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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the National Constitution center. We are gathered today for a meaningful and important event. The great composer and prophet Hannibal Lokumbe has been moved oratorio in tribute to a crucial event in our national history. Dr. Kim phuc, who is here today, was the young girl in vietnam in 1972 who was pictured running down the street after a napalm attack. That photograph so transfixed the world that it helped lead to an end to the vietnam war. And dr. Phuc has gone on to a distinguished career, advocating for children who are the victims of war and in recognition of her extraordinary achievements, she was honored earlier this year with the dresden peace prize, one of the most important in the world. [applause] when hannibal wrote to me and said that he wanted to present a preview of his performance at the constitution center, my immediate answer was yes. Because hannibal, a year ago, wrote and said he had been moved to introduce a similar piece that he ha
Bill good evening. My name is bill leggett. I am a bookseller. On behalf of the entire staff welcome. , its a pleasure to have you here and a pleasure to be hosting sonia shah. And hearing her discuss her book, epidemic, trekking from cholera and beyond. If you have any noisemaking devices, take a moment to silence them now. Sonja will read for about half an hour and then take as many of your questions we can fit into 20 minutes. And then she will sign books afterwards. We encourage questions, but need you to use actually the one microphone thats here on the right by the pillar, so that everyone can be involved in the conversation and also for our cspan audience. After the event is over, if you great help if you fold up the chair and place it against a bookshelf, and it will be time for the book sailing book signing, and the books are for sale when you walked in. Sonia shaw is an investigative author whose work has appeared in the New York Times and scientific american, among others. H
there. thank you for coming tonight. i am nick goldberg. have judge lucky to buergenthal here tonight. as louise said he has a law professor and a jurist. he has worked on the world court and the inter-american court for rights. he has done all kinds of extraordinary and wonderful things with his life but today we will talk almost exclusively about things that happened to him before he was 11 years old. judge buergenthal was born in czechoslovakia they gear after hitler s came to power in germany. his family fled to poland where not too longre afterwards he was confined it to the ghetto there. he was ultimately transported to auschwitz. of the auschwitz on one well-known death marches and he was finally liberated think in august of 1945. his story is a pretty extraordinary one. there are two really powerful themes that come out in this book in my view. one is this idea of luck and chance. the book is called a lucky child and there is an awful lot in the book about being in th
we are gathered today for a meaningful and important event. the great composer and prophet hannibal lokumbe has been moved in tribute to a crucial event in our national history. dr. kim fuchs, who is here today , was the young girl in vietnam in 1972 who was pictured running down the street after a napalm attack. that photograph so transfixed the world that it helped lead to an end to the vietnam war. dr. phuc has gone on to a distinguished career, advocating for children who are the victims of war and in recognition of her extraordinary achievements, she was honored earlier this year with the dresden peace prize, one of the most important in the world. [applause] when hannibal wrote to me and said that he wanted to present a preview of his performance at the constitution center, my immediate answer was yes. because hannibal, a year ago, wrote and said he had been moved to introduce a similar piece that he had written in honor of victims of the alabama church bombings, and we