up of holocaust survivors and of children of holocaust survivors along with representatives from jewish agencies. >> when we talk about children, is that where we get the terminology of say second generation holocaust survivors refers to the children of someone who is a survivor of the holocaust or a refugee of the holocaust? >> yes. yes. in the bay area, we have a group called generation to generation, children of holocaust survivors. even though we're no longer children, we're still the children of the holocaust survivors. >> what was generation to generation as a program? >> generation to generation formed in the late '70s and was incorp traited as a nonprofit in 1981 its mission was to offer psychological support to the issues surrounding being a child of holocaust survivors. >> wonderful. morgan, you're director of education of the holocaust center. you serve the entirety of the bay area and beyond? >> we do. we serve schools and communities throughout northern california. we work in partnership with the museum of tolerance and we meet the needs of southern california as well. >> i

other after the holocaust in europe. by the time the holocaust started, there were already 750,000 european jews living in what became israel so it wasn't created because to have the holocaust, it was already in existence. in fact, there had been jewish settlers there for hundreds of years and starting in the 1880s, an increasing number of jewish settlers coming in from what was russia. so a lot of these people who were in europe in between the two wars who were living in these new nations that had been created by the collapse of the ottoman empire or the austrian-hungarian empire, the german empire, doesn't matter, the point is, these new democracies became rigidly antisemitic, that they went from a promised democracy to being authoritarian regimes that were belligerently antisemitic and many of the jews living in poland, hungary, rumania, needed to get out. >> charlie: and brought home to you when you went to a small village and traced one person who went to auschwitz and came back. >> i went to the town where my mothe

one is the period before the holocaust in europe and the other is the period after the holocaust in europe. by the time the holocaust started there were already 750,000 european jews living in what became israel. it wasn't created because of the holocaust. it was already in existence. there had been jewish setless -- settlers there for hundreds f years and increasingly, in n 1880's from what was then russia. people in between the two wars living in these new nations that had been created by the collapse of the german empire, the hungarian-ace screen. there's one i'm missing. durment matter. the point is these new democracies became rigidly anti-smetibbling. they went from a promised democracy to being authoritarian regimes who were by legitimately anti-se metic, many of them and the jews needed to get out. er respective of what was going on in germany. >> and it was brought home to you when you went to a small village and traced one person. >> i went to the town where my mother was born. she died two years ago after over 100. she was an immigrant from poland. i went back to her town. this

six million jews were killed during the holocaust.g with devotion ♪for a snack that isn't lame ♪but this... ♪takes my breath away >>> welcome back. as part of cnn's series "roots," i'm about to take you on a very personal and powerful journey home, a journey where i learned more about my family's history. it's saturday in buffalo, new york. my hometown. how are you? and these guys, well, they're fans of fc buffalo blitzers. that's a soccer team that somehow was named after me. something i find both flattering and a little embarrassing. cnn has asked me to come here to trace my roots. a task i find daunting. i grew up here in the 1950s and '60s. with my sister and parents. a lot has changed since then. my dad passed away in 2002. and my mom, she's 92 years old and she now lives in florida. but some things here never change. like the anchor bar. the birthplace of the buffalo chicken wing. brings back memories from my youth. two weeks ago, i was on the israel/gaza border. now i'm eating buffalo chicken wings. my journey to learn about my

>> i they were killed in the holocaust. i knew all four died in the holocaust.ote exact details, where and when, you know, my parents were pretty open about talking about that, some holocaust survivors were reluctant to discuss it with their kids or grand kids, my parents were always pretty open about it. i didn't know, until i was covering the war between israel and hamas in gaza in july, i thought i was gonna go to israel for three or four days i wound up spending a month over there. and somebody said, you know, you should go to visit the israel holocaust memorial museum, they have all the archives, history, all the 6 million who kind went there and it was there that i was going through the archives, i saw that place of extermination from my paternal grandparents', my dad's mom and dad, was usual wit. and it was really -- it hit me at that moment that, you know, they died at usual wits and then i went to auschwitz and i went around, not only auschwitz but the but kin now death camp, a million-plus jews were killed at but kin now, to see the gas chambers and al

tad escaped the holocaust.in his family did not he came to the country as a young boy, and attended stanford. for a dozen years he's been part of a massive project to tell the other side of the stor about polish jews. >> why is it so important for you be involved in this? >> history of how jews live forward a thousand years prior to the holocaust is unknown we lt that is very important story to to tell that story, t museum of the history of polish jews. a state of the art facity that sits on the sitef the warsaw ghetto. i visited the camps with several survivors. including linda braider who spent three yearst auschwitz. >> when you stand here at auschwitz now, 60 years later, do images, emotions race through? >> no emotions here. >> no emotions here. >> later in the trip, emotions ca we stayed in touch until linda's death a few years ago. >> he saw how jews were killed. you're saying this is about how jews lived. long before the holocaust. >> that is right. that is correct. it's -- it's a very, very impoant his

tad escaped the holocaust. many in his family did not he came to the country as a young boy, and attended stanford. for a dozen years he's been part of a massive project to tell the other side of the story about polish jews. >> why is it so important for you to be involved in this? >> history of how jews live forward a thousand years prior to the holocaust is unknown we felt that is very important story to tell. >> to tell that story, the museum of the history of polish jews. a state of the art facility that sits on the site of the warsaw ghetto. i visited the camps with several survivors. including linda braider who spent three years at auschwitz. >> when you stand here at auschwitz now, 60 years later, do images, emotions race through? >> no emotions here. >> no emotions here. >> later in the trip, emotions came we stayed in touch until linda's death a few years ago. >> he saw how jews were killed. you're saying this is about how jews lived. long before the holocaust. >> that is right. that is correct. it's -

but a friend suggested i take some time to visit israel's national holocaust museum.. last name is blitzer. i of course, knew my parents died during the holocaust. >> concentration camp, is that what it says. and lager, camp. >> my dad, david blitzer wrote a testimony for the museum detailing what he knew about the fate of his family in poland in world war ii. >> i didn't know until i came here this week that on my father's side, my grandparents were killed at auschwitz. i feel like i've been robbed in the experience of having grandparents. six billion jews were killed during the holocaust and i saw the documentation there. a place of extermination if you will, and i knew that is where i wanted to go. >> sets you free. the meaning that was a place for working, which was not. >> it was for slave laborers. >> yes, it was this kind of camp. but work was an instrument of examination for the prisoners. >> it is one thing to learn about the holocaust in school or from books. but to see these places firsthand, some untouched since the war can be overwhelming. it's pretty muc

i knew my grandparents died during the holocaust, but i wanted to know more.ances of death, it says the concentration camp. auschwitz. my dad, david blitzer, wrote a testimonial detailing what he knew about the fate of his family in poland during world war ii. i didn't know until i came here to israel this week that on my father's side, my grandparents died or were killed at auschwitz. i feel like i've been robbed of an experience of having grandparents. 6 million jews were killed during the holocaust, and i saw the documentation there, place of ex-termination, auschwitz, and i knew that's where i wanted to go. ♪ >> what will set you free. it was a place for working. >> they were slave laborers. >> yes. it was this kind of camp, but work was an instrument of extermination. >> it's one thing to learn about the holocaust from school or books, but to see these places firsthand, some untouched since the war, can be overwhelming. most of the jews brought here -- >> then begun selection. >> who lives and who dies. >> exactly. >> my grandparents died here. >> probabl

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. >> i think the history of how jews lived for 1,000 years prior to the holocaust is virtually unknown. and we felt that that's a very, very important story to tell. >> the museum of the history of polish jew. state of the art facility that sits on the side of the were saw getto. where hundreds of thousands of jews were forced to live before being taken to the death camp. >> i visited the camp nine years ago with several bay area holocaust survivors including linda who spent three years at the notorious camp. 6 years after walking out she walked in again with me. >> when you stand here linda now 60 years later. do images, emotions race through your min mind. >> i have no emotion. >> no emotions here. >> no emotion here. >> later in our trip understandably the emotion cam came. we stayed in touch until linda death few years ago. >> i saw with my own eyes how jew were his killed but what you are saying is this museum business how jews lived long before the holocaust. >> that's right. >> that's exactly correct and it's a very, very important history because during that 1,000 year period m

it was like the holocaust movies. these people going around digging their own graves.hey're going to die in a couple minutes after the tape runs out and what are we doing? the congress won't even vote! don't we get steamed up about anything? did we rally around the flag? or do we want new leadership? >> the reaction to vote orders isis is isis scares them. but they don't want to put anybody -- >> what do they want to do about it? >> they're happy with the bombings. go bomb. that's why this congress that read the republican opinion right and they walk away from it with what the president was doing. the ebola stuff is a little different. there is movement in the public polls on that. >> who are they mad at? >> well, what they are right now is just scared. there was a pugh report a couple weeks ago where most people thought they were pretty safe. and they weren't overly concerned. there is a new poll that came out today. in which a majority of americans at some level are concerned about that. >> now that the guy is dead, i think it got more impact. >> you ask who they're

he's a polish jew who is the most degraded of everyone in the whole story of the holocaust. he is part of the special detail that deals not only with the corpses and processes and shaves the hair and gets out the fillings and grinds the bones and all that, but they also have to mingle with the evacuees when they arrive on the ramp. and say welcome, you know, i hope are you not too tired after your voyage. will you soon feel better when you have your meal at the guesthouse. was in fact they were all going to be dead in an hour. so the most ambiguous, the most morally questionable of all the actors, they would be killed themselves. you only delayed your death by a few weeks. and in fact-- . >> rose: so he would be dead -- >> yeah. but he prolongs it by making himself indispensable which is agony because he's helping the german war effort in the war against the jews. but they did, the sanders did occasionally save a life. they finkel, they go up to a young man and say are you 18 years old. and you have a trade. as they are approaching the selection. and the nazi doctor would lo

last name is blitzer. >> reporter: i of course knew my grandparents died during the holocaust.ces of death, it says that the concentration camp. and lager, which means camp. auschwitz. >> reporter: my dad, david blitzer, wrote a testimony for the museum detailing what he knew about the fate of his family in poland during world war ii. >> you know, i didn't know till i came here to israel this week that on my father's side my grandparents died at -- were killed at auschwitz. i just see it now. i feel like i've been robbed of an experience of having grandparents. 6 million jews were killed during the holocaust. and i saw the documentation there. place of extermination, whatever it was called, auschwitz. it really hit me, and i knew that's where i wanted to go. ♪ ♪ >> arbeit macht frei. >> work will set you free. meaning was that that was a place for working, which was not true. >> it was for slave laborers. >> yes. it was this kind of camp. but work was the instrument of extermination prisoners here. >> reporter: it's one thing to learn about the holocaust in school or from books

this -- [indiscernible] jew, who isolish the most degraded of everyone in the whole story of the holocausttailart of the special that deals not only with the quarters, shaves the head and gets out the fillings and grinds but they and all that, also have to mingle with the evacuees when they arrive on the ramp and say, welcome. hope you are not too tired after your voyage. you will soon feel better when you have your meal at the guesthouse. in fact, they were all going to be dead in an hour. the most ambiguous, most morally questionable of all the actors -- and they would be killed themselves. you only delayed your death by a few weeks. .> so he would be dead >> yes. making himselfby indispensable, which is agony. he is helping the german war effort against the jews. saunders did occasionally save a life. they would go up to a young man and say, you are 18 years old and you have a trade. doctor would look you over and say, how old are you? 18. any younger, you would go straight to the gas. you would say, i am an electrician, a carpenter. you would prove your worth that way. where your first

the whole question of the middle east, the whole question of the holocaust, and many people like floyd who have been criticizing this, governor pataki has never seen the op ra, rudy i don't believe has seen the opera. so there is a whole group of people-- . >> rose: rudy giuliani. >> and rudy giuliani i'm sorry to say evoked floyd's name when he spoke at the rally the other night. so to have a bunch of people coming in saying the opera is bad, the opera shouldn't have been shown, although i have never seen the opera, i read the libretto or seen the video. >> rose: let mow weigh in in two ways. number one, as i hear what floyd is saying, he says he perfectly understands the right of the metropolitan opera to put any metropolitan opera what he wants to be, he is a strong supporter of the first amendment, he thinks they should have exercised better judgement. >> right. >> rose: you think the metropolitan opera should be able to produce anything that it wants to do -- >> i can't decide what the opera should do. i condition decide what an author should do. you here had the other night marti

[laughter] >> writing about the holocaust, the whole idea, the unimaginable, if you write about it, themaginable is stripped of some of its horror. >> so you shouldn't write about it? but he also said, no poetry after auschwitz. >> no poetry. >> but there was poetry during auschwitz. primo levi, his fiction and poems. just to elaborate on why i think novelists and poets should be welcome, it says open -- it shouldn't say "poets and novelists not welcome." poets, novelists and historians are like the team that goes to investigate the crash of an airplane. they can't say there will be no more crashes. planes don't crash because this happened again. that itself is enough to justify any sort of person for visiting this subject and reinforcing that investigation. >> thank you. martin amis, the book is called "the zone of interest." thank you for joining us. see you next time. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> live from san francisco, welcome to "bloomberg west" where we cover innovation, technology and the future of business. i'm emily chang. first a look at the headlines. canadian police say the gunman who killed

and emersed in jewish culture and jewish history, holocaust and in democracy, human rights, basic rights, ruler of law. and a sense of drama. in that he was similar to he who had a sense of drama. you can have a little who is shy of these things. i don't want to go into names but i worked with quite the number of israeli leaders who would not be seen as having a sense of drama. he had the sense of drama. here is an officer. he was not impressed with language and drafting and all of that. and but he had a kind of a notion, in a way not comparing but always said this country is not impressed with the little drafting and formulas. he had an idea. soviets, idea. important idea. he had an idea. so here these two people had a sense of drama and the sense of history. and they were there. i think both of them felt that the wings of history were there. and here is president carter ready to invest 13 days. he used to say 13 days and 13 nights. it was 13 days and 12 nights. the first days were just each party giving their ideas and so on with the papers and complaining and so on. and the next eight

the whole question of the middle east, the question of the holocaust.any people are criticizing this. there's a whole group of people. rudy giuliani, i am sorry to say, invokes floyd's name when he spoke at the rally. a bunch of people saying, the opera should never be shown, though i have not seen the opera. >> number one, as i hear what floyd is saying, he says he perfectly understands the right of the metropolitan opera because he is a defender of the first amendment. he thinks they should have exercised better judgment. you think it should be able to produce anything it wants to do. >> i cannot decide what the opera should do. the other night you had martin amis, who wrote a book that was extraordinarily controversial. he explained what drove him to write the book. you had the primo levi quote, the adorno quote, right thing after auschwitz is barbaric, yet there must be writing. and one of america's most significant composers has previously done operas about controversial subjects. dr. atomic, critical of the united states. "nixon in china," which s

my grandparents were holocaust survivors and my parents did not grow up with a lot, really nothing. knowing i was the first generation to have a little bit of something, i wanted to not receive anything and i wanted to work harder than everyone to make my own mark in the world. >> you went to college but school did not suit you, it seems. >> yeah, i went to emory university in atlanta. i found myself wanting to do business, not wanting to sit in class. unfortunately, i started selling fake ids for about two months and then i realized i was going to get caught. i was really good though. >> you became a promoter, a party promoter when you were 19? >> yes. the reason i dropped out of school was there was a guy who sat me down and told me the story of robert woodruff, the guy of coca-cola, the largest endowment at emory. he gets me. at the end, he tells me that robert woodruff was one in a million and a chance of you being a robert woodruff is impossible. you need to stay in school and let go of this pipe dream. i said that you very much. i am dropping out of college. >> do you think he

the holocaust, they started stories about the holocaust six times in six years. six front page stories. but if you read them, sometimes they mention the jews in the 14th paragraph. yet abu ghraib was 60 days on the front pages. and what did that do? it attacked the moral character of american leadership and paralyzed them. i mean, this is -- i am horrified because there's such silence around this. nobody is using these terms that you've heard today from me about this. yet i don't see that there's any other term that could be accurately applied. >> another n-word is the word naziism, and i'm convinced that the democratic party is totally soft and totally blind to current naziism whether it's hamas or hezbollah -- >> islamic, yeah. >> isis, all of them. and i'm wondering from a tactical point of view whether we can't label the democratic opponent as soft on naziism -- >> well, nobody would you said it. [applause] .. >> he was a political operative for the muslim brotherhood and there is no question about that. >> you touched on a comment saying that the democratic

in germany, the holocaust, horrific history.here, you are required to confront that legacy. there are monuments and memorials and there are totems that make you have to deal with that. in this country we try to hide the history. manifests itself in tragic ways. there's this sense of well, we don't have slavery anymore, we don't have segregation, get over it. the gentleman i referred to from last night spoke of the it could codified segregation as though it was the middle ages, that was the 50s and '60s. >> i started my education in a colored school because schools were still racially segregated. the county where my father group didn't have a block high school, he had to leave. my grandmother the daughter of people who web enslaved. a black male baby more than in the 21 century, one in three is expected to go the jail or prison. that wasn't true in the 20th century or the 19th century. we created this environment that we have to confront more honestly. that's part of the challenge. talk more honestly about what's going on. >> jon

it's the same universe where a man who wrote a dissertation of lies about the holocaust and who insists on a palestine free of jews can stand at this podium and shamelessly accuse israel of genocide and ethnic cleansing. in the past, outrageous lies against the jews was the precursors to the whole slaughter of our people. no more. today, the jewish people have the power to defend ourselves. we will defend ourselves against our enemies on the battlefield. we will expose their lies against us in the court of public opinion. israel will continue to stand proud and unbowed. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, despite the enormous challenges facing israel, i believe we have a historic opportunity. after decades of seeing israel as the enemy, leading states in the arab world increasingly recognize that together we and they face many of the same dangers and principally this means a nuclear armed iran and militant islamists movements gaining ground in the sunni world. our challenges to transform these common interests, to create a productive partnership, one that would build a more secure, peacefu

. >> world war ii and the holocaust are featured, but not central to the exhibition. instead it focuses on works of art, like this goethe portrait by the poet's friend. also a porcelain rhinoceros based on a print by albrecht durer. german states are portrayed through coins from the different regions, a concept for into britain, which has long had a -- foreign to britain, which has long had a common currency. saying goodbye are an angel of peace and a very german garden hgnome, a challenge to the very british preconception that germans have no sense of humor. >> that's all we have for this edition. >> hope to see what the top of the hour. for now, goodbye. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ ♪ >>> south korea, long known as a home genous country has been allowing foreign officials into labor since early

by the regime that denies the holocaust while preparing the next one if nobody else does anything about will still reserve the right to do something to stop the evil regime. martha: out point our viewers the front page story today. u.s. iran relations, a lot of what you are saying is echoed in this story. very good piece this morning on the front page. thank you for being with us, we will see you soon back in new york. bill: a man left for dead after being run over twice and police are looking for your help. martha: government buildings are now on high alert. the department of homeland security says it is now time to beef up security. >> canada, the united states are now in discussions making certain every possible stone is turned over, every possible policy is reviewed because our obligations are to protect our citizens. big day? ah, the usual. moved some new cars. hauled a bunch of steel. kept the supermarket shelves stocked. made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. what's up for the next shift? ah, nothing much. just keeping the lights on. (laugh) nice. doing the big things that

i think -- i even don't think that the people who were killed in the holocaust were all good people.y were just victims, not good and not bad. victims. and the palestinians at this moment are victims. they're not better than me. they're just victims. and i don't want them to be victims. but why compare it? >> i don't compare it. my problem with it is i think if you've gone as a generation through such suffering why you don't sympathize with the new victims. >> i do. >> not you personally, but i'm just saying this is to me very troubling. because, you know, you meet people all the time that tell you, offense, my grandfather died mere, my aunt died there. and i'm like, are you blind? do you see when they build the the wall, the germans also built a wall and create a ghetto. >> you know, the son knows it hurts. but most of the children have been hiten by their parents, they hit their children. most of the men that have seen their fathers hitting their wives, then hit their wives as well. they have been victims, and then they are the ones that make someone else victims. so you don't know