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...vergen-belsen...
02:06...the first thing that hit...
02:08...hit me...
02:09...was...
02:10the smog and the stench. It was a hell on earth.
02:15Though still alive, shuffled about like scale.
02:20Skeleton 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...
02:35To the window of my barracks, I saw people running and...
02:40All I could think of was how have they got the strength to run.
02:45I could move a muscle.
02:47That was on the 15th of April 19...
02:501945, when we were liberated by the British.
02:53Having endured the...
02:55Holocaust, we survivors never imagined we would witness...
03:00Semitism at the level it is today.
03:05What we have seen in Manchester on Yom Kippur...
03:10And in Sydney on Hanukkah has shaken me to the cold.
03:15How 81 years after the Holocaust can...
03:20Jewish people once again be targeted in this way.
03:24Remember...
03:25Remembering the past is no longer enough.
03:28I speak to you...
03:30The leaders of this country.
03:33I proudly call...
03:35...just heat that demon...
03:37... call home...
03:38And I plead that...
03:40you do what you need not 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, I 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
04:15thank you
04:20thank you
04:25thank you
04:30thank you
04:35thank you
04:40thank you
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