00:00It means everything to me because I'm the daughter of a Holocaust scholar and survivor.
00:06My father, Dr. Mordecai Paldiel, ran Yad Vashem's Righteous Gentile Division in Jerusalem, Israel, where I was born, for over 24 years.
00:17And my father is alive and I'm alive because a Catholic priest in Evian, France, helped Kamenist family escape Nazis and helped them into Switzerland.
00:30Where he was put in a refugee camp for a year and separated from his parents.
00:35But my father has dedicated his whole life into honoring non-Jews, non-Jews, righteous Gentiles who hid a Jew and saved a Jewish life.
00:46So I am proud because I am my father's daughter.
00:50I grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
00:52And as my father would say, story after story about the Holocaust, I would always say to my dad, Daddy, don't worry.
01:00We're living in the United States of America.
01:03We're safe here.
01:05I mean, I'm amongst our own people and life is good.
01:10And my father warned me at a very young age that anti-Semitism is like a cancer.
01:16It could stay dormant for years.
01:18But once it shows its ugly head, he said, my daughter, I need you to be ready to fight, fight, fight.
01:25And now that you see what's happening with anti-Semitism and the rise of Jew hatred, here I am fighting, fighting, fighting and very proud to do it.
01:35Well, you know, the Holocaust is an ever-presence in my life because of my father.
01:40Never forget is right now.
01:42Never forget.
01:43And as the Holocaust, the people who survived the Holocaust are in their late 80s and 90s and 100s, you know, we have the conspiracy theories out there that the Holocaust never existed.
01:57What my job is, is to ensure that the Holocaust is always remembered and Holocaust education exists.
