Eva Schloss – Remembering for the future — Transcript

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1. 0:17well a secret is a wonderful thing that
2. 0:20so many people from all over the world
3. 0:22come together
4. 0:24to
5. 0:25talk about the problems we are having at
6. 0:27the moment in our world and how we can
7. 0:30work together to change it so that it
8. 0:34has more equality and more harmony and
9. 0:37more peace
10. 0:39so young people the new generation of
11. 0:42growing up youngers becoming adults they
12. 0:45will run the future of our countries
13. 0:48so if they
14. 0:52learn of the evil that has happened and
15. 0:55really want to change things they want
16. 0:57to be
17. 0:59generous and help at
18. 1:01more equality
19. 1:04then we are successful and say young
20. 1:07people are interested who wants to live
21. 1:10in a corrupt bitter world so they're
22. 1:13full of hope and they are very keen
23. 1:15always to what can we do to create a
24. 1:19better world
25. 1:25i was born in vienna in 1929
26. 1:29so in between the two wars
27. 1:32the situation was already kind of unsure
28. 1:36and so people
29. 1:37wanted to really enjoy their life as
30. 1:40long as still possible i had an older
31. 1:43brother
32. 1:44we had an extended family
33. 1:47all
34. 1:48living near us
35. 1:50we had made outtakes
36. 1:52the weekend in winter we wet skiings
37. 1:55there was a little uh mountain where we
38. 1:58always used to go
39. 2:00we were a lovely lovely family we loved
40. 2:02music
41. 2:03and art and
42. 2:05but this wonderful life stopped for us
43. 2:08in 1938 when the nazis
44. 2:12completely unexpected marched into
45. 2:15austria
46. 2:18my best friend was a catholic girl
47. 2:21and after school i was on the way home
48. 2:24we walked
49. 2:26i passed her home and i usually stopped
50. 2:28off there for a little game or a little
51. 2:32vienna biscuit or something and
52. 2:35but after the nazis had come in
53. 2:39um i didn't know there was a change
54. 2:41suddenly and when the mother saw me she
55. 2:44looked with such hatred at me and say i
56. 2:48never want to see you here again and she
57. 2:50slammed the door in my face
58. 2:53and my brother who was 12 years old he
59. 2:56came home the next day from school
60. 2:59and he looked terrible his face was all
61. 3:02full of blood his clothes were torn and
62. 3:05when my parents asked him hence what on
63. 3:07earth have you done
64. 3:09and he started to cry and he said my
65. 3:12best friends did that and the teacher
66. 3:15just watched it happening
67. 3:18so it was really
68. 3:20a shock for us
69. 3:22i think my parents had been expecting
70. 3:25something like that and my father said
71. 3:28i'm leaving as soon as possible and as
72. 3:31soon as akada asked you to follow us i'm
73. 3:34going to amsterdam
74. 3:36and eventually
75. 3:38we got visas to go to belgium
76. 3:42so we moved to belgium i didn't know a
77. 3:45word of french
78. 3:47i was in shock i had lost my friends had
79. 3:50lost my family in the meantime hitler
80. 3:54went into czechoslovakia and the second
81. 3:57world war started
82. 3:58in
83. 4:00february 1940 during the war we got a
84. 4:04visa to visit him in amsterdam
85. 4:07for
86. 4:08three months we hired my father had
87. 4:11hired a furnished apartment on a very
88. 4:14nice square um the merved appliance was
89. 4:17like a triangle with a skyscraper eight
90. 4:21floors it was the highest building in
91. 4:23holland at the time
92. 4:25and
93. 4:26some grass in the middle for children to
94. 4:28play and so on
95. 4:30and one day a little girl came to me
96. 4:32and introduced herself she said you are
97. 4:35new here my name is anna frank
98. 4:39where do you come from and i said from
99. 4:41austria so she said serbian speaking oh
100. 4:45you must beat my father and she took me
101. 4:48to her apartment to met otto frank
102. 4:52who later became my stepfather of course
103. 4:55had never ever dreamt something like
104. 4:57this would happen
105. 4:59so when the germans had invaded very
106. 5:02slowly measures against the jewish
107. 5:04population was taken at first it was a
108. 5:08nuisance and not life threatening
109. 5:11and the dutch said don't worry you
110. 5:13belonged out to us we are going to
111. 5:15protect you
112. 5:17and
113. 5:18so we spent two years
114. 5:21being afraid to be caught
115. 5:23till we were betrayed
116. 5:25by a dutch nurse
117. 5:27who pretended she was
118. 5:30a resistance member but she really
119. 5:33worked for the nazis
120. 5:58so of course we became refugees
121. 6:01which i didn't even know that they might
122. 6:03say time you know it was something which
123. 6:04was unknown to us children
124. 6:07and in belgium it was really very we
125. 6:10were really not welcome in holland it
126. 6:13was much better
127. 6:15the dutch were much more open for
128. 6:18international
129. 6:19people and so on and so we're already
130. 6:22quite a lot of refugees from germany so
131. 6:25obviously they had accepted quite a few
132. 6:28people
133. 6:29and
134. 6:31yeah and i must say i
135. 6:34do compare it with what is happening now
136. 6:37or not only now already for many many
137. 6:40years
138. 6:42there are wars big 40 different
139. 6:44countries
140. 6:46by the western countries
141. 6:49which is really completely unacceptable
142. 6:53and
143. 6:54then people have no living
144. 6:56are persecuted and try to find somewhere
145. 7:00in the world a safe haven where they can
146. 7:03bring up their families
147. 7:05and again
148. 7:07many many countries don't want to take
149. 7:10any refugees
150. 7:11and those are usually the brave people
151. 7:14the people who have ideas how they can
152. 7:17ban and see the different country and if
153. 7:20we look through history
154. 7:22most refugees in different countries
155. 7:25over the years have done extremely well
156. 7:34i
157. 7:35don't believe that other frank says
158. 7:38that she still believes that people are
159. 7:40good at heart
160. 7:42when i came back from the camp
161. 7:45i was full of hatred especially when i
162. 7:49heard that my father and my brother
163. 7:51would not make it would never come back
164. 7:55i really wanted to commit suicide i was
165. 7:58so depressed about the situation
166. 8:01and it was otto frank and his father who
167. 8:04came who'd lost his whole family he
168. 8:07came to talk to me and i told him i hate
169. 8:10i hate the hater miserable and he said i
170. 8:14don't hate
171. 8:15and i said what how can you not hate
172. 8:18after you've lost everything
173. 8:20and he said
174. 8:21how can i hate my own people
175. 8:24and
176. 8:25the people you hate
177. 8:27they live happily they don't know
178. 8:30that they are hated
179. 8:32but you feel bad and i realized yes i do
180. 8:35feel bad but i can't help it
181. 8:37so i hate that many many many many years
182. 8:41and i was not a happy person i didn't
183. 8:44want to go to austria i didn't want to
184. 8:46have anything to do with austria
185. 8:48but one particular event changed my mind
186. 8:53in london i spoke
187. 8:55to a german
188. 8:58high school
189. 9:00after lunch i sat next to a young man
190. 9:03young boy he was about 30 40 years old
191. 9:07and i asked him are you mixing with the
192. 9:11english population after you live in
193. 9:13england and he said well not really but
194. 9:16the only time we bix with the english
195. 9:19kids is when we play football
196. 9:23and then he started to cry
197. 9:26and i said what's the matter did i say
198. 9:28anything which hurt you he said
199. 9:31you know when we play football she still
200. 9:34call us the nazis
201. 9:37and i'm not a nazi he said i haven't
202. 9:40done any harm i don't have
203. 9:42i i don't know why they do that
204. 9:45and i felt really sorry for this young
205. 9:48boy
206. 9:49and i realized
207. 9:51you know how can i still have prejudiced
208. 9:53against two new generations of people
209. 9:56who had nothing to do with the 30s and
210. 9:59the 40s
211. 10:01but nevertheless the young people i say
212. 10:04are very very sorry what has happened
213. 10:12well as i say there are a lot of
214. 10:14wonderful people around and they
215. 10:17are speaking up and they make
216. 10:19organizations these ebay clubs and they
217. 10:21help people and talk to people and
218. 10:24hopefully
219. 10:26eventually
220. 10:28people will realize that to be a good
221. 10:30person to do good makes you personally
222. 10:33feel much better than we do anything in
223. 10:37hatred
224. 10:38you have to ever always have hope that
225. 10:41sex can get better but we all have to
226. 10:44work together not just young people and
227. 10:47middle-aged people but especially essex
228. 10:50government
229. 10:51the government has the power to change
230. 10:54the world
231. 11:02this is a
232. 11:04book i wrote so that my brother is not
233. 11:07forgotten in this world my father
234. 11:10promised him that he will be remembered
235. 11:12for what he has achieved in his short
236. 11:15life
237. 11:17everything you do leave something behind
238. 11:20nothing gets lost
239. 11:22all the good you have accomplished will
240. 11:24continue in the lives of the person you
241. 11:27have touched
242. 11:29it will make a difference to someone
243. 11:31somewhere sometimes
244. 11:34your achievements will be carried on
245. 11:37everything is connected like a shade
246. 11:40that cannot be broken
247. 11:42in life you must always hope for a
248. 11:44better future or you would be able to
249. 11:47carry on like a mounted climber who does
250. 11:51not surrender to the treacherous cliffs
251. 11:54on the right at left
252. 11:57one should move forward and keep
253. 12:00climbing
254. 12:32you