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Never again. Thats the plea of the people who survived one of the darkest moments in history, The Holocaust. During World War Two german murdered countless people. Including six million jewish men, women and children. Its easy to think of The Holocaust as a relic of the past. But the few remaining survivors of The Holocaust still live with the horrors of The Holocaust remains one of the greatest crimes against humanity in europe. Set out to kill as many jews as possible. They murdered all four o...

survivors of the holocaust still live with the horrors. the holocaust remains one of the greatest crimes against humanity. in europe, nazis set out to kill as many jews as possible. they murdered all four of my grandparents and forced my parents into slave labor and external e external nation camps. ignorance fueled them. eight decades later, its horrifying to see a rise in anti-semitism and holocaust denial around the world and here in this country. we want to take you on a tour of th...

Our tour guide is sara bloomfield, the director of the u. s. holocaust memorial museum. hi, sarah. thanks very. sarah tell us about this elevator elevator brings the american public into the holocaust through the eyes of the ordinary american gi whos fighting to defeat in world war two. and its those american soldiers who are the first eyewitnesses to the holocaust. and you hear this gi coming up across these atrocities and asking, how could human beings do this to one another? they patrol leade...

Be able to have children after the concentration camp, but ten years after we were married, she was. >> like so many survivors, he knew he had to speak for the millions that couldnt. and now im carrying on his legacy. im going to take you through the history of the holocaust and the u.s. holocaust memorial museum with help from survivors like my father. their voices will bear witness to future generations. our tour guide is sara bloomfield, the director of the u.s. holocaust memorial museum. sar...

Coming up — we will hear about the damning 19605 report that told the us it was fundamentally racist. we spend some time at the dance theatre of harlem. and we hear from the daughter of an american gi who grew up in germany and has spent her life wrestling with her identity. but first, lets go back to one of the darkest days of the civil rights era. on the 15th of september 1963, the baptist church on 16th street in birmingham, alabama, was packed and ready for sunday service. then a bomb went...

Edition of witness history. we will go back to some important moments in the past, and the civil rights era to the present day. coming up — we will hear about the damning 1960s report that told the us it was fundamentally racist. we spend some time at the dance theatre of harlem. and we hear from the daughter of an american gi who grew up in germany and has spent her life wrestling with her identity. but first, let�*s go back to one of the darkest days of the civil rights era. on the 15th of...

And we hear from the daughter of an american gi who grew up in germany and has spent her life wrestling with her identity. but first, lets go back to one of the darkest days of the civil rights era. on the 15th of september 1963, the baptist church on 16th street in birmingham, alabama, was packed and ready for sunday service. then a bomb went off and four young girls were killed. sarah rudolph collins survived but her sister, addie mae, didnt. why would somebody put a bomb on our church and kil...

Iran? in world war ii, american gis help free america from nazi occupation. 50 years later we assembled a coalition to liberate kuwait from saddam hussein. with the russians or chinese come to your rescue in the same way, the way that we have? and, when the mission is over, when the job is complete, america leaves. today, in iraq, at the governments invitation we have approximately 5,000 troops. with once 160,000. we had tens of thousands of military stationed in saudi arabia. now that number is...

In the middle east is too big. >> i dont think i would put it that way. i would say the quote is to mean that the middle east say very confusing place and before we leap, before we put gis into something where they could lose their lives or where were putting american gi lives at risk, we have to think before we act. i think if i can think of one thing that is true in that mass that i think is inconintrovertible and hard for anybody to object to is every time we toppled a strong man we have gott...

To broker getting rid of the chemical weapons in syria, there was hope among some of us they would want to participate in making the world a better place. quickly dashed after the invasion of crimea and into ukraine. >> there is a quote you gave, new yorker, you said it in july of last year, in the october new yorker, you said, when you have so many confusions, how can you ask an american gi to fight and lose his life for something, but in the neighboring country we would be fighting with many p...