your own mind, how have you worked out to identify who is a hitler and who is not and where is inappropriate to talk? a key question. >> guest: i say talk to her terrorists not negotiate. understand in the san but that does not mean you sign the agreement with them. i know in the marine corps colonel walker really helped to forge the opening to the iraqi insurgency in real exchange emails and i said look at this guy you are talking to. this guy in iraq but louis. and he said these a difficult questions keeping me awake

. >>> the memory of the nazi holocaust remembrance day, the lib brags of nan zzi concentrat camps. >>ain at the pump. gas prices are up nearly 4 cents a gallon in the past three weeks. national average for a gallon of regular is now $2.85. that's up 80 cents since last april. it's not a dream. this is happening in an area chicago torn by youth violence. cnn contributor, education contributor, chicago's roughest neighborhoods, since urban prep, 70 african-american, young men to college. it's the holy grail in ak ka dame yeah. i want to talk to these folks. i'm excited. >> mr. king, when you say 100% of your kids go to college, a lot of people don't believe it. >> right. right. >> so sometimes for their purposes. >> yeah. >> you've got to introduce them to the wall. >> you've got to see proof. >> this is a lot of proof. every time a student is admitted to college, what we do is take their admission letter, put it up on the wall of the school. >> people see your results and they are going to say, 100% of your seniors going on to college, you must pick the kids. you can't be a public scho

. >>> there's new information tonight about the man who opened fire at the holocaust memorial museum last summer. vic has more on just released details about the gunman, a former annapolis resident. >> the fbi says its file on james von brunn dates back to 1953. that's when von brunn allegedly threatened von brunn died before he could stand trial. >> the fbi released documents about the 1963 incident, in response to a freedom of information act request. >>> a toddler who police believe was abused. why the decision by one judge is sparking outrage tonight. >> reporter: and a bit of a family feud. that outrage is on the father's side. they're upset that custody was temporarily granted to the mother's family. and they say they're concerned about the baby. but one of the grandparents who has the child says the little girl is in good hands as she recovers from her injuries. >> reporter: ryan chad gifford stands accused of a vile crime. police say he severely abused a 21-month-old inside his home. charging documents revealed the baby's mother panicked and screamed, finding gifford naked in

the tragedy was of unspokeable proportions, six million people killed in the holocaust. today, there are ugly words coming out of iran -- i would ask for 30 more seconds. mr. berman: i'm pleased to yield 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 30 second. mr. andrews: there are some that say that one holocaust is not enough, that the jewish state should not exist. we should learn the terrible histories of the 1930's and not repeat it. we should act decisively, swiftly with the rest of the world to impose sanctions on the iranian government. i thank the chairman for his leadership on this issue, urge a yes vote and the swift adoption of the underlying legislation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from california. mr. berman: mr. speaker, i have one additional speaker requesting time. i believe the gentlelady has the right to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady has the right to close. mr. berman: so shall we -- my speaker and your right to close. i am pleased to yield three minut

would we tolerate things like a holocaust in this country? the sad answer was yes.here is some segment of the population that has an authoritarian personality. the study was rightly criticized when it first came out because it was based largely on freudian psychology which has its own problems. another group of social scientists, particularly one who landed in canada, decided to look at this question again and doing it by rather solid empirical studies, by that i mean he would question people about the nature of their personality, their dispositions and what have you and collect one of the largest databases that we would ever assembled on this and clearly there is an authoritarian personality type. they are broken into several categories. there are authoritarian followers, authoritarian leaders, they call them nominators and people who have uniquely traits of both because they score so high on these tests. these became and some of the dominated is became my conservatives without conscience and when you understand this class of person and this type of personality you