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Question

The same thing happens in Austria. Innocent people are killed, Jewish men are sent to concentration camps and Jewish homes, hospitals, schools and synagogues are destroyed.

Answer 1

But not all hate us. Some Germans and Austrians are outraged and try to help.

Answer 2

And when the Nazi soldiers come to arrest my papa in the hospital. The doctor who is treating him steps in front of his bed and says...

Answer 3

Kristallnacht is just the beginning. Five days after that Terrible night a new law is passed: .Jewish children can no longer attend public schools. Parents face a Terrible choice: . Either to keep their children with them or to Send them out of the dangerous country.

Answer 4

WOMAN 1/ROSEMARIE MARIANTHAL Evie Schuerman, Germany.

Answer 5

I’m eighteen, too old for Kindertransport, and it’s too late to escape. And what I fear most happens. I’m ordered to Gestapo headquarters.

Answer 6

My only option is to go to England, but I must have a work visa, and I’ve never worked a day in my life. So, my mother creates a fake resume listing my many jobs working as a skilled maid.🧹 It works! And I get work as a live-in maid🧹 in London... where I scrub and clean day and night for a miserable woman. I miss my family and feel so alone. All letters from home are censored by the Nazis, who black out almost every page. My uncle suggests I correspond with a lonely German doctor, named Herbert Molser. The Nazis made it illegal for Jewish doctors to practice medicine, so he moved to the Belgian Congo in Africa to do the work he loves.

Answer 7

“My dearest Herbert”... “...if I accept your offer, what if you don’t like me, I’m charming in letters but in person I have a really big mouth. Or what if I don’t like it in Africa? My visa gives me permission for only one entry into England and I have used that up and won’t be able to return here.

Answer 8

I’m not afraid of all that. I’m scared because I’m only nineteen and Herbert is so old... he’s thirty. I defy my parents, face my fear and go! And I arrive safely to two surprises. Herbert is shorter than I expected... and a new law has just passed. **Rosemarie, we have to marry immediately or you’ll be forced to return to Germany and sent to a concentration camp.** Marry you or die? That’s some choice, Herbert. So, I become a wife... to save my life. Young people grow up fast in war.

Answer 9

Before Hitler, the townspeople like us and love Papa’s beer. He’s the third generation in our family to be a beer brewer. I’m the only Jew in my class and I have many friends. But I’m closest to Christina, who is Catholic. We spend every Christmas and Hanukkah together learning about each other’s religion and rituals. Christina’s mother, asks my mother to pack a small suitcase for me, to keep at her house in case something terrible happens. My mother laughs. She thinks the Germans are such refined and intelligent people... but Christina’s mother pleads and so my mother gives her a “just in case” suitcase for me. Then the war breaks out. The Nazis raid our town, catch me on the street and send me to a Concentration Camp. My parents have no idea what happened to me and I have no idea what’s happened to them. I am fourteen years old and now a prisoner and slave laborer. One day a guard hits me over the head for working too slowly. The women around me keep me from falling to the ground for fear that I will be shot. Another day, a Hitler Youth group is touring our camp... observing how the Fuehrer gets rid of “undesirables”. One of the guards pulls me aside to a private area which means I am about to be punished or killed.

Answer 10

I know you. You were our mailman and always friendly with my father.

Answer 11

I walk right out of the camp with the Hitler Youth but know I can be discovered at any moment. So, as the good little Nazis march forward, I slip back and duck into an alley to hide till nightfall. Because of the curfew, I can’t be spotted on the road, so I keep low and crawl over many fields toward home.

Answer 12

I don’t want to talk about it. Ever. I’m home and I’m safe.

Answer 13

But we will die there!

Answer 14

I’m Helena Czerniakowska... and I’m Catholic.

Answer 15

My name is Helena ((Makes the sign of the cross)) Christina taught me.

Answer 16

I promise. Can I take my violin?

Answer 17

I leave my parents and flee to Christina's house where they risk their own lives by hiding me overnight in a shed. The next day Christina and her mother buy a train ticket for the new me. Helena Czerniakowska boards the train to Vienna with a Catholic prayer book from Christina's mother... (takes suitcase from crate) ...and that “just in case” suitcase she has been saving for me. I don’t know if I’ll ever see any of them again. But I will fight my hardest to survive... and keep my promise to to Mama and Papa to speak of what happened to us and all the Jewish families. (returns suitcase to crate)

Answer 18

1.3 million Soviet Jewish men, women and children are murdered.

Answer 19

This damn ghetto! It’s like a prison without a roof here! We can’t continue like this! The children have to eat!

Answer 20

We can sell the furniture!

Answer 21

Then I’ll sneak out of the ghetto and steal some potatoes or bread!

Answer 22

There’s a famous quote from Hitler. “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” The world believes the lies and thinks we Jews are safe. Beware, because, sadly, this method of repeating a lie until people believe it, is used today to rally followers. Eva Vezer. Hungary.

Answer 23

Work sets you free . They are going to work us very hard here.

Answer 24

And the little children?!

Answer 25

I don't know.

Answer 26

Standing naked each day. So they can select the weakest and sickest to die in the gas chambers.

Answer 27

Work will not set us free. But work may just keep us alive.

Answer 28

Some of you know what it is to never see a family member or a good friend again. It is a loss we will never forget.

Answer 29

Eva! Keep marching or they will shoot us.

Answer 30

Tonight, when they let us stop and sleep, we’ll tear pieces from the blanket and wrap them around her feet.

Answer 31

The Allies cross the Rhine River ...and reach Berlin!

Answer 32

We are free! The SURVIVORS hug and cheer with improvised “Thank God!”, “God bless America!”, “God bless the Allies!”, “We’re alive!”, etc.

Answer 33

For us there is some justice from the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. Some Nazi Party officials, high-ranking military officers and German businessmen are found guilty and sentenced to death or given prison sentences.

Answer 34

Where’s Agnes?

Answer 35

For us “DP” also stands for determined persons. We have nothing but we have the will to create new lives!

Answer 36

Finally, with intense lobbying by the American Jewish community, many are eventually able to immigrate and build new lives in America.

Answer 37

Six million were Jews... two thirds of the Jewish population of Europe. This is the human cost of hatred.

Answer 38

How did my spirit survive the horror and violence of the Holocaust? I didn’t hate. Hatred is like drinking poison and hoping the person you hate will die.

Answer 39

I never became a great violinist. That’s life. You find a new dream and make it come true.

Answer 40

It’s been an honor for us actors to represent these ten survivors, who are no longer with us. May their memory be a blessing...

Answer 41

Will you help? ALL Never forget! Never again! Never is now!

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