Shes going to do so to today and what i anticipate is shes a very optimistic person so i anticipate in some measure a message of hope but at the same time perhaps a message of despair because you know everybody is talking about the fact that the semitism appears to be on the rise again in europe and in germany indeed and it comes at a time where the process of remembering itself has been called into question the way germans remember this dark chapter in history. I suppose that is true a couple of years ago the then german president your him go accept something very interesting is that there can be no german identity without oce words and i think many people would subscribe to that view as the perception of germany and of german identity but the fact of the matter is that these days germany is becoming a much more Diverse Society with a lot of people coming and living in germany who have very different cultural backgrounds and some of them are saying you know what is what is auschwitz got to do with me its not my problem at the same time youve got youngsters in germany fifteen year old saying look this was seventy years ago whats it got to do with me and mocha vidia slate youve got the alternative for germany the new far right across here in germany suggesting that the commemorative culture around the holocaust is somehow a burden on germany that its time to shake off germanys guilt so it makes it very difficult for germany to keep the focus on never forget will be talking about all of that peter and here were seeing of the German Foreign surgeon president a. Walking in and he is accompanied there by a nick at lascaux about fish and the president the bundestag well we mentioned that hes going to speak peter and he is it appears making his way right now to the podium we also see here this is the sister of this is the sister of the needs of oscar voters accompanied by the german chancellor of course under machall yeah this must be an incredibly moving moment for both of the sisters and a very challenging moment for them. If you bear in mind that their parents were deported and murdered in one nine hundred forty two and the. Last vile fish is now going to address the parliament of germany the country that murdered her parents and the nazi regime. This is a very challenging moment but first of all who was involved. And lets listen peter to what he has to say. About the president of the bonus hot presence here its the Vice President of the federal constitutional core you want to remember of the bundestag. Fish mr slask placed ladies and gentleman. To auschwitz has shattered every city auschwitz a synonym for the systematic industrialized genocide of the European Jews for the National Socialist crimes. For mans inhumanity to man. On the twenty seventh of january nine hundred forty five Red Army Troops liberated the concentration and death camp seventy three years ago with as well you know with wounds what does that have to do with us today. That question was answered in no Uncertain Terms by federal president all men had soaked in one nine hundred ninety six at the first ceremony of remembrance before this house his answer is still valid today that we do not want to preserve our hora he said. We want to draw conclusions proof conclusions which future generations true will have as an orientation of the intention is thus to have remembrance again and again as the basis for a living future. We are not remembering because we bear personal guilt but the guilt that germans incurred in the twelve years of National Socialist dictatorship has imposed a particular responsibility on us on succeeding generations on all of us not because history repeats itself for it never does but because i was sure its shattered every certainty. The course of history is neither random nor inevitable or our common past is today was once shaped by people as their own present for good and for ill. Eighty five years ago yesterday hitler was put in power. Within a short time the National Socialists succeeded in destroying the first german democracy. Where they were now able to turn their racial ideology inch of Public Policy in the supposed interest of a proclaimed fox the mine shaft the idealized community of the german people the principle with the simplest can be it was all about us and the others and the others did not belong were not allowed to belong simple yet murderous and its implications i mean just germans were categorized on the basis of an imputed racial identity and neighbors colleagues fellow pupils and students were excluded deprived of their rights dispossessed maltreated and exterminated they vanished from their own surroundings most of society condoned it and some help hiding friends and acquaintances by assisting them most were silent. How would we have acted when this question is addressed to our consciences and is put a new to each succeeding generation and cultural anthropologist once asked what would have happened if tens or hundreds of thousands of people had demonstrated off the programs of the ninth of november nineteenth thirty eight if they had publicly proclaimed we are all jews. In the context of nazi dictatorship this is undoubtedly a hypothetical question nevertheless it illustrates what a Society Needs to safeguard its freedom namely consistent opposition to any form of exclusion before it is too late. Of the much you can take in order to open the door that today we remember the victims of a National Socialist crimes the murdered jews of europe. The cincy and roma peoples the sick and disabled. Those who were persecuted for their political views homosexuals jehovahs witnesses forced labor as. Prisoners of war when the slavic peoples whose degradation mention was more than a terminological classification and we honor today the courage of those who would not accept the destruction of freedom and humanity who could not accept it who helped those who were being persecuted and harassed resisted. At the invitation of the buddhist talk young people from various European Countries and from israel have been spending the past few days examining the motives forms and effects of resistance in particular they are focused on the white rose the student Resistance Group in which the siblings hunts and Sophie Scholl played a leading role seventy five years ago both of them along with four other members of the group were executed in munich. Who would who could expect others to show the courage to speak out when opposition has become a matter of life and death. That is why empathy solidarity and moral courage are all the more important before that point is reached. To take the permanence of established institutions for granted and indeed still rely on their continued existence we can no longer have that certainty after. The rule of law the separation of powers and democracy itself depend on our commitment to. Those gentlemen we remember the dead and pay homage to the survivors and we think of the victims all over the world who are still among us we think of their families and descendants for whom history is and remains deeply personal. Thats true is forgotten by those today who say enough is enough. And he tell us of our fish and her sister not to survive but they survived forced labor detention by the gestapo the auschwitz death camps and the bed and bells and concentration camp. After these experiences mrs lask of our fish you most certainly wanted to take control of your life again to lead a normal life. And so many years and decades have passed did you decide to chill rights and speak about what you had experienced in your life has been featured in a powerful documentary about jews in rots laugh. You have said that talking about and reporting on that time in your life has become in a sense a duty to you an obligation to serve as the voice of those who can no longer talk about what happened to them because they were killed. Mrs lask of our fish for a long time germany and the germans were anathema to you this makes me all the more grateful to you for accepting our invitation to speak to us and the germans and to stop them was of the. Of the bridges. Because as regards your survival you have said that you were simply lucky. It was coincidences that saved you and your sister from being murdered the. Music played an important part in that to be more precise your ability to play the cello. A cello in auschwitz music in auschwitz of all places scarcely imaginable. And yet in the daily hell of the concentration and death camps there was music that many inmates made music and sang on their own initiative in secret and each of the rules it was sometimes tolerated most of it was by order singing on command Music Broadcast over loudspeakers camp choirs orchestra or initiated and ordered by the s. S. Officers around the camp the musicians were both jewish and non jewish inmates they have to play marches for the departure and return of the work crews they had to provide background music for punishments and executions they played for official events and visits. Create an illusion on occasions such as red cross inspections for instance and to deceive and reassure our newly arrived in mates. And they were also at the disposal of camp staff enabling those men and women to relax if i may put it that way to the sounds of schumann and more thoughts of the latest hits and songs from operettas from their duties of guarding selecting and murdering inmates. We think we know the difference between good and evil these perpetrators managed to combine musical sensitivity and s. T. L. Cruelty auschwitz shattered every segment. Of the ordering music to be made a company murder and extermination perverted though it was helped in mates to survive thank god like a. Survivor was not the intention of the camp authorities but the fact remains that the cellist of auschwitz and other members of the big canal womans orchestra could not easily be exchanged or replaced. At the same time mrs lask of our fish music was an internal place of refuge that is how you strikingly described it as a place the nazis could not take away from the original mental image a place where you managed thanks to your work on your instrument and in the orchestra to maintain a shred of Human Dignity. And as we played for our lives which is how it jazz musician Coco Schumann who died on sunday one summed up his membership of the ghetto swingers in terrorising and later on in auschwitz believes arts as a means of survival and it from ourselves and its he was spoke here in two thousand and twelve it was literature and for others it was drawing and painting that is really artist yahoo dot com for instance said that street arts helped him to survive mentally in auschwitz after i was. At the age of thirteen he had been deported to terrorism staffed with his family thats where he began. One of his pictures shows the face in the smoke rising from the criminal its a harrowing and touching image its his common ration of his own father. Back on had had to decide whether to stay with his father and die with him or try to survive without him and look if he was not yet fifty. Teen years old at the time was that a beginning today the german buddhist talk is exhibiting a selection of the works of that great artist whose he would about corner reconquered life throughout. This his drawings and paintings to provide him with a language to penetrate the invisible wall between him and of course the holocaust survivor. And what he wants socalled normal people. And we are aware of that invisible wall of which he would and many other survivors have spoken to see what are they experienced defines our imagination about this sickness your for the monstrosity of those crimes must not meet with resignation this even if we cannot comprehend the extent of the extermination ordered by the state we must keep trying to understand how it came about. This story of the constellations developments and factors that created a situation in which a democracy could capitulates our society in a civilized modern and diverse country began to exclude some of its own members how crime became the norm. Auschwitz has shattered every certainty and it shattered trust for trust in Human Progress in the significance of history in the civilizing power of culture can be said that it certainty as to how much suffering pain and humiliation humans can endure and how much they can inflict on others and. The. Certainty about ourselves was shattered in auschwitz that is why we must be sensitive vigilant and selfcritical. The more time that passes since the National Socialist era the more importance attaches to it remember and this is because we tend to take for granted what are actually exceptional occurrences on the vast canvas of history namely Freedom Democracy and the rule of law we need to be collectively disturbed by encounters with historically experience as the. Head of the book invited middle bowed or morals once said. And there is good reason to feel distant brutalization is on the increase particularly on the internet and through social networks but not only are there the number of offenses and acts of violence classed as eight crimes has doubled over the past ten years most of the modern by xenophobia and everyday people in our country are attacked because they look different or speak differently because they look for in. The oars and theyre vilified those would have them remain so great majority of people in this country are not and most certainly not violence it must disturb us however when attacks on immigrants on refugees and accommodation are tacitly and those are open to the truth when of that. It must disturb us when people yield to the temptation to express the view that it would solve our problems if those others were to disappear they are mistaken and we must spell it out to them time and again. It must disturb us when a large percentage of the jews living in germany today reports exposure to semitic hostility in their everyday lives. Was on the up you know when a rabbi and his children have to wear their kid hidden under a hoard or a baseball cap. You know just as in when an anti jewish slogans are chancers an israeli flags are burned as least experienced again only recently in germany even these things are an exception when and this in any form of and to semitism is intolerable all the more so in our country that applies to everyone who lives here including those for whom germany is past is not their own it also applies to those who may have been subjected to rejection and discrimination themselves either here or elsewhere they have migrated into a community of bound by shared responsibility that is our federal president put it in his address to this house migration brings obligations whoever wishes to live here must accept them insisting that it was on want responsible it must also disturb us that besides synagogues and jewish facilities dozens of mosques have been subjected to desecrations and acts of aggression that muslims are subjected to hostility or stereotypes are propagated of muslims as criminals that peoples capacity to belong is being dismissed because they practice a particular religion. There must be no place in our society for intimidation and violence was on was in the offing whoever theyre charged and whoever the perpetrator is stirring up hatred means exploiting peoples uncertainty and fear is anyone who speaks of the people but only mean certain parts of the population is threatening our democratic world and was. This Free Democratic constitutional and peaceful germany in which we have the good fortune to live today it has been built on historical experiences of immeasurable violence. The authors of our constitution drew conclusions from that history this is one reason why many people in the world have come to your own for in our country. The basic law guarantees rights but it cannot guarantee values such as consideration decency and respect respect for the fact that all people are entitled to live their lives as they wish to express their opinion to live out their faith to be free as long as they do not thereby impinge on the freedom of others and as long as they do not infringe the law or endanger public order. That may sometimes seem to be a lot to ask it is true but without such High Expectations tolerance would be a cheap virtue by the same token tolerance without clear limits would simply be the random fruit of ignorance was there i was describing how brittle freedom is how fragile Civil Society is that is the lesson of our history is Human Dignity is vulnerable that is why article one of our basic law postulates that Human Dignity shall be inviolable to respect and protect it should be the duty of all state authority. That is the standard by which we must measure ourselves in our country and as a responsible partner in europe and in the global community. Mrs lask of us fish you know your life to music and music owes a lot to you after the war in your new home city of london you were a founder of the English Chamber orchestra one of the leading Chamber Orchestras in the world i suggest that you have passed on your passion for music and cello playing to your son. I thank you professor of i fish for agreeing to provide part of the program of music for this hour of remembrance was of the when your. Contribution was composed by law who came from us. Mali of geneva and jews during the First World War he resettled in the United States in his music he seeks to express his cultural identity and watch he called the jewish soul. He wrote the true peace that you are about to hear in the one nine hundred twenty s. At that time no one could have foreseen the extent of the destruction that jewish culture would undergo in europe and. The failure of the attempts to annihilate it completely is a great blessing. It is also flowering again in our country and so that we are great cynthia of the. Of the. Thanks. If youre just joining us weve just been watching the president of the bundestag often show the speaking as the bundestag marks Holocaust Memorial day. And theres a term i just said were listening to some music here this is the son of. My music from boston. Peter this is a significant peoples or this is a composer who is very close to the heart of the fall fish family and the music is being played by raphael val fish and john york on the piano its a piece called prayer and it is one of three short pieces for cello and piano chords from jewish life. Louie. Louie. Louie. Thank you. And you can for just joining us is the russian gas station about their story and john youre playing here at the undersides Holocaust Memorial day and fish the son of a new one the last known surviving members of the womens orchestra that was very important that he was playing the cello there an instrument that is so close. And its a lost of our fish is hard because there was the cello that helped her survive they are friends concentration. She said cello saved my life quite literally incredible story we see her taking a seat here about to deliver her address. In the legal for in the ladies and gentlemen i dear friends and family even. Here thank you for inviting me to say a few words here in the bonus time. I am one of the rapidly dwindling number of eyewitnesses to the catastrophe which befell us all those years ago you. Know where the genocide is as comprehensively documented as the holocaust there are hours of interviews with survivors. And you can read countless reports should you wish to and yet there are still deniers people who claim that all the accounts are fabricated and they send someone to birkenau to scratch up the rolls in the ruins of the gas chambers. To produce proof that none of this is true. This reality is different if you go to in january seventy three years ago auschwitz was liberated. And crimes against innocent people crimes which are beyond imagination gradually came to light the scale of the catastrophe defied comprehension six million is a number too big to grasp eyes perhaps it is easier to identify with individual fates. So if i may i would like to describe it if you care words for our career as survivors of auschwitz and. You were not so i myself were born in this country so we are german. Our father was a lawyer and notary at the overlanders could wish to hire original court to your bond and our mother was a gifted violinist violinist they had three daughters we all learned to play a Musical Instrument i played the cello with it in a few z. As a. Gnats a play the violin rather more reluctant i think. There was some family rules which as a child i did not understand at all so on sunday for. We would only speak french. As on saturday afternoons my family would come together to read the classics. And my father would recount his experiences of fighting at the front in the First World War when he was awarded the iron cross and we would play chess we were honor bound to do so for my uncle Edward Lasker was granted aska master in america. And then it all came to an abrupt end now it did it life came to an end radical exclusion. Choose not welcome was written on gnosis notices in every way we were no no allowed to use this way in basle sit on park benches and we had to hand in our bicycles jewish men had to at the name israel and woman sarah to their names we were forced out of our homes and into the middle ages we had to wear a yellow star. And i was spat out in the street and called a dirty jew. My father was an incurable optimist and he could not believe what was happening he said surely the germans cannot go along with this madness in the museum at auschwitz there are vast glass cabinets full of human hair toothbrushes eyeglasses and prosthetic limbs where did they come from from jewish soldiers who had fought at the front this was the thanks they got from the fatherland. Then in one nine hundred thirty eight there was christiane that and we knew we cannot stay here but it was too late we were trapped in the Mass Shootings of choose began soon afterwards nine hundred thirty nine with the occupation of moment then in nine hundred forty two the infamous runs a conference took place. Supposedly cultured men sat around the table and discussed in earnest on how best to rid the world of millions of people millions of jews. Really the only problem is apparently concerned those of mixed blood i want to do with those who were only half jewish. Should they be murdered to. People go through all of the gun in your spine now there were regular deportations of humans from all the territories under German Occupation learn mention of events from greece people were sent to auschwitz one of our marriages were deported on the ninth of april nineteenth forty two. That of course we wanted to Stay Together as a family we wanted to go to them but our frogger wisely said so he said you know where we are going. One gets there soon enough. Needless to say we never saw them again. I was sixteen years old to be about a line so my sister and i had no one but each other and we were sent to an orphanage we were absolutely determined not to let it break our spirit we were not to wait for somebody to take us away to be murdered simply because we were of jewish descent and we were conscripted to work in a paper factory. And there were French Business of war working in the factory as well and we soon made contacts and that is how our career as a fortress began. Before the monsoon we started making counterfeit papers that the french could use to escape that when we realized that we were being watched we decided to try and escape as well our aim was to reach the an Occupied Zone in france traveling on forged papers now looking back i can see that it was an upsurge idea but what have we got to lose nothing at all and of course this last deference desperate attempt was bound to fail. Just far as press or rail was station. We were arrested by the gestapo as we attempted to board the train our brief being we spent an entire year in prison. And we were extremely lucky not to be sent straight to auschwitz. We were to be tried in a special court and i think we have one of my fathers former colleagues to thank for that. Dr look if i remember right. By then the civil code no longer applied. And under the new rules it was better to be classed as a criminal than a jew. Then for criminals were given a trial. By jews were fair game. We were tried on charges of attempted escape helping the enemy and forgery. But the Public Defense lawyer didnt show up. And as strange as it might sound today. We didnt want anyone to defend us anyway which is the best the longer the sentence the better. We already knew that prison would be preferable to a concentration camp and it wasnt very pleasant its true lets say that we were locked in our cells twenty four hours a day the only break from the monotony of a half hour shuffle around the prison yard in total silence hands behind our backs. But at least not as a rule of war prisoners were not murdered because. The sentence was three and a half years of hard labor for an answer and eighteen months in prison for me we didnt serve out our sentences and after a while we were sent to auschwitz separately is home its hard to believe but i was required to sign a document saying that i was going to auschwitz voluntarily. Because by then people were aware of what was going on at auschwitz but no one wanted to believe it. But it was true of weeks on so when i arrived in auschwitz of this i try to prepare for the worst the words it was an almost Impossible Task and this. But events took a different turn and i was not sent to auschwitz on one of the mass transports or choose who was sentenced to live or die on arrival at their gramma pressure i arrived in auschwitz as a convicted criminal and it was better to be a criminal than a jew we were cateye halfling and we had criminal records my head was shaved and the number six nine three eighty eight was tattooed on my left arm and need to saddle laskar no longer existed. To me to my end donnish meant there was music in auschwitz and they urgently needed someone to play the cello. So i became a member of the camp orchestra in their can now the director was a rose the niece of course stuff marla. And daughter of anna rose a who was the leader of the vienna for the money for many years until he was dismissed because he was a jew your question was based in block twelve close to the end of the road into the camp just a few meters from criminal cerium one with an unobstructed view of the ramp or. We could see everything the arrival ceremony is the selections one mention of the columns of people walking towards the gas chambers soon to be transformed into smoke. In nineteen forty four of them deported jews began to arrive from hungary and the gas chambers could not keep pace. As they know to check describes in a Remarkable Book its chronicle of no. Camp commandant has ordered five new burning pits to be dug. Oh so many transports arrived at sometimes there was no space incriminatory five for all the bodice. And if there was no room in the gas chambers people were shot instead of many thrown. Into the burning pits whilst they were still alive this i also saw with my own eyes and. Even if you were not sent straight to the gas chamber no one survived in auschwitz for long the most you could expect was about three months but if they needed you for some reason you had a tiny chance of survival i had that chance i was needed you should be played marches at the camp gate for the prisoners worked in the nearby factories. Etc. And we gave sunday concerts around the camp just for the people who work there. Or anyone else who wanted to hear us play. For many hearing music being performed in this living hell was the ultimate insult but for others perhaps it was a chance to dream of another world if only for a few moments when outer had been sentenced to hard labor and arrived in auschwitz later than i did. And completely by chance and against all the odds we managed to find each other and i was so big that is all i can hardly describe to say my sister was in a skeleton with open wounds on her legs which simply never healed of course we all had to die first and there was no escaping the lice. And then there was the hunger i wanted to well amount. In some ways a quiet death would have been a merciful release. Really amazingly she survived. And. Suddenly were told line up jews on one side and ariens on the other that could only mean one thing the gas chamber behind you but we were mistaken instead we were loaded into a cattle truck or not in quite simply came with us we were determined not to be separated again this would you from west to back and as. Auschwitz was clear to Us Government and the gas chambers with dynamite or by it not entirely successfully. Who would have believed that we would ever leave auschwitz alive and not a smoke. And it wasnt any better in belsen well all i can say is that it was different. In auschwitz when they had devised the most sophisticated ways to commit mass murder. People simply perished here we existed in the surrounded by rotting corpses. And waited for it all to end. And then the butcher arrived and we were liberated. On the nineteenth of april nineteenth forty five i was nineteen years old of human invention i often talk about my experiences to young people in schools here and not only the young and one of the best questions that im always asked is did you go home afterwards. That god was no home no longer existed we were a new generous of people displaced persons with all the problems that this entails. What was to be done with all these people with your own book recently i dont need to spell out the answer thats why in the year two thousand and one the International Conference was held in woodstock. And a decision was taken to make the twenty seventh of january the official Holocaust Memorial day and provide mandatory holocaust educate. In schools. The mood was one of great hope for a better future. It is now more than seventy years since the holocaust. And the perpetrators generation is no longer alive you cannot really take it amiss if todays young people refused to identify with these crimes. But deny that this is a part of german history as well that must not happen. Thousand. So it cannot happen we cannot let it happen and as for the talk of drawing a line what are we meant to draw the line under what happened happened and it cannot be expunged by drawing a line. And it is not about feelings of guilt and they are quite out of place. Nowadays it is about today making certain that he could never never ever happen again thousand. To or with the eminently story and professor who would have power set in his address to the bundestag that people seldom learn from history. And that the holocaust is no exception. But that the holocaust introduced a new dimension that had never been seen before Us Industrial mass murder or human beings were quite literally resigned also. And after the cataclysm that was the holocaust germanys conduct was exemplary there was no denial and to semitism was no longer in vogue. So now times are changed is all of this and todays world is a world of refugees and for us all those years ago the borders were medically sealed. Whereas now they have been opened thanks to an incredibly generous and courageous humanitarian gesture made here thank you good day to day remember the millions of innocent victims but we should also remember the courageous helpers there were some not enough but their worst mention of the people who put their own lives at risk on them it by helping others of us and we should not forget that either. Thanks. These images anti semitism is an view age old virus which is two thousand years old and apparently incurable and it takes on new forms focusing sometimes on religion or race or in the day the jews might not to mention that saw instead people talk about the israelis without really understanding the context or knowing what is going on behind the scenes. Thank. Yous are criticized for not having defending themselves. That simply confirms how impossible it is to imagine what it was like for us back then and then the jews criticized for defending themselves. Candelas that jewish schools even jewish kindergartners have to have a police guard. Thousand and one which is good we. Should be asking why. There were no excuses no explanations for what happened all those years ago all that remains so lets hope. The hope that this ultimately than one day reason will prevail and. I have been invited to come to germany many times over the years and have very positive contact with young people it was my last visit i had a less positive experience i was in bavaria in a war zone home. And to truly admirable history teachers whose yes i had organized with great enthusiasm and with no official funding a tour. Reading tour schools in town stein. The plan was to have two very different eyewitnesses speak. One was Nicholas Frank the son of how its run for governor general of occupy poland also known as the jew butcher. And the other was me. We met in the restaurant at my hotel and talked about the forthcoming visit is. The man never by had obviously been listening. And was furious he came over to our table. And complained that again we were spoiling the pleasant atmosphere with all this talk of auschwitz. And so on. That would not have happened five years ago lets say perhaps it would not have happened so be careful. Of sometimes i think that the orchestra. In auschwitz was a kind of microcosm of a society in miniature that we can learn from. All the nationalities were represented it was a tower of babel who cannot talk to me only to people who speak german or french i cant speak russian or polish so i wont talk to them. So instead we are each other mistrustfully and automatically assume that the other person is hostile or we dont think to ask why the other person has added up in auschwitz as well. Many years after these events i am in close contact with one of these other prisoners a polish woman of pure area. Who played the violin in the orchestra and we never spoke to each other at the time it is but thanks to an incredibly badly written book about the womens orchestra we came into contact again i met up in krakow are we still have problems finding a common language but we we do talk to each other and write to each other in english or in short weve become friends and ive found that we have far more in common than that which divides us. Haps this can serve as an example for todays problems talk to each other build bridges. And as for the resurgent anti semitism we ask ourselves who are the jews why do we come across them everywhere. Is it perhaps because they were driven out of their homeland two thousand years ago and dispersed across the world and have been searching ever since for a place where they hope to live in peace and not to be murdered. So jews does not work as a collective noun they are simply people here. Well with an unusual history its true so often the scapegoat persecuted murdered and defamed also though what is positive is that on the eighteenth of this month of this house now the mystery adopted a resolution stating that answer semitism must be combated resolutely. And we can only hope that you win this fight through the future lies in your hands what. Is it only eight years ago she was paris then president of the state of israel gave an address to this house in which she said while my heart is breaking at the memory of the atrocious past my eyes in visit common world future for a world that is young a world free of all hatred a world in which the words war and anti semitism will be dead words is this utopia. Endless difficulties to overcome before the two of us could leave germany it took almost a year and i swore that i would never set foot on german soil again mind. I was consumed by a boundless hatred of anything german as you see i broke my oath many years ago and i have no regrets. You hate is toxic in this but ultimately those who hate poison themselves thousand. International ten i leave it to you by expressing my thanks for your invitation and paying tribute to the dignity openness with which to mark this day of remembrance every year thank you thousand. No surviving members of the womens artistry of auschwitz speaking to the general understanding on Holocaust Memorial day. And members of address not very impressive address were going to hear two women. Who did start on the violin from germany and katz rubel i think shes from a stony are playing piano theyre going to be playing this program to go. For a cycle pull apart shall. Choose from the city flight. Ninety. Points. About the games. Somebodys. Going to break. For. An entire westergaard system written. About plasticity its not some very powerful. This whole system is a big messy. Business groups involved. Thank you to survival. From time to time remarkable story they were marking the story of how they against all odds people who survived the monstrosity of an oxygen and made an appeal in times of rising antisemitism its inappropriate to never forget. Never never forget soon again he appealed to people of all. Races and origins backgrounds to talk to each other to build bridges i remember that i read a passage from. A lets wait now were going to begin the music hes been. Earlier peter we hear death and he lost a vast fish his son a failed play he said he said this is now the second phase were hearing this from on drugs. Add. Up. I. Didnt believe it. Was. I. The old. More. Old. Or. Who