A Black and Jewish biracial woman retraces her Jewish grandfather's history which brings her to Auschwitz. During her jo | dG1fMXM5SmY2QXhYTWc
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00:00The Holocaust brought so many stories, and so many impossible stories.
00:07Yes, and you are one of those stories.
00:10My grandfather was from Austria. He is no longer with us.
00:15And his family passed away in Auschwitz.
00:20And figuring out what he went through, jumping out of the train,
00:26and him going and trying to get to Israel somehow, that's a big, big story.
00:36Prior to us coming here, I contacted a German archive,
00:40and within two days, I received documentation about my great-grandfather,
00:46Joseph Weiss, who was in Auschwitz.
00:50Hungarian Jews, for instance, spent three, four days and nights in cattle carts,
00:56without enough food, without enough water.
01:02We obviously don't, I have no idea.
01:05So, but it's possible that my great-grandfather and great-grandmother were transferred here together,
01:12and he passed election, and she didn't.
01:15And would have to walk this long road, essentially to death.
01:24Like, the chances of me even existing was so wild.
01:27Like, my grandfather was on that train.
01:30And the fact that he survived, and then had my mother, and then had me,
01:34I'm thinking to myself, like, what am I making of this life,
01:38that it was such a slim chance that I have.
01:42It was such a slim chance that I have.