00:14I try to imagine sitting in a 10 by 15 foot space with 15 other people.
00:20The room is hot, about 100 degrees.
00:23There's no electricity.
00:25Also no plumbing, no lighting of any kind.
00:27We can't bathe or brush our teeth.
00:30We sleep on straw and go to the bathroom in pots.
00:34Even if I could stand up under the four and a half foot ceiling, I wouldn't be allowed to.
00:39Because standing and walking make noise, and that might give us away.
00:45In the year 1942, my mother and 15 members of her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an
00:52attic of a peasant's home in Poland.
00:55My mother would never talk about this experience, but I always knew that it must have shaped her life.
01:01I also felt it shaping mine.
01:09For as long as I can remember, I've had nightmares and relived things that happened before I was born, in
01:15a place I'd never seen.
01:17I was haunted by stories I'd never heard.
01:29We were in total darkness, and he took us upstairs to his attic.
01:35He closed the trap door, removed the ladder to prevent his children from coming up there to play, as used
01:42to be their habit.
01:43And this became our home.
01:46We hoped for a few days, a week or two, maybe a month, but it lasted for two years.
01:53We hope for a few days.
01:55We hope for a few days, a week or two, maybe a night.
02:01We hope for a few days.
02:01They dei truke.
02:01We hope for a few days.
02:01We hope for a few days.
02:02We hope for a few days.
02:02Peace.
02:02You're cuántico.
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