A Holocaust Survivor aged 96 has visitied pupils of Moreton School in Wolverhampton to talk about her life.
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00:00Mindhu. Hello Mindhu. Hello, nice to meet you. We're here at Morton School in Wolverhampton
00:05and you're a Holocaust survivor and you've been chatting to the pupils here about your experience.
00:11Yes I have. I hope they take things on board as to what I've said and aim for a better future.
00:21Why? This is a theme for 2025. Yeah. For all of us to strive for a better future.
00:31And this is what you've done for some time isn't it? You've given up your time to go and speak to
00:35students and young people. Yes I have to many schools, universities and colleges.
00:40Yeah. Once I started speaking I did not know to begin with how much I remember. Yeah. Not speaking
00:48for all those years. Yeah. Is that but once I started to talk I was amazed. How much came back?
00:56How much came back. Yeah. And why is it important for you to share your experience? Because it's
01:01not easy to relive those memories. Because we feel with what's going on in the world it is so
01:07important. Yeah. To hoping that the young people will take a lesson. Yeah. And you've been presented
01:18with some lovely flowers there from the students. They're nice aren't they? Absolutely gorgeous.
01:24Guys you've just listened to Mindu talk about her experiences. What have you taken away from
01:30it? It's important isn't it to hear these stories? I feel like it's very nice that after 80 years
01:36we can still hear the stories first hand of what happened during the holocaust. Yeah. And it is a
01:41different experience isn't it when you've got somebody in the room there in front of you who's
01:45lived it and you know kind of gone through it. Is it something you'll remember forever do you
01:50think? Yeah. Yeah. Powerful talk. Yeah. Is this different to rather than seeing a film? Yeah.
02:00Or read about it to actually hear from a survivor. I find that people will always appreciate that
02:10the fact that to hear it from so-called the horse's mouth. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was
02:19what we really went through. But I mean there's so much detail I could talk about.
02:26But you have to somehow
02:27gather it up and find get a story together. Yeah. But one
02:40so many little details if you can't talk about it. Yeah. Or it would be confusing if I mentioned
02:49them without a lot of explanation. Do you think it'll make you kind of reflect on the
02:56stuff we take for granted like our freedoms in this country and just kind of appreciate that even
03:01more? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well thank you Mindu. Thank you for sharing your experiences with
03:16these young students, the next generation. Thank you Mindu. Thank you guys. Thank you.
03:21You need it to protect.
03:37Yes. Took many years. I have we've got a very young
03:42um Rabbi in my synagogue and very persuasive and he persuaded me that I would be with
03:54friends and I would be looked after.
04:01Anyway I took a part of it. Yeah.
04:04So she did go back twice. The first time she just about managed to journey and to see what she had
04:17to see where she saw the booth that she'd been in. She'd seen the destroyed gas chambers. She saw a
04:26cattle truck there that was showing people sort of how they were brought there. And
04:33after coming back she was ill for a month and couldn't get her head around what she'd seen.
04:40Then the second time it was a bit easier and a film crew followed them and made a film about
04:47the visit that she made. But it was a very difficult experience.