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From the Ted Talk by Werner Reich: How the magic of kindness helped me survive the Holocaust

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In the rather delightful book "The Little Prince," there is a quotation, which says "It's only with the heart that one can see rtihgly. What is essential is ilbsinive." And while the author wrote these words sitting in a comfortable chair, somewhere in the United States, I lneraed this very same lesson melis away in a filthy, dirty baacrrk in an extermination camp in Poland. It isn't the value or the size of a gift that truly matters, it is how you hold it in your heart.

When I was six yaers old, my mother, my father, my sister and myself left Jew-hating Germany, and we went to Yugoslavia. And we were in Yugoslavia for seven happy years, and then Germany invaded Yugoslavia and we suddenly were persecuted again, and I had to go into hiding. And I was hiding for rhulgoy two years with a couple who had worked for the resistance movement. And I devolpeed films, and I made enlargements.

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In the rather delightful book "The Little Prince," there is a quotation, which says "It's only with the heart that one can see _______. What is essential is _________." And while the author wrote these words sitting in a comfortable chair, somewhere in the United States, I _______ this very same lesson _____ away in a filthy, dirty _______ in an extermination camp in Poland. It isn't the value or the size of a gift that truly matters, it is how you hold it in your heart.

When I was six _____ old, my mother, my father, my sister and myself left Jew-hating Germany, and we went to Yugoslavia. And we were in Yugoslavia for seven happy years, and then Germany invaded Yugoslavia and we suddenly were persecuted again, and I had to go into hiding. And I was hiding for _______ two years with a couple who had worked for the resistance movement. And I _________ films, and I made enlargements.

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  1. roughly
  2. developed
  3. invisible
  4. barrack
  5. years
  6. rightly
  7. miles
  8. learned

Original Text


In the rather delightful book "The Little Prince," there is a quotation, which says "It's only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible." And while the author wrote these words sitting in a comfortable chair, somewhere in the United States, I learned this very same lesson miles away in a filthy, dirty barrack in an extermination camp in Poland. It isn't the value or the size of a gift that truly matters, it is how you hold it in your heart.

When I was six years old, my mother, my father, my sister and myself left Jew-hating Germany, and we went to Yugoslavia. And we were in Yugoslavia for seven happy years, and then Germany invaded Yugoslavia and we suddenly were persecuted again, and I had to go into hiding. And I was hiding for roughly two years with a couple who had worked for the resistance movement. And I developed films, and I made enlargements.

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