few months and then it comes to you and stays that safe way for another two weeks looking at you going I'm young and birky and you're like how the hell does that work last time I pick something out of my garden that should last few months so I'm going
Only 64 survived. Majdanek, 125,000-- I think a few hundred, because there was a working camp there. Auschwitz-Birkenau-- Auschwitz had two parts. Auschwitz, where they worked German companies built factories there.
The Jews worked, and the money was given to the SS. And Birkenau is where they murdered 1.2 million people. The Nazis murdered 1.6 million children.
And it was Birkenau. And Birkenau was an extermination camp. But we were one of the few places that they took us.
front lines of that movement, there was almost a dissatisfaction on their end to not be just labeled as "eco" because there was a stigma attached to that movement because it was labeled as Birkenstocks, granola, fashion which just wasn't inspiring. And which is why mainstream wasn't accepting it as a movement. So I think the more creative, ethical designers were really about keep it creative, keep it inspiring 'cause at the core of fashion for women is desire. You wanna walk into a store
They had problems. Anyway, we were one of the few transports arriving in Auschwitz-Birkenau. And it was Birkenau. And Birkenau was an extermination camp.
Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for being here. My name is Elise Birkhofer. And I'm the Global Program Manager for Women at Google.
survive there and Arbor at the time had a very small lesbian run bookstore upstairs from where the Birkenstock store is right now on Fourth Avenue across from the co-op upstairs used to be a bookstore called women's space if any of you have seen Portlandia it's
And this is when I realized that I was still alive. They marched us from Birkenau Auschwitz II to Auschwitz I in the middle of the night. When we arrived there, the Nazis were not willing to give up, and the Allies were right outside the city limits, so they couldn't take us any further.
And even if your loving parents have enough money to buy you jeans with holes in them-- I don't know why that is so important, B is for Birkenau, where brave children were.
wearing um a magenta kind of dress that goes down to her floor and this very expensive birken Co pocketbook and that I just go oh my God I hope it's a fake I hope it's a fake and gold jewelry and she stands up and she basically says to the crowd I am giving
And if you say, hey, I'm about to invest, they'll be like my uncle's brother's son lost so much money in the share market. And then you can have commodities like Birkin bags.
Welcome. It's such an honor to be here today in celebration of Women's History Month. My name is Elise Marie Birkhofer, and it's an honor to serve as the Global Head of Women's Community and Programs here at Google. And I am so honored to sit down and share this stage with this sister, Devi Brown.
But there were people missing. But nobody could escape from Birkenau, because Birkenau was almost a camp inside the other, right next to Auschwitz.
And she has a series called the "Olsen Twins Hiding from Paparazzi" of paintings. And they're hiding behind Birkin bags, and Starbucks cups, and BlackBerrys, so we want to bring that here. It's very jarring to see a whole wall of women hiding their face from you, which is very creepy and fun.
And if you say, hey, I'm about to invest, they'll be like my uncle's brother's son lost so much money in the share market. And I do have a weird obsession with Birkins.
And he says, there is a train going to a labor camp. We were put in barracks and in bunks just like in Auschwitz and Birkenau.
And he says, there is a train going to a labor camp. I tried to think about my tomorrows because my yesterdays were all about Auschwitz and Birkenau.
Hey, everyone. I'm Elise Birkhofer. And I'm the Global Head of Women at Google.
Hey, everyone. I'm Elise Birkhofer, and I'm the global head of Women@Google. I am so excited today to be moderating a very special talk at Google with Deborah Liu.
to switch over now to my full-on slide laser light show. If you like what I say and you want to share the world some of the things you hear in this talk, Birkin, that's my handle on Twitter. You can go and share quotes or screenshots from this talk there if you like. Now I mentioned before I I I Paula mentioned I
just playing with lives. Not one of them said a word, because we remembered Auschwitz-Birkenau.
But you see, that was their first process of dehumanizing us. And then they lined us up in rows of five and marched us into a place called Birkenau, a planet of evil. The SS locked the electric barbed-wire fences behind us, never to let us out.
And he says, there is a train going to a labor camp. 50 years after the Holocaust, I was back in Auschwitz-Birkenau on the planet of evil where I lost my entire family,
Hi, everyone. My name is Elise Birkhofer, and I'm one of the Global Program Managers for Women at Google.
You know that you were named for a great, great uncle who perished in Birkenau.
they'll get you out uh if you got a copy a Lonely Planet with a pair of birkham stocks on uh and you're in seat
And if you say, hey, I'm about to invest, they'll be like my uncle's brother's son lost so much money in the share market. Because after reading your book, I literally was like, you kept talking about the value of Birkins.
77 years ago, my great-grandmother-- or less even-- my great-grandmother was in the hell of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Well, I say that being selfish is one of the greatest luxuries that a woman could ever have, far more than the Birkin bag.
They couldn't get up, they couldn't get down. They had problems. Anyway, we were one of the few transports arriving in Auschwitz-Birkenau. And it was Birkenau.
who is a wealthy girl, lives in a big house and I think she really wants everyone to like, I think that she's really like Boheme and in Birkenstocks with the whole, you know,
I won't do it. I mean like. But I, I loved it maybe because I was such an outsider, again I really embrace that and I liked being so different. I think I wore Birkenstocks for