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🗓️ 24 January 2020
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Edith Rubin, 91, survived the holocaust. More than 75 years after she was rescued from a Nazi camp, she remembers the rare moments of kindness she experienced during the darkest time in her life.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Kind World. I'm Yasmin Ammer. And I'm Andrea Aswah. Today marks a very important day in history. The behind the barbed wire lay a world of men and women condemned to death and a world |
0:21.8 | of those who had died already. The survivors cut off from |
0:26.2 | the rest of humanity. 75 years ago Soviet forces who were part of the Allied |
0:32.3 | powers during World War II came upon a horrifying |
0:36.1 | scene in Poland. Thousands of people were waiting, emaciated, and barely alive at Auschwitz, the most notorious of all Nazi concentration camps. |
0:47.4 | It's estimated that of the 6 million Jews who died during World War II at the hands of Nazis, |
0:54.0 | 1 million died in Auschwitz. |
0:59.0 | One woman, Edith Rubin, who's now 91, managed to escape death. Edith doesn't like to talk about |
1:07.0 | her painful memories of the Holocaust, but she agreed to talk to us because she |
1:11.5 | wanted to share the stories of kindness that she experienced during |
1:15.1 | the most difficult time in her life. |
1:18.5 | Edith grew up in a very small town in Hungary with her parents and sister. |
1:23.0 | She lived a mostly comfortable life, but outside the home in the 1930s, |
1:28.0 | she started recognizing the growing anti-Semitism. |
1:31.0 | I had children that I played, and then one day they were told never to play the Jews. Things got much worse. Edith remembers the day her family was forced to leave |
1:48.4 | their home without their belongings. They and other Jewish families were taken to a nearby town square where they were forced onto trains. |
1:57.0 | They didn't know what at the time, but those trains were headed to Auschwitz. |
2:02.0 | When we get to a house... those trains were headed to Auschwitz. |
2:06.9 | When we get to a house there in Auschwitz, |
2:11.2 | they cut our hair off completely. |
2:15.0 | And I felt so humiliated. |
2:22.1 | You know, I was a teenager and I did not have a drop of hair. I was, I still was not in reality to see that they want to kill us. |
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