Early investments in child health and nutrition are crucial. The time period from pregnancy through Early Childhood is one of rapid physical, cognitive emotional and social development and because of this this time period in a childs life can set the stage for a lifetime of good health and success in learning and relationships or it can be a time of toxic stress when physical, mental, and social health and learning are compromised. Micronutrients such as iron and folate have demonstrated effects on Brain Development but are commonly deficient in pregnant women and Young Children in the united states. These deficiency cans lead to delays in attention motor development, poor shortterm memory and lower i. Q. Scores. One of the most Effective Investments congress can make during the prenatal to school age period is to support the special Supplemental Nutrition Program for women, infants and children, or wic and i thank the committee for its strong bipartisan support for wic over the past f
Narrative, but it definitely adds layers to it. Interviewer leslie swift , thank you very much. Kurt klein my name is kurt klein , and i was born in a town called waldorf which is very close to heidelberg in germany. Interviewer tell me about your parents and your family . Kurt klein i grew up in the postworld war i era, and of course, those were very difficult times. My parents were struggling to get along during this economic chaos that existed during those times. You may remember, there was this very serious inflation, i mean ludicrous in a sense, such as s has never been seen before and that made it very difficult to carry on. My father had a business that was made extremely difficult because of the Economic Conditions that existed after world war i. He was a broker for hops and tobacco and grain that he would buy from the farmers in the town that we lived in, and my mother helped him all she could. Of course, they, along with so many others, were struggling to exist in those days.
They give you less time. I remained silent. I wouldnt address the court. And people said to me, why dont you do that . And maybe i was polly annaish about this but i felt it was a matter of principle. I felt i was in a kangaroo court. I felt my Constitutional Rights had been violated, and i wasnt going to participate. And as a result, i turned down a deal, by the way, i could have had a deal on one count probably would have done 18 months. The doj was going to insist on prison time, but the deal i turned down was 1 count, 18 months. It was a 10,000. My restitution would have been 10,000. I would have been fined 1 million. Instead, i said, no, they indicted me on 43 counts, faced 430 the government asked for 430 years in prison. I ultimately got only 72 months. I had to forfeit 62 million and fined 19 million on top of it. And then, of course, there is a story for another time, how enjoyable it is to be in federal prison 4 1 2 years when the feds are watching you. Because there are spec
He died in 2002 at the age of 81. In the interview, he describes as an interrogator of the u. S. Army, he describes hitler as a driver and hitlers final days. We first asked for the oral History Collection first explore the oral History Collection. Leslie swift my name is leslie swift, and i represent the oral History Collection. This branch is intended to collect similar types of media together, so audio and visual media, and of course, oral history. Interview or er how long has oral histories been collected by the museum . Leslie swift these have been collected since 1989 in preparation of opening the museum, and we have also gotten oral histories from other museums. Interviewer what was the point of this project . Leslie swift this came into being and to illustrate the point of the museum, which opened in 1993, so it was to tell personal stories of experience with the holocaust for the museum visitor. Interviewer how did you persuade people to recall such painful memories . Leslie s
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] you are watching American History tv. 48 hours of programming every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter for information on the schedule of upcoming programs entered to keep up on history news. And keep up on history news. For the next several weeks on American History tv we will hear holocaust stories from those who live them. They are a part of the oral history of the holocaust museum. We will hear from kurt klein on his familys