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
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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,
That's all. Not a judgment. You know that you were named for a great, great uncle who perished in Birkenau. With Jews, there always has to be some significance attached.
What else do you think we could be doing? 77 years ago, my great-grandmother-- or less even-- my great-grandmother was in the hell of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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.
to who has, who ever speaks this way to anyone much less everyone? You know, I don't have--she, she has her own thing it's just she's very--I don't know I think she really--she's a girl 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, the pick up truck and like I'm just free and that, you know, like I said cartwheels are free--we are just so opposite. I can't even--it's like an--I can't even comment, I don't even
Aisha Tyler: Um, hum. 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