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Mint
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
Laapataa Ladies: Bihar-based Instagram influencer recreating scenes; Nitanshi Goel reacts
Bihar-based Instagram influencer Ankit Jha has gone viral for recreating popular scenes from Kiran Rao's film Laapataa Ladies. Shared on his Instagram page @pixel_wale_jhaji, his video has received over 1 lakh views and lots of praise online. The video also features Aditi Prakash while it was apparently shot by Divyansh Swaraj. The video recreates the iconic dialogue 'English bol ke dikhaiye (Should I speak in English?)'. It instantly caught fans' attention. The content creator carefully matched the film's expressions, outfits and settings. The recreation showed a strong dedication to detail. What makes his efforts more interesting is that the video was noticed by Laapataa Ladies actress Nitanshi Goel. The 17-year-old, who earlier became the youngest to win Best Actress at the IIFA Awards 2025 for her role as Phool Kumari, reacted with a cherry blossom flower emoji in the comments. The emoji is typically used to express love. 'Humara kaam aap tak pahuch gaya (Our work has reached you),' wrote Ankit. 'Phool ne Phool bheja hai guyzzz …Aapka bahut bahut dhanywaad,' commented another. Another user reacted, 'Your comment is more important for our team for increasing courage.' 'Dear team, I want to take a moment to say—truly outstanding work! You've done an amazing job,' remarked another user. Another wrote, 'A very big congratulations to the entire team to pull off this kind of content with limited sources.' 'This felt like something straight out of a proper indie film. Loved how natural and honest it all looked. You've really made something special here,' came from another. Another Instagram user appreciated the work, 'On point. Every take, acting, makeup doesn't look like recreate. So perfectly done.' Laapataa Ladies was India's official entry for the Oscar 2025. The Film Federation of India (FFI) chose the movie produced by Aamir Khan among a list of 29 films. Other movies in the consideration included Payal Kapadia's widely-acclaimed movie, All We Imagine As Light. Sandeep Reddy Vanga's Animal, starring Ranbir Kapoor, was also among the shortlisted movies. At the 97th Academy Awards, Laapataa Ladies did not make the final shortlist of 15 films. In March, Nitanshi Goel dedicated her IIFA award to her mother. "I dedicate this to my mom, to everyone who loved Phool, to those who accepted me--Nitanshi and Phool. A special thanks to Kiran (Rao) ma'am, Aamir (Khan) sir, and the entire team of Laapataa Ladies. And, of course, the universe for making this happen," she said in her speech.
CNET
21-05-2025
- Health
- CNET
Can You Die from Lack of Sleep? Here Is What You Should Know
You may have heard the story of Randy Gardner, the boy who once stayed awake for 11 days and 24 minutes, or more than 264 hours. Although Gardner exhibited physical, mental and emotional degeneration and faced severe insomnia decades later, he's alive in his 70s today. Gardner's 11-day experiment didn't kill him, but anyone who's experienced total sleep deprivation knows how ugly things can get. The symptoms of sleep deprivation are progressive: The more sleep debt you rack up, the worse you feel. After a night or two of poor quality sleep, you'll no longer wake up feeling refreshed and are likely to experience sluggishness, nausea and irritability. If this goes on for a week, you could find yourself snapping at people, crying over nothing, battling headaches, losing focus, overeating or undereating and scraping by on stimulants. In fact, this is more common than you think, as several Reddit users have voiced frustration and helplessness over the same problem. According to one user who can't seem to sleep for more than four hours a night, "It seems like someone took my brain, put it into a blender and put it back into my skull." That's quite scary. Go without sleep longer than that, and you may begin to experience hallucinations, paranoia, delusions and other such symptoms. So how long will your body allow you to survive on short sleep? And what about a complete lack of sleep? Can that really kill you? CNET talked to sleep specialists to find out. Can you die from not sleeping? Sleep deprivation will not kill you. At least not directly. Matt"There is no evidence that a lack of sleep can directly kill you," deadpans Annie Miller, sleep specialist and psychotherapist at DC Metro Sleep and Psychotherapy. One extremely rare, hereditary disease seems to cause death via sleep deprivation. Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) starts out with mild insomnia but progresses quickly, eventually leading to a complete inability to sleep. FFI patients also exhibit symptoms of dementia, difficulty controlling the body and degeneration of autonomic functions, such as digestion and temperature regulation. Still, this is a neurodegenerative disease that affects the brain, Miller says, and "it's more likely that FFI patients die from neural degeneration, as opposed to lack of sleep." Interestingly, she encourages people not to be afraid of sleep deprivation, despite the known ill effects. "I think people are afraid of not sleeping and it contributes to the worsening of insomnia," Miller says. "Think about parents of newborns. We are built to withstand a certain degree of sleep deprivation." She has a good point. Humans seem to be relatively capable during periods of sleep deprivation, complete or partial, athough daily tasks feel more difficult and mundane. Gardner would certainly say so. How lack of sleep can kill you Sleep deprivation increases your chances of accidents like car crashes. Getty Images Yes, you just read that sleep deprivation can't kill you, except in the case of the rare genetic disease FFI. Although it's true there's no hard evidence that people die directly from sleep deprivation, people can (and do) die from events related to sleep deprivation. Lack of sleep can kill you indirectly by increasing your overall morbidity risk, according to Shelby Harris, a licensed psychologist, board-certified behavioral sleep medicine specialist and neurology professor. Medically, chronic sleep inadequacy can increase morbidity in a number of ways, she says, including: Impaired immune functioning Psychosis, which may lead to self-harm Increased risk of depression, which increases the risk of suicide Weight gain, which increases the risk for cardiovascular disease, stroke, some cancers, type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and high blood pressure Complete and partial sleep deprivation also heavily affect your risk of accidents, falls and injuries. For example, operating heavy machinery (including driving a car) becomes extremely dangerous when you're running on little to no sleep. Sleep deprivation may also increase your chances of dying from an underlying health issue that already exists. For example, people have died during video gaming marathons which, on the surface, seems due to sleep deprivation. However, autopsies reveal the true cause is likely a combination of exhaustion and heart failure, heart attack or stroke. Symptoms of severe sleep deprivation Severe sleep deprivation can make you feel like you are in an alternate lack of sleep won't kill you directly, you might feel like you're on your way out if you're experiencing severe sleep deprivation. If you stay up for more than 48 hours on end, you'll likely battle intense physical and mental symptoms, including: Tremors Paranoia Memory loss Hallucinations Rapid heart rate Muscle weakness Poor reaction time Getting tongue-tied Heightened anxiety Inability to make decisions Inability to focus on normal daily tasks Delusions (believing false information) Physical illness (due to impaired immune function) If you can't fall asleep and are experiencing symptoms similar to the above, contact a doctor right away. By that point, your risk of accidents is high and it's best to stay safe by having someone else drive you to a medical facility. How long can you go without sleep? There's no solid answer to the question of how long humans can survive without sleeping. Apparently, people can live a rather long time with zero sleep, as proved by Gardner and other people who intentionally deprived themselves of sleep for record-breaking purposes. It's clear that ill effects start to set in after just one day of total sleep deprivation and after a couple of nights of partial sleep deprivation, so it's best to always strive to get as much sleep as possible. Are you getting enough sleep? "Enough sleep" is a highly individual concept, and the eight-hour rule comes from wishy-washy origins. You'll certainly know if you don't get enough sleep. A healthy, rested person should feel alert, have a healthy appetite, and have enough motivation and discipline to complete daily obligations. If you're experiencing heightened irritability, cravings for unhealthy food or other appetite changes, lack of motivation, depression or anxiety, physical fatigue or an inability to focus, you probably need more sleep. Read more: Struggling to Get Quality Sleep? Try These 42 Expert-Recommended Tips
Time of India
04-05-2025
- General
- Time of India
France marks 80th anniversary of Nazi surrender, WWII survivors reflect on their haunting memories
Holocaust survivors participate in a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the return of the deportees, in Paris (Image: AP) In May 1945, during World War II, the Nazi forces of Germany officially surrendered, marking the end of the war. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to Allied forces. As France prepares to celebrate the anniversary, survivors who lived through the war remembered the pain they experienced. During the Nazi occupation, many lived in fear and were treated cruelly. Jews and other groups were deported to death camps. For survivors, this anniversary is not just about victory, but also a time to remember the suffering and losses they endured. In May 1940, Nazi forces began invading France. Among those caught in the chaos was 15-year-old Geneviève Perrier, who had to flee her village in northeastern France to escape the advancing German troops like millions of others. By June, France had surrendered to the Nazis. Three years later, Esther Senot, 15, was arrested by French police and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. In 1944, 19-year-old Ginette Kolinka was sent to the same death camp. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 3 Reasons to Plug This Into Your Home Today elecTrick - Save upto 80% on Power Bill Learn More Undo The survivors of the war, now nearing 100 years of age, share their stories determined to keep the memory of the war alive and pass its lessons on to future generations. Geneviève Perrier: Geneviève Perrier, 99, was one of the civilians under Nazi occupation. 'We were scared,' Perrier remembered as she described the event where she fled on a bicycle with her mother, carrying only a small travel bag, while her uncle took a horse-drawn cart on the roads of eastern France. Speaking to the reporters of AP, she said, 'There were lots of people fleeing, with kids in baby carriages, everyone was running away. There was a column of civilians fleeing and a column of French soldiers fleeing". Perrier and others hid in a field when they heard bomber planes. 'Mom had a white hat. Some told her: 'remove your hat!' And that's when I saw a huge bomb pass over our heads. It didn't explode. It was the chance of a lifetime.' Later she took a train and found refuge for a few months in a small town in southwestern France, in an area governed by the collaborationist Vichy regime, before her mother decided they would go back home — only to live under harsh Nazi occupation. 'The Resistance was big in our area,' Perrier said, adding she was willing to join the French Forces of the Interior (FFI). Three women from the FFI were captured and tortured by the Nazis just a few kilometers away from her home, she recalled. 'My mother kept telling me: 'No, I don't want you to leave. I don't have a husband any more, so if you go…'" she said. "She was right, because all three of them were killed.' Despite everything she went through, Perrier held on to her spirit of resistance. Even in the face of fear and hardship, she found small ways to stay strong and defy the enemy in her daily life. 'At church, there was a Catholic hymn,' she said, singing: 'Catholic and French, always!' 'We bellowed it with all our might, hoping they (the Nazi soldiers) would hear,' she said. When the Allied forces landed on Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944, Perrier said she didn't have much access to news and could not believe it. Later that year, she saw the troops of General Leclerc's 2nd French Division, equipped with American tanks, coming into her village. 'They liberated us and there was a tank that had stopped almost on our doorstep. So I went to see the tank, of course. And then, they held a ball not far away,' she said. Towards the end of the war, French men brought a German soldier they accused of having killed a baby to the village's cemetery. 'They made him dig his grave. They put him in it… They killed him," she said. Esther Senot: Esther Senot, 97, was one of the Holocaust survivors. Born in Poland in a Jewish family who emigrated to France at the end of the 1930s, Senot was 15 when she was arrested in Paris by French police. She was deported in September 1943 to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp by cattle train. At the ramp, the Nazis selected those they could use as forced laborers. 'A German with his loudspeaker said: the elderly, women, children, those who are tired can get on the trucks,' she recalled. "Out of the 1,000 people we were, 650 got on the trucks.... And 106 of us, women, were selected to go back to work in the camp to forced labor.' Others were gassed to death soon after their arrival. Senot survived 17 months in Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps and made it back to France at age 17. In spring 1945, the Lutetia hotel in Paris became a gathering place for those returning from the concentration camps. Senot described the crowd of people looking for missing family members, some bringing photos of their loved ones, while walls were covered with posters listing the names of survivors. 'It was bureaucratic," Senot said. 'At the first counter, they gave us temporary identity cards. Then they gave us a fairly basic medical examination ... And those who were lucky enough to find their family, they went to an office where they were given some money and were told: 'Now you've completed the formalities... you go home.'' Seventeen members of Senot's family were killed by the Nazis during WWII, including her mother, her father and six siblings. At a recent memorial event held in front of the hotel, Senot said she had hoped her survival would "bear witness to the absolute crime in which we were caught.' But when she returned to France, the hardest part was seeing how many people didn't seem to care about what had happened to those who were deported. 'France had been liberated for one year and people didn't expect us to return with all the misery in the world on our shoulders," she said. In her former Parisian neighborhood, a small crowd watched her. "I weighed 32 kilos (70 pounds) when I came back, my hair was shaved. One year after the Liberation, people hadn't met any woman looking like that." Senot said when she started to explain what happened to her, they didn't believe her. They got angry and said: 'But you have gone mad, you are talking nonsense, it couldn't have happened.' She still remembers the face of the man who looked at her and said, 'You came back in such small numbers, what did you do to come back and not the others?' Ginette Kolinka: Ginette Kolinka, 100, was another holocaust survivor. She was 19 when she was deported in April 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She is a known name in France for sharing her vivid memories of the concentration camps with the younger generation in the past two decades. In June 1945, when she returned to Paris, she weighed only 26 kilos (57 pounds) and was very weak. Compared to others, she felt 'lucky' to find her mother and four sisters alive in France when coming back home. Her father, and two of the siblings had died in death camps. She did not speak about the war for over half a century. 'Those who told their story, it's true that it seemed unbelievable (at the time),' she said. Six million European Jews and people from other minorities were killed by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust. In the 2000s, Kolinka joined an association of surviving deportees and began to speak out. 'What we have to keep in mind is that everything that happened was because one man ( Adolf Hitler ) hated the Jews," she said. 'Hatred, for me, is dangerous,' she added. 'As soon as we say: that one is like this, that one is like that, it already proves that we make a difference when in reality, no matter whether we are Jews, Muslims, Christians, Blacks, we are human beings.'
04-05-2025
- General
WWII survivors share haunting memories as France marks 80 years since Nazi surrender
PARIS -- As France prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to Allied forces, survivors of World War II reflect on painful memories of fear, deprivation and persecution shaped by the German occupation of the country and the deportation of Jews and others to death camps. In May 1940, Nazi forces swept through France. Among those caught in the chaos was 15-year-old Geneviève Perrier, who fled her village in northeastern France to escape the advancing German troops like millions of others. By June, France had surrendered. Three years later, Esther Senot, 15, was arrested by French police and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. In 1944, 19-year-old Ginette Kolinka was sent to the same death camp. Now close to 100 years old, the women continue to share their stories, determined to keep the memory of the war alive and pass its lessons on to future generations. 'We were scared,' Perrier remembered as she described fleeing on bicycle with her mother, carrying only a small travel bag, while her uncle took a horse-drawn cart on the roads of eastern France. 'There were lots of people fleeing, with kids in baby carriages, everyone was running away. There was a column of civilians fleeing and a column of French soldiers fleeing," she said. Perrier and others hid in a field when they heard bomber planes. 'Mom had a white hat. Some told her: 'remove your hat!' And that's when I saw a huge bomb pass over our heads. It didn't explode. It was the chance of a lifetime.' Later taking a train, Perrier found refuge for a few months in a small town in southwestern France, in an area governed by the collaborationist Vichy regime, before her mother decided they would go back home — only to live under harsh Nazi occupation. 'The Resistance was big in our area,' Perrier said, adding she was willing to join the so-called French Forces of the Interior (FFI). Three women from the FFI were captured and tortured by the Nazis just a few kilometers away from her home, she recalled. 'My mother kept telling me: 'No, I don't want you to leave. I don't have a husband any more, so if you go…'" she said. "She was right, because all three of them were killed.' Still, Perrier kept her spirit of resistance in her daily life. 'At church, there was a Catholic hymn,' she said, singing: 'Catholic and French, always!' 'We bellowed it with all our might, hoping they (the Nazi soldiers) would hear,' she said. When the Allied forces landed on Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944, Perrier said she didn't have much access to news and could not believe it. Later that year, she saw the troops of General Leclerc's 2nd French Division, equipped with American tanks, coming into her village. 'They liberated us and there was a tank that had stopped almost on our doorstep. So I went to see the tank, of course. And then, they held a ball not far away,' she said. Towards the end of the war, French men brought a German soldier they accused of having killed a baby to the village's cemetery. 'They made him dig his grave. They put him in it… They killed him," she said. Born in Poland from a Jewish family who emigrated to France at the end of the 1930s, Esther Senot was 15 when she was arrested in Paris by French police. She was deported in Sept. 1943 to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp by cattle train. At the ramp, the Nazis selected those they could use as forced laborers. 'A German with his loudspeaker said: the elderly, women, children, those who are tired can get on the trucks,' she recalled. "Out of the 1,000 people we were, 650 got on the trucks.... And 106 of us, women, were selected to go back to work in the camp to forced labor.' Others were gassed to death soon after their arrival. Senot survived 17 months in Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps and made it back to France at age 17. In spring 1945, the Lutetia hotel in Paris became a gathering place for those returning from the concentration camps. Senot described the crowd of people looking for missing family members, some bringing photos of their loved ones, while walls were covered with posters listing the names of survivors. 'It was bureaucratic," Senot said. 'At the first counter, they gave us temporary identity cards. Then they gave us a fairly basic medical examination ... And those who were lucky enough to find their family, they went to an office where they were given some money and were told: 'Now you've completed the formalities... you go home.'' Seventeen members of Senot's family were killed by the Nazis during WWII, including her mother, her father and six siblings. In a recent commemoration in front of the hotel, Senot said she had hoped her survival would "bear witness to the absolute crime in which we were caught.' But once back in France, she felt the hardest thing was the indifference to the fate of those who had been deported. 'France had been liberated for one year and people didn't expect us to return with all the misery in the world on our shoulders," she said. In her former Parisian neighborhood, a small crowd watched her. "I weighed 32 kilos (70 pounds) when I came back, my hair was shaved. One year after the Liberation, people hadn't meet any woman looking like that." Senot said when she started to explain what happened to her, 'you could see the disbelief in their eyes.' "And suddenly they got angry. They said: 'But you have gone mad, you are talking nonsense, it couldn't have happened.' And I will always remember the face of a man who looked at me and said: 'You came back in such small numbers, what did you do to come back and not the others?'' Kolinka, who was 19 when she was deported in April 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau, is well known in France for sharing her vivid memories of the concentration camps with the younger generation in the past two decades. In June 1945, when she returned to Paris, she weighed only 26 kilos (57 pounds) and was very weak. Still, compared to some others, she felt 'lucky' to find her mother and four sisters alive in France when coming back home. Her father, a brother and a sister died in death camps. She did not speak about the war for over half a century. 'Those who told their story, it's true that it seemed unbelievable (at the time),' she said. Six million European Jews and people from other minorities were killed by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust. In the 2000s, Kolinka joined an association of surviving deportees and began to speak out. 'What we have to keep in mind is that everything that happened was because one man (Adolf Hitler) hated the Jews," she said. 'Hatred, for me, is dangerous,' she added. 'As soon as we say: that one is like this, that one is like that, it already proves that we make a difference when in reality, no matter whether we are Jews, Muslims, Christians, Blacks, we are human beings.'
Hamilton Spectator
04-05-2025
- General
- Hamilton Spectator
WWII survivors share haunting memories as France marks 80th anniversary of Nazi surrender
PARIS (AP) — As France prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to Allied forces, survivors of World War II reflect on painful memories of fear, deprivation and persecution shaped by the German occupation of the country and the deportation of Jews and others to death camps. In May 1940, Nazi forces swept through France. Among those caught in the chaos was 15-year-old Geneviève Perrier, who fled her village in northeastern France to escape the advancing German troops like millions of others. By June, France had surrendered. Three years later, Esther Senot, 15, was arrested by French police and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau . In 1944, 19-year-old Ginette Kolinka was sent to the same death camp. Now close to 100 years old, the women continue to share their stories, determined to keep the memory of the war alive and pass its lessons on to future generations. Geneviève Perrier, 99, a civilian under Nazi occupation 'We were scared,' Perrier remembered as she described fleeing on bicycle with her mother, carrying only a small travel bag, while her uncle took a horse-drawn cart on the roads of eastern France. 'There were lots of people fleeing, with kids in baby carriages, everyone was running away. There was a column of civilians fleeing and a column of French soldiers fleeing,' she said. Perrier and others hid in a field when they heard bomber planes. 'Mom had a white hat. Some told her: 'remove your hat!' And that's when I saw a huge bomb pass over our heads. It didn't explode. It was the chance of a lifetime.' Later taking a train, Perrier found refuge for a few months in a small town in southwestern France, in an area governed by the collaborationist Vichy regime, before her mother decided they would go back home — only to live under harsh Nazi occupation. 'The Resistance was big in our area,' Perrier said, adding she was willing to join the so-called French Forces of the Interior (FFI). Three women from the FFI were captured and tortured by the Nazis just a few kilometers away from her home, she recalled. 'My mother kept telling me: 'No, I don't want you to leave. I don't have a husband any more, so if you go…'' she said. 'She was right, because all three of them were killed.' Still, Perrier kept her spirit of resistance in her daily life. 'At church, there was a Catholic hymn,' she said, singing: 'Catholic and French, always!' 'We bellowed it with all our might, hoping they (the Nazi soldiers) would hear,' she said. When the Allied forces landed on Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944 , Perrier said she didn't have much access to news and could not believe it. Later that year, she saw the troops of General Leclerc's 2nd French Division, equipped with American tanks, coming into her village. 'They liberated us and there was a tank that had stopped almost on our doorstep. So I went to see the tank, of course. And then, they held a ball not far away,' she said. Towards the end of the war, French men brought a German soldier they accused of having killed a baby to the village's cemetery. 'They made him dig his grave. They put him in it… They killed him,' she said. Esther Senot, 97, Holocaust survivor Born in Poland from a Jewish family who emigrated to France at the end of the 1930s, Esther Senot was 15 when she was arrested in Paris by French police. She was deported in Sept. 1943 to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp by cattle train. At the ramp, the Nazis selected those they could use as forced laborers. 'A German with his loudspeaker said: the elderly, women, children, those who are tired can get on the trucks,' she recalled. 'Out of the 1,000 people we were, 650 got on the trucks.... And 106 of us, women, were selected to go back to work in the camp to forced labor.' Others were gassed to death soon after their arrival. Senot survived 17 months in Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps and made it back to France at age 17. In spring 1945, the Lutetia hotel in Paris became a gathering place for those returning from the concentration camps. Senot described the crowd of people looking for missing family members, some bringing photos of their loved ones, while walls were covered with posters listing the names of survivors. 'It was bureaucratic,' Senot said. 'At the first counter, they gave us temporary identity cards. Then they gave us a fairly basic medical examination ... And those who were lucky enough to find their family, they went to an office where they were given some money and were told: 'Now you've completed the formalities... you go home.'' Seventeen members of Senot's family were killed by the Nazis during WWII, including her mother, her father and six siblings. In a recent commemoration in front of the hotel, Senot said she had hoped her survival would 'bear witness to the absolute crime in which we were caught.' But once back in France, she felt the hardest thing was the indifference to the fate of those who had been deported. 'France had been liberated for one year and people didn't expect us to return with all the misery in the world on our shoulders,' she said. In her former Parisian neighborhood, a small crowd watched her. 'I weighed 32 kilos (70 pounds) when I came back, my hair was shaved. One year after the Liberation, people hadn't meet any woman looking like that.' Senot said when she started to explain what happened to her, 'you could see the disbelief in their eyes.' 'And suddenly they got angry. They said: 'But you have gone mad, you are talking nonsense, it couldn't have happened.' And I will always remember the face of a man who looked at me and said: 'You came back in such small numbers, what did you do to come back and not the others?'' Ginette Kolinka, 100, Holocaust survivor Kolinka, who was 19 when she was deported in April 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau, is well known in France for sharing her vivid memories of the concentration camps with the younger generation in the past two decades. In June 1945, when she returned to Paris, she weighed only 26 kilos (57 pounds) and was very weak. Still, compared to some others, she felt 'lucky' to find her mother and four sisters alive in France when coming back home. Her father, a brother and a sister died in death camps. She did not speak about the war for over half a century. 'Those who told their story, it's true that it seemed unbelievable (at the time),' she said. Six million European Jews and people from other minorities were killed by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust. In the 2000s, Kolinka joined an association of surviving deportees and began to speak out. 'What we have to keep in mind is that everything that happened was because one man (Adolf Hitler) hated the Jews,' she said. 'Hatred, for me, is dangerous,' she added. 'As soon as we say: that one is like this, that one is like that, it already proves that we make a difference when in reality, no matter whether we are Jews, Muslims, Christians, Blacks, we are human beings.' —- AP journalists Nicolas Garriga and Patrick Hermansen contributed to the story.
