historian who was addressing the former star delivering the commemorative address on this occasion saul freeland himself a holocaust survivor both his parents murdered and afterwards he was describing his personal journey and also. reminding his audience of the importance of the values of tolerance and inclusion liberty. and humanity in boards of defending our democracy he warned of a resurgence of interest. say it has just become too obvious to be over. the letter there like. president. bush and president bush. spoke a little earlier i believe we're now going to here's some music from the benefits or tet really playing. a piece or string quartet the composer conductor victor old man. austrian was murdered and that's park. lane. the lead. a. prayer. all.

the book to start today comes at a time of growing concern about rising anti semitism in europe saul freelander also raised that we have a sound bite from. who delivered the opening address the president of the bundestag let's listen in to what he had. it's a shame it is a source of great shame to us that jews are once again thinking about emigrating from germany because they do not feel safe in our country because they are exposed to hostility even physical attacks because jewish children in schools are bullied and ganged up on but it is not enough to experience a sense of shame. in addition to exerting the full power of the law allow resistance in everyday life is especially needed and against anti semitism racism and discrimination of all kinds. of guns they present the bundestag saying that he's very concerned about the fact that jews in germany are again thinking about immigrating because of anti semitism is this something that german parliamentarian's are thinking about and talking about it or very very much i mean people are very concerned it was as if there was a survey recently that se

benefits quartet playing a piece by the czech composer sure hall and now we're about to hear from saul freelander the renowned czech historian who's going to address the german but his talk as. the guest speaker on the day on the keynote speaker on the day of holocaust remembrance. percy president. m.p.'s. friend. family member don't. allow me first of all right thank you for. inviting me to come speak to you today. on the day in which members of the victim national so.

thanks i've led the president of the wonder spot tog and the holocaust survivor and historian saul freelander spoke with lawmakers and with guests. and watching that speech for us was our very own peter craven and i mean really an impactful commemoration that we saw this morning what stood out to you today what sort of its main was was an impressive individual souls friedlander is in the end his double role he's a historian on the one hand has an international reputation of course as a historian of the holocaust and the jews and he talks about the gruesome details of the terrible numbers and of the facts and figures of what happened in the final solution and what people need and what people didn't know that anyone's holmes who is on the road he's noticed the story and he's a survivor of the same time he told from a very personal details about how he was separated for example from his parents and i think it's nineteen forty two in vision frons he was he then survived the war in a french boarding school but they were then they were taken off to auschwitz and they were murdered and he asked the

killed that auschwitz alone the keynote address was given by historian and holocaust survivor sol freeland. saul friedlander spent his whole life trying to understand the inhumanity of the holocaust. as a young jewish boy his parents hid him from the nazis in a french boarding school. if this stands i ran away from boarding school and found my parents in the hospital but how to send me back was going on inside them when they saw the little boy fighting tooth and nail to stay with them as i was removed from their room. it was the last time i ever saw them. it. is still. in his speech to the german parliament commemorating the holocaust the historian pointed out that millions of germans already knew what was happening in the death camps as early as one thousand nine hundred two his parents were killed in auschwitz at this time friedland himself survived and emigrated to israel in one nine hundred forty eight shortly after the state was founded. israel was a homeland for me and my generation of european jews. at least for those of us who survived. this there was a sense of belonging and despite my