. >> one handgun bought two weeks of extra life for the people in the warsaw ghetto. nazis were deathly surprised somebody had shot at them as they were invading theghghtto. they didn't go in full force for another two weeks. one handgun. >> showed you they were cowards and fearful. >> and how many more there might be. moving forward, armstrong will save the l les of many, given it is in the proper hands, properly trained and understand what to do when they are comforted with the situation in real time. as a law enfofoement officer, i had to go through 600 hours before we got out of the academy of firearms training. needs to be legislation, reform in the space of how training happens and who those weapons are gifb given to. we'll see a change on how things happen in this country. >> armstrong: larry, talk about the gun-free zones. >> from the data, all but t two of ouou mass murders have been in one of those gun-free zones. sometimes hapaply an armed citizen in spite of the gun-free zone policy of a mall say in oregon, where concealed carry is legal, m ml was able to

standing with survivors in the old warsaw ghetto and then the extraordinary honor of walking through with the rabbi and seeing the faces and hearing the voices of the lost, a blessed memory. then taking my own daughters to visit the holocaust museum, because our children must know this chapter of our history and that we must never repeat it. the four lives we honor tonight to make a claim on our conscience as well as our moral imagination. we hear their stories and we are forced to ask ourselves under the same circumstances, how would we act? how would we answer god's question, where are you? would we show the love of valerie and marila zbievski. not bad, right? there in warsaw, they could have been shot for opening their home to a 5-year-old girl. they cared for her like one of their own. gave her safety and shelter and moments of warmth of family and music, a shield from the madness outside until her mother could return. would we have the extraordinary compassion of lois gunden? she wrote that she simply hoped to add just another ray of love to the lives of these youngsters who had

on july 22nd, 1942, the germans began the mass deportations from the warsaw ghetto. y september 21st, yom kippur, some 260,000 inhabitants of the ghetto had been deported to the extermination camp where they were murdered. she and her daughter managed to flee from the ghetto and to go into hiding. i'm actually named after my aunt yanina because my father thought by the end of the war when i was born that she was dead. my aunt and her daughter stayed for two months at the home of acquaintanc acquaintances. my aunt then brought her daughter to the home of valley and marila until my aunt was able to rent an apartment under a false name and take her daughter back. despite the enormous danger, the germans publicly announced that helping jews would be p punishable by death. but they kept her and her daughter until her aunt was able to take her. i'd like to call on the grandson of the grate late valerie and m to receive the medal of valor and cert. of honor. [ applause ] >> so now let me introduce my cousin elizabeth wilk who was rescued in poland by valerie and marila. >> i