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On the 15th of April,
1945, the British army

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liberated the German
concentration camp

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Bergen-Belsen.

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The soldiers were
horrified by what they saw,

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60,000 barely alive prisoners
in an ongoing process of dying.

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Among them was Miriam
Akavia, a young Jewish girl

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originally from the beautiful
city of Krakow, Poland.

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During the Holocaust,
her brother

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was killed by the Gestapo, her
father murdered in Mauthausen,

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and her beloved mother,
exhausted and starved,

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died days before liberation.

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Miriam, weighing
only 25 kilograms,

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already saw herself as a
sure candidate for death.

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Years later she recalled,
"They came too late, since it

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was too late to save anyone.

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The whole world was
lost and destroyed.

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The whole world that was
worthy of being called a world

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was gone."

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Miriam didn't feel
sorry for herself,

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but for them, the liberators.

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She felt that the
world missed a chance.

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Why is the Holocaust such
a watershed of humanity,

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and what is its continuous
impact on our world?

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I'm Professor Havi Dreifuss
of Tel Aviv University and Yad

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Vashem, and I would
like to invite you

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to our course, the
Holocaust, an introduction.

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In this course, you will
meet leading experts

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in the field who
will expose you, step

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by step, to the ideology
and developments which

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led to the systematic mass
murder of six million Jews,

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mothers, fathers,
children, human beings.

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Come and join us in
this eye-opening voyage

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to one of the darkest moments
of human history, the Holocaust.

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