theodora: he was not jewish. and my uncle were in love for a very long time. , she wass i mentioned 15 years older than my brother and he was 10 years older than she, which played a role. he was her boss in a sense. she was working in the local bank and he was one of the directors of the bank. love but they did not get married for a very long time. , later on i used to ask him, why did you not get married for such a long time? he would say, she was very happy living with her mother and i was happy living with my mother, so there was no need. it is an excuse, i am sure. she wast want to say, jewish and i was not and there were problems. not the kindwere that one can imagine. there were no problems within the family. peoples a picture which can see online if they want of the whole family. everybody is jewish except my uncle who is in the center. it is a picture of my parents' wedding, so he was always included in everything, but neither was converting to the other's religion. there was no civil ceremony available i

a ban that has criminalised women like theodora vazquez.never came. theodora says she fainted during the birth, and came to surrounded by police, accusing her of killing her baby. last year, her 30—year sentence was commuted and she walked free, to be reunited with herfamily, after a decade behind bars. human rights groups says she is one of many women who lost their babies and were jailed for killing them. theodora was already a devoted mother when she was convicted. her son, angel gabriel, now 15, was just four years old when they were parted. do you feel like you missed out on a lot of his life, on a lot of your son's life? theodora says she was jailed for a crime she did not commit, by a society where men still have the upper hand. some women and girls here do seek terminations, but the process has been driven underground. this doctor told me many of the women who come to him have actually miscarried, but are too scared to go to hospital in case staff called the police. he says most of his patients have been raped. there is so much sexu

a ban that has criminalised women like theodora vazquez.lance which never came. theodora says she fainted during the birth, and came to surrounded by police, accusing her of killing her baby. last year, her 30—year sentence was commuted and she walked free, to be reunited with herfamily, after a decade behind bars. human rights groups says she is one of many women who lost their babies and were jailed for killing them. theodora was already a devoted mother when she was convicted. her son, angel gabriel, now 15, was just four years old when they were parted. do you feel like you missed out on a lot of his life, on a lot of your son's life? theodora says she was jailed for a crime she did not commit, by a society where men still have the upper hand. some women and girls here do seek terminations, but the process has been driven underground. this doctor told me many of the women who come to him have actually miscarried, but are too scared to go to hospital in case staff called the police. he says most of his patients have been raped. there is

theodora klayman who shall meet us shortly. 2019 season is made possible by the generosity of the lewis franklin smith foundation with additional funding from the arlene and daniel fisher foundation. we are grateful for their sponsorship. the first person is a series of

next on "american history tv," holocaust survivor theodora klayman recalls her family's experiences after nazi forces invaded yugoslavia. three years old at the time, she was visiting her grandparents in a small croatian town and survived by hiding with a series of relatives and neighbors. almost all of her extended family died in secretion camps. -- concentration camps. the event was part of the united states holocaust memorial museum's first-person series. bill: good morning and welcome to the united states holocaust memorial museum. my name is bill benson. i am the host of the public program first person. thank you for joining us today. we are in our 20th year of the first person program, and our first person today is mrs. klayman who we shall meet shortly. this 2019 season is made possible by the generosity of the lewis franklin smith foundation with additional funding from the arlene and daniel fisher foundation.

. >> clerk: item 54 recommended as amended with a new title, motion to reappoint theodora, term endinguly 1, 2023 to the entertainment commission . >> supervisor yee: can we take this item same house same call? without objection this motion is approved unanimously. madame clerk, next item . >> clerk: item 55 a motion to appoint supervisor gordon mar to the bay area executive board term ending june 30, 2021 . >> supervisor yee: can i have a motion to excuse supervisor mark? without objection, supervisor mar is excused. . >> clerk: i apologize, who was the first on that motion? if you thank you. item 54, supervisor haney. [roll call] . >> supervisor yee: without objection this motion is approved unanimously. next item . >> clerk: item 56 is a motion to appoint supervisor walton, term ending february 1, 2021 to the bay area air quality management district board of directors . >> supervisor yee: okay. can we have a motion to excuse supervisor walton on this one? motion made by supervisor brown and seconded by supervisor ronen. without objection, supervisor walton is excused. roll call plea

theodora: so my family hadn't been in croatia for a very long time when the war actually happened. by very long time, i mean not for generations. they -- my father was actually born in romania, but they immigrated into yugoslavia when he was a very young child. and then they settled in zagreb. my mother's family came to a small-town which is on the very far north of zagreb near the hungarian border. and they came so that my grandfather could serve as rabbi to a small jewish community that was there. they actually came from slovakia, and they had when they arrived, they had two children, and then they had two more including my mother. my mother was the youngest. started,e time the war my grandfather had been the rabbi of that community for 40 years. they had been living there for a long time, just not for generations. war came around, all the children on my mother's family had been settled, have been working.