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Auschwitz. actually the name was mentioned. it was a very nice, beautiful little city. lot of synagogues, people, organizational people, intellectual people. and everything that you can think of. what is this all about? because we see the names of all these towns on this glass bridge you see at the names of just a few of the thousands of jewish communities across europe that were destroyed. these were communities were jews had lived for hundreds of years, and they're basically obliterated overnight. i saw the name of my mother's hometown in poland, def. i was thinking of my mom how she was suc...

Enough problems domestically. we are not going to get involved in anything overseas. so in may, 1940 even after germany has invaded france, the netherlands , belgium and luxembourg. 93% of americans still think that we should not get proactively involved in any sort of war. many americans think that world war had been a mistake that we had gone overseas. thousands of boys had died, and nothing happened. the united states government learns about the crimes that we now call the holocaust today in drips. and i think it takes the united states a very uncomfortably long time to figure out what is h...

V that's my dad, david blitzer. he survived the holocaust. met my mother, another survivor, and they got married and came to america after world war two. he recorded his very personal, very powerful survival story for future generations. i'm originally from which is actually the name of the city of auschwitz before the war. my wife did not believe that she is going to be able to have children after this confrontation again. but 10 months after we were married to she was like so many survivors. he knew he had to speak for the millions who couldn't and now i'm carrying on his legacy. i'm going t...

Understand the west had just come out of world war one. the west was very isolationist didn't want to fight another war. then there was a great depression. they were battling economic challenges so wishful thinking. they thought this might go away, of course, if they were tragically very wrong. hitler often said he was the party and the party was him and his power became what? absolute right. he comes to power through a democratic process. the conservative elites make a deal with him. there's a lot of things about him, they think are too extreme, but they think they're going to control him and...

To think about. you know those numbers but to think that each one of those numbers as a man or woman or a child, there was some brutally slaughtered for what exactly. these are not statistics. these are individual lives just like your parents. and of course, your grandparents . this is about families and people with the whole future before them. this was just one town. just one town. here. you see the pre war lives of one jewish community, grandparents, children, friends , neighbors, just people leading their normal lives. this community was destroyed in two days in september 1941 by mobile ki...