美国国家公共电台 NPR--Each year their family honors 2 Holocaust survivors' enduring romance

Each year their family honors 2 Holocaust¹ survivors³' enduring romance

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On this date 78 years ago, allied⁵ troops liberated⁶ the Auschwitz concentration camp. This StoryCorps episode is about two people freed from another camp: Theresienstadt.

A MART?NEZ, HOST:

Time now for StoryCorps. Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this date, 78 years ago, Allied troops liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp, where more than 1 million people were murdered. Today, we bring you the story of two people liberated from another camp - Theresienstadt. That's where Yehuda Czarnoczapka walked into a barrack and met a young woman named Mina. She had no shoes and was too hungry and sick to leave her bed. So Yehuda gave her a pair of shoes and a potato and won her heart. They were married three months later. Recently, their daughter, Susan and granddaughter Margot came to StoryCorps to remember them.

MARGOT MOINESTER: What was it like being raised by two survivors?

SUSAN MOINESTER: It was an embarrassment⁷ to be a survivor² or the child of a survivor. I really don't remember people even talking about the Holocaust openly until the early 70s. So I think early on they did feel shame. I just remember always being embarrassed by my parents' accents. But I just wanted to be an American, which is what they wanted too. They loved this country, you know?

M MOINESTER: Yeah.

S MOINESTER: My father's health was very fragile. My mom said that there was not one night of their life together that he didn't wake up in a nightmare or, you know, scream out in his sleep. I was 5 when he had his first heart attack, so we always had to be really careful not to upset my dad. So we would not cry in front of my dad. We would save it for my mom. I loved to put my head in her lap, and she would stroke my hair. And she always told my sister Helen and I that we were miracles. And we were just adored.

M MOINESTER: Yeah. So I don't have that many memories of Grandma Mina, which makes me really sad. But I remember her coming as a survivor and talking to my class once early on in elementary school. I feel like she was at first reticent⁸, you know, like that desire to not really go back in the past.

S MOINESTER: Yeah, she did not want to. She did it for you. And I think she found it a lot less traumatic than she thought she would. It's an extraordinary legacy⁹, unfortunately.

M MOINESTER: We celebrate the day Grandma and Grandpa were liberated. How do we do that?

S MOINESTER: Your dad and I buy each of you and you pair of shoes and eat potatoes and everything flows from that.

M MOINESTER: Right. It feels important to not let it go.

S MOINESTER: Mmm hmm. I think I had very special parents. And I want us all to never forget who we are and where we came from.

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MART?NEZ: That's Susan and Margot Moinester remembering Mina and Yehuda Czarnoczapka, who fell in love in a concentration camp in 1945. Their conversation has been archived at the Library of Congress.

1 holocaust   

n.大破坏；大屠杀

参考例句：

• The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
• Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀，因为他像希特勒一样残忍。

2 survivor   

n.生存者，残存者，幸存者

参考例句：

• The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
• There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。

3 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

4 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

5 allied   

adj.协约国的；同盟国的

参考例句：

• Britain was allied with the United States many times in history.历史上英国曾多次与美国结盟。
• Allied forces sustained heavy losses in the first few weeks of the campaign.同盟国在最初几周内遭受了巨大的损失。

6 liberated   

a.无拘束的，放纵的

参考例句：

• The city was liberated by the advancing army. 军队向前挺进，解放了那座城市。
• The heat brings about a chemical reaction, and oxygen is liberated. 热量引起化学反应，释放出氧气。

7 embarrassment   

n.尴尬；使人为难的人(事物)；障碍；窘迫

参考例句：

• She could have died away with embarrassment.她窘迫得要死。
• Coughing at a concert can be a real embarrassment.在音乐会上咳嗽真会使人难堪。

8 reticent   

adj.沉默寡言的；言不如意的

参考例句：

• He was reticent about his opinion.他有保留意见。
• He was extremely reticent about his personal life.他对自己的个人生活讳莫如深。

9 legacy   

n.遗产，遗赠；先人(或过去)留下的东西

参考例句：

• They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
• He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。