European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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When you are with 30 students, it is very difficult to talk about all these things:
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about the arrival of Jewish or Gypsy convoys, the children, sometimes babies in their mothers arms.
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I wondered if one should talk about it or rather not talk about it.
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I decided to talk about what National Socialism had done,
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about what we had gone through and about what we had seen with our own eyes.
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In Birkenau,
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the first big camp we went to, these convoys arrived, filled with Jews, with Gypsies.
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There were men and women, but children as well, and babies in their mother’s arms.
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We saw them, we were not far away and we knew what was going to happen. That hurt a lot, it still does.
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Whenever I go to a school and have to talk about these subjects, concerning children…
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the soup doesn’t taste as good in the evening.
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What is remarkable when you go into a classroom is that you never have to ask for silence.
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They are very attentive to what one says. That encourages us to go to the schools.
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I want to show what National Socialism was about, with all its horror and its atrocities.
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How important it is to develop fraternity between human beings.
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You are young people. Don’t fight with each other. Be collegial.
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Be friends because you don’t know what tomorrow will be like.
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You are human beings and the future is in you, you carry tomorrow in you.
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Be fraternal, because that is the only way it will work. It doesn’t matter how people look like.
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You are all human beings, you can have dark-skinned friends, why not?
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