who didn't fit the nazi doctrine such as homosexuals roma and sinti polish political prisoners and jehovah's witnesses but this week is of course about more than numbers it's about the people and as the world remembers those who survived and those who lost their lives for more i'm joined now by correspondent young where people are already gathering ahead of tomorrow's simon. that's right nic i'm standing at the entrance of the original canberra streets one as it's now normally known and you know this is a place where thousands were incarcerated and many people were murdered but 75 years after the liberation of auschwitz incredibly enough some of the survivors who experience what this place was like under the nazis are still coming back every year we believe around 200 auschwitz survivors of different nationalities from countries around the world many of them jews will be coming here and want to tell their stories remind people of the brutality of the horrors of auschwitz and warn future generations about what the semitism is and what the holocaust was and d.-w. had the opportunity within the

who didn't fit the nazi doctrine such as homosexuals roma and sinti polish political prisoners and jehovah's witnesses but this week is of course about more than numbers it's about the people as the world remembers the survivors and those who lost their lives and for more now on join john joined by correspondent simon young who is in auschwitz. simon what is happening there today. yeah i'm standing in the original auschwitz camp so-called our schlitz one camp where the machinery of killing really started and continued through most of the 2nd world war and tomorrow is the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz where more than a 1000000 people were murdered and incredibly survivors from that time people who'd been through the experiences that we have all read about how coming back here and they've been telling their stories they're here in the camp now revisiting the place where they knew so much suffering and i was just listening to the story of one lady from new york a well into her ninety's in a wheelchair she's come here with her family and she was just remembering how she arrived

auschwitz who didn't fit the nazi doctrine like homosexuals roman sinti polish political prisoners and jehovah'swith. this but this week is of course about more than numbers it's about the people as the world remembers the survivors and those who lost their lives for more on that i'm joined now by d.w. correspondent simon young he is in auschwitz for us where there are already people gathering at the head of tomorrow's commemorations. that's right call the big focus is on tomorrow monday's commemorative events which will be held at auschwitz birkenau tomorrow of course being the anniversary the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz but really both today and tomorrow are about the survivors of auschwitz as you say many of them are gathering near here i'm standing at the auschwitz one camp the original main camp in our streets. where people were tortured and murdered for from 940 on woods and not far from here today groups of survivors of course many of these people are now and then ninety's are coming together and you know telling their stories as they've done many times before the many

also sent to auschwitz including gay people roma people sinti people polish political prisoners and jehovah witnesses but this week of remembrance of course his about more than numbers it is about the people and earlier especially when she. asked her to tell us more about what people gathering there had told her about how they feel there's an eerie silence here on the eve of that historic commemoration of the red army liberating essentially what became a killing machine a genocide machine here the epicenter of the holocaust behind me you see the gate that so appeared to my eyes is what people think of when they hear the word ousted it's about it must cry on it the cynical sentence the labor makes you free with many learning upon arrival here that they will almost certainly condemned to death i had the opportunity to speak to the few survivors who are still alive today 75 years later some of them came here on the eve of this momentous day and will be joining those commemorations on monday here is our report on what their emotions were and what their message was here in our suits. so. years.

didn't fit the nazi doctrine such as gay people roma and sinti people polish political prisoners and jehovah's witnesses but this week of course is about more than just the numbers it is about the people as the world remembers the survivors and those who lost their lives well for more i'm joined by chief political editor michelle occurs now she is in auschwitz where people are gathering ahead of today's commemorations michelle or i'm sure people you've spoken to there have mixed feelings about being there. yes absolutely and there's an eerie silence here on the eve of that historic commemoration of the red army liberating essentially what became a killing machine a genocide missed seeing here the epicenter of the holocaust behind me you see the gate that so pitted mines is what people think of when they hear the word ousted it's modify on its the cynical sentence the labor makes you free with many learning upon arrival here that they will almost certainly condemned to death i had the opportunity to speak to the few survivors who are still alive today 75 years later some of them came here on th

also sent to auschwitz room mind sinti polish political prisoners gay people catholic priests and jehovah's witnesses. as the world remembers the holocaust more than $200.00 of the few remaining survivors of auschwitz have made the trip to attend the commemorations many of them for many of them this may be the last time they return to the site where the india and such harras. sawyer's. with the help of her grandchildren jeannette beagle has made the difficult journey back to auschwitz. the 96 year old was deported here from vienna jew in the wall. not only did she survive life in this notorious camp but she also survived the death march when the nazis fled auschwitz at the end of the war taking some of their presidents with them. the monsters one raid. and then 3 more going over the russians are very close friends who are all alone and ever the few. made those some dreadful steps or would have recourse if you couldn't march destroy. you. david lengel originate from poland also survived auschwitz in this did she think he can never forget what he saw and heard the name of that there were sire

auschwitz roma and sinti polish political prisoners gays christian pastors catholic priests and jehovah's witnesses as the world remembers the holocaust the few remaining survivors of auschwitz have been gathering there ahead of the commemorations for many of them this may be the last time they return. sawyer's. with the help of her grandchildren jeanette she go has made to difficult journey back to auschwitz. the 96 year old was deported to here from vienna a juror in the wall and not only did she survive life in this notorious camp but she also survived the death march when the nazis fled auschwitz at the end of the war taking some of their prisoners with them. the monsters one raid. and then 3 and looking over the russians are very close friends who. run all the laws and everything the few. need those somebody in dread to step over the bed because if you couldn't much that was soothing you. david language originate from poland also survived auschwitz here in this to be true she can never forget what he saw and heard the hearing of that there were sirens there night and i said to the pe

so now others were also sent to auschwitz roman sinti polish political prisoners gays christians jehovah's witnesses a reporter met with the v. levine one of the few remaining jewish survivors at home in his one bedroom apartment in berlin david levine lives here alone his wife has moved to a nursing home he's one of the last remaining survive us his parents and siblings were murdered they have a 75 years ago. that's me that's my brother and another brother and my sister. the 94 year old was born in warsaw to a jewish family during the nazis reign of terror he was sent to 4 different concentration camps. the idea of all the question why. i can't answer that today. i can't even think about it why. why a 9 year old girl who hadn't done anything who hadn't sinned why did they murder why. all. she hadn't done anything in life only because she had a different tree. of it was 19 when auschwitz was liberated. while there he was forced to work in the gas chambers as a slave labor of the german company that produced the deadly gas. i worked down on the gas chambers we collected the cycling gas. you

were also sent to auschwitz roman sinti polish political prisoners gay people catholic priests and jehovah's witnesses as the world remembers the holocaust more than $200.00 of the few remaining survivors of auschwitz have made the trip to attend the commemorations for many of them this may be the last time they return to the site where the endured such horace joining me now from auschwitz correspondent assignment young welcome simon auschwitz is really the enduring symbol of the holocaust tell us what's going to be happening there today to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation. yes emerita as you say the enduring symbol of the largest of the nazi extermination camps and i'm standing here today at auschwitz be a canal the scale of the of the camp of the scale of the horrors here really even today very hard to understand and to conceive mentally when one really has to spend time here i think to really understand it. what's happening today well as you've mentioned leaders royals heads of state and government from many countries. and dignitaries but also survivors are gathering to mark th

also sent to auschwitz room mind sinti polish political prisoners gay people catholic priests and jehovah's witnesses as the world remembers the holocaust more than $200.00 of the few remaining survivors of auschwitz have made the trip to attend the commemorations for many of them this may be the last time that they return to the site where the endured such horas. joining me now from auschwitz correspondent simon young simon auschwitz more than any other place symbolizes the horrors of the holocaust tell us about what is going to happen that to commemorate the victims and the liberation of this camp 75 years ago. yeah today i'm standing at auschwitz birkenau that's the site of this vast extermination camp where you can still see the remains of the seemingly endless rows of very basic huts that the inmates here were crammed into there are the kilometers of barbed wire fencing in the watchtowers i think you can see some of that behind me it really is a very desolate place but one end of this site. a large tent has been constructed right over the top of that iconic gate of death as it's known

factory of remembrance some of the artifacts of 1100000 lives most of them jews but also poles roma jehovah's witnesses homosexuals and prisoners of war these are the places where they froze and starved where they were experimented upon huddled together and killed. this is what is left behind but only a dwindling few who know how it felt. 94 year old leon vine tribe was 18 when he was separated from his family at auschwitz you can imagine a son of a love of him my father i have 4. sisters i was a fair. as a spine how exhausted i was i. do not have remember one will think of what happens with my mother my sister. i didn't. talk. the same as a guest chamber is killed. in see it there are fewer and fewer survivors left to tell their stories the bricks and mortar will survive them of course as a visual reminder to the millions who visit each year but quite soon that living connection to the horrors of the holocaust will be lost is their 1st time is there the head in the history of mankind such headless yet this in their field killings to kill a whole nation for 3 quarters of a century those who s

and they had been over many stories — the usa gymnastics, silicon valley, universities, jehovah's witnessesr the outrage about the killing of this story. the journalists at nbc — who are, in many cases, sources in this book — have risen up in outrage about this. many of them have gotten on air and said — said "we have independently confirmed the claims in this book. this is troubling." the digitaljournalists of nbc unionised in protest of this. so the the journalists at that news organisation, who are wonderful journalists, have been unanimous in saying "this is an important story and, as a result of this outrage, we need more space to pursue tough leads." the stories you're describing are part of what's happened in the wake of all of this. ok, so why? why did it happen, do you think? this is bigger thanjust nbc, sarah. this is about a long history of news organisations who made a calculus that it was not worth taking the risk of going up against powerful interests to report tough stories of this type. and this was particularly true about sexual violence, which is something both of our cult

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