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doctor, a long night of tools mediated by the us and that's all for now. what's next? we have a documentary on one of the world's oldest holocaust survivors. barger friedlander recently passed away at the age of 103 states you and for that, for me on the team here in berlin. thanks roger. take care the we are all set and we are watching to see him to bring you the story behind the new wheel on about. com biased information for free might say, due to an in of the
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large portrait photographs of holocaust survivors taken by luigi toscano were exhibited in german trained stations in summer 2021. the small god. friedlander was among the
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this is the kind of location main. she's been yeah, i gave it. i don't file my g as i don't. i nothing. i'm happy personally. she. i'm grateful really? yeah, i got 16. i've had 4 different lives as tight a wonderful childhood and a few beautiful years of added to this, but to show good other cool you know, several extremely difficult years was where i went through a lot feel
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n e 110, and then marriage, m e e s and then these 1011 is a totally different to see if the souls portray here the today model. the lender lives in berlin again. she was born here in 1921 into a jewish family. they were persecuted after the nazis came to power. in 1933, the her parents were divorced. her mother was not able to plead germany just
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before she was about to go into hiding with her children. more gods younger brother ross was arrested hoping to help her son. her mother turned herself into the authorities. ma god went into hiding in berlin. after 13 months, she was caught and deported to the easy and started concentration camp. she survived, her mother, brother, father and her entire family were murdered in outfits. shortly after the liberation of today's installed. and before she left, she married out of cleveland, a man she knew from berlin and whose family had also been murdered. and now she bits. they emigrated to america in 1946, the
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captain america. miss guns should fight also. but i never really sa gave america because when i had needed america, they didn't let me in. it's missing each. i just assume the each. now, if i, the time i came to america, i was free and a vice and could have stayed here anyway. wanted to be up. it was my own free. well, on my way up, and if i could just come to america with my mazda company, i might have been very happy beach placed. this dispute is the reason the in 2003, she returned to berlin for the 1st time in 57 years to participate in a documentary the
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and was sometime in the new good tim best. some of it had to be shocked in berlin. my lead that was what changed my life, the main for each the moment i arrived in the sixty's when my roots will bundle for savings and i realized what it meant to me get mess tougher. bus diesel. she got to mission victoria. that was the essence of it. space and dish and i knew i should be one year and they tempted 15 in 2005. so i was a document she was officially screened here at the jewish film festival. a did publish, and then i began to write my book and ideas one year later to the publisher who voice heard about. it's got the whole book because
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out they said they wanted to publish it. and that's how i should work with a couple seconds. i dislike that was as 2006 in december. i met model in shred vega, that december and worked with have for one. yeah. up and you helped me to get the i was in america and she was in berlin who you by in bending her book, try to make your life was published in 2008. since then she has been doing regular readings from it. sometimes several, a week issue you for do not malice because i should be at each mine what does interest image showing disappears. i stand in front of the neighbors building and in a moment i will see my mother. he dictates getting darker. you show the jewish couple is waiting up the little window i can recognize the silhouette behind the curtains . i look for my mother's familiar form. well, you see, she's note that the lazy opens the door for me to be. where is she?
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i asked gas express. he's a woman waits until i'm inside. then she shut the door. she left me see me. but 1st i didn't understand. did i get to too lazy? she out looking for me to call miss she left a message for you. this is steve. i am. i am waiting for the woman to hand me something, but she just stands that i look for a slip of paper in her hand. something my mother would have written down for me. is george, i'm supposed to give you a message and done that. then she tells me what my mother could no longer tell me herself. if i have decided to go to the police, i speed, i am going with ralph. wherever that may be in the best to try to make your life so badly. so that the only things she still has from her mother are this amber nicholas at
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a small address book, a side 1000 as ish. so who could fuel into 1000 dates? because when i was still on the plane on my way back to america, i asked myself in new york, so you really doing in new york? yeah, there's so much more you can do in germany. in berlin committee cuts in 2009, she decided to leave new york and returned to berlin for good point to him. i definitely have 88 years old ma godfrey linda has been re petri a to and this backs for good people or not. today. she officially became into them and citizen again, that's always the interior minister coating presented her with the certificate thing. i'm gonna get
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this and send that to send it to cutting. that seems to me, i should probably say a few words of to receiving this document support and i think was of sykes are expected of up to one vote to discover fios' condition. i can't do that, i didn't see how because you have simply returned what belonged to me in the 1st place, best when it was taken away from me many decades ago, almost back then they left the roots of a young sapp claims to dry out to us and if we knew, i haven't come back to germany, come, i've come to my friends or you. thank you. oh, okay. so the ship by most and asked if i miss america, be sure to help me. i don't to, to have been people versed
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a few jobs. i know i was in america so many years is you just concerns me. see, but i don't really feel like i lift that for 64 years of port to soften friends. say to me, it feels like you were here the whole time of the submission. i have that same strange feeling. i'm totally here. been to college here. one of her greatest objectives is to tell her story to young people in schools, church communities at adult education centers. by the zip for the book i use for readings. this is what it looks like. now. here you can see the stuff you have in austin. gosh, dad and it's $12000.00. no,
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i received the ein hot prize for the book in 2009 for best autobiography based out to be oak of p. so i was invited to berlin again to do readings. assign cannot these on deeper, i noticed how silent these young people uh, you'll know, mentioned the school students came to the same doing and how as soon as i started to speak, they wanted to know, yes and is it what's next to us? what's next? what is this woman's life, the fundies of? what did she lives through the end? it wasn't. and i always said it to you so that we live through never happens again. that's who of us you, that machine. death must be a leap top. but i don't blame many of you have a dish people. if i new choice, then because we can't forget to sit in those use,
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the parents and grandparents with cheering is told on who was it? of course i knew that you be top spot me good. here i was speaking to the 3rd or 4th generation who had nothing to do with it to own denise stuff, me to tune that the readings have become too exhausting for her. so friedlander has started using a video recording infinities, and that's not good. it is we asked the company honish tasa in a truck out of berlin spending the tool will show us the doors closed behind us for days from that moment on. everything passed me by like a nightmare. you immediately forgot as soon as you wake up, but which still leaves an indelible tyra behind. on to taught steam, i'm going to austin ocean to shrink it. that is my new scene furnished in my new co, but my soul was not in my body in this truck, on its way to,
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to lazy and stuff cause easy instead was like a large scale study, an experiment spinning it. i know one question rules our lives, these how much can a person take place and stuff easy and start was an in between place united life no desk about the to the desk. waited for us in the camps in the east tow. in the get towed, there was hung up cells and cramped conditions and it was everyone set themselves a loan for some humana see some close to this new and it was difficult for me to to allow those things. and everyone existed in a kind of isolation hooked up to hazy and stat was of that q 5 cool. a place devoid of and light or do without time insight? honestly, 6. uh huh. after the readings,
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the young people are curious to know more. shop is to shop. i made it shipped. i feel like i can do something for those who didn't make who can't dismiss dish of time. i have a duty to speak, so those who can no longer speak english mesh question could get in body. would like to tell you that we won't forget you and that we will pass everything we've learned onto the next generation. just give you a tough escape. bill that gives me strength. so strength to do this because you are listening to me. but because i believe that my was being hood, well, i was go to flagstaff k as a see sure what i'm telling you might not get through to all of you. but you can reach 2 or 3 or 4 of you. i've achieved something. then i'll be suppressed.
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because it's for you. then what can i do after all? nothing. i don't have any children i need to this. you will have children, families, emilia, be smotts. i make a good lie for yourselves and none things. now the quote, because knowledge really is every single piece of this lilia with a lovely name. oh, the best time to binge and have you, strangers have been good to me. i'm diminishing strangers. who had nothing to do with me in my life and lead me to not the death of mister pick, guess i'll never forget that year and 3 months i've known that i spent getting to know people in berlin came who had done something extraordinary. even demos at 1st,
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aton hopper. i'll never forget that i was head cuz that's how i actually discovered a true human assuming solution. i can get it out. i please good. and i'd like to give some of that back. the shipping news for like governors, maybe i don't really realize is also really i do. i've done a lot of it turned out to dunk. so when i look in this folder, i see all the words sanks in the email for the dental side of things. and hundreds and hundreds of them to and told me that they not for not single mission for this.
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they are all expressions of gratitude to you junk. so see this i have been the of was, here's someone writes the surely we didn't know how bad it was. back then all those you've made me see so much more clearly, hollis few best they're forced day. people have written lessons like that is in, in believe from that from title. but same to the interesting thing is how they suddenly really learn what was going on. bestbuy, the cost of the leading them all the cost survivor margot to friedlander is $1.00 of 10 berliners. the tool guide is now offering and modeled friedlander to keep that one's gone. $606.00 will be 4. 66 is berlin was little more than a memory for ma,
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godfrey bland. the place denazi's once took her prisoner up to we'd have to hold. the cost is only close to $5.00 a month, but friedlander was awarded to own standing. the dictation in germany of awarded only the very citizenship, the highest escalated, the state of berlin boats were persecuted by the nazi regime and keeping by building is for years and 50 both as still active today. they remind us of the atrocities and criticize anti semitism and racism on cost is typically a good the good thing. and bubbles were also on a very citizens or to they ton in the graves. now, if they had graves up, i do then and you will do jews who they didn't consider a human us mention on the con who they wanted to kill them and almost managed to
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own just in tuscany today. a jewish woman who to even has become honorary citizens, a still good slice with her honorary citizenship. friedlander is now among the great names in berlin's history. her portrait will now hang in the gallery of eminent figures in berlin's house of representatives. the presidents of the berlin house of representatives how's visa and shows her how different and varied the portraits are the very different style here and that one of the twist denture is almost realistic. element schmidt with his ever present cigarettes and the snuff tobacco. he always use g and look at that style.
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the uh, the astronauts. lots of deals the so yes, there is a list of honorary citizens from east gemini. this is of sigma, indiana, and, and valerie because sky all that. so look for land artist stephanie found out of it is working on a number of sketches for the official portrait. yeah, it's just okay. shouldn't excess, but do you the i is a bit more complete than a freshly sketched. i push, i'm going to, oh, good. so this is that to just be on the coat. it's my gods image hoc. when michael asked me if i would paint a portrait for the house of representatives and house line. so to i
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just found the trinity sensors. i was overwhelmed just i'm surprised by because my good puts so much trust in me and for how long cushion kept you can't say no to that woman snyder. go ahead and come or is it here being mama mission here being one is b as in period. gabriel. g, a minus the phone trans. hosting probably needs to go on the high t s. this needs to be the end of your time uses friedlander. thank you. for deciding
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to live among us again with your work for democratic values, your contribution towards keeping memories alive, and you'll work with children and young people. you have done a lot of good for our city, monterey. we citizenship is the highest accolade we can award here in berlin. and that's why i'm very happy about something you said recently in conversation with school students. when you visited us in the house. i'm a true belinda, and i love my city. you can even mine instead of all in the big loose fallen off by security that does it's to visit no being near him being d as in v here. no. being the big d as in tv and the 2019 cleveland that became patriot of article one of the german constitution. the clinic is that
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everyone has the right to express their opinion, whether it's gender, nation, or background of face, no one should be deprived or favorite human dignity is involved in level human dignity is one environmental the as far as so i'm very happy the use market friedlander, someone who reminds us why the constitution came to be, are accepting this. tell us man today in the spirit of diversity and difference, you busy teach and keep unimpressed. our ceremony was held by the german integration foundation to mark the 70th anniversary of the constitution. even pulling this alongside chancellor america was holocaust survivor, mar godfrey lender. she received an award for outstanding integration work. miracle thing's been 97 year old who has been telling the story of her life under the nazi
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regime in schools for years. and she also became patriot of article one of the constitution. human dignity is inviolable. who to dimension is on tough, but spend that to a leash in know, i'm very touched. of course. i don't really know what to say. bessie sat and so chipped from my notes. i did write to speech history that 1st of all, i just like to say move sign keys this to dish them. it's a me, it's incredible. just to experience this desk to enable the she wrote the book of interviews each to s voice. i do it for you. together with
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the anti semitism representative of the state of north fine west failure as a warning to people to learn the lessons of history. a to z me too small as you should, you should desk i its anti semitism is not the only thing mainstream. they're against to this pete poll newton. would that obviously know whether it's dues or foreigners, can both people with other opinions that just they want everyone to be like them, that's v as in the future. so i would speak linda multi via human ment, side. so again, as a witness evolve as a person with a mission, margot friedlander motivates young people and stuff she puts her heart into it. she's very authentic us and z, and i think all of that makes her a great supporter of prevention, which is the most important thing when it comes to dealing with and
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a dressing anti semitism. you getting on to me to some of the fish the stays, the doctor. he doesn't shed margaret in the can catherine fine because i have my purse around me every day in some food. yeah. and i'm dealing with those so closely. nothing does i feel like i'm always with her. this is an antique bite. yep. and it's fun. yeah. and died on the smooth place. it wasn't possible for her to come here to the studio because of this, the change struck back on and, and will i have to add to this building, design and stress? the number 17. it's a very poignant place and go bizarre out is by because this was her last hiding place to fuel before she was taken to,
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to raise the inch dense inch to come on this is in the frugal a dish and that's to twist a site to clean ways brings me to to use it when i climb these full flows or when i enter the stairwell key, i think of mock on each step kind of a history thing, cuz i lot of the younger sister eh, what she experienced to was the wonderful complaint family hi, deb hung up on for me and your company you went, she couldn't remember which floor she lived on and they try, it tells you the same content. right?
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so you had thought she has a postcard. she sent to the come please from theresa instead. complex of to face, interesting shape touch cuz i saw it. well, she showed it to me when it's said vent. come play a family, focus on and stress. so 72nd floor by to stroke i to see. so she was on the 2nd floor to flows below me. all right, so i stuck back. quinton. yeah. so finish activate that. that's what i look like for a long time. quotes yeah. there i am with my cross that's. that was when i was in hiding. dent coincides. so. look how beautiful my have was.
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you haven't done your hayes still beautiful. it's hot today. i asked you where you got this cross. and you said someone gave it to you. you broke you into hiding demons. one tech one for tech across to when it was so i was so astonished that it wasn't silver. so then this guns, she was a very simple cold hodges as to no cause to cause her. i didn't have any money for a chain if so, if it was crochet, the heat goes does so it's so beautiful and of this in this time. so and on the original just it looks like silver. i forgot is, is when i saw you in the settings, a new tab, i could sense exactly how you found the tools this stuff or do you recognize yourself? oh yes. the
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kind of the shift is it so, but i saw that i visit max once or twice every summer. that window shortened his house. he has a beautiful house right on the roof, tessa and moved towards agnes. and a little note about on that boy i usually bring something with me. miche profit chickens or a whole one depending on how many people of that comfortable must come. and he brings coffee and cake to the garden. and then we get into the boat for an hour or so of board that though i'm even allowed to drive it to sport fun. i love doing
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that to michigan most of the restaurant and i'm, i'm to, we go as far as pope stem under the bridges. i don't to like, funds a while. we looked at the sailing booths and other boats of buttons the on who was to see the board to and under board in spring 2020. when the corona virus pandemic brought public life in germany to a standstill. friedlander had to slow down too. but at 99, she was online to present the mall got friedlander award, which is bestowed on school projects that cheap a life the memory of the nazi era terrors or i didn't get a chance. so we're all sitting in very different constellations in front of our screens. and so many places and some of you are together. some of you are alone. i'm just happy, it's working out. my name is peter land. my name is ron,
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with the support of survivors and volunteers. the association presents readings, stories, and contemporary witness statements to the public. now, why did you have to get on the train? certain cal, this? michelle felt, and i think i'd like to assign to you again in this quote, i think it's great that you're doing this most f as it's very close to my heart as it says, my new if it has become my mission is so hard to fully show it today at 99, i'm very eager for you to continue the walk. said that whole to go best of this. it will be forgotten by the i just want to make just finished tickets and do the best thing. we can take up our mazda one year later, she can start working again. this time outgoing chancellor. ongoing miracle will
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give the speech in honor of the prize winners. the told us by the websites and you do this because you believe that is to stream the important to most of the young people to turn the backs on exclusion violation racism, anti semitism, and all forms of hostility to the group talking bit. so now i mentioned 5, this type to been used on goes mom. i've seen this will excuse special significance to the world named often monkwood friedlander. and i'm delighted to see the interest this award is attracting among young people all over germany, which front of the
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stink of my describe. i kind of guy sometimes think about what i might have done in life is gone. his but i can't imagine it. you push days past c s staff. the house is probably a dressmaker. space. i don't know if i had a frenzy, i was very young when hitler came to power. com. and so it just wasn't an option anymore. just got to kind of swear. we had to grow up too quickly calling to see if you have bucks, double put stream sto until 19 associates to cost until the cost on the i we tried to more or less have a life. i mean i you got my needs. so if, if i say it was too short, be those young is 1824 is when you meet someone and start
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dating that you my kids out put those years were missing, continued. he's not real frivolous. c, fluid is guy or them. how should i put it in to have time regret not having that dislike golf and i was always some fishing this me because i do not make us. let's have a look in here. 12 the 1st of this household, that house folk type plots where the monument is here. that's it is with philip play being used to do, his dress may can be size her questionnaire. so i left school, we didn't do my final. yeah. oh, school leaving exams. not been hiking or did station i went to the fashion design
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school. that's where i met to philip living. so he was very nice and i was very much in love scales latasha, and i think that was the 1st and only time, at least it was the 1st time i got drunk, can pull from hop point slowing hold of the building, closing, because the stressor itself yeah, yeah they usually they have to d p, f i, i agree as the change there was a huge table where the pumpkins were caught. p as a guess. is that to dish? that would be my well, i would say is that one? is this be it, right? yeah. the
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photographer, i'm a ts siegler supporter. it's a free lender for a photo book for her 100 birthday at locations that played an important role in her life. like here at house full time slots where her parents shop, what's the key presents or as a modern woman who has grown from her difficult fast, the
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sting to human. these have brought to my know, i always think my mother's words to take to me. but i am the process them in late to hear me when i was here. this please, a mess and now i'm making a life. indeed, i'm doing something in my life. i believe awareness of what friedlander does is not confined to germany. when us secretary of state anthony blinking and his german counter par tyco mos arranged a joint conference to commemorate the holocaust. once again, it was presented who was there to remind people of the equality of all human beings . i tell them that there is no christian jewish or muslim blocked, that there's only human black and t i. m.
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o steals this, know who own was on the g. s to talk to people it just for you. thank you. second nice thing to me. i always say i hope i can keep going for a while longer yet. that's the key life gave me the chance to do this. this mission is in miss you on that. i don't just if my own life but this i speak for those who come speak for themselves the
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the, the change the tight. so the weaknesses of that era, a go know you have the new ways of remembering the show must be found, especially when racism and anti semitism are emerging once again in society. here in germany, there to appear in direction of the politicians as society. we can and we should all work to look back to reflect us, to remember, and to think about the future. we have a huge responsibility to do our best here when we follow this call to your memory. and i very much hope, mrs. friedlander that we will be worthy of your legacy sealants information. please
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go to the ma some you kind of flushed and no i don't imagine much will be left after i passed away up the life. great. people have done things, but what i do is very, very little about my tool and this is delta c i c o governing as to nice may be the current generation listening to me in schools will talk about it to the children. yeah. and kid done at the side will be how far it will go. i have no idea what is tied because so many people keep saying they don't want to talk about his anymore stovall indefinitely by dish bass . question the
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