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...I was a verbal person...
02:06...the first thing...
02:07...that hit...
02:08...hit me...
02:09...was...
02:10...the smog...
02:11...and 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 just...
02:22...collapsed...
02:23...where they stood.
02:25Disease was everywhere...
02:27...and I became very ill...
02:28...with typhus.
02:30...and I could hardly move.
02:33One day...
02:34...from...
02:35...the window...
02:36...of my barracks...
02:37...I saw people...
02:38...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.
02:45I...
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...
02:53...by the British.
02:54Having endured...
02:55...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...
03:20...you...
03:20...newish people...
03:21...once again...
03:22...be targeted...
03:23...in this way...
03:24...remember...
03:25...the past...
03:26...is no longer...
03:27...enough...
03:28...I speak...
03:29...to you...
03:30...the leaders...
03:31...of this country...
03:33...I proudly call...
03:35...home...
03:36...and I...
03:38...please...
03:39...that...
03:40...you do...
03:41...what...
03:42...needs to be done...
03:43...to tackle...
03:44...this hate.
03:45...when I was in...
03:47...Bergen-Belsen...
03:48...I still...
03:49...had hope.
03:50...because...
03:51...without hope...
03:52...there's no...
03:53...survival.
03:55...today...
03:56...I have hope...
03:57...I hope...
03:58...in the next...
03:59...generation...
04:00...the thousands...
04:01...of young people...
04:02...who have heard...
04:03...my testimony.
04:05Thank you...
04:06...for inviting...
04:07...me to speak...
04:08...to you today...
04:09...and...
04:10...thank you...
04:11...for listening.
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