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outfits where Nazis murdered more than 1
million people mostly Jews for me the
outreach is a cemetery
I remember the hangings I remember the
horror house which is like a terrible
scar was a terrible place few survived
the largest mass murder in history but
75 years after the liberation of this
death camp some are going back a few for
the first time
Sally Yossef from New York is one I need
a lot of sweaters she was sent there at
16 with her parents and siblings they
were killed when we can't do outfits we
found something like burning I didn't
see the gymnast but we felt the air like
burning like bones you know no 93 she's
going back it's a cemetery and I'm going
to honor my people to go to the cemetery
I never had that I'm going to cry my
heart out but I want to go
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hundreds of thousands of Jews were
selected for death at this spot gassed
within an hour and then burned their
ashes scattered all around here at the
Auschwitz gate with its notorious sign
work will make you free
a few survivors returned and I spent
here exactly
8400 hours
Miriam Ziegler was 8 when she was
experimented on here by the notorious
Nazi dr. Josef Mengele and that's you
anybody who lived through what we lived
through
when David Langer from California lost
most of his family I remembered the
place where they were shooting the
people at the wall
I remember the hangings I remember the
horror I remember the smoke of the
chimney coming out from the crematoria I
remember everything
it left such a scar on my soul on my
mind that the I could never ever forget
it Elizabeth Citron's mother was
murdered on their first day here the
second day I asked when am I going to
reunite with my mother and they took me
in the arm and and showed me the chimney
and they said when you go out the same
way every day was a battle for survival
absolutely absolutely the numbers are
still staggering at full capacity 10,000
people a day were killed here in eight
weeks in 1944 a third of a million Jews
from Hungary were gassed and then burned
when we got to Auschwitz for Sonia Klein
from New York death was just a few feet
away we were next to the guest chamber
and crematoria and we learnt how to
sleep you smelled the blood all neither
we
and we learned how to sleep the horrors
are unimaginable these newly colorized
images show Jews being rounded up for
death their terror clear the cattle
trucks they were loaded into brought
them to Auschwitz the end of the line
and it was here where the tracks end the
dozens of survivors gathered to
commemorate the liberation of the camp
in 1945 their pain still raw I'm upset
you probably can feel that our Swiss is
like a terrible scar from a terrible
trauma it never goes away
and the pain never stops
many afraid of new attacks on Jews in
the US and Europe do not be silent do
not be complacent do not let this ever
happen again to any people
salia sir made it back to Auschwitz
bringing a message for her murdered
mother talk to my mother and tell her MA
I I want to tell you what I went through
in MA please I love you I need you
embrace I need you to touch me and kiss
me like I used to do it before and
bringing also a burden
I always feel guilty I so why me why me
she survives not only Auschwitz but
Belsen where she met the teenage and
Frank whose diary survives her murder I
friend Anna Frank over there she looked
like a little girl like me I'm here my
heart is breaking everything comes back
to me I feel my mother I feel my mother
like she's touching me where prisoners
were shot
survivors shed tears the mass killing
here has always been a warning from
history but as anti-semitism and
nationalism grow it's a more urgent
warning today than ever
you're afraid afraid once again I am
afraid I'm very very afraid when good
people see evil racing is
anywhere in the world and do nothing
about it and become indifferent to it
that's the consequence because evil
conquers evil triumphs will get a letter
trial we don't want our grandchildren to
have the same anti-semitism that we live
through when you have only thirty
percent of children can even name one
concentration camp and know nothing
about the Holocaust what do we expect
sometimes history has a way of repeating
itself hate leads to destruction we must
not forget and we handful
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today two million visitors a year come
to Auschwitz
to the gas chambers to the crematoria
the Nazis tried to destroy to remember
like the survivors what was lost all the
possibilities it could have been for our
generation
well the artists the doctors and the
scientists in smoke
it was the most horrendous mass
slaughter in human history and the world
chose at that time to be silent can I
forgive a different story
no it could happen to here too it could
happen what the Germans did it a country
like that sophisticated intelligent
people they came beasts even animals yet
even here after all they've endured they
count their blessings today I'm a very
lucky person I am married I have six
grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren and for this and
very grateful for many like David marks
from Connecticut returning for the first
time is a kind of victory
I would love it this should be a life
and I should see what I accomplished but
you're alive I'm alive right David marks
lost 35 members of his family will marry
his partner Cathy Klein in June this may
well be the last time so many survivors
gather here but they're warning from
history is very clear never again
Methodist
they were not maybe not before but
that's what humankind can become
horrible place
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