4/5/2020: Critical Condition, Talking To The Past
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
As small businesses and restaurants bear the brunt of the COVID-19's economic impact, some are adapting and helping each other. Scott Pelley shares their stories. Aging Holocaust survivors now have the chance to record their memories in a way that will allow future generations to literally ask them about their experiences, and see and hear their answers. Lesley Stahl reports. Those stories on this week's "60 Minutes."
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for calling New York City Contact Center. |
| 0:08.9 | My name is Mariah Mohamed. I assist you. |
| 0:10.6 | 10 million Americans filed for unemployment in the past two weeks. |
| 0:14.7 | I also have your address? |
| 0:16.1 | That's more jobs lost than in the 18 months of the Great Recession. |
| 0:21.6 | Most layoffs are coming from the largest employer of all, small business. |
| 0:26.6 | How many people have you laid off? |
| 0:28.6 | Over 2,000 people. |
| 0:31.6 | Restaurant jobs are the most vulnerable. |
| 0:34.6 | Retail is second. |
| 0:35.6 | Then you start to look at all the concentric circles, the people that do our flowers, the people |
| 0:41.5 | that deliver the bread, the people who fish for our fish. |
| 0:48.2 | We're going to go ahead and get started. |
| 0:50.1 | Tonight, as the world struggles to contain and recover from the novel coronavirus, |
| 0:56.0 | we offer a story we completed just before life changed so dramatically. |
| 1:01.0 | Can you sing me a song from your youth? |
| 1:03.6 | It's a story of history, hope, survival, and resilience, |
| 1:10.2 | which has its roots in another time when the world was convulsed by crisis, World War II. |
| 1:16.8 | Aaron, tell us what your parents did before the war. |
| 1:21.3 | They owned and operated a butcher shop. |
| 1:24.0 | This interview was unlike any we have ever done. |
| 1:27.2 | Keep your mentality. Keep keep your soul keep your mind |
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