2020. we hear the same. thing that's a huge so effectively in the propaganda what was everybody what was the world who could see that who could hear that and yet did it mean nothing to say. that it's. also coming up tonight morning mamba the former l.a. lakers superstar kobe bryant his untimely death has triggered an outpouring of emotions beyond the basketball court beyond borders. on a bigger than basketball i.q. reached. more than a man seems. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day when the largest death. camp in nazi germany's killing machine was finally shut down when the measure of a perverse productivity ceased to be the amount of human ashes smokestacks spewed into the sky 75 years ago today soviet soldiers arrived at and liberated the auschwitz death camp in what had been nazi occupied poland for some 1300000 men women and children most of them jews the red army arrived too late for those who survived wife it would forever be conditioned on one common responsibility to never forget today the 200 survivors who are still willing and able return to vince 75 years to the day when they were freed from certain death they issued a warning on no uncertain terms a world that forgets how humanity extinguished its own light they say risks a future in total darkness. reliving the horror as of auschwitz. the agony etched over his face. and yet despite the pain these holocaust survivors have returned to this film and death camp to remind the wild where anti semitism and racism can be. in front of the gates of auschwitz known as the gates of death a commemoration ceremony in which delegates from $61.00 countries are taking part and $200.00 auschwitz survive is each with that terrible memories of what happened here in a moment after she was there to make it to women's washington and trucks from the barracks to a gas chamber i can hear. screaming i could hear it in my subconscious when i remember the event miss you will call you. elsa baker who's blind was 8 when she arrived at auschwitz she was one of the 23000 sinti and roma people to put it here it isn't it oh not for me to to be here among so many people who have suffered so patiently perhaps even not schmoe so then oh i. and. i think. if you. don't know. it i'm upset but in spite of the past anti semitism is on the rise again in 2020 we hear the same lies the nazis you saw effectively and the propaganda they said jews have too much power to control the economy and the media to control governments jews control everything we hear this madness online in the media and even within democratic governments. these brave men and women know the cost of anti semitism they can't fake it. it's already seen that too many listening. challenge that 75 years afterwards use chief political editor mikhail the good news she has been following the commemoration for us today good evening to you make i mean it has been a day where so many things that have been said so many things that you've seen have i'm sure they've struck you what touched you the most during this ceremony today while a further one of those 4 survivors who actually spoke today was much of a dog on a 94 year old survivor that she spent 20 months and she survived to death marches then went on to become a psychologist and she resizes one of the things that helped her survive because really that that was so unlikely with these people having the odds so stopped against them and she said that that was friendship now this woman also went on to become a psychologist and went on to develop methods of teaching young children about the holocaust and i thought there was a rather resoundingly message from her. to the young people saying you bear the responsibility that this should not happen again and actually to parents i'm one of them but you have to talk to young children about this is well and i thought that was rather personal and also a clear message that we are all responsible that this kid can never happen again you know you mentioned they're talking with people you had the chance to talk to survivors today what message did they bring to auschwitz today i mean 75 years after it was deliberate. yes i actually had the chance to walk a few nieces with a few of them when they actually came back to the house but one cam and what was striking is that actually all of them i spoke to really fear fear that this could happen again and feel this weight of responsibility not just to tell people about what happened but to send that message that when something starts with a simple thing like no jews allowed to sit on the spend or something that certain areas close for a certain group as soon as minorities are felt to no longer be part of society they are not just simply concerned they are reading that you can see the fear that this will directly lead to democracy being damaged and potentially to become yet another road to yet another it's because for them it's a very concrete thing that happened was there palpable today i mean did you get the sense talking to these survivors that you see this rise of anti-semitism does this new wave of populism do they see. things to do and now we're going to the horrors that they experienced more than 75 years ago. well what one must not forget that even the survivors who lived through this and who have been haunted by this for 3 generations they are 75 years they are still themselves in disbelief that this could happen and they simply don't have any answers how any individual how germans could do this how humans could do something like this so when they see a rise of anti semitism or see any kind of racism going on that alarm bells are ringing and clearly a lot of those alarm bells were ringing here today. all right still look at me they're joining us from the commemoration ceremonies in. the killer thank you. a world in a dangerous dance with forgetting its own holocaust history of those moves the process of forgetting well they've never been an option for the survivors of auschwitz our next report introduces us to levine he survived for its most of his relatives did not today at the age of 94 he is still asking why them why not me why my time in this one bedroom apartment in berlin dotted levine lives here alone his wife has moved to a nursing home he's one of the last remaining auschwitz survive us his parents and siblings were murdered there over 75 years ago. that's me that's my brother and another brother and my sister. the 94 year old was born in warsaw to a jewish family during the nazis reign of terror he was sent to 4 different concentration camps. well i give all the question why. i can't answer that today. i can't even think about it why. why a 9 year old girl who hadn't done anything who hadn't sinned why did they murder why. she hadn't done anything in life only because she had a different tree. of it was 19 when auschwitz was liberated. while there he was forced to work in the gas chambers as a slave labor of the german company that produced the deadly gas. i worked down in the gas chambers we collected the cycling gas. you just turn into stone you know what i mean. the horror is hard to comprehend for many years it has returned to auschwitz at the end of january. this year is no different krakow airport every year the custodians of auschwitz bring survivors together on the anniversary marking the liberation of the german extermination camp but the interest this year is higher than usual. the press contingent for the 75th anniversary is huge they're here to listen to the last living witnesses and their stories of the hell that was. one day i found out that my brother was shot. to this day i still don't know why. and i can never get over that. sorry i can't go on. i'll start crying. start crying he can't continue. it has to cut his talk short it's like he can still feel the beatings today he tells us 75 years after the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp. and on this emotional anniversary i'm going to have the big table by gloves for 25 years she has devoted her career to how we teach remember she's the deputy director of the holocaust memorial museum on as the health of the bonds a conference that is the site where the nazis devised their plan the genocide the final solution to murder europe's jews. was good to have you on the show let me ask you do you see signs in your work that tell you that we are forgetting the lessons of the holocaust well what we see is that there is a growing distance specially for young people but also already for adults there is a growing distance a we have to think of methods of deck takes on how to make this how to break this distance for people and in the moment when people are willing to get into the topic then i would say no they're not forgetting it's always a process and getting close to the sister e. and each one of us and each one of young people has to have to start from the very beginning do you think we focus less on it now than we did maybe 30 years ago. you know if we look back 30 years then we focus on the today more than we did and the thirty's this is something that is very often forgotten that it took quite a long time until it was possible in the federal republic to talk about this is st if we think about of the house of the vans a conference it could only be opened as a memorial site in 1992 so looking at it from there without any until a long time yeah yeah i want to talk about some numbers that have come out of the united states and i'd like to pull up to results from a new survey by the pew research center maybe we can pull those up and show our viewers in the studies called what americans know about the holocaust and here we see fewer than half of americans 43 percent know that adult hitler became chancellor of germany in a democratic political process so you've got half of americans who know the facts they are at a similar percentage here 45 percent know that approximately 6000000 jews were killed in the holocaust more than half of americans do not connect that number with the show what these statistics what did they tell you well i think that. it's a very complicated topic and if you would ask german students many of them would say yes 6000000 were killed and then they what's it for them in their minds is 6000000 germans so for many german students they have no sense for the european dimension of the shah and they don't see the relation of systematic mass murder of the jews in relation to other race series other groups many students don't know that's indian or my work kills and many of them don't know the difference between concentration camps and death camps and so these details there is something like a broad knowledge or very very rough knowledge you have to say and it's important to go into the details and clarify things and also. put things in a very concrete way the holocaust survivor elie bizarro he's known around the world he has been very critical of what he's called maybe the mass market representation of the holocaust which is films for example schindler's list is one that comes to mind because he says the exhilarate what he calls the general tendency to demystify demystify into deep jew wise the holocaust do you agree well i think it's legitimate to the use films for example but i think it's worthwhile to be very cautious what kind of film i think this is a very good film also the pianist is a very good film but i am very critical stewart's for example the film and the book the boy in the blue pajamas because it's fiction and not only fiction but it draws the attention in a wrong direction and people develop. empathy with the german boy who is being exchanged in the end so i think as a starting point to deal with the topic it's ok but then and this is the next thing i think it's important that there should be something like a demystification because it were ordinary men like christopher browning said it was ordinary germans that committed these crimes and if we say we want to learn from this is true then we have to see the perpetrators as men as they were being good family fathers and at the same time committing the crimes that they did yeah yeah and it's still it's mind boggling for a lot of people to get their heads around the fact that these normal men would leave home and family fathers husbands and then become killers while they were away . the deputy director of the health of the van's a conference and we appreciate your time in your insights tonight thank you thank you. he once said that he would much rather be a lightning rod then the happy go lucky guy that he was basketball superstar kobe bryant known as the black mamba the basketball player whose work ethic and passion transcended all sports died on sunday along with his teenaged daughter and 7 other people when the private helicopter that they were in crashed outside of also angelus bryant's untimely death has sparked a global outpouring of emotion. he was the smiling face of n.b.a. basketball for 2 decades kobe bean bryant tripled and scored with the formidable los angeles lakers his entire career. his death has shocked fans around the world many say his influence expands beyond just the basketball court. this is more than basketball it was it was just the mentality to get the life. they were dealt with and i never even met them it's 45 years of living i have not filled this much grief in love for one man. bryant was a shooting guard for the l.a. lakers he went straight from high school to the n.b.a. he was an 18 time all-star who won 5 n.b.a. titles and 2 of them picked gold medals but his reputation wasn't only glowing in 2003 bryant was accused of rape the case was eventually dropped and a separate civil suit was settled out of court. only 41 years old he died alongside his 13 year old daughter giana she also showed on court talent and was aiming to follow her father's footsteps into professional basketball he credited john after winning an unexpected oscar in 2018 for his animated short basketball all of it. my daughter gave me the best piece of advice that was a little. worried about turning this into a film i've never done that somebody before and we're in a house and we're talking about as a family. that you always tell us to go after our dreams so. man up. man up so i had to man go for it bryant and his wife had 4 daughters and after retiring in 2016 he became a vocal advocate for female sports. even outside sports people around the world are now mourning the loss of a longtime icon. and joining me here at the big table is my colleague chris harrington from the sports was what just a little under 4 years ago we set right here and talked about. his retirement from the l.a. lakers and now we're talking about you know he he died and this this emotion we've seen around the world how do you how do you explain his connection with so many people beyond basketball you know i think myself along with you know millions across the world can you know relate to kobe bryant because we literally watched him grow up you know in his late teens the 1st guard drafted in the n.b.a. playing with men where he wasn't quite a man and just to see him if you don't go through the process of maturation becoming you know an icon in the sport winning championships you know we saw his the development of his personal life you know him good to have a family you know as well as trials and tribulations off the court is well you know the i was on kobe bryant you know but. i think everyone is still he had experience you know this shock period because you know the loss of it is just. it's you know a lot to wrap your head around i mean i mean i was watching you know last night during the coverage when the bigs announced that he had died i was just shocked it held many men around the world particularly in china were saying that they were openly putting him on a pedestal saying he's the only man that we would do that for right and that clearly what it was for one you know you know they celebrated his work ethic and his dedication to winning but something you know your average fan might be unaware of the way before kobe bryant championships he was holding youth camps and china so some of his charity work involved you know providing you know of funds for education and medical services in china you know and then it kind of all comes together in 2008 you know he was the most popular person in the olympic village during the beijing olympics you know and then they won gold of course so this is right around the time. and without meaning you know chinese native made his impact to the n.b.a. so there are always these 2 and there was something else that i could add to this kobe bryant you know it's speaking to his work ethic he has something called these 4 am workouts and that's something even teachers modeled you know as examples to students in china you know to strive and work harder than anyone else around you and then you can ultimately reach your goals so so i think you know this is something that every person you know across you know several professions ethnicities religions and so forth can relate to and respect he was not without controversy as you said. he's seen as a family man but that it wasn't always the narrative was it no no no it was it you know. there's something you know obviously everyone is flawed you know to some degree it's a have someone's personal business exposed the nature you know the girl is crying was the source you know and then you know obviously the allegations associated to it are very serious it should be considered to be serious but in this case you know there was a refusal to testify and then there was a settlement you know in the civil case years later you know but i think the bigger issue is the family reconnected and he moved on you know and for all the tips and purposes he he showed that people could overcome their mistakes insurance questions and remain to be an example got about 45 seconds what do you think is going to be his his legacy you know i think obviously it goes outside of the basketball court but in the n.b.a. specifically i think the number 24 should be retired but every team dallas mavericks are on board with that according to the owner mark cuban you know but outside of sports i think that it reminds everyone no matter what pedestal you're on that we are all mortal and to morrow is not promised to anyone and it's a reminder that we should you know hug our loved ones a little. tighter every opportunity we get and you know could be brides a prime example of how to live and he'll always be remembered of living and if this is all that's right as they say we're not promised tomorrow just today christians always appreciate your reporting thank you ok. well the day is almost done the conversation it continues online you find us on twitter either update of the news you can follow me of 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