27/01/2016 Newsround


27/01/2016

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Afternoon everyone, Ricky here with Wednesday's Newsround.

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Today, across the world, people are remembering the Holocaust.

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It's a chance for people to think about the millions of Jewish people

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and others who were killed by Hitler and his Nazi party during World War

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I've been looking back at what happened and hearing

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When World War II broke out in 1939, Germany was run by Adolf Hitler

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Hitler thought Jewish people were inferior and planned ways

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Anti-Jewish laws were passed and windows were smashed and Jewish

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people were forced out of their homes.

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The Nazis rounded up millions of Jews as well as disabled people,

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gay people and other groups that Hitler thought were inferior,

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and sent them to prisons called concentration camps.

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Families were split up and forced to do hard physical work

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It is thought seven out of ten Jews across Europe died.

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Some children did escape Nazi Germany.

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Ruth was one of those who managed to escape.

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Street by street, the Jews were cleared, and any moment

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We opened the door to a woman from the British Embassy who had

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She brought the entry visa to Britain, train tickets to get

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through Germany, through Holland and a ferry to Ramsgate.

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Heinz also managed to escape the Holocaust.

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Frank, my brother, was in Leeds and he tried to get me a trainee

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post and he finally succeeded and we came to Leeds.

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We managed to get visas for our parents and they came,

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thank God, because four days later war broke out.

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Every year people remember those who lost their lives

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It helps teach us about these terrible events and make sure

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they are not forgotten so they can never happen again.

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Well one holocaust survivor has been sharing his story with hundreds

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of pupils across the country, via the first ever live stream

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I went to meet some of the children watching.

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Most of us wore this Jewish star. Rudy Oppenheimer is a survivor of a

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concentration camp in Germany. He was just 12 years old when he was

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sent to the camp along with his family. We walked for three miles

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and we could see the camp. Concentration camps were places

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where the Nazis kept people prisoner. The Nazis made conditions

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so bad that people would die. People were deliberately killed or allowed

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to starve. Rudy's mum and dad were among those who died. People today,

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we do not realise how much we have got and for them they were nearly

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dying and the lives were almost being taken away for who they were.

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On the 15th of April 1945, the British Army liberated the camp. It

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makes me feel really sad knowing someone has gone through that at the

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same age as me. It is weird to think that 70 years ago people could be so

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different and racist to how we are now. Everyone should be treated the

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same way. For generations to come, they should know about what happened

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and remember it. Nobody should have gone through that and it is

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upsetting that so many people had to. As the people who survived the

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Holocaust, travelling is not as easy to share the stories. This

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interactive talk gives young people the chance to find out what happened

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70 years ago. There is a special guide to the Holocaust on our

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website. Also online, you can hear more from survivors who were held in

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concentration camps. There are lots of other interesting

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stories for you to look at and new stories are being added

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all the time, so keep coming back. Enjoy the rest of your day Jenny's

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back in the morning with more great stories for you so from

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the Newsround team.

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