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Haifa, Israel – 14 January 2025
1. Number tattooed on Holocaust survivor Naftali Fürst’s arm
2. Cutaway of Fürst
3. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Naftali Fürst, Holocaust survivor:
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“Our Holocaust started in 1938 when I was a six-year-old boy. And from the age of nine until 12 I was in four concentration camps. So, I always lived in uncertainty and fear. Sometimes it was more, sometimes less, but I didn’t have a normal life."
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ARCHIVE: Auschwitz, Poland – 1945
4. Various of prisoners walking
5. Prisoners standing behind barbed wire fence
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Haifa, Israel – 14 January 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Naftali Fürst, Holocaust survivor:
“From the train we were lined up, dozens of people, and we were led into Birkenau. The prisoners in the camp looked and could not believe what is happening, because this was after a long time, after years, that entire families arrived at Birkenau."
7. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Naftali Fürst, Holocaust survivor:
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“When we arrived we still saw the crematorium’s chimneys with huge bright flames in the skies of Birkenau."
8. STILLS of a US army photo showing Fürst (circled in yellow) laying in wooden bunk beds on day of liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp
9. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Naftali Fürst, Holocaust survivor:
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"I’m always asked how did you survive? I always say that I needed plenty of luck in order to survive such a difficult time.”
10. Poster of the documentary “Kinderblock 66”
11. Close of Fürst on documentary’s poster
12. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Naftali Fürst, Holocaust survivor:
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“All the time (during the Death March) we saw in the ditches wounded people, killed, totally dead,. It was hell. Real hell. When I describe someone what is hell, so this is hell. You’re walking, hungry, thirsty with no hope, and you see the corpses, and the crying. This is the Holocaust.”
13. Various cutaways of Fürst
14. Fürst showing number tattooed
15. Fürst overlooking Haifa form his balcony
STORYLINE:
Naftali Fürst will never forget his first view of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, on November 3, 1943, when he was 12.
SS soldiers threw open the doors of the cattle car, where he was crammed in with his mother, father, brother, and more than 80 others. He remembers the tall chimneys of the crematoriums, flames roaring from the top.
There were dogs and officers yelling in German “Herus! Herus!” “get out, get out!” forcing elderly people and children to jump onto the infamous ramp where Joseph Mengele separated children from parents.
Fürst, now 92, is returning to Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi’s most notorious death camp, his fourth trip to the camp.
Each time he returns, he thinks of those first moments, when his family arrived.
“We knew we were going to certain death,” he said from his home in Haifa, northern Israel, earlier this month. “In Slovakia, we knew that people who went to Poland didn’t return.”
But Fürst and his family arrived at the entrance to Auschwitz on November 3, 1944 – one day after Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler ordered the cessation of the use of the gas chambers ahead of their demolition, as the Soviet troops neared.
The order meant that his family wasn’t immediately killed. It was a stroke of luck, one of many small bits of luck and coincidences that allowed Fürst to survive.
Fürst and his brother were separated from their parents at Auschwitz.
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