she was 10 years old when nazi forces invaded her home in warsaw, poland. the holocaust memorial museum in washington, d.c., hosted this event. it's just over an hour. >> good morning and welcome to the united states holocaust memorial museum. theame is bill benson, host of the museum's public program " first-person." we are in our 18th year. and our first person is mrs. estelle laughlin whom you shall meet shortly. this 2017 season is made possible by the generosity of the lewis franklin smith foundation with additional funding from the arlene and daniel fisher foundation. we're grateful for their sponsorship. first-person is a series of conversations with survivors who share with us their first-hand accounts of their experience during the holocaust. each of our first-person guests serves as a volunteer at this museum. our program will continue twice through mid august. the we seems website at ush .mm.org, provides information about each of our first pierson guests. estelle will share her experience for about 45 minutes. if time allows, we will have an opp

the warsaw ghetto uprising began on april 19, 19 43. it continued until the final liquidation of the ghetto on may 16, 1943. jewish fighters faced overwhelmingly superior forces of the germans but were able to hold them off for a month. estelle and her family were hiding in a bunker during the uprising and were forced out of hiding. we see here a historical photograph of german soldiers leading jews captured during the warsaw ghetto uprising to the assembly point for deportation in may of 1943. after they were discovered, estelle and her family were reported to the camp where her father was killed. the location is highlighted on this map of extermination camps in poland. sister, her mother and endured labor into more camps before eventually being liberated by the russians. estelle, her mother and sister emigrated to the united states marine flasher. we close with her immigration to certificate which was issued in july of 1947. when her sister and mother arrived in new york in 1947, they had $30 between them. estelle and her sister went

last year in warsaw, nato decided to deploy extra troops.nato are correctly reacting to the acts of russia. nato is defending and deterring, but also trying to keep a dialogue with russia. we support this dialogue. i have to put to you... we sent deputy ministers to moscow for dialogue. we then sent another deputy to moscow. we are reacting positively, but we do not have a positive ads from the other side. finally, are you enjoying being foreign minister of poland at this rather difficult time when you are getting all these criticisms we have been discussing on this hardtalk? i can repeat what i started in the beginning, which i did not finish is successfully because you prevented me to tell you, for the very first time, we have clearly defined our foreign goals and targets and policy. we have clearly defined our interest. this interest is to implement, using the membership of the eu and of nato. some of these interests do not coincide with the others, the other members of this institution. we have a discussion, a live debate with this. this

neck meantime poland has requested the european commission with draw a legal proceedings against warsaw over the issue but poland is not the only e.u. country to fail to meet its obligation in taking in migrants is joined by the czech republic and hungary warsaw was expected to take in seven thousand refugees but so far as you can see it's taken zero. poland's foreign minister has defended his country's position after the president our french president said warsaw is isolating itself. i think that statements are another arrow in the strategy of the country and the manifestation of how this country wants to position itself on the margins of europe's history present and future the state chose today to isolate itself in the functioning progress of. poland is not isolating itself and has not been isolated it seems to me that president macro and carelessly follows media reports and doesn't know what's going on in our part of europe it happens sometimes . in europe experts martin some says poland's defiance against policies will cause problems for the block. the big country the major players.

warsaw argues it's logging is in the best interest for the local community and the forest itself.r: at over 3000 square kilometers, the forest is one of europe's last touched primeval forests and at the heart of the latest spat between you and poland. -- the eu and poland. >> the state is obliged to continue protective measures and two for phil protective measures using a for film and tool, which is the forest arrangement plan. reporter: warsaw claims the logging campaign was part of a bid to protect the forest from an invasion of needles and -- of beetles. environmentalists say the majority of trees were not affected by the beetles. they say the logging is part of an effort to inject new growth into the economy. the eu has warned it could find poland 4 million euros for defying the order and 300,000 euros per day until it complies. daniel: it's back to gerhart now for sports. gerhart: cristiano ronaldo, one of football's most marketable players, has a feared in court in madrid -- has appeard in court in madrid on tax charges. he has denied accusations. reporter: the media gathere

obligation in taking in migrants it's joined by the czech republic and also hungry in this regard warsaw was expected to take in around seven thousand refugees so far though it's taken zero. well the situations led to the french president emmanuel mccraw saying that poland is isolating itself from europe a comment that the polish foreign minister denies is true. i think that all one statements are another error in the strategy of the country and the manifestation of how this country wants to position itself on the margin of europe's history present and future the state chose today to isolate itself in the functioning progress of fuel. poland is not isolating itself and has not been isolated because it seems to me that president macron carelessly follows media reports and doesn't know what's going on in our part of europe it happens sometimes. by let's get reaction now from independent journalist and also eastern europe expert martin summers not america back to r.t. so it's quite clear that there's a fissure between poland and the e.u. not seeing eye to eye at the moment could this have a

the president wa in warsaw before the g-20 meeting and did talk about russian aggression.ten. >> we urge russia to cease it's destabilizing activities in ukraine and elsewhere, and its support for hostile regimes including syria and iran. and to, instead, join the community of responsible nations in our fight against common enemies and a defense of civilization itself. >> he did say that. not as detailed as the vice president. no mention of the election meddling in the speech, but he did say that. the problem is he undermined himself on the same trip, very same town, when asked about russian election meddling and did it happen, he said this -- >> mistakes have been made. i agree. i think it was russia, but i think it was probably other people and/or countries, and i see nothing wrong with that statement. >> are we -- we understand that questions about the election, questions about the legitimacy of his victory get under the president's skin and have kept him from condemning the russian election meddling. are we just stuck there? are we stuck in that time warp and will not

dangerous moments in our history i'm afraid we're closer rather than farther away from the moment warsaw in brussels have been embroiled in a number of disputes for some time now past month the polish parliament approved controversial reforms to the judiciary handing the government control over the country's course despite strong objections brussels also banned logging in an ancient polish forest but also went ahead and partially cut it down anyway migration has been causing tension to simply because poland won't open its doors to a single wygant professor of economics at kingston university steve keen believes the whole concept of the e.u. needs a rethink. like it's a saw in the us not working on this is what's not getting through to brussels at all they wouldn't be the clamoring for exit from from the u.k. there wouldn't be the potential to very rich and almost victory of marine le pen all the the rumblings in italy it's all us on the system is not working there's something fundamental at the core of the european union the politically they want to leave will not join and it's getting t

someone who has a child or mother in warsaw and managed to survive the war and he was also in prison under communist rule, my docket real examiner who is the source at the beginning to have book was someone who lost the position in poland in 1968, was forced abroad as refugee. i studied under him and at oxford, people who i admired and who later became my friends, descendants of late communism, one of the things that you might do aside from pursuing the writing of your book, plays, is to understand the political world around you. these were the people that either in person or through writing i came to know. people who experienced the other turning points, the revolution of 1917, hitler's rise of power in 1933, the communists take over or the revolutions of 1989. but what i'm trying to say these aren't just events that i learned about as historian does but i'm also trying to pass on the things that i think i've learned from wiser men and women than me who experience themselves and the people who in reality or more distantly my teachers. but there's a third force of this as well aside

similar to warsaw and moscow. in italy and rome, temperatures up to 35 degrees.ly means fine weather. for many parts of england and eastern scotland, wednesday morning and afternoon looking fine. you can't miss this. this is the next low pressure weather fronts moving in during wednesday morning and afternoon. we're going downhill in belfast, glasgow, around the irish sea, liverpool and into cornwall. london looking fine. temperatures up to 23 degrees. rain moving through during the course of wednesday into thursday. a fresher day for most of us on thursday. brisk winds, some showers. temperatures getting up to around 2a degrees. i say fresher because the winds will pick up. by friday, quite blustery with sunshine and showers. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: devastation in sierra leone. hundreds are feared dead after an entire hillside collapses in heavy rains. two days after the white supremacist attack in virginia, president trump finally condemns racism. north korea an

we're on a par with paris, but some storms around here, similar to warsaw and moscow. italy and rome, there, temperatures up to around 35 degrees celsius. anyway, back home, tuesday into wednesday, there will be a ridge of high pressure. high pressure usually means fine weather. so for many parts of england, i think, and eastern scotland, wednesday morning and afternoon is looking fine. but you can't miss this. this is the next low pressure, next weather front, moving in during wednesday morning and afternoon. so the weather will go downhill in belfast, in glasgow, around the irish sea, liverpool, western wales, and down into cornwall. but london is looking fine. temperatures could even be a little bit higher than 23 degrees celsius. but that rain will move through during the course of wednesday into thursday, and then it is a fresher day, i think, for most of us on thursday. slightly brisker winds, i think, with some showers. still temperatures getting up to around 24 degrees. i say fresher because the winds will pick up. and then by friday, really quite blustery, wit

he was speaking at a day of demonstrations at warsaw by those -- to those who are in fear of the governmentaking democracy. hiking up germany's credentials as a holiday destination from the beaches to the alps. why germany is expecting a tourism boom this summer. ♪ >> i am sarah kelly, thank you for joining us. and a new threat from donald trump in the escalating war of words with north korea. he was responding after pyongyang vowed to fire missiles towards guam and called trump senile. he had his own words for the regime. listen in. donald trump: north korea does terms of talking about attack, of anybody that we love or we represent or our allies or us, they can be very nervous. i will tell you why, and they should be, because things will happen to them like they never thought possible. the people of our country are safe. our allies are safe, and i will to you this. north korea better yet their act together or they will be -- get their act together a few nations have ever been -- get their act together or they will be in trouble like few nations have ever been. sarah: we have a guest from

we're on a par with paris, but some storms around here, similar to warsaw and moscow.ere, temperatures up to around 35 degrees celsius. anyway, back home, tuesday into wednesday, there will be a ridge of high pressure. high pressure usually means fine weather. so for many parts of england, i think, and eastern scotland, wednesday morning and afternoon is looking fine. but you can't miss this. this is the next low pressure, next weather front, moving in during wednesday morning and afternoon. so the weather will go downhill in belfast, in glasgow, around the irish sea, liverpool, western wales, and down into cornwall. but london is looking fine. temperatures could even be a little bit higher than 23 degrees celsius. but that rain will move through during the course of wednesday into thursday, and then it is a fresher day, i think, for most of us on thursday. slightly brisker winds, with some showers. still temperatures getting up to around 2a degrees. i say fresher because the winds will pick up. and then by friday, really quite blustery, with sunshine and showers. welc

we're on a par with paris, but some storms around here, similar to warsaw and moscow.e, temperatures up to around 35 degrees celsius. anyway, back home, tuesday into wednesday, there will be a ridge of high pressure. high pressure usually means fine weather. so for many parts of england, i think, and eastern scotland, wednesday morning and afternoon is looking fine. but you can't miss this. this is the next low pressure, next weather front, moving in during wednesday morning and afternoon. so the weather will go downhill in belfast, in glasgow, around the irish sea, liverpool, western wales, and down into cornwall. but london is looking fine. sort this is bbc news. i'm kasia madera. our top stories: a national tragedy — the president of sierra leone leads the mourning for over 300 people killed in landslides and floods. north korea says president kim has been studying plans for a missile strike around the american territory of guam. and — taylor swift wins a court case against a former radio dj. thejury finds he did grope her. and in business: a future without borders!

london on the part with paris but some stalls around here similar to warsaw and moscow.high pressure which usually means fine weather. many parts of england and eastern scotland, looking fine but this next weather front moving in during wednesday morning and afternoon, the weather going downhill in belfast, glasgow and down into cornwall. london looking fine. 25 degrees. the rain moving through into first date and then it is a fresher date for most of us on thursday. briscoe wins with showers and temperatures getting up to 2a degrees. by friday, really quite blustery with sunshine and showers. i'm babita sharma with bbc world news. our top story: north korean leader kimjong—un has been briefed on a plan to fire missiles near the american territory of guam. north korea's state agency has said the leader held discussions with military about a potential missile firing near the pacific island, which is home to us air and naval bases. hundreds of people are feared dead after a mudslide near sierra leone's capital, freetown. a hillside collapsed following heavy rains, engulfin

similar to warsaw and moscow. temperatures up to around 35 degrees celsius. anyway, back home, tuesday into wednesday, there will be a ridge of high pressure. high pressure usually means fine weather. so for many parts of england, i think, and eastern scotland, wednesday morning and afternoon is looking fine. but you can't miss this. this is the next low pressure, next weather front moving in during wednesday morning and afternoon. so the weather will go downhill in belfast, in glasgow, around the irish sea, liverpool, western wales, and down into cornwall. but london is looking fine. temperatures could even be a little bit higher than 23 degrees celsius. but that rain will move through during the course of wednesday into thursday. and then it's a fresher day for most of us on thursday. slightly brisker winds, with some showers. still temperatures getting up to around 2a degrees. i say fresher because the winds will pick up. and then by friday, really quite blustery with sunshine and showers. welcome to bbc news,

warming is the in the small town usually calm will patrol without someone giving you a free bottle of warsaw offering you a blanket. sang his a free sausage roll so in a town of five thousand where three hundred homes will say have been evacuated. everybody knows a person who's in need and everyone is that for them of course is different. in a big city like houston weather is more and only missy by head you really feel the kindness and the strength of small town america coming through. what about the government response they confident that they're going to get the support they need in the long term? we know this is a town which is welfare has a strong taxd when you look at that. take levels of damage that it will take years for that city to recover just as it did with new orleans remember today is the twelfth anniversary. of katrina making landfall in new orleans well if you look at new orleans today it's still bad skulls from twelve years ago. how what's happened here at in texas is on a much much bigger scale nor trevelyan in la grange thank you very much do stay with us because we will ho

mikheil saakashvili, in warsaw, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for inviting me, stephen. have to ask you, why on earth are you in the polish capital? is it because, as a stateless person, you have no home, and you really don't know where to go? well, i have a home. i have a home, certainly, in ukraine. that is my permanent place of residence. and i still have a home in georgia. i am here because i was invited by my polish friends, after this decision of poroshenko. and i am here because it is close to ukraine, and because from here i am planning my return to ukraine, which i have announced that would take place on 9 or 10 september, and we need to deal with a number of organisational aspects of that whole enterprise. well, yes — a very polite way of putting it, "organisational aspects." the truth is, if you go back to ukraine on 10 september, as you say you will, i can only imagine you will be detained as an illegal entrant into the country, because you don't have any right to be in ukraine. you have been stripped of your passport, and your citizenship. well, first of all

these sanctions surprise surprise and yet the president had said this during a press and press or in warsawearlier this month let's take a look let me be very clear about one crucial point the united states will never use energy to course your nations and we cannot allow others to do so you don't want to have a monopoly or a monopolistic situation. i go i go i give the ford zero am i am i crazy let's not answer that part but am i crazy to think that we exactly what we're doing now that he's going to sign off and he's going to push all this gas and he has got him in power robertson have been saying all we're giving all the you know we're going to be the next big exporter is this not policy using policy as a weapon courses or balls as a weapon and what will want to do it what it does to of what you see very clearly in the media today is it's like we're going to we're going to we're going to tell you every bad thing that's going on and why we need these sanctions all those patriotic mumbo jumbo but really it's all about business of money you know we want you to start buying from us we want to

back in warsaw, we found somebody from the ruling party willing to explain the government's position.ct quickly. this is the only way. the fact is, there is a beetle infestation in bialowieza. dead spruce trees are everywhere. it is just that most scientists do not leave that is necessarily a problem. beetle outbreaks occur every ten or 15 yea rs. as outbreaks occur every ten or 15 years. as scientists, we do not see any danger to the forest. the larger pa rt any danger to the forest. the larger part of the forest was never planted by humans. they use the bark beetle outbreak as a reason for logging, which is not true. but trust in the forest is strong in conservative rural communities like these. somewhere, amid the politics, a unique forest is being destroyed. and its value remains the one thing all sides can agree on. stay with us on bbc news. still to come, tackling inactivity, as figures show more than six million middle—aged people in england fail to go for a brisk walk even once a month. he's the first african—american to win the presidential nomination of a major party, and he

chief donald tusk the remarks from the former polish prime minister came during a press conference in warsaw. a lot of that but. i feel this is a prelude to announcing that poland doesn't need the e.u. the e.u. doesn't need poland i believe that would be one of the most dangerous moments in our history i'm afraid we're closer rather than farther away from that moment. was so in brussels have been embroiled in a number of disputes for some time now last month the polish parliament approved controversial reforms to the judiciary handing the government control of the country's course that despite strong called to action is coming from the european union which was also banned logging in an ancient polish forest but also went ahead and partially cut it down anyway migrants has been causing tensions to simply because poland won't open its doors to a single one of them. ok let's begin to guess now i can speak to professor steve king professor of economics at kingston university great to have you on the line state. how would you interpret this rhetoric coming from donald tusk this is sidon that pola

. >> romania's dictator, the last hard line leader in the warsaw pact has been deposed by a popular uprisingmania was the most oppressive and most grotesque. the only way to overthrow this regime turned out to be by force. >> fierce fighting erupted in bucharest. the old guard is fighting the new people. all hell has broken loose. >> romanian television aired evidence today of the fate of deposed leader ceausescu. >> the ceausescus had been made to stand trial on christmas day. >> in the end, he got the kind of justice that he had dealt out to many of his subjects. >> at the end of this remarkable week, a week of blood shed in romania and elsewhere comes a reminder tonight of what the struggle is all about. it's about freedom and the reminder comes from berlin. >> germany was not just the symbol of the cold war. it was the first great crisis of the cold war. >> will germany be reunified? together, of course, they would form an economic and political power, but would a giant germany state once again dominate europe? the memories are very real, of course. >> many europeans were very wary of re

james taylor not singer spoord a warsaw grouper at a townment it weighed in over 400 pounds could beord. but it did not win competition. that fish was 2309 part of event. didn't go to waste it was fill aed and he shared with friends and family. bad for the fish and good for friend and family. >> texas boy recently cents home frl school because of long locks. the boy's mom surprise set. does he look like a young tucker barnes there. >> the boy was upset though aware of school rule on long hair. there were exceptions like religious or cultural reasons and texas mom says she will not cut her son's hair so she tried to put it up into a bun and school officials were not budging and mom says she plans to fight this ruling now my thing is this if it's in a bun what difference does it make. >> it's a rule. >> if it's not out and in a bun. >> i don't know. >> all right. >> i would be jealous of that hair though. >> i know. >> aww he's going to have to cut it. maybe he has powner his hair. >> maybe they can home school him. >> list of highest paid actors is out. one comes out every couple week

at the start of the cold war the russians and all the warsaw pact allies saw the cubans as useful partnerst would not draw attention like they would. the russians, the polls, every service in the world trained the cubans. cuba exploited the perception that they're not a threat because it lowers their cost of espionage and gets them more clients because situations that would be hard for the chinese or russians to do, cuban agents can do easily. building an unsubcase is like putting a puzzle together. the challenge is you don't know what the puzzle looks like and you don't know how many pieces there are. the fbi's case, they have three very distinct pieces of the puzzle as they share their puzzle piece, turns out i had the fourth puzzle piece. that one piece of information fit perfectly into what they had just shared. when we put it all together, i told them that the fbi's looking in the wrong place. because the unsubdoing the three things you just shared coupled with the fourth piece of the puzzle, there are probably 40 or 50 people that could do what your unsub can do and in all likelihood

. >> steve: after he went to warsaw after such a terrific trip, talk to so tough against russia and favoredt. i think you're right, something good is happening in the white house, these nefarious people say we have to strike. it has to stop, and i think it will. as much as the media and washington, d.c., fixates on entry, most americans don't care very much. they care about seeing their wages grow, being able to afford tuition, those are the issues. if we get taxes cut, and we will, then we are making enormous progress in 2018. >> abby: meantime, a new political report notes that despite all the recent comings and goings of the white house, women appear to be thriving at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. several officials on the team have either resigned or been fired, but it's a much different story for president trump's high profiled female advisors who have had a far more stable run and have even been promoted in some cases. one white house official telling politico, mr. trump has always been a promoter of women in the white house. the president has employed women at the highest levels of his co