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The true story of Herbert Heller, who kept his experience as a teenage boy surviving in Auschwitz hidden from his family | dG1fbk5rSV9HVGtrZHM
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00:00Why me?
00:01Why you?
00:02Yeah, why'd you pick me to tell your story to?
00:04Maybe it's because 60 years is a long time to hold on to a secret.
00:17My father gave us a magical childhood.
00:20How did you do it?
00:22Boys, calm down. It's too beautiful to stay inside.
00:27He's opening up to you.
00:29This is why they act as though nothing bad can happen.
00:32But it's not true.
00:34Don't stop recording.
00:35He's some old European guy.
00:37What do I have in common with him?
00:40What a freak!
00:42We don't play with you!
00:44Or something, apparently.
00:50No, no, no, no!
00:53I came face to face with the Auschwitz.
00:56Truth.
00:58Death count.
01:03Do you ever feel guilty for having made it?
01:05Perhaps.
01:08And now, I want to hear your story.
01:11We've always felt different from other people.
01:14What are you supposed to do when you've done something unforgivable?
01:20What wrong did you do?
01:21You do?
01:28I know it feels like it's the end of the world, but it's not.
01:32I saw the end of the world. I had a ringside seat for it.
01:37When this war is over, we will be reunited.
01:39We will be reunited.
01:48I felt guilty for decades.
01:51And then, I began to tell you my story.
01:56Tonight, my secret ends.
02:02And maybe yours could, too.
02:04Feel your truth and thunder be free-type.
02:15Bye.
02:21Bye.
02:27Bye.
02:28Bye.
02:30Bye.
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