00:00For decades, we have spoken to people across the country, sharing our painful memories.
00:09We have done this out of deep sense of duty, to ensure that what happened to our families
00:17and six million Jewish men, women and children is never forgotten.
00:24Soon there will be no eyewitnesses left.
00:28That is why I ask you today to just listen, not to just listen, but to become my witnesses.
00:38What happened to them is indescribable.
00:42They were murdered in the most horrific way, shot into open pits in Krakow Forest.
00:54This was actually taking place all over the country, the forest killings.
01:03My father and brother were deported to Buchenwald.
01:06I was sent with my five-year-old cousin, Anne, first to RavensbrĂŒck and then to Bergen-Belsen.
01:15I later learned that my father was murdered by trying to escape a death march just days before liberation.
01:25In the camps, we were stripped naked, shaved, put through freezing cold showers and given the prisoner a barb.
01:37When we looked at each other, we barely recognized each other.
01:46We all looked the same.
01:49We were stripped not only of our freedom, but of our identities, our dignity, our humanity.
01:57It was as if they had taken away our very souls.
02:03When I arrived in Bergen-Belsen, the first thing that hit me was the smog and the stench.
02:12It was a hell on earth.
02:14Those still alive shuffled about like a skeleton and just collapsed where they stood.
02:25Disease was everywhere and I became very ill with typhus.
02:30I could hardly move.
02:33One day, from the window of my barracks, I saw people running.
02:38And all I could think of was how have they got the strength to run.
02:44I couldn't move a muscle.
02:47That was on the 15th of April, 1945, when we were liberated by the British.
02:53Having endured the Holocaust, we survivors never imagined we would witness antisemitism
03:00at the level it is today.
03:03What we have seen in Manchester, on Yom Kippur, and in Sydney, on Hanukkah, has shaken me to the call.
03:16How 81 years after the Holocaust can Jewish people once again be targeted in this way?
03:24Remembering the past is no longer enough.
03:27I speak to you, leaders of this country, I proudly call home and I plead that you do what needs to be done
03:43to tackle this hatred.
03:46When I was in Bergen-Belsen, I still had hope because without hope, there's no survival.
03:54Today, I have hope.
03:57I hope in the next generation, the thousands of young people who have heard my testimony.
04:06Thank you for inviting me to speak to you today, and thank you for listening.
04:11Thank you.
04:24Thank you.
04:41Thank you.
04:42Thank you.
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