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 not only of our freedom...
01:52...but of our identities...
01:54...our...
01:55...and dignity...
01:56...our humanity.
01:58It was a seat they had taken.
02:00...away...
02:01...our very souls.
02:04When I arrived in...
02:05... Elarol Brighen-Belsen...
02:06...the first thing that had hit me...
02:09...was a human that shot...
02:12...and...
02:14...was in cannot be taken...
02:15...but I was...
02:16...the idea of...
02:18...is what the fervent most of us were...
02:19like skeleton and just collapsed where they stood.
02:24Disease was everywhere and I became very ill.
02:29I could hardly move.
02:34Today, from the window of my barracks, I saw people running.
02:39And all I could think of was how have they got the strength to run.
02:44I couldn't move a muscle.
02:46That was on the 15th of April.
02:491945, when we were liberated by the British.
02:54We endured the Holocaust.
02:56We survivors never imagined we would...
02:59...witness antisemitism at the level it is today.
03:04What we have seen in Manchester on Yom Kippur.
03:09And in Sydney on Hanukkah has shaken me.
03:14...to the cold.
03:17How 81 years after the...
03:19...the Holocaust can Jewish people once again be targeted in this way?
03:24Remembering the past is no longer enough.
03:29I speak to you, leaders of this country.
03:34I'm proud to be called home.
03:37And I...
03:38...plea...
03:39...that you do what you need...
03:41...not needs to be done to tackle this.
03:44Okay.
03:47When I was in Bergen-Belsen...
03:49...I still had hope.
03:51Because without hope...
03:53...there's no survival.
03:54...today I have hope.
03:56I hope in the next...
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