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I’m visualizing
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the gates being fully opened,
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the noise of those iron gates,
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and endless queues of people
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marching in to take a shower,
and never coming out,
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which is what happened to us later.
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We heard the noise of batons.
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We heard the smashing of batons.
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They would hit us
and we were told,
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"You enter through the door
and exit from the chimney."
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Cattle wagons remind me
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of when we stood in them.
We travelled in them.
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Those memories are always with me.
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The colours
I see if I close my eyes
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are the white of the snow,
and the white of the corpses.
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Flames from the chimney, snow,
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cold...
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and loneliness.
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I do not feel hatred.
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Actually, I learned to love people.
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But I hate the Nazis.
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I shall never forgive them
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for what they have done to the children
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who were sent to the gas chambers.
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BORN NOVEMBER TH 16TH, 1939
DEPORTED MAY THE 3RD, 1944
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My children are my revenge
against the Nazis,
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and my grandchildren
and great-grandchildren
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are my way of taking the mickey
out of them.
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I decided
to get her tattoo on me
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after reading her book.
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I felt very, very close
to the story,
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and also physically connected
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to what happened
to my grandmother.
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I am Jewish, my mother is Jewish,
my father is Catholic.
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More than 40 relatives of mine
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never came back from the camps.
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I believe that growing up
with this awareness
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has always been
at the base of who I am.
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I remember having a terrible crisis
in primary school
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when I began to study history
at seven years old.
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I realized that this matter
concerned me and my family
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and the extent
of what human beings could do.
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Had I been born 65 years earlier
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I probably would have been
one of the victims.
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Everything can help you survive.
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Reciting all the poems you know,
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exchanging cooking recipes,
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singing Edith Piaf's songs.
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Italians sang "Mamma" and cried,
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cried while singing,
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but it was nice.
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This was resistance.
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JEW
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One day a friend
of my mother told me,
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"Do you know that in my shack there
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is a Dutch girl called Anne?"
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The girl was standing at the front door.
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She overheard what my friend said
and smiled at me.
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She turned her head like this
and smiled briefly and timidly.
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She was already very thin,
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but she had this truly adorable smile.
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INDIFFERENCE
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The disaster in Bergen-Belsen
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begins with the evacuations
of the camps in the East,
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particularly the Auschwitz Birkenau camps.
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Beginning in November 1944,
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thousands of people arrive
in a situation where typhus,
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from a certain point of view,
has the same function of the gas chambers.
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Because people die,
and die in a terrible state.
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So the only thing that the Nazis
are left to do is dig common graves,
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which they have
the prisoners themselves dig.
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They throw in the corpses without
even needing to dispose of them.
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I sort of ran for a short distance
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and then, almost in front of my block,
I slowed down,
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because I saw coming towards me
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three or four well-dressed Nazis.
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Irma Grese was behind me.
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And they were all in love with her.
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Like children do, I suddenly turned
around, just because I was curious,
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and Irma Grese had a gun pointed at me.
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That was the only time
I realized I could die.
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I remember that this one person came,
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he might have been Mengele,
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and asked us if we wanted to go see mum.
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A hack doctor from Neuengamme
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who had carried out some experiments
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on tuberculosis
and lymph glands on some adults
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thought to experiment on children too,
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and asked Mengele for these children.
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We warned Sergio
not to step forward,
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but he did not listen to us.
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And 20 children,
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ten males and ten females
stepped forward.
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To think that he left
believing that he was going
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to meet his mum,
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and instead, walked to his death
on his seventh birthday,
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still feels like such
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a burden on my heart.
It's indescribable.
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Jews in Western Europe were faced
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with a different situation.
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Here, there are too few Jews
to set up ghettos, like in the East.
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Therefore, the Nazis work out
a different strategy.
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They organize raids
based on the cooperation of local people.
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At this point, they built transit camps.
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The final destination is just one camp.
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A place created to kill the Jews
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and have a small minority of them work,
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as if to grant them an extension
to just delay their death.
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The only other people
who occasionally are mixed with them
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are the Sinti and Roma.
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She is a very smart teenager,
a very lively girl,
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curious about the world,
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full of ambition, feelings, love,
full of imagination.
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The situation of confinement,
in which she finds herself,
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develops her intelligence
and ability to think.
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I remember that
we used to play with snowballs.
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But we were always surrounded by death.
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Because in the camp,
among the barracks
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there were heaps of corpses.
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To see these corpses
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that they tried to push inside
this barrack
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had become normal to us.
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JEW
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I did my first
drawing in Terezín
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of children making a snowman.
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Of course, it was very far
from being the real thing,
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because in Terezín we couldn’t do this.
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It was, rather, a memory of my childhood.
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In one way or another,
I was able to give it secretly
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to my dad, and he said to me,
“Draw what you see”.
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So I started to draw
my daily life in Terezín.
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And so this snowman
was my first drawing in Terezín,
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but also the last drawing of mine
as a little girl.
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They had us play
round and round.
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We had to sing this song,
in German...
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"Show your feet,
show your shoes."
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My feet were already aching,
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and I didn’t have shoes.
I had only one with no sole.
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And it bothered me to sing in German
and do a merry-go-round.
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Also because my mother
was standing outside,
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maybe waiting for her meal.
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The kapo whipped me so much,
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because she kept yelling at me,
"Sing, sing and turn around."
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I had bruises all over my legs,
because those witches
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had rubber lashes
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with an iron wire inside.
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I would have loved to play,
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but not in that camp.
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We used to play with lice.
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I feel like scratching my head
when I think about it.
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There were maybe five or six of us.
Each of us took her lice,
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we put them five centimetres
from the hem of a dress.
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The one which reached the hem
was the winner.
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There was nothing to win,
but it was a game.
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I began to find ways of building barriers
to shield me through art.
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Adorno said that after Auschwitz
poetry can no longer exist.
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Actually, I believe that
it is perhaps the opposite.
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What that creation
of beauty, art, music,
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gives to human beings
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is the only answer to the horror
that is human history.
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We, who have been in charge
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of survivors and their families
for the last 30 years,
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have seen an element
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which can also be seen
in the fourth generation.
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What is it?
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It's the dead from the Shoah.
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The dead of Shoah ask for revenge.
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It is a burden for their descendants.
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It is a mission.
The dead of the Shoah say,
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"Avenge us even though
we are dead.
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Say I am the son or daughter
of such and such, Jewish,
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destroy what the Nazis did to us,
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say Kaddish for us."
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My grandfather died in the camp.
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My father was deported.
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I believe that this trauma
can be passed on, definitely.
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I passed it on to my daughters.
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Although I believe that probably
more than a trauma,
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I have passed on a story,
a legacy and a responsibility,
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I created a magazine online.
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It's called Jewpop,
and to my surprise,
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the most read stories
are about Shoah.
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THE WAR IS OVER
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I am a hidden girl,
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a bearer of remembrance
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of my grandfather who died from starvation
in the Łódź Ghetto,
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of my father deported on board
of Convoy number four and who returned,
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of my husband’s father
who was savagely murdered
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and drowned
by the kapos in Auschwitz.
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When I speak about the Shoah,
I may even make children laugh.
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"Madame," they tell me,
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"you are telling us about the Shoah,
and yet we are not frightened."
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I am not doing
it to frighten you.
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I am telling you all this,
because you too can tell others
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that this is no fiction,
there is no legend here,
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it is the truth.
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With Omer, who was a soldier,
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we entered in Auschwitz
carrying the Israeli flag
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and we left Auschwitz
carrying the Israeli flag.
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I believe that
there is nothing more terrible
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than wanting to tell something
like the survivors went through
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and have someone
who says to you,
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"Okay, but you are not
the only one who suffered."
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There are people
who are 70 years old
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who have decided to participate
in our meetings only today.
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They say, "At last,
I emerge from anonymity
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and I become Jewish once again."
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My children were raised Catholic,
my husband is Catholic,
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but now we don't need
to hide anymore.
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I need to meet other Jews
and to say I'm Jewish.
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I was born in 1961,
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during the Eichmann’s trial.
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I was born 20 days late.
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And many years afterwards,
I came to know that this delay
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was due to the fear that my mother
had of bearing children.
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Therefore, I sense
that I had always known it.
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I remember the stories she told me
when I was just a very, very little girl
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I remember weird
answers from Mum,
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like when I needed something,
she would typically answer:
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"Do as if you were
all alone in the world."
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She raised us
with great autonomy.
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The tattoo
has to do with identity.
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I could not tell whether
this identity may mean
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that I missed having
some of my family members
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whom I never met.
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First I talked about it with grandma,
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since she really
was the only one
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whose opinion counted for me.
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At the beginning
she said "no" right away.
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A protective "no."
I think she was afraid
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that something
similar could happen,
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but now I think
she is rather proud about it.
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What hurt me the most is knowing
she was alone on the way back.
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The terrible pain
of returning without her family.
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Because this is a loneliness
that can’t be filled.
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It is a loneliness...
and maybe we, her children,
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also feel
a little responsible for it.
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That’s it.
I'm getting emotional.
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A son or a daughter
is there on the front row.
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A baby born from a survivor,
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and without a specific job
aimed at clearing up history,
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his or her mission is to fill up
what can never be filled.
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What can you fill up
after the camps?
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I do not believe that she’s
ever come out of the camps.
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There is a part of her
that remained in the camps.
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We were forced
to load the corpses.
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Two girls had to hold the arms,
and two girls had to hold the legs
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Yet four of us
were not strong enough.
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So we had to drag those corpses along.
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Until one day,
one of the Nazis realised
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that we could not do it and beat us.
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He punished us, made us stand for hours
holding a stone in our hand,
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just to show that they were stronger,
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and we absolutely had
to do what they wanted.
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My number is 7142.
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Once in my grave,
the worms will eat it off me,
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but for the time being,
this is my mark,
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a mark of life,
and I'll keep it.
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My mother
had a very bright intuition,
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which later turned out to be useful
to reunite our family.
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She always reminded
us of our name, surname
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and that we were from Italy.
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We didn't dare
step closer to her,
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because we were
probably frightened.
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She wasn't any longer
our beautiful mum.
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She was incredibly thin.
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The fact that we
didn't want to hug her
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came back to my mind
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when I found myself
holding my eldest son, Stefano,
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and my thought went
to my mum, in those days,
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and to how much we must
have made her suffer.
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Sometimes mum
was able to come to visit me
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and when one afternoon
I saw her I said to her,
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"I want to give you something nice."
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And I gave her
a square of butter
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and two boiled potatoes.
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And then I ran away to cry.
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My sister said to me,
"If we see you cry again
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through the barbed wire,
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I will never take mum
to see you again."
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From that moment on I tried
to become stronger and smarter.
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I mean, I pretended
not to cry.
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But I always kept something
aside for my mum.
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All the people
who were confined in Drancy
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knew that they were going to be taken
eastward on a convoy,
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they didn't know where,
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and they started to say,
"We are going to Pitchipoi."
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Pitchipoi is a mythical
place, undefinable.
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Together with my friend,
photographer Jean Francois Lami,
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we wanted to make
the same death journey.
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When you approach
Eastern Germany, or Poland,
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it seems you
are going back in history.
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If we talk about traces
or marks left behind until now,
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there are places with graffiti,
with Nazi symbols.
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It's really upsetting to still
see the marks of hatred.
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We said to ourselves
it wasn't possible
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for this form of hatred
to still be there now.
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It's not possible for this barbarism
to still exist today.
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We see the Neo-Nazis,
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we see attacks,
anti-Semitism, racism,
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and all this actually tells me
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that nothing was learnt
from what happened.
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With the actual
situation in France I'm afraid.
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With certain movements
and rallies,
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we are seeing
a very fast rise in racism.
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I say to young people,
"We are the last witnesses
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and you are my witnesses,
you must close the door
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to deniers and Neo-Nazis,
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because there are many
of them everywhere."
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Anne Frank, in spite of herself,
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has become the icon of the Shoah.
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It is true that Anne Frank
is being used by people
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who are clearly
anti -Semitic or racist.
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We saw that
in some Italian stadiums.
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I believe that her
iconic status is behind it.
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If you have to hurt
someone, be evil,
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you have to find very strong
words, and strong pictures.
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And what’s more powerful
than Anne Frank’s face to say
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it's nothing, what happened
never really existed
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and this is just a face.
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Anne and I were born
on the same year, 1929.
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We were 14,
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and we experienced
our first love.
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Anne Frank talks
about it in her diary.
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And I mention it in my diary.
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I had my first love there,
in Terezín.
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I had hidden
two of Otto’s shirts.
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I do not know
why I had them for years.
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I kept them as a memory.
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I know he was in Dachau,
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and he died
a few days after the liberation.
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I remember
I once read the story
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of a cellist.
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She says she survived,
she remained sane,
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because she kept
on thinking about music.
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She played
over and over in her mind.
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Thinking about a musician
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who held onto
her whole repertoire,
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to all the music she knew,
really touched me.
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The Nazis wanted
to show to the world
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that while the Germans
are at war or under bombardment,
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the Jews live
with no fears in a fortress city
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where they can go as far
as organizing cultural events
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and they show these Jews
who seem to be living in heaven.
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And they even arrange
to shoot a movie.
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The Führer
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gifts a city to the Jews.
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They also organize
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a visit by the Red Cross,
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which sadly
will endorse this big hoax,
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this gigantic camouflage.
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My mother died there at 50
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and she was ill.
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My grandma died
two weeks after arriving.
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As for my father,
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I knew that he was deported,
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but I always hoped
that he would come back.
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I never saw him again.
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I can only visualize Terezín
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with my eyes as a young girl.
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I was there for almost
three and a half years
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and I celebrated
four birthdays there.
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I was 16, 17, 18, and 19,
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and I was unable to experience
what living free meant.
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There is an anthem of Terezín
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written by Karel Švenk.
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I'll quote it for you.
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"Everything goes if one wants
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United we’ll hold our hands
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And on the ruins of the ghetto
We shall laugh"
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Poor Karel Švenk
didn't laugh at all,
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since he died
during the death march.
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As a German,
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I have thought a lot
about whether I should
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have felt guilty or not.
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I think I have the responsibility
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to give back to the men who lost
their humanity here,
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and to fight so that
their faces are not forgotten.
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These destinies
remind me that today
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there is a lot
of suffering in the world,
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that so many children and adults
still suffer in war zones,
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and I find this inconceivable.
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There are still people today
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who are considered worthless,
expelled, killed and exiled,
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simply because they are not understood.
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We tell
our story to young people,
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and we have always done it,
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so that the memory
of the Holocaust is not lost.
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But today,
this is beginning to feel like a duty,
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because there are too many people
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who do not accept
those who are different
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and are looking for a better life here,
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and end up drowning in our seas.
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Subtitle translation by Giulia Rissini