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I am Mary Catherine.

And I'm Carol Markowitz.

Hi, Mary Catherine.

You were on a very interesting trip this weekend.

I was.

I had a very meaningful Memorial Day weekend, which I always try to have a grateful and great Memorial Day weekend because it is like a solemn holiday on top of being the kickoff of summer.

But I was in a position to really appreciate the sacrifices of our soldiers from years gone by because I was in Poland for a tour of several

of the death camps not to start us off on a really dark foot this morning, but it was a very

overwhelming trip. It's hard to think the human psyche is not great even at taking in one or two deaths of people

you know close to you and then to try to absorb the truth of what truly happened there is a lot

for one weekend. But it did make me think even more about those who gladly and bravely went to fight against those horrors during World War II. My

grandparents were among them. Thankfully, did not lose their lives in that war, which is why I'm here

today. But it was incredibly disturbing and moving. And there were, of course, stories of survival and the righteous among the nations helping out.

We visited the Warsaw Zoo where the zookeeper and his wife saved more than 300 Jews during the Holocaust by having them stay in their basement and be shipped off to other places in Poland.

I know you've been to Poland before, just a very...

Yeah.

Just truly a sad story of a nation where so many Jews and Catholics,

in the way that it was possible to coexist in the early 20th century,

had actually found ways to do that in certain places. And then

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