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Reckonings

(Gentle music) When the British armyliberated Bergen-Belsen I was amongst the dead.I was...

(Gentle music) [Helena] When the British army
liberated Bergen-Belsen I was amongst the dead.
I was a skeleton

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[Helena] When the British army liberated Bergen-Belsen
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I was amongst the dead. I was a skeleton.
Duration
16 seconds
Views
23
Timestamp in Movie
00:00:08
Uploaded
Mar 17, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Go2Films

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Movie Summary

Could the perpetrators face their crimes? Could any compensation deliver justice to the survivors? Under the threat of violence, 6 years after the Holocaust, a group of German and Jewish leaders pushed for reparations as a step to...
So they dumped me on the truck - Reckonings 00:07
So they dumped me on the truck
And in the last minute, - Reckonings 00:14
And in the last minute,
And he said, “That skeleton is still alive.” - Reckonings 00:12
And he said, “That skeleton is still alive.”
My mother, she hid me with a corpse. - Reckonings 00:05
My mother, she hid me with a corpse.
As she covered me up she said, "You're not going to move." - Reckonings 00:09
As she covered me up she said, "You're not going t...
[Benjamin] My job was to get into the camps as quickly as they were liberated. - Reckonings 00:06
[Benjamin] My job was to get into the camps as quickly as th...
[Irene] They unlocked the gates - Reckonings 00:07
[Irene] They unlocked the gates
[Benjamin] The survivors, - Reckonings 00:16
[Benjamin] The survivors,
To heal them, - Reckonings 00:09
To heal them,
The needs of the survivors were as great as they were urgent. - Reckonings 00:06
The needs of the survivors were as great as they were urgent...
[Bettina] This was the declaration that my grandfather - Reckonings 00:08
[Bettina] This was the declaration that my grandfather
He declared that he was willing - Reckonings 00:07
He declared that he was willing
[Rachel] Two states who go to war, - Reckonings 00:08
[Rachel] Two states who go to war,
But the idea of compensation to individuals was unprecedented. - Reckonings 00:07
But the idea of compensation to individuals was unprecedente...
[Dan] In 1952, the German population was the same population that committed - Reckonings 00:09
[Dan] In 1952, the German population was the same population...
[Wolfgang] When I went to school in the 1950s - Reckonings 00:10
[Wolfgang] When I went to school in the 1950s
[Roni] For the Israelis, - Reckonings 00:11
[Roni] For the Israelis,
And there were other bombs being sent to the delegations in Wassenaar. - Reckonings 00:06
And there were other bombs being sent to the delegations in ...
[Benjamin] There was a terrorist group which was out to kill me and kill all the others - Reckonings 00:15
[Benjamin] There was a terrorist group which was out to kill...
- I don't know what happened to my parents and my sister. - Reckonings 00:05
- I don't know what happened to my parents and my siste...