00:00For decades, we have spoken to people.
00:05Across the country, sharing our painful memories.
00:10We have done this out of a deep sense of duty to ensure that...
00:15...what happened to our families and six million Jewish men...
00:20...women and children is never forgotten.
00:25Soon, there will be no eyewitnesses left.
00:30This is why I ask you today to just listen, not to just listen...
00:35...but to become my eyewitnesses.
00:39What happened to them?
00:40What happened to them is indescribable.
00:42They were murdered in the most horrific...
00:45...way, shot into open.
00:49So, erm...
00:50...open pits...
00:52...in Krakow Forest.
00:55This was actually taken place all over the country.
01:01The forest killings.
01:04My father and brother...
01:05...they were deported to Buchenwald.
01:07I was sent with my five-year-old cousin...
01:10...and first to Ravensbruck and then to Bergen-Belsen.
01:15I later learned that my father was murdered by...
01:20...and escaped a death march...
01:23...just days before...
01:25...in the operation.
01:27In the camps, we were stripped naked...
01:30...shed...
01:30...and today put through freezing cold showers...
01:34...and even the...
01:35...and...
01:36...given the prisoner...
01:37...for...
01:38...for...
01:39...when...
01:40...when...
01:40...we looked at each other...
01:43...we barely recognised.
01:45...we all looked the same.
01:49We were...
01:50...stripped...
01:51...not only of our freedom...
01:52...but of our identities...
01:54...our...
01:55...and dignity...
01:56...our...
01:57...humanity.
01:58It was a seat they had taken.
02:00...away...
02:01...our...
02:02...very souls.
02:04When I arrived in...
02:05...Belgen-Belsen...
02:06...the first thing...
02:07...that hit...
02:08...hit me...
02:09...was...
02:10...the smog...
02:11...and...
02:12...the stench.
02:13It was a hell...
02:14...on earth.
02:16Those still alive...
02:17...shuffled about...
02:18...like...
02:19...scape.
02:20...scape.
02:21...and...
02:22...just collapsed...
02:23...where they stood.
02:25Disease was everywhere...
02:27...and I became very ill...
02:28...with typhus.
02:30...and...
02:31...a...
02:32...kutab...
02:33...in...
02:34...one day...
02:35...from...
02:35...the window...
02:36...of my barracks...
02:37...I saw people running...
02:39...and...
02:40...all I could think of...
02:41...was...
02:42...how have they got...
02:43...the strengths...
02:44...to run...
02:45...I...
02:45...to move a muscle...
02:46...that was...
02:47...on the 15th of April...
02:49...19...
02:50...1945...
02:51...when we were...
02:52...liberated by the British...
02:53...having endured...
02:54...the...
02:55...horror costs...
02:56...we survivors...
02:57...never imagined...
02:58...we would witness...
02:59...and...
03:00...semitism...
03:01...at the level...
03:02...it is today.
03:05...what we have seen...
03:06...in Manchester...
03:07...on Yom Kippur...
03:10...and in Sydney...
03:11...on Hanukkah...
03:12...has shaken me...
03:13...to the cold.
03:15...how 81 years...
03:18...after the Holocaust...
03:19...can...
03:20Jewish people once again be targeted in this way.
03:25Remembering the past is no longer enough.
03:29I speak to you.
03:30The leaders of this country.
03:34I proudly call...
03:35...home and I plead that...
03:40...that you do what needs to be done to tackle this hate.
03:45When I was in Bergen-Belsen, I still had hope.
03:50Because without hope, there's no survival.
03:55Today I have hope.
03:57I hope in the next generation.
04:00The thousands of young people who have heard my testimony.
04:05Thank you for inviting me to speak to you today.
04:10Thank you for listening.
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