People learn to classify small handful of animals with edible and all the rest of the classify as disgusting. The w series about our complex relationship with them and also need to be watch now on youtube, d. W documentary the, the history of the area in town of lands back unless inextricably linked with that of nonsense and it was here during his incarceration in the towns prison in 1924 that hitler rotors inflammatory anti semitic manifesto mind comp during the nazi era. Landsberg was known as hitler shot for hitler town. A place where many concentration camps were built right up until the end of the war. As the u. S. Army advanced in april 1945, it deliberated the loss of vipers set the concentration camps. In the months that followed some 50000 jewish survivors gathered in southern germany, they had lost everything. They were once again housed in comes this time run by the us army and the united nations. But in post whole lands bank, the Holocaust Survivors, one to welcome to this day, the town cant agree on an appropriate memorial for the victims of the show in the could you tell me where it is play here . I dont see. This is the play, the site is one. Yeah. Okay. The little serious. My whole family and those are my uncles and my cousins. We used to get together and we used to sing and the people used to send out site and the pro sing save my live. Would you like a cappuccino to couple channel . Yes, sure. Helga and month dinah, a long time residents have lines back. They were both born and raised. Yeah, this is mr. Noise. Most the nation visit to european hollow costs. Memorial in lawns back. See us very nice ice case and the be soon. So thats how they framing it, that hes visiting common. Vega is a breakfast to come and make you presume to i will come the opportunity to return to europe and Holocaust Memorial on the size of the former concentration. So become coughing 7 cuz its also not across the president of the foundation monthly deadline, etc, etc. Informed 5 minutes finish about the historical background and the foundations efforts to make the side permanently accessible to the website or from districts with a frequent call. Lets see. Do you think anything will come of it . Well have to wait and see some good. Some good positives. Mm hm. The month dinah used to work for the demons company, Health Insurance funds. Hes also being busy doing work of a very different kind over the last 4 decades as president of the european Holocaust Memorial foundation. He and a group of like minded residents, purchased a section of the form a concentration camp complex. The foundation runs a small memorial here but it has big it and visions. It wants to build a Documentation Center here. And its been waiting for years for the town to amend the Land Use Plan for the site. Its being laughed logically untouched. Since 1945 in the lets see a more not than Cynthia Williams and the last 4 months of the war. I told 2000 people were murdered here in camp 7 to still have them for who invest. They died of exhaustion or typhoid fever, pulled our vacation or were beaten to death on a deep ill to end if youre under nourishing in the order. And if you only weigh 40 or 50 kilos, and youll have to stand for 2 hours that the morning roll call fits this kito. When this do suffice dwelling, the weather is think it is today finding that and will it might not seem quite so bad. Flim businesses on the sun shining, theres still some warm, but i can still imagine how bit by bit read your will to live your hands away as you struggled to withstand the cold and the hunger. Oh, the movie and con jacob last night is 94 years old. He was born in poland to a jewish family. When he was 11, he and his family would be pointed by the novices. His father, mother, phone, sisters, and brother were mounted. Wasnt 3, get those all sweets dont how. And then different kids around of the sub gibbs in 1944. He was deported from our states to germany. Would that be offered in the red . Its 10 times more that would be the order. They wouldnt be human jacob branson, i ended up in johns bag in the counseling concentration. Come jewish slave labor as well for us to build huge bunkers here intended for use by the german armaments industry. The still num theater called hans he had the dog ship, it took me to ship it and his pleasure was when we went to on about, you know, within the palace in the morning we used to get out and at the stand on the appellate was the condos, i used to make it his business to take out one person mostly and isnt a person. And hes still in the middle of the field. Any at all and this over to him knows walk, roll himself over. And if you didnt, you send the dog and and then other people die. Thats the way ive seen it myself because that was at the, at the counseling camp. The nazis continued the policy of murder until the very end. As the americans approached, the prisoners were sent on dest matches i was a skeleton, of course, i could not walk. So i picked up the branch from the 3 somewhere. And i was hoping, you know, and we went down to with basically krogan our stomachs to the thinks of the American Army and kissed the trex. Its, its so you know, the, that the no one can know the badge. And one cannot imagine that the american soldiers looked at this and they sold. So who are those people . Theres from a different planet. And we want you to go there. Were closer to the okay. Yeah, 5. George lockman is 97 years old ago. He was one of the us soldiers to labor right to the area around lands back in 1945 at the age of 18. The volunteer to fight and the war against nazi germany. I remember entering towns that had been completely destroyed and there were many, many bodies, obviously in the ruins. It has a very certain smell, you know, and so are describing though its, its, uh and its, its, its apparently the kind of smell that comes from just 5th when the war in europe finally ended on may the 8th. 1945. The full horror of germanys extermination program was revealed. The counseling campaign, zions bank was no exception offering. It was doubly bad because the, the attempt to to burn the bodies, the evidence didnt work. Mean, even you can throw even throw gasoline on dead bodies and light them, but if the dead bodies are only bone and skin thats not gonna burn very well. The supply of just almost not recognizable people that deal in banks and the one. So is that smouldering . Thats another thing that once in a while wakes me up at night. Thats. Thats the, thats not surprising. This comes with the territory. I think because of what they say. George blackman is a us better and. And a holocaust survivor. He flat denazis in 1940 with his mother and both grandmothers leaving australia to the united states. His father, joseph like man, wasnt able to get a visa and went on the ground. He was murdered by the nazis. George never saw him again. To me it immediately became something connected with my father you know, when, when we encounter. Ready for example, of fleeing in displaced persons, for example. There was always the hope that i would see him. Even though you know, i know that this was as unlikely as, as you can imagine. But nonetheless, you know, the human mind always says, you know, its possible. And sometimes it is, of course, so thats sort of this thing mislead me from, from the people that serve within the army for exec of all of that. There was always a personal element, the, the colonel, the commanding officer, colonel johnson, still remember his name was so outraged many and that, that camp there. But the still burning bodies, you know, the stench. So the thing that i can smell it to this day, by the way, that he ordered so to go all the, to all the surrounding village as the smaller places between lands barragans and coughing and pick up people and bring them to the camp and make them to march through the cave and i remember 2 women talking to each other and again, the word sticking my mind. One of them said through the other, the fear of she said was right. Americans have barbarians to make us look at this. The george like, man, is a near daily contact with the diners, ends on his bag. Hes helped by his friend santiago chan. The this good. The gates the bad bad is a good of from germany, especially from last. Right . Yeah, of course. Well, okay. So the 1st thing is the, the, the concept. Busy busy museum is ready no doctor. Busy until next month youll notice the mama so arthur to see about how we want to go in the future. Thats good news. Yeah. By comparison of really good news. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So its whoosh. The bible, im the same thing is it is not everybody here likes it. Well. Yeah. But thats why you have to involve more people because at the end it becomes part of their interest. Oh excuse me. If you can make that the population on your side, then the politicians listen to that. You see that. So thats why its important to do that because people want to be in on something which is important, the new and it makes it more important themselves. You know, you want to feel you are, you are part of the decision maker. Yes, yes. Well, let me thank you for the good news. I on the lawns bad. The foundation is presenting its concept for a new memorial site. Local media have been invited. Historian design is also here to add a voice to mont. Saint dias was an exercise whenever im asked if ive got the official go ahead, i dont have an answer. I have to say no, not yet. When im trying to get people on board, have them go when im fundraising. Thats a problem. I have been going on if we were talking about 2 years on you, i agree as i could say, it all just takes time when you walk on any money but 9 years as he thinks, i dont have an answer anymore. And of course i dont want to knock my hometown. This is my home. I was born here. Ive been active and promoting remembrance here for 40 years and i think something, but as i said, it will come on. I dont want to come across as a complainer. Youll find when the war ended on may, the 8th 1945, the germans called it doesnt know the 0 our. The moment in which germany broke with the past and made a fresh beginning bond to the jewish survivors liberated from the counseling concentration camp may the 8th did not bring an overnight end to that ordeal. As it is up c l i realized very early on. This is a complicated subject. Not there were other things happening in loans bag because thats confusing. Apart from the history of the concentration gap law, it was this have to is i only really started dealing with the displaced persons campbell. The d. P. Camp is a bit later on katya on the go. Then i began to delve deeper into that history and it was to go to the email i looked for my mother and my father were long dish aspect, and i looked up on that. So i asked an Old School Friend of my mother sounded familiar with the listen. Can you tell me something to talk to me . Its all in the postwar error comes to be about song, were there jews and lance bang. You wouldnt as long as and she replied, you will do is once use and launch bag. No way bubble up, but i kept at it saying thats not what ive heard. Is that the object to but i kept the question coming up and eventually she said nothing comes on. Do you all come to think of it . Youre right there. Worse oh, sucks stuff. Anything that has anything to do with jews banished from memories or press it, then you wouldnt. No one wanted to talk about. It wasnt as far as the industry, but he writes off at the end of the hall in 1945, the us army town. The former lines, but barracks, into a cab. The Holocaust Survivors who was unable to return home several 1000 jews, men, women, and children, lived in the d p. Camp many for years the one of the camps fast commanders was having haymans, a major in the us army. He was just 27 years old when he wrote this letter to his wife in september 1945 the. So swapping that i hardly know where to turn 1st, i have so much delta do, even though its almost midnight that im calling quits to write this letter. I have so much to tell you that again, i hardly know where to begin. I guess at the beginning would be the best we have here in landsberg. I can for displaced people that can population consist of about 5000. 00 jews in 1000. 00. All x inmates of concentration camps. The people sleep in rough wooden beds that are often double or triple stacked on top of each other in the mix ship sleeping issues of the living quarters, attempts are made to resurrect family life. The, as it was explained to me for every family grow, the shared male is the high point of the day. The time was astonished when i learned from doctors of risky that the house of the people in the it is quite good. That almost doesnt seem possible when he noticed the incredulous expression on my face. He looked at me rather askance and said, bear in mind, we are all survivors. Only the strongest have survived the picture. I have picked to see it, not only for loss, but this is my life and then i did states maybe we can begin with last that. Well, yes, thats what i would like it to do. If you dont mind. Yeah. River, i dont want to tell you what to do. You can you was, oh no. But this is my memory is as i have lived it, this was my great love, my 1st grade last lunch, but she is. I know, but this is a live. No, im not. This was a girlfriend to have a yes, this was a head and session and this is this photo was taking in 1945 right after liberation. In lunsford, when i 1st i have the lance, for as you can see, these are all survivors. Most of them are no longer with us. Unfortunately. Lets be that memory jacob, precisely. I spent 2 years that the lines, the d p cam from 1945 to 1947. We started to have a normal life. What we call no, for us is, was normal for everybody as it was up and on. Because it was not, it was conventional. We will disturb children. News in summer, 1945 conditions and the d. B comes remain dial us president Harry S Truman entrusted l. G. Harrison. A prominent lawyer, an experienced government official, with inspecting the times and issuing the report, the my dear mister president , as you went to atlanta of june, the 22nd 1945. I have the honor to present to you a partial report on my recent mission to europe, to inquire into the conditions under which displaced persons, and particularly those who may be stateless or non repass. Travel are at present living, especially in germany and australia. Our since conclusion was timing. As matters now stand, we appear to be treating the jews as the nonsense treated them except the we do not exterminate them. They are in concentration camps and large numbers on the military called instead of s. S troops. One is left to wonder whether the german people saying theres an alt, supposing that we are following or at least condoning nazi policy. That headline made its way, of course, very quickly to eisenhower and an end to truman and cried out for action. Historian a Tina Grossman specializes in the history of jewish displaced persons that harrison were opponents. He says is one of the most remarkable documents of recent history. He said, as we have to recognize that the jews, because of this special nature, im not quoting directly here, we could pull out the direct quote because of the your very particular nature of the suffering that they have endured. Of the treatment. One could almost sizes under behind, along the special treatment that they received at the, at the hands of the, of the germans of the nazis has already made them a special group with particular needs that need to be addressed separately. They deserve to be recognized as their own group plans by dp comp became a comp for jews alone and conditions for the people that improved jewish survivors began to marry and have children. Many children were born in the camps during the post war period. The d. B comes what estimated to have the highest bath rate in the world. But the peace didnt want to stay that they wanted to go to palestine, the future israel to the united states, the different passed the integration. They learned a variety of trains this is be on a by, on a motorcycle not mine. Because i did not own any and these are motorcycle. That freedom right . Yes. But as i said, i didnt know i didnt own it since the highest of all of the suing for and drums, but every day of the summer time. And i met people there. But we were separated with they didnt bother with does that and we didnt bother with them because the ones were still very, very, are all basically the surviving shoes, at least in theory. I did not want anything to do with germans. They wanted to be amongst themselves. Uh they, uh, the germans were the people of the perpetrator, the perpetrator people. And they were living under the protection sometimes of much resented protection. But none the less, the protection of, of, of, of, of allied military government. The germans were resentful. Uh that, uh here with this group of people who they had been told no longer existed. It was 1st of all kind of shocking that there were jews at all when supposedly they had been wiped out. And germany was free of jews who seem to be getting ironically again, to repeat that word, special privileges. Germans living in lines about getting counted self confidence, survivors who want unwilling to put up with any abuse. On april the 28th 1946 tension spilled as the into skirmishes on the streets of lands back beyond raised was branded a jewish uprising. The displaced persons from the camp on lease that and on residence at the tone. The Joseph Alexander is 100 years old. He was in lands back when the jewish, the peace rose up against the local germans. Joseph is also jewish and was born in own and he was also de potentate by the germans to the lines both competing concentration camp. If god didnt want me to to survive, i wouldnt be here one particular. No, i dont know if you heard me speak when i so thats the main goal is in most and they told me to go to the left and then when he moved further the then back to the other side. Then if i did it wrong and then back to the other side, i wouldnt be here and theyll talk to you cuz the people on the left they were talking truck says it went straight to the guest. In april 1946. Joseph alexander was living close to the lands back de camp. This is one of the pictures from lots of this that is here. So this didnt work. The reason for the uprise was it was, there was another, can the not 5 months to think was the less the thing. There was a huge can for survivors, young supervisors and one night they said to of, to disappear. So people thought that there was, maybe there were kids, up by jim, it was such a short time after the liberation. So the feeling was very bad feeling against germany. You know, thats where there was some 200 dpi, went on a rampage through the town. Us soldiers, mont staying with rifles and battles and put an end to the unrest window. Its time for that happen. I happen to be in the can then speak the beacon, but i lived in the house and i had my car parked on the side street day and i was trying to get home. So i went from