Holocaust museums firstperson series. It is just over an hour. Good morning and welcome come to the United States Holocaust Memorial museum. My name is bill benson, the host of firstperson. Thank you for joining us today. We are in our 17th year of the first person program. Our first person today is mr. Julius menn whom we shall meet shortly. This season of firstperson is made possible by the generation of the loos frequent Smith Foundation with additional funding from the arlene and Daniel Fisher foundation. Firstperson is a series of conversations with survivors of the holocaust who share with us their firsthand accounts of their experiences during the holocaust. Each of our firstperson guests serve as volunteers here at this museum. Our program will continue twiceweekly through midaugust. T these himh the louisiana 0 the museums website provides information about each of our desperate the website address is www. Ushmm. Org. Anyone interested in keeping in touch with the museum and i
Welcome to the program. Anger and grief in turkey tonight. The government says Islamic State is the main suspect for the weekend suicide bombings that killed at least 97 people in the capital. There are reports security is being stepped up but many say it is too little, too late. Just a few weeks until elections and the country is polarized. Reporter thousands attended funeral ceremonies for the thick dems of saturdays attack, but those representing the turkish government or absence. Many of the funerals turned into antigovernment protests. These, murderer erdogan. Many people here hold the government responsible. The most deadly attack in the countrys history. Why are they carrying out these massacres against revolutionaries, socialist, and those who are in favor of these . Widely do we never have a politician or member of government suffering from these attacks and why dont they take responsibility . This clearly shows it. Out this massacre. We will hold them accountable or this. The
You know, id always heard a little bit about the lusitania, but i didnt really realize that there was a human drama at the core of that story as poignant, as moving as anything youd find with the titanic, but also that it was a story which had deep political ramifications. It was a story of an event which really changed the nature of warfare. Cspan the titanic was sunk in 1912. Guest thats right, just three years earlier. Cspan the lusitania was owned by what company . Guest it was owned by the Cunard Company. Shed been built up in scotland, on the river clyde, by the john brown company, launched 1906, made her Maiden Voyage 1907, and really was the technological marvel of her age. It wasnt just that she was a uniquely beautiful, elegant ship, with suites and public rooms, you know, modeled on the grand palaces of europe, like versailles and fontainebleau. She was also very technological advanced. She had revolutionary turbine engines. This was a ship that could cut through the atlanti
On the eastern side, we find boring holes such as sponges which indicate higher salinity waters. The banded tulip shells are some of the clues or indicators to where people were going to collect food, particularly when they are in an assemblage or mix with other pieces. They other near shores, shallow sea grass. They dont require hook and line fishing technique. So by careful, Detailed Analysis through this landscape, we begin to understand the resilience of the people here and parts of their Cultural Development and formati formation. We also know that they endured an extreme period of longterm cold and that when that happened, fish were not available in the harbor, and people abandoned this site for about 100 years around a. D. 800. When they returned around a. D. 900 was when they began to use the middance and the midden mounds for everyone live okay top of them and to be building massive structures as well as excavating a canal here that took the route of what was likely a freshwat
What next for the migrants that make it across the mediterranean to italy. We have a special report playing for high takes. Turning them into the new growth area for gaming. And im Barry Cummings with the sport. Chelsea edge closer to a premiership title. In jeremy Bayern Munich fans celebrate germany Bayern Munich fans celebrate crowned champions for the 20th time a day and a half after a huge earthquake struck nepal survivors are being pulled from the rubble. 2,500 are spent to have died but the number could rise as rescuers move in. Aftershocks rattle nepal and surrounding countries. The largest, 6. 7 magnitude. Foreign governments are sending in supplies. This is aid from pakistan. India, china, israel japan pleked support. Rescuers trying to reach survivors on Mount Everest are facing a challenge. 17 were killed in an avalanche triggered by the quake. Andrew simmonds reports from kathmandu. Reporter gradually the mournful realisation grows, an earthquake pulverized nepal, more dev