Eva Kor: The Holocaust survivor who forgave the Nazis | BBC Ideas – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary
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1.One day, in 1944, my family and I were arrested
2.Packed into cattle trains with no food or water
3.We were taken to Poland and left on the platform in Auschwitz
4.A Nazi guard spotted me and my identical twin sister Miriam to my mother
5.He tore us from my mother's arms and led us away
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Key Vocabulary (CEFR B2)
forgiveness
B2The action of forgiving.
Example:
"How about a letter of forgiveness from me, the survivor of Auschwitz?"
injection
B2The act of injecting, or something that is injected.
Example:
"If I died, Miriam would have been given a lethal injection"
consciousness
B2The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
Example:
"And as I was crawling, I would fade in and out of consciousness"
discovered
A2To find or learn something for the first time.
Example:
"I knew that that was a meaningful gift for him, but what I discovered"
hopeless
A2Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
Example:
"sad, angry, feel hopeless and helpless?"
helpless
A2Unable to defend oneself.
Example:
"sad, angry, feel hopeless and helpless?"
clinging
A2To hold very tightly, as to not fall off.
Example:
"clinging to my mother."
corpses
A2A dead body.
Example:
"On the filthy floor, there were scattered corpses"
whatever
A2Unexceptional or unimportant; blah.
Example:
"whatever is within my power to make sure that Miriam and I"
selection
B2A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.
Example:
"We were taken to Poland and left on the selection platform in Auschwitz."
| Word | CEFR | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| forgiveness | B2 | The action of forgiving. |
| injection | B2 | The act of injecting, or something that is injected. |
| consciousness | B2 | The state of being conscious or aware; awareness. |
| discovered | A2 | To find or learn something for the first time. |
| hopeless | A2 | Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive. |
| helpless | A2 | Unable to defend oneself. |
| clinging | A2 | To hold very tightly, as to not fall off. |
| corpses | A2 | A dead body. |
| whatever | A2 | Unexceptional or unimportant; blah. |
| selection | B2 | A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes. |
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