Everything is Illuminated
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This is it.
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What is this?
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This is Trachimbrod.
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We are here.
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This monument stands in memory
of the 1024 Trachimbroders...

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...killed at the hands of German fascism
on March 18, 1942.

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This is all that is left.
They destroyed everything.

1:16:58
Only a few were able to get out
before they came.

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You were lucky to survive.
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They put us in lines.
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Made lists.
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It was all very logical.
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They burned the synagogue.
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What is she saying?
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That was the first thing they did.
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They burned the synagogue.
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Then they unrolled a Torah on the ground
and told the men to spit on it.

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They unrolled something on the ground
and told them to spit on it.

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My father would make us kiss
any book that touched the ground.

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Cooking books. Books for children,
plays, even journals...

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...and this was our Torah...
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It was their Torah.
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...that had been in our synagogue...
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...since the first rabbi brought it here
300 years before.


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