This Holocaust survivor last saw her father in 1942 — and she'll never forget the promise she made him.
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00:00What you hear from me, remember, it's true, it does happen, it did happen, this is not a lie.
00:22If you hear it from even a friend of yours who makes remarks that you know are wrong,
00:29speak up, don't be silent.
00:44I see that my brother is already on the wagon, they pulled him up and I'm throwing kisses to him
00:51and I didn't see the SS man who was coming from around the corner,
00:56and he took his rifle, the butt of his rifle, and he smashed me in the face.
01:02I walk in the street and I sometimes say, oh, maybe, maybe, oh, look at this, this one looks alike.
01:09No, it couldn't be.
01:11And until this day, I miss him the most.
01:27And my mother turned me around, pushed me, because the gates were about to close,
01:32and I had no place to go, and I left, and I looked around, I hate you.
01:40I was so angry.
01:42Till today, I wish I could say, I'm sorry, mummy, I didn't understand.
01:47I'm still suffering from that.
01:57I was gang raped on the farm by German soldiers, and that's when I didn't want to go on anymore.
02:12That was too much.
02:15I said, no more, no more.
02:19He's holding me like this, and he's looking for a long time.
02:28When I do this, I almost feel it.
02:31And then he says, you, my child, you shall live.
02:37You shall live to tell it all.
02:49My father on Yom Kippur in 1943 was hanged, and my father was thrown into the grave,
03:05and then my brother was shot and thrown into the same grave as my father.
03:10Anybody I met in America, the first year in America, everybody,
03:15why don't you just forget it?
03:17The things that were done to me, how can you forget?
03:20How can you ask anybody to forget something that people didn't know?
03:41The kind of trauma that you suffer from being separated from a parent,
03:47unless you've been through it, you can't believe it.
03:51This is what happened.
03:53If you see something, speak up.