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Three Generations Speak About the Importance of NEVER FORGETTING / ALWAYS TEACHING the lessons of the Holocaust.

article image placeholderSonia Warshawski, 95
I can go outside and do a little in my backyard, whatever. And I can even take my car around. The main thing is to be patient and stay busy and that's all to it. We'll make it. It's only a matter of time. And we shall see that is the voice of Sonya. Orshowski she left a voicemail for her granddaughter Ellie Court about Covey. We shouldn't be scared more on Sonya washoski in the next. Well

Meet Sonia, Regina & Ellie- grandmother, mother, granddaughter. We join with them to talk about the #holocaust #unsungheros #swellinterview #DBPconvo

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https://bigsonia.com/ a film by Leah Warshawski & Todd Soliday

And I'm going to link Bigsonia dot com here to this Swell that all of you have a chance to link to the movie, to link to information about all the resources available, the education campaigns, how you can donate? I watched Big Sonya on Amazon. It was incredible. It was so moving. So I guess I want to offer a question to all three of you to answer in your audience way, which is, can you speak about the importance of learning about the Holocaust?
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Ellie Kort
@ellie_kort · 1:02

Midwest Center for Holocaust Education: https://mchekc.org

Anyone who has seen Big Sonya remembers the message Sonia mentions to put love in your heart. So those are just some ideas of how Holocaust education could be helpful. One link that I'll put out there is the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education. Anyone can go there and check out other survivor stories and material that is great for educational use on Holocaust education. Kason
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Regina Kort
@Reg · 1:39

Holocaust education

And if we don't study the Holocaust to try to answer questions that allowed Germany to get to the point where they were able to produce these what I call killing factories, then we know it could happen again. And there is so much hate and misunderstanding and divisiveness today that I think we need had more answers as to why this happened than we ever did before
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Regina Kort
@Reg · 0:06
By the Way, for those of you listening in I'm Regina Court, Sonya Washosky? S daughter
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:38

🌱 welcome!

So hold on and have a beautiful evening and please know there's plenty you can just reply here if you have more thoughts to say on this particular topic because it's such a huge one in terms of why learning about the Holocaust is so important. So if you have a midnight thought, just come back here and hit reply again and we love to hear it. So looking forward, thank you so much
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:20

Feel Better Sonia! We are all here and patiently hanging out 🌱

Here's a quick update about Sonia. She's got laryngitis, and we are going to wait until her voice is in full Bloom again so we can speak with her. And that's the beauty of this platform. We could just put it on hold. And when Sonia feels better, we will resume. Thanks for your patience and I'm so looking forward to this conversation
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Ellie Kort
@ellie_kort · 5:00

@holocaustsurvivor

I decided this is my mission to speak for those who didn't make it. And I would like to tell you I was so young I didn't have the whole education. But reading history
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Ellie Kort
@ellie_kort · 5:00

@holocaustsurvivor

If I would have to say and tell you I would have to say three days and it will be not enough. What even in the history they will not tell you what I witnessed. And when I came to conclusion reading history, what I want to say again, watching babies going to the guest Chambers. When I saw busy, I was very close. My Barrack was very close from the crematoria two cremators and gas Chambers
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Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

Welcome to Swell!

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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:25

@ellie_kort feelings listening to Sonia

Sonya, you are a life force. Your words, every single syllable you speak is a testament to your spirit and your survival and your wisdom. Being someone who has survived and a living testament to not only what happened, but what's happening today and our inability to be able to hold the Crystal clear realities that happened back then. They mutate over time. And that's one of the biggest tragedies of our time
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Ellie Kort
@ellie_kort · 2:05

@thirdgenerationsurvivor

And in terms of propaganda and fake news, this just feels the reason why she wants to get the word out and why my mother wants to get the word out. And other family members want to continue to talk about it and teach others because again, like hearing a first hand account of somebody's tragedy is more impactful and you learn more from it than if you were to read about it in a textbook or watch a movie about it. So hopefully that answers your questions. Question
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Ellie Kort
@ellie_kort · 5:00

@holocaustsurvivor

This is other reason a lot of our what they fought in the forest, the partisans which they are not really getting enough credit what they accomplished. But I want to tell you when they put us in those trains like herring, you couldn't move. And suddenly we didn't know why. Our train was standing on a station. And here are people are dying left and right. Children, babies. And I can tell you in this cattle train was just a small little window with wiring
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Ellie Kort
@ellie_kort · 5:00

@holocaustsurvivor

Yeah. Yeah. So we felt we are derailed and we found out because trembling could not kill the people fast enough and trains were still standing. So our train was revealed to my Danic. And I can tell you, please read the book because when he was with me also, it was a long train. What do you think was sitting on the train? The Ukraine because some we already knew that we're going to death and some jump towards some man and they were shooting. It is unbelievable
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Ellie Kort
@ellie_kort · 4:59

@holocaustsurvivor

Go ahead. I was testifying about one. This is really if any woman in the world you would think can do such horrible, horrible things, it's unbelievable. She was a killer. She was always coming with three German shepherds. I have even a picture of her because anyway, what I want to tell you, if she caught you, if you didn't go out today, out to work, you better. We were hiding under the barracks
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Ellie Kort
@ellie_kort · 5:00

@holocaustsurvivor

How many times I put my life on other line, which I didn't care. I would rather be shot. I cannot tell you everything because it's impossible. Impossible. What was going on? You can imagine how many times I walked close to the crematoria and other would bring open trucks. If Ashes from the crematoria and we were putting them on the fields for fertilizer, how would you feel? Even among the Ashes, some of the little bones were swell
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Ellie Kort
@ellie_kort · 2:52

@holocaustsurvivor

Well, they were sitting down in which she told me that, asking me if I remember a woman, what she was really horrible, horrible murder. And I said right away with a smile. I know from whom you are mentioning. He said, yes. We knew you was in that camp and other told me other story. You wouldn't believe it. One day from our camp, survivors, two ladies went to a bakery in Brooklyn, New York. And you wouldn't believe it
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Ellie Kort
@ellie_kort · 5:00

@holocaustsurvivor

And the ones like myself who were wounded other turned all those buildings from the and they made some hospitals and some of the others, they are still all right. And they were also leaving. Finally
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Ellie Kort
@ellie_kort · 2:47

@holocaustsurvivor

Oh, Lord, will you let us let the murderers prosper from their bloody yield? I pledge to you, my people, we shall never forget and never again go shipishly to such a terrible death. We pledge your innocent splash blood will not be in vain. Let us carry on this model never again
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:47

Bearing witness 🙏❤️ passing to torch to all of us

Thank you so much for your time, Sonia. We love you on a cosmic level. Ellie, Regina, we hold your family so close to us as storytellers, as people who want to make an impact and have purpose and make sure this does not happen again. And I hope in our small way, we're contributing to the urgency and the gravity of Sonya's life purpose
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Kim M
@kimestryarts · 2:50

The best we can be and the worst we can be.

I have a really great appreciation for this post and these perspectives. I am not Jewish, but I went to predominantly Jewish school schools throughout my education, especially in high school. And many of my friends were Jewish. And because such a large population of the school was Jewish, we had Holocaust education as part of our curriculum, of course, and we actually had Holocaust survivors speak when I was in 10th grade. And I swell always really remember that experience for many reasons
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