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When I first heard about reparations
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Reckonings

When I first heard about reparations, I was living in Brooklyn, New York with a host...

When I first heard about reparations, I was living in Brooklyn, New York with a host family
and yes, with my sister

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When I first heard about reparations,
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I was living in Brooklyn, New York
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with a host family and yes, with my sister.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
22
Timestamp in Movie
00:58:58
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...
My mother's sister, Roszi, was the one who really, really needed the money. - Reckonings 00:06
My mother's sister, Roszi, was the one who really, real...
My whole life in Auschwitz was guided by the fact that I was with Roszi. - Reckonings 00:09
My whole life in Auschwitz was guided by the fact that I was...
I felt that I belonged to someone who was strong - Reckonings 00:09
I felt that I belonged to someone who was strong
She said that she had the tattoo on her arm - Reckonings 00:08
She said that she had the tattoo on her arm
And then she also told them the basic facts - Reckonings 00:09
And then she also told them the basic facts
But she would say nothing about her mental state. - Reckonings 00:05
But she would say nothing about her mental state.
She would not open her soul to the German doctor. - Reckonings 00:06
She would not open her soul to the German doctor.
The doctor told her that the physical conditions she could have acquired - Reckonings 00:10
The doctor told her that the physical conditions she could h...
I felt a lot like Roszi, that I don't want your money. - Reckonings 00:05
I felt a lot like Roszi, that I don't want your money.
But I did take it because I was a young girl. - Reckonings 00:06
But I did take it because I was a young girl.
I was able to go to school because I had that money. - Reckonings 00:05
I was able to go to school because I had that money.
We needed basic things, you know, clothes, shoes. - Reckonings 00:06
We needed basic things, you know, clothes, shoes.
So this was the only money that we really had to live on. - Reckonings 00:05
So this was the only money that we really had to live on.
- Many of the survivors, they all felt that they didn't get enough and they were right. - Reckonings 00:06
- Many of the survivors, they all felt that they didn't...
- There were from the beginning, different perceptions - Reckonings 00:11
- There were from the beginning, different perceptions
From the German side, this was what they called "Wiedergutmachung." - Reckonings 00:08
From the German side, this was what they called "Wieder...
We don't use that term because we don't think it's possible - Reckonings 00:10
We don't use that term because we don't think it&#...
We call it compensation, recognition, an acknowledgement. - Reckonings 00:06
We call it compensation, recognition, an acknowledgement.
Germany is a very important ally of Israel today - Reckonings 00:07
Germany is a very important ally of Israel today
But it does not erase the past in any way. - Reckonings 00:05
But it does not erase the past in any way.