The daughter of a Holocaust survivor embarks on an international quest to uncover answers about the plight of her mother | dG1fWWdOa1cteTlmVnc
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00:00We were put in the back of a Schmidt's truck.
00:11He took us in the middle of the night out to the farm.
00:13Because he had heard they were going to come for us.
00:16We were on a truck.
00:17I was terrified.
00:18Everybody was terrified.
00:19All it was was a tarp on the outside.
00:22But we were already registered to be shipped off to Auschwitz.
00:26I never thought they would tell me their story.
00:29We were seven Jewish children who came over here together.
00:32But one fragment at a time, they give me something to hold on to.
00:43She put us into danger by doing what she was doing.
00:46And kept telling her not to do it because she said, you're going to get caught.
00:52My memory of her is when she was taken away and she said, it's all right.
00:58These people need to get out.
01:00You don't go through what he did in a camp and walk away emotionally whole.
01:06You're broken.
01:07I guess there's just something about seeing original source documents that's so emotional.
01:15After she was killed, my father said we had to go be baptized.
01:18Alexander took all the children to Berlin that would have been extremely dangerous.
01:24My father said, we got to get out of here now.
01:27All of the Soviet troops will go to Berlin.
01:30And fighting there was very, very cruel and very, very dangerous.
01:33You learn the line to survive.
01:37Can you describe how you feel right now?
01:39A little overwhelmed.
01:41There's so much evil in the world that is always overcome by so much goodness.
01:46Is courage something that can be learned or are you born with it?
01:55It is incumbent upon us to remember that the good always outweighs the evil.