Congratulations to 12-year-old secondary school student Ava who has won a national poetry competition with her entry about living with autism 📝
You can read her winning ‘Power of Poetry’ entry below:
“Take a seat and sit with me
I want to talk about ASD
If you don't mind I'd like to explain
A little thing called autism and how it affects my brain
It can make me anxious, angry and afraid
But this stays in my head, on my face it's not displayed
I may seem heartless and question your meanings
But it takes me a little longer to process the feelings
Take a seat and sit with me I want to show you ASD
A girl sitting quietly is all you see
But inside my mind I am far from free
My thoughts collide, my senses take over
I become overwhelmed by the smallest sound
Clicking pens, ticking clocks
That boy's chair and the way it rocks
All different smells attacking me
The perfumes, the coffee, the teacher's tea
Take a seat and sit with me
But not too close, I have ASD
I try to be social, I try to fit in
I come across rude, I can never win
I am very literal and straight to the point
If you want the truth I won't disappoint
When my brain is overloaded I sometimes lash out
My control fades, I scream and shout
I get confused and it all spills out
Intense emotions all trapped inside
Finally have nowhere to hide
Take a seat and sit with me I want to tell you about ASD
Please understand I am not to blame I've just got an atypical brain
But it's not all doom and gloom
I'm often the sportiest girl in the room
I'm quirky, unique, kind and caring
I'm loyal, protective and always sharing
I'm obsessed with frogs and all things green
I'm the youngest trendsetter you've ever seen
Take a seat and sit with me
I am Ava, I am me
I'm not just my label of ASD.”
Dizia Bert Hellinger as "ovelhas negras" da família (deveriam ser chamadas de "leões da família") são na verdade buscadores natos de caminhos de libertação para a árvore genealógica.
"Aqueles que, desde pequenos, procuravam constantemente revolucionar as crenças, saindo dos caminhos marcados pelas tradições familiares, aqueles criticados, julgados e até rejeitados, esses, geralmente são os chamados a libertar o árvore de histórias repetitivas que frustram gerações inteiras. ”
“As que não se adaptam, as que gritam rebeldia, cumprem um papel básico dentro de cada sistema familiar; elas reparam, desintoxicam e criam um novo galho florescido na árvore genealógica. Graças a esses membros, nossas árvores renovam suas raízes. Sua rebeldia é terra fértil, sua loucura é água que nutre, sua teimosia é novo ar, sua paixão é fogo que volta a acender o coração dos ancestrais. ”
"Que ninguém te faça duvidar, cuide da sua "raridade" como a flor mais preciosa da sua árvore.
“Você é o sonho realizado de todos os seus ancestrais. ” See less
"Some years ago, I was stuck on a crosstown bus in New York City during rush hour. Traffic was barely moving. The bus was filled with cold, tired people who were deeply irritated with one another, with the world itself. Two men barked at each other about a shove that might or might not have been intentional. A pregnant woman got on, and nobody offered her a seat. Rage was in the air; no mercy would be found here.
But as the bus approached Seventh Avenue, the driver got on the intercom. "Folks," he said, "I know you have had a rough day and you are frustrated. I can't do anything about the weather or traffic, but here is what I can do. As each one of you gets off the bus, I will reach out my hand to you. As you walk by, drop your troubles into the palm of my hand, okay? Don't take your problems home to your families tonight, just leave them with me. My route goes right by the Hudson River, and when I drive by there later, I will open the window and throw your troubles in the water."
It was as if a spell had lifted. Everyone burst out laughing. Faces gleamed with surprised delight. People who had been pretending for the past hour not to notice each other's existence were suddenly grinning at each other like, is this guy serious?
Oh, he was serious.
At the next stop, just as promised, the driver reached out his hand, palm up, and waited. One by one, all the exiting commuters placed their hand just above his and mimed the gesture of dropping something into his palm. Some people laughed as they did this, some teared up but everyone did it.
The driver repeated the same lovely ritual at the next stop, too. And the next. All the way to the river.
We live in a hard world, my friends. Sometimes it is extra difficult to be a human being. Sometimes you have a bad day. Sometimes you have a bad day that lasts for several years. You struggle and fail. You lose jobs, money, friends, faith, and love. You witness horrible events unfolding in the news, and you become fearful and withdrawn. There are times when everything seems cloaked in darkness. You long for the light but don't know where to find it.
But what if you are the light? What if you are the very agent of illumination that a dark situation begs for?. That's what this bus driver taught me, that anyone can be the light, at any moment. This guy wasn't some big power player. He wasn't a spiritual leader. He wasn't some media-savvy influencer. He was a bus driver, one of society's most invisible workers. But he possessed real power, and he used it beautifully for our benefit.
When life feels especially grim, or when I feel particularly powerless in the face of the world's troubles, I think of this man and ask myself, What can I do, right now, to be the light? Of course, I can't personally end all wars, or solve global warming, or transform vexing people into entirely different creatures. I definitely can't control traffic. But I do have some influence on everyone I brush up against, even if we never speak or learn each other's name.
"No matter who you are, or where you are, or how mundane or tough your situation may seem, I believe you can illuminate your world. In fact, I believe this is the only way the world will ever be illuminated, one bright act of grace at a time, all the way to the river."
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
**Ernest Hemingway’s 7 Tips for Writing:**
**1: Start with one true sentence.**
*“When starting a new story and struggling to get it going, I would sit by the fire, squeeze orange peels into the flame, and watch the blue sputter. I would remind myself, ‘Don’t worry. You’ve written before, and you’ll write now.’”*
Hemingway believed that one simple, true sentence could break through writer’s block.
**2: Stop writing for the day while you still know what’s coming next.**
*“Always stop when you’re going well and know what will happen next. That way, you’ll avoid getting stuck.”*
Leaving a little momentum helps you start strong the next day.
**3: Don’t think about the story when you’re not working.**
*“Never empty the well of your writing; stop with something left. Let it refill naturally at night.”*
He found that giving his mind space to rest helped him avoid burnout.
**4: Begin each writing session by reading what you’ve written so far.**
*“When it gets too long to read it all, go back a couple of chapters each day. Then each week, read from the beginning.”*
This practice helped Hemingway reconnect with his story’s flow and keep continuity.
**5: Don’t describe emotions—create them.**
*“Newspaper writing tells what happened, often creating emotion through timeliness. Real writing, however, conveys the emotion as truthfully as possible.”*
Instead of explaining feelings, Hemingway would let readers feel through the action and dialogue.
**6: Write with a pencil.**
*“Writing with a pencil gives you three chances to revise: first when reading over, then when typing, and finally in the proof.”*
He found the physical act of writing by hand helpful for getting ideas down and refining them later.
**7: Be brief.**
*“The Gettysburg Address was brief by design. The rules of prose are as unchanging as those of physics.”*
Hemingway valued concise, powerful prose that made every word count.
Each of these tips reflects Hemingway’s dedication to clarity, simplicity, and a deep respect for the craft of writing. His advice continues to inspire writers to this day.
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Great Sayings of Don Juan:
1. Act as if it’s a dream. Act boldly and don’t seek excuses.
2. Don’t explain too much. When you explain why you can’t do something, you’re really apologizing for your shortcomings, hoping that the listeners will be kind and forgive them.
3. To get the most out of life, one must know how to change. The hardest part is deciding to change.
4. I never get angry at anyone. No person can do anything that deserves such a reaction from me. You get angry with people when you feel that their actions are important. I haven’t felt anything like that for a long time.
5. You must always remember that a path is just a path. If you feel you shouldn’t be on it, leave it.
6. You can’t understand me right now because you’re in the habit of thinking the way you look.
7. If you don’t like what you are getting, change what you are giving.
8. The main obstacle for most people is internal dialogue. When a person learns to stop it, everything becomes possible. The most incredible projects become achievable.
9. People generally don’t realize that they can throw anything out of their lives at any moment. Anytime. Instantly.
10. The only truly wise adviser we have is death. Every time you feel things are going badly and you’re on the verge of collapse, turn to your left and ask your death if that’s really the case.
11. Everyone follows their own path. If you walk with joy, then it’s your road. If you’re unhappy, you can step off it at any moment, no matter how far you’ve come. And that would be the right choice.
12. We need all our time and all our energy to conquer the stupidity within ourselves.
13. The trick is what you focus on… Each of us makes ourselves either miserable or strong. The amount of work required for either is the same!
14. To become a person of knowledge, you need to be a warrior, not a whining child. Fight without giving up, without complaining, without retreating, fight until you see. And all this is just to understand that in the world, nothing matters.
15. What you are doing right now could very well be your last act on earth. There is no force in the world that can guarantee you will live even one more minute.
I was waiting in line for a ride at the airport. When a cab pulled up, the first thing I noticed was that the taxi was polished to a bright shine. Smartly dressed in a white shirt, black tie, and freshly pressed black slacks, the cab driver jumped out and rounded the car to open the back passenger door for me. He handed me a laminated card and said,
“I'm Wasu, your driver. While I'm loading your bags in the trunk I'd like you to read my mission statement.”
Taken aback, I read the card. It said: Wasu's Mission Statement:
To get my customers to their destination in the quickest, safest, and cheapest way possible in a friendly environment.
This blew me away. Especially when I noticed that the inside of the cab matched the outside. Spotlessly clean! As he slid behind the wheel, Wasu said,
“Would you like a cup of coffee? I have a thermos of regular and one of decaf.”
I said jokingly, “No, I'd prefer a soft drink.”
Wasu smiled and said, “No problem. I have a cooler up front with regular and Diet Coke, lassi, water, and orange juice.”
Almost stuttering, I said, “I'll take a lassi since I’ve never had one before.”
Handing me my drink, Wasu said, “If you'd like something to read, I have Good Housekeeping magazine, Reader’s Digest, The Bible, and a Travel Leisure magazine.”
As they were pulling away, Wasu handed me another laminated card, “These are the stations I get and the music they play, if you'd like to listen to the radio.”
And as if that weren't enough, Wasu told me that he had the heater on and asked if the temperature was comfortable for me. Then he advised me of the best route to my destination for that time of day. He also let me know that he'd be happy to chat and tell me about some of the sights or, if I preferred, to leave me with my own thoughts.
“Tell me, Wasu,” I was amazed and asked him, “have you always served customers like this?”
Wasu smiled into the rear view mirror. “No, not always. In fact, it's only been in the last two years. My first five years driving, I spent most of my time complaining like all the rest of the cabbies do. Then I heard about power of choice one day. Power of choice is that you can be a duck or an eagle. If you get up in the morning expecting to have a bad day, you'll rarely disappoint yourself. Stop complaining! Don't be a duck. Be an eagle. Ducks quack and complain. Eagles soar above the crowd. That hit me right.” said Wasu.
He continued and said, “It is about me. I was always quacking and complaining, so I decided to change my attitude and become an eagle. I looked around at the other cabs and their drivers. The cabs were dirty, the drivers were unfriendly, and the customers were unhappy. So I decided to make some changes. I put in a few at a time. When my customers responded well, I did more.”
“I take it that has paid off for you,” I said.
“It sure has,” Wasu replied. “My first year as an eagle, I doubled my income from the previous year. This year I'll probably quadruple it. My customers call me for appointments on my cell phone or leave a message on it.”
Wasu made a different choice. He decided to stop quacking like ducks and start soaring like eagles.
Have an eagle life ahead...
—Adapted
1. When one door closes and another door opens, you are probably in prison.
2. To me, "drink responsibly" means don't spill it.
3. Age 60 might be the new 40, but 9:00 pm is the new midnight.
4. It's the start of a brand new day, and I'm off like a herd of turtles.
5. The older I get, the earlier it gets late.
6. When I say, "The other day," I could be referring to any time between yesterday and 15 years ago.
7. I remember being able to get up without making sound effects.
8. I had my patience tested. I'm negative.
9. Remember, if you lose a sock in the dryer, it comes back as a Tupperware lid that doesn't fit any of your containers.
10. If you're sitting in public and a stranger takes the seat next to you, just stare straight ahead and say, "Did you bring the money?"
11. When you ask me what I am doing today, and I say "nothing," it does not mean I am free. It means I am doing nothing.
12. I finally got eight hours of sleep. It took me three days, but whatever.
13. I run like the winded.
14. I hate when a couple argues in public, and I missed the beginning and don't know whose side I'm on.
15. When someone asks what I did over the weekend, I squint and ask, "Why, what did you hear?"
16. When you do squats, are your knees supposed to sound like a goat chewing on an aluminum can stuffed with celery?
17. I don't mean to interrupt people. I just randomly remember things and get really excited.
18. When I ask for directions, please don't use words like "east."
19. Don't bother walking a mile in my shoes. That would be boring. Spend 30 seconds in my head. That'll freak you right out.
20. Sometimes, someone unexpected comes into your life out of nowhere, makes your heart race, and changes you forever. We call those people cops.
21. My luck is like a bald guy who just won a comb.
Buttercups in jam jars
while astronauts go up to mars
to see if there's a chance that we r able
to live out there
coz it's getting hard to breath the air
with fire n droughts and floods n famine
(over this planet now) regularly happen
while buttercups in jam jars
stand on my kitchen table
“I have forgiven mistakes that were indeed almost unforgivable. I’ve tried to replace people who were irreplaceable and tried to forget those who were unforgettable. I’ve acted on impulse, have been disappointed by people when I thought that this could never be possible. But I have also disappointed those who I love. I have laughed at inappropriate occasions. I’ve made friends that are now friends for life. I’ve screamed and jumped for joy. I’ve loved and I’ve been loved. But I have also been rejected and I have been loved without loving the person back. I’ve lived for love alone and made vows of eternal love. I’ve had my heart broken many, many times! I’ve cried while listening to music and looking at old pictures. I’ve called someone just to hear their voice on the other side. I have fallen in love with a smile. At times, I thought I would die because I missed someone so much. At other times, I felt very afraid that I might loose someone very special (which ended up happening anyway.) But I have lived! And I still continue living everyday. I’m not just passing through life… and you shouldn’t either. Live! The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while been grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.”
~ Charlie Chaplin
# CrWr
Ernest Hemingway once said: In our darkest moments, we don’t need solutions or advice. What we yearn for is simply human connection—a quiet presence, a gentle touch. These small gestures are the anchors that hold us steady when life feels like too much.
Please don’t try to fix me. Don’t take on my pain or push away my shadows. Just sit beside me as I work through my own inner storms. Be the steady hand I can reach for as I find my way.
My pain is mine to carry, my battles mine to face. But your presence reminds me I’m not alone in this vast, sometimes frightening world. It’s a quiet reminder that I am worthy of love, even when I feel broken.
So, in those dark hours when I lose my way, will you just be here? Not as a rescuer, but as a companion. Hold my hand until the dawn arrives, helping me remember my strength.
Your silent support is the most precious gift you can give. It’s a love that helps me remember who I am, even when I forget.
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Some 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were murdered at the Auschwitz complex, making it the site of the largest mass execution of human beings ever recorded
Live Reporting
By Jamie Whitehead and Matt Spivey, with Paul Kirby reporting from Auschwitz
We were victims in a moral vacuum, survivor says
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"I thought it was normal that you had to die...if you were a Jewish child you had to die. Death was a normal thought," Tova Friedman continues, as those listening remain silent as she shares her story.
"At that time," she continues, "we were victims in a moral vacuum."
She continues, claiming that Jewish-Christian values have been met with prejudice, fear, and rampant antisemitism. It is "shocking to all of us – our children, our grandchildren."
Israel – the only democracy in the middle east – is fighting to exist, Tova reminds the audience.
"We must all reawaken our collective conscience to transform this hatred that has so powerfully ripped our society."
With that, Tova ends her speech.
Tova Friedman speaking into a microphone, behind a podium
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'I will never let them know how much they are hurting me'
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Tova Friedman continues, recalling the moment she and her mother were taken to the concentration camp.
"There were rows and rows of naked women around me", she described. "I too was naked and I tried to avoid the gleam of the German soldiers' teeth and eyes. I was their height so I could see them completely."
Friedman describes how she was "beaten mercilessly" for not being able to stand still and her mother "pleaded" for her not to cry.
"I recall thinking, I will never let them know how much they are hurting me. At 5 and a half, I had the rebellion in me," she says.
She continues to recall the horror of watching girls being taken to the gas chambers, "crying and shivering" as they walked barefoot in the snow. "They too became ashes," she says.
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Heart-breaking cries permeated my soul and haunt me to this day, survivor says
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Tova Friedman speaking into microphone behind a podium
Tova Friedman, an 86-year-old Auschwitz survivor, takes her spot at the podium to speak.
Speaking in English, she says she considers 27 January her birthday, so much so that some of her friends "don't even know that I have a regular birthday because this is what counts".
She says that it is an honour to celebrate this day with so many people, and that she is here to represent the memories of the children who did not survive. Friedman also reminds the audience that "we are here to proclaim and pledge that we will never, never, ever allow history to repeat itself".
Friedman was six years old when she was liberated from Auschwitz. Recounting her journey there, she recalls watching from her hiding place in a labour camp as all of the children were rounded up "and sent to their deaths". The heart-breaking cries of parents fell on deaf ears, she says.
"I thought to myself, am I the only Jewish child left in the world?"
Shortly after, her family was rounded up onto cattle cars, where she and her mother were separated from her father and sent to Auschwitz. That was the only time she ever saw her father cry, she recalls.
"I held on tightly to my mother's hand in the dark cattle car for countless hours while the cries and prayers of so many desperate women permeated my soul and haunt me to this day."
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'So what are we celebrating today? Liberation'
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Janina Iwanska continues, she says that Germans were given orders to "flatten" her hometown in the Polish capital, Warsaw, and that in the first six days of the 1944 uprising 50,000 people were killed.
Iwanska goes on to talk about a camp that was set up near Warsaw, and that on 12 August she was brought to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Iwanska asks: "So what are we celebrating today?"
She responds saying we are celebrating liberation - when the camp stopped its operation.
When the camp was liberated, only 5-10% of the people were liberated, she says, adding that 100 thousand people were taken on a death march and to other camps.
Iwanska goes on to read a quote which says that the war finished in 1945 and people were in euphoria. "Never again, was the slogan".
She notes that some people believed the war would never happen again but that there were others who predicted it might repeat because "people have become so inhuman".
She ends by quoting a Polish writer and essayist who wrote about the war: "People must learn to better anticipate the consequences of their actions."
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'Winters here were truly tragic... all they'd do here was kill people'
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Janina Iwanska speaking into a microphone behind a podium
As the next speaker, Janina Iwańska, prepares to make her speech the tent at Auschwitz is filled with the music of Józef Kropiński - a Polish musician sent to the camp for publishing an underground newspaper.
Janina, an Aushchwitz survior, begins with a description of the camp. It began as a for adults - mostly Poles - until young boys were moved here for their activity in the Polish scouting movement. Later, it became a camp for tens of thousands Soviet prisoners of war, she says.
Iwańska says: "Those Russians and Poles would become subject to test which gas would be most efficient. Winters here were truly tragic, lots of poverty, lots of very hard work, little to eat...If you disliked anything you would be killed."
She says 12,000 people were moved to Auschwitz in 1942, when it was commissioned, but only 500 survived.
"It was no longer a prisoner of war camp, when the killing machine started its operation, all they would do here was kill people," she says, recalling how inmates brought from other countries would be driven to gas chambers. It is uncertain exactly how many people died here.
Jews and Roma were considered inhuman and were exterminated, says Iwańska, with experiments also being conducted on children and new born babies.
Large crowds of people sat on seats with gaps between different rows
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Survivors sit in silence as they listen to testimony
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Those inside the tent at Birkenau include survivors, relatives and dignitaries - the media are in a separate area.
As these photos show, many of those listening are wearing blue and white scarves - in a nod to the clothes worn by the prisoners in the camp before the liberation.
A woman shields her eyes for brightness as she looks ahead
Some women wear headphones as they listen
A woman in a blue and white striped scarf bows her head
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It was a killing machine the Nazis created, survivor says
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Paul Kirby
Reporting from Auschwitz
Janina Iwanska speaking into a microphone behind a podium
Another Polish survivor of the death camp, Janina Iwanska is now 94. She is Catholic, not Jewish, and she was arrested by the Nazis during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, when Poles sought to force the Nazis out of the capital as Soviet forces advanced.
German forces retaliated by deporting 13,000 residents of Warsaw to Auschwitz, and Iwanska was one of almost 6,000 young people who arrived at the camp in August 1944. She had been living in the Wola area of Warsaw where up to 50,000 residents were indiscriminately murdered in response to the Uprising.
She has just spoken passionately of the “killing machine” the Nazis created at Birkenau, and has reminded us of the 21,000 Roma and Sinti who were among those murdered here. In one night alone, the infamous SS “Angel of Death”, Josef Mengele, sent those Roma who were still alive to the gas chambers, because he no longer needed them for his terrible experiments.
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'Let us not fear discussing the problems that torment the so-called last generation'
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Marian Turski standing at the podium and looking down at it
Marian Turski calls for a moment's silence, before continuing his speech.
He goes on to describe the current "huge rise in antisemitism" across the world, which he says is what led to the Holocaust decades ago.
He praises Deborah Lipstadt, American historian and diplomat, who called out the "tsunami of antisemitism" and fought against Holocaust denial.
Turski adds: "Let us not fear discussing the problems that torment the so-called last generation".
Turski's speech ends, followed by applause.
A birds-eye view of inside the tent, people sitting in collections of seats arranged in squares
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'Of those who lived to see freedom, now there is only a handful'
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Marian Turski speaking at podium with microphones
We are now hearing from Marian Turski, a survivor of Auschwitz. He is a member of the International Auschwitz Council.
He begins by giving his "warmest thoughts and feelings" to fellow survivors, "who have shared this misery with me. The inmates", he says.
"It is absolutely understandable, if not downright obvious, that people, that the media, turn to us, to those that survived, so that we share with them our memories," he adds, according to a translation.
He says this small minority of survivors "went though all those selections".
"Those who lived to see freedom, there were hardly, hardly, none. So few. And now, there is only a handful."
Turski says this is why he believes their thoughts should go towards the millions of victims "who will never tell us what they experienced or they felt, just because they were consumed by that mass destruction."
He mentions a poem that has survived, which he says "goes beyond anything that the mind can imagine".
He reads a bit of the letter that the poet wrote to her friend, she was killed.
The letter reads: "'I'm going to a very distinct place, a station which is unknown for it is not on any map. There is the sky hanging over the station like a huge black lid."
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Survivor's voice is frail but powerful
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Paul Kirby
Reporting from Auschwitz
Marian Turski wears a suit and gestures as he stands at the podium
At 98, Marian Turski is a very symbolic choice of speaker for this event.
He survived the Lodz Ghetto as a teenager and was deported to Auschwitz where his brother and father were murdered.
He lived through two death marches and since the war he has worked tirelessly to establish a Museum of History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.
His voice, although now frail, is powerful and profound, and a reminder that despite their frailty and age, the survivors still have a lot to say.
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Attendees are silent as ceremony begins
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The ceremony begins with a slideshow of photos from Auschwitz, set to haunting, reflective music by German Jewish composer James Simon, who was killed at Auschwitz.
The attendees are silent as they are shown the images, while some of the survivors have their eyes closed.
The image of a railway wagon lingers on the screens, a reminder of the tragic transportation to Auschwitz. A wagon was placed here as a symbol 15 years ago, to serve as a memory of all those who perished.
Two women wear headphones as they listen to the music
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Auschwitz service about to begin
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A tent full of people, lit up red, with a concrete building at the back and a wooden train car sitting in an archway of the building
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The service commemorating 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz is starting now, to the haunting sound of Lament, composed by James Simon, a Jewish German composer who was killed at Auschwitz in 1944.
It's taking place in a large tent, constructed over the entrance gate to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
We'll be hearing testimony and addresses from survivors, music performances and prayers.
In attendance are delegates and world leaders including Britain's King Charles and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.
You can follow along by pressing the watch live button at the top of this page, and we'll bring you the key lines. Stay with us.
King Charles and Queen Mathilde speak while sitting among others at the event
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King Charles and Belgium's Queen Mathilde shared words ahead of the event
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Who's at this afternoon's ceremony?
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Polish President Andrzej Duda takes a knee in the Auschwitz I former concentration camp site
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Earlier, Polish President Andrzej Duda took his turn to lay a candle at the base of the "death wall"
As we've been reporting, the main memorial event at Auschwitz is beginning shortly, in a special tent that has been purpose built over the gate that enters into Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
About 50 people who survived the camp are attending the commemorations and will address the invited guests, including Stanislaw Zalewski, Janina Iwanska, Bogdan Bartnikowski and Naki Bega.
State delegates, including the UK's King Charles III and Poland's President Andrzej Duda will also be in attendance.
French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands and Spain's King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia will also be attending.
Canada, Croatia, Ireland and Israel are also expected to send representatives. There is no Russian presence, as BBC's Paul Kirby explains.
one day i´m gonna cry
I´m gonna let thoses terads flow
fo all my unlived life
of all the lives of others i´ve meeet
or heard about or read
im goonnna cry for the otehrs
im govnna cry for myself
im gonana cyr like i'll neer stop
i;m gona dry and cry adn cry
here god ...
god tries to dash round the corner
wait a minute i want a fucking word with u
listen wot's all this fucking wars and f climate change and f old age and f impotency and adn and
sorry cant stop old chap i gotta skidaddle dont u know ?sadh off
Where the fucj u going ?
Igoy no tyime
time ? u fucking inviented time
er yes that woz a long um time ago, not one of my better ones
the world resolves around me
u sound a bit of a narcisit to me...
u got adhd or summink
u dont believe me or u dont belienve in me? imean how can u not believe somene u dont even believe exists??
and wots with the silly fucking robe and father fucking xmas beard anyway? why dont u get a decent haircut? and some proper togs??
hmm ... qwll ...
and will u stop using that replusive coarse language .... all that effin this and effing that...
harold - who's u taking to?
oh, god
Sont u go oh godding me when i asks u a question... someone down there with u ?
god
i told u dont go oh godding me when i asks u a simplye enuf question...
god - that's who im talking to
jeseus!!
no that's his kid. i'm talking to god
lsiten just wake up and bugger off to sainsbury's .they got a bog off offer on
cmon omn wake up ...cmon u heard wake up u great lump of larder wake up wake up
oh my god wot a ridiculious dream... i really thought i mean i dreamed... oh anyway
i'm off
opens front door -s weet black woman there
I'm the new god... got rid of that old codger just like u said
it's a miricle
where u off to ?
church ...
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