That he was able to share it and one of the last things that he wrote as a free man was also one of his most beautiful. And it was talking about sitting with friends in the camp, knowing that they were going to be executed the next day and then reflecting to him that a great regret in life was that they hadnt shared more with those that they loved and that was pileckis final thought as a free man and i would, if i could see him i would just want to ask him whether he felt that he could at that point connect with his family again. I think everyone has had experience of stress and turmoil in their lives. We know how to disassociate in that can be and how that can drive wedges between those we love and i would love to think that there was the possibility of redemption. I think pilecki was opposite of that in his final moments and may be something we can take away from his story on right now looking at the q and a, the questions that have been raised and speaking out, if thats okay i will
Saturday september 26 on booktv. Welcome to into h lincoln the Online Public program surgeries, a living memorial to the holocaust. My name at samantha shokin, manager of programs and today will be exploring the story of Witold Pilecki, the polish resistance leader who is a subject of the new book the auschwitz volunteer beyond bravery. Out now with harpercollins. We are joined today by author Jack Fairweather a former one report in iraq and afghanistan and the office of a war of choice and the good worker he has served as the Daily Telegraph Baghdad Bureau chief and is a video journalist for the Washington Post in afghanistan. Interviewing jack today is Robert Robert jan van pelt. From 199798 he presided over the team that developed a master plan to preserve visit auschwid participate as an Expert Witness in the famous case against the British Historic author david irving, holocaust tonight. Robert has published widely, serve as a struggle advisor and cultured the Evidence Room which
A National Lockdown for Peoples Mental Health for the economy for the United Kingdom generally we need to unlock and we need to let people get on with their lives the survey conducted by the British Medical Association also shows nearly a 5th of those polled are not at all confident about their ability to cope if there is a 2nd wave a 3rd said they were just not very confident and this is the 6th the they conducted by the b. M. A. June the pandemic and does give a clear indication that feelings within the n. H. S. Experts say there needs to be more government help put in place in order to support health care workers. Not to. Also eat with the fact that we also eat half the beach treat some of the illnesses that maybe have been pushed to the ground but they do need the full. Element of Mental Health coming along you know people only you. Family members you know Financial Issues and once you know we might be focusing a lot on the immediate death and the immediate health. Coronavirus the
Been happening is during the day weve had peaceful protests in the evening after curfew things tend to get a little more raucous and it is after that last night that the presence of the National Guard was really felt now theyre not the frontline troops what what they do it with a fountain of them now added a total of 1700. 00 they troll the perimeter as they escort fire trucks that sort of thing that frees up the police to control the crowds and the police have been unable to do that for several nights so youve seen fires and looting late at night but last night an hour after curfew the police moved in heavy heavy use of tear gas and rubber bullets we got a whiff of that and saw some of those rubber pellets whiz past us as that happened took about 15 minutes for them to clear a space where thousands of protesters had gathered and then police pretty much held the night from there on there were no large gatherings that we could see or that we saw reported after that so the presence of th
With many people saying the poorest are suffering from lockdowns alexy obrien has more. In ecuador they marched in defiance of the lockdown angry over government cuts to jobs and salaries brought in to tackle the pandemic. The mayor of the capital quito had asked the crowds to stay home because of the risk of infection but these protesters believe the stakes are too high and there are more we have no fear of contagion on the contrary we were afraid of the hunger that our comrades and hundreds of family members who live jobless will go through. This anger too in chile where demonstrators have pleaded for help saying they dont have enough food. This is not legal but its the only way to make them listen to us to protest and to create barricades chiles president Sebastian Pinera has warned the Health System is reaching its limits theres been a rapid increase in infections in recent days with a new Field Hospital opened to help ease the strain on facilities. Hospitals in brazil are also ove