1:36:01
I think I wouId have done him very wrong.
1:36:04
And I can fuIIy understand,
being a mother...
1:36:08
...what it wouId mean if this is...
1:36:11
...what I wouId have had to go through
with my chiId, God forbid.
1:36:16
My main concern was always:
1:36:19
Let me be strong and let me try...
1:36:22
...to make it. l made it that far.
1:36:24
l want to make it to the end.
1:36:27
Regardless of what the end was.
1:36:32
Survival is an accident.
1:36:35
You cannot ask a soldier
who comes out of battle:
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´´Why were your comrades,
left and right, killed...
1:36:41
´´...and you survived?´´ You have
no explanation for that. lt´s an accident.
1:36:47
At the moment of liberation...
1:36:49
...we were very happy,
but on the other hand...
1:36:52
...really very sad, because l realized...
1:36:55
...that I was one of the Iast
who had survived.
1:36:58
AII the others who had gone with me
to Auschwitz or had been taken...
1:37:01
...to Auschwitz wouId never return.
1:37:22
ln July, 1945...
1:37:24
...l went back to Germany
to work for the American government.
1:37:28
One of the reasons
was to look for my parents.
1:37:32
The most sensible place to go to,
would be to go back to Kippenheim.
1:37:37
But l didn´t go back...
1:37:38
...until August, 1947.
1:37:42
l think on some level...
1:37:45
...I knew my parents didn´t survive...
1:37:48
...but as Iong as I didn´t go back
to Kippenheim...
1:37:51
...I couId stiII say that maybe
they were back in Kippenheim...
1:37:55
...which doesn´t reaIIy make
a Iot of sense, but...
1:37:58
...I think it was just
my survivaI mechanism.