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There's no one no one to hear us. There's got to be somebody Hey, hey, somebody we're stuck in here. There is no one to hear. How do you know? How come you're so sure you have a watch? What is the time? It's almost 10 well Who else would be here on this floor on a Thursday night who else but people like you and me people who clean and guard Well, and what's she doing here? Huh? What are you doing here? Well, there's always so much work in our office. Sometimes I stay late Well, maybe there's somebody else around as hard-working as you, huh? She could do like what I don't know fix it or something. That's real good. That's real good thinking I'm a security guard not an elevator repairman. You know, what about that telephone? You got me calling myself This is a direct line down to the security desk on the ground floor, which is where I ought to be right now Couldn't you crawl up through the shaft? Oh, you've been watching too many movies. I ain't spider-man, you know I just thought that there might be something else you could do something besides screaming and pounding That's making me very nervous. I ain't exactly feeling serene myself I'll tell you what you get any more than bright ideas climbing shafts and stuff you be sure and tell them to me, okay? So what are we supposed to do now wait for what for how long you got me? I think I'm just gonna sit down and get comfortable What you do is up to you Could it be that this is one of those blackouts? No, we still got the lights. It's just this elevator that's stuck That's all and I had to get in it and figures just my luck My name is Anna Kaufman Bonnie Bonnie albers. What do you do think this is a tea party or something? We may be here for many hours It's good to know who we are with yes, right anything you say and what is your name? Matrano and your given name Ernie You talk funny lady. You talk like some of them pollocks. I grew up within the old neighborhood. Are you a pollock? Why do you ask cuz you talk funny? You ain't an American? Yes, I am. I'm an American citizen I'm not born here. You weren't don't tell me that I know better. You're very quick Ernie Yes, a long time ago. I I I came from Poland. I was a poll. Yeah, I know it. You can't fool me I was not trying to Ernie. Have you been here in America a very long time, Mrs. Kaufman. Oh, please call me Anna Thirty-two years. I've lived in America more than half of my life. I've lived here all my life You are proud Ernie to have been born in America. Yeah, I guess My old man. He was the one who was proud all his sons born in America used to say that my mom told me I don't remember much about him your father. He's dead. Yeah, you worked on the docks He got killed on the docks. I was just a little kid when he died and your mother. She's still around You sure ask a lot of questions lady Anna, please call me Anna. Yeah, all right You ask a lot of questions. How come I'm sorry? I'm a little uneasy being here like this I I try to make it easier that that's why I talk so much. I'm frightened to Anna and so quiet So silent in your sheer You remind me of someone Bonnie who my daughter is she about my age? I'm 27. No, she would have been older than that now had she lived. Oh, I'm sorry Anna, why don't we sit down? I'm used to standing. But yes, it's a good idea Haven't you been talking enough already I Have a son and all American boy born in America very like Ernie. I Have not seen him in a long time. It's sad when families drift apart My folks live in Oregon my little sister and brother mom and dad It's been five years since I've been out there to see them. I miss them my son has his own family now He has no need of me. I I miss past and like most Americans. He has a little time for the past Oh, you're right there lady forget the past. It's over and done with today. That's what matters I am what I am now. I ain't what I used to be. Do you like who you are now Ernie? Yeah, sure. I do and did you like who you used to be? I don't know what you're talking about lady Anna. Yeah, right Anna, what was your daughter's name? Marguete Little Marguete. She had eyes just the color of yours Bonnie. I Remember everything about her. Please tell me about her. She was so Good on the train. She never once cried I held her in my arms and she look up at me with her big dark eyes. She never cried But she was so afraid We were all afraid on that train There were no windows so we couldn't see where we were going and none of us not in our worst nightmares could have imagined our destination Finally the train stopped They opened the doors that they began shouting at us and we all got out as quickly as we could Some didn't move because they died on the train and Outside my young husband stood beside me and I held Marguete tightly. I thought what is this place? What is this horrible place? Where was it? Where was it that that happened? It was Auschwitz Do you know of it? Auschwitz bunny. No, it was one of them camps the Germans had during the war a death camp Yes, where Jews and others were killed gassed by the Nazis. You were in one of them. Yes, I Was in Auschwitz for eight months But your husband your little girl my husband had tuberculosis He made no effort to conceal it from the Germans. They had doctors there They separated the sick and we thought that he'd be taken to a hospital We didn't know that The sick died first in Auschwitz the sick and the old then the children Well, they couldn't work there was no use. So they were gassed They marched my husband directly from the train to the chambers and Then they began taking the little ones. I Tried to hide Marguete. She was so small. I thought they wouldn't see her under my coat They did they pulled her from me Still she didn't cry As they led her away. She looked back at me. I Can see her eyes now even now. It's the last time I ever saw her It's so hard to believe How could anything like that have happened? That is it bunny that is why so many died They could not they would not believe that human beings were capable of doing the things that were being done to other human beings It was so unreal, but it happened now. That's something I never could understand Why so many of them just walked to the ovens? Why didn't they fight? You don't know Ernie? And I can't tell you and I can't make you see what we face But I also cannot listen while you condemn all those who died You don't know Ernie and you can't but you must not condemn. Well, it's like I say it's the past, you know There ain't no use crying over spilt milk spilt milk You're talking about millions of lives Little children innocent babies millions of the murdered. That's too bad It had to happen. I'm real sorry for them kids, but it it's more than 30 years ago. They're dead There's no saving them now lady. My name is Anna Anna Kaufman. You will not call me lady You will not take my name from me and give me a number as they did. I am Anna Kaufman. Okay, okay? It's all right Anna. It's all right now. Please don't cry. No, it's not all right, but I won't cry I Cried all of my tears many years ago. How did you get to America? I married an American soldier the father of my son Herald was a good man. He's gone now, too He didn't understand either Ernie. I was younger than I I tried to explain it to him, but there's no explaining it There's no true understanding of it if you didn't live it But at least it can be remembered and what good is that gonna do if it's remembered Then it can't happen again Nothing like that could ever happen in America. Anyway, no good at all comes from remembering stuff like that Do you know Ernie that I can still see the faces of the German guards at Auschwitz? They look just like Americans It would have been easier if they'd been devils with horns and tails, but they were just men Some of them young boys There were uniforms and they followed orders Well, you were an army uniform once too. Didn't you Ernie? Huh? Stop jiggling your keys. I Asked you weren't you in the army the tattoo on the back of your hand. It says Vietnam Were you in Vietnam Ernie? Yeah, I did a tour of duty in Nam one of it. You went you fought in Vietnam Was there anything wrong with that? I was 18 when I got drafted Listen, I was proud to do my duty. I want to get out of here Why did you do that? You know, there's no one to hear it. I got to get out of here You two are driving me nuts couple of weirdos talking all the time about dying and killing and stuff like that What's the matter with you? Nobody's done anything to you. Yeah Well, I don't like the way she looks at me That is not bothering you. Oh, yes. 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Will you but I can't Ernie. We are all here together remember Yeah, I remember now am I gonna forget it Maybe I can do something about it though Maybe I can lose one of them panels and climb up through I got to get out of here can't you might well forget it There's no way out. We're trapped here almost midnight and when will someone come and find us my shifts over at six The guy that relieves me Bascom. He's always a late One thing for sure. He won't know how to get us out of here But he can get someone who will know Bascom says dumb as a lunch bucket, but yeah, you can probably find somebody Maybe Ernie before You were talking about when you were in the army. I don't want to talk about it. Why are you so rude? I ain't rude This is my my own business. I expect other people to do the same Anna I'm sorry that I asked you about your daughter. I Know how painful it must be for you to talk about it. No, no bunny. It's good It's not easy, but it helps me it's good to know that someone listens someone hears you I know so little about those times in school They taught us dates and the names of battles and generals but nothing about the camps and what people suffered in them Some people want to believe that if they don't talk about something then it never happened They hope their silence will make it disappear. Do you believe Anna? It could ever happen here I believe it could happen anywhere even here. Oh, come on. We ain't Nazis or whatever them crouts They was born knowing how to follow orders and stuff they do what they're told So some crazy guy like Hitler comes along and tells him to start killing people and they do it Well, we ain't crowds here. We're Americans Nothing like that could ever happen here. You're so sure of that Ernie. Yes, I am Perhaps it could not happen in America But do you think that Americans are not capable of doing what the Germans did somewhere else? Not here not home in America, but in a place like Vietnam Oh, yeah, I didn't want to talk about name about the army. I told you that why don't you just try and get some sleep Ernie We all should We won't talk anymore. No, she wants to talk. Don't you Anna? She wants to hear all about Vietnam. She wants me to spill my guts Don't you know Ernie you want to you need to very bad. I don't need nothing or nobody Yes, you do we all do not me Nobody never helped me nobody never gave me a break My old man he got croaked before I ever knew him and my mom all she ever did was yell at me like it was my fault or something Well, I didn't want him to die and leave us. It wasn't my fault I've been alone my whole life. I like it like that. Hear me. I Like to be alone. All right. We believe you. I don't believe that you like being alone Ernie being lonely Lonely, why don't you get off my back? What do you want from me? Anyway, I don't have any stories like yours to talk about people dying And getting killed kids and people I don't have any stories like that. No, not everyone has stories like mine Ernie I'm very happy. They don't yeah Well, I don't know you hit me as a type that likes misery sort of like my ma You're too smart to be a cleaning lady. You could have done something else if you wanted to maybe you like being miserable Feeling sorry for yourself one everybody else to feel sorry for you too. That's not true. How do you know who you defendin? You don't know her neither do you You're just so bitter. You can't see anything but bad I've seen guys like you. I've worked in a veterans hospital Oh, yeah couple afternoons a week and Sundays, maybe I'll bet huh cute little volunteer do gooder Come for a few hours make yourself feel real good about yourself and then leave it all behind You've seen guys like me, huh? Well, I've seen little girls like you. I was in one of them hospitals. Oh, you wounded Ernie Always with the questions. No, I didn't get shot. I went nuts Psycho I was in the psycho ward They didn't let little girls like you visit there not on afternoons not on Sunday not never but I seen you I seen you making nice with the respectable guys the guys in wheelchairs or or blind or with hooks for Hands, I worked with the mental patients too Ernie. Oh, did you? How about you really helped him a lot too? I did what I could some of them guys were just playing it being nuts You know ever running to any of them that was just playing at it. Yes How about you thought that was real smart them guys that was playing crazy to get out of going over and no I didn't think they were very smart, but I could understand why they did what they did I wouldn't have wanted to go either. Yeah, but you didn't have to worry about it because you ain't a man Short is a broad's world. I don't know about that. Well, I do I tell you I was glad to get out of that place I'll be almost as glad when I get out of this here elevator There was this one guy in the hospital, you know, he thought he was a snake He hide under your bed, and if he didn't watch yourself when you got up in the morning, he'd bite your feet I guess that sounds kind of funny. Yeah, it sure wasn't funny at the time. No, I suppose not. Well, you suppose right Come to think of it though. It wasn't really any crazier in that hospital than it was in NAMM Nothing made any sense there either and those gooks. There was no figuring them They all looked the same. They all dressed the same Some old group grandma be coming down the road and she reaching her old baggy coat and bring out a machine gun And you were dead Grandma run off into the jungle and it never find her And there's Andy never knew what hit him lying in the road bleeding like a stuck pig dying And for what for what? You and me both who was Andy? How'd you know about Andy? You just said his name. Who was he? Oh? Just the guy a guy. I knew he died. Yeah. He was a friend of yours. I told you he was a guy I knew he was not your friend Ernie. Why do you keep harping at you? I knew him, okay, Anna I don't think Ernie wants to talk about it anymore. I never did you know I Never did want to talk about it. It's water under the bridge. There ain't no use talking or thinking about it no more It's over and done with but you do think about it. Don't you Ernie? Anna, please? What do you want from me? Huh? What do you want? I want to know about Andy okay Okay, I'll tell you about Andy He was my buddy He was the only friend I ever had And I was walking right next to him when he bought it one minute. He was there and laughing then The next minute he was down dead I should have gone after that old lady then but all I could do was stand there and look at Andy I I couldn't believe it. I kept thinking he was going to get up and laugh and say it was all a joke I couldn't believe it and he was dead. My buddy was dead and then what happened? Well, what do you think happened? They shipped him home in a shiny box all wrapped up in a pretty flag and you they put you in the hospital then No, that was later after we went into that village It was later Ernie No, no, it was then right after Andy got it. I went kind of not so for a while They sent me back to the States to a hospital. No Ernie before you went home before you went mad nuts as you call It before any of that you went to a village Ernie. What happened in that village nothing Nothing happened Ernie, please stop, please Anna Ernie Get me out of here Get me up. Get me out of here. Don't shoot. Don't shoot her. Don't shoot them. Don't shoot them. They're just kids Don't shoot. Don't don't ignore this village We went in to find him. I don't know how it started All of a sudden everybody was shooting It was like I don't know Like they got a taste of it or something I didn't want to do it There was this old lady and she was running and her old coat was flopping around and she looked just like the one that killed Andy So so I took aim real careful And I shot her she fell I ran over to her and I shot her again and again and again And again, and I don't know why I kept firing like that. I didn't want I didn't mean to Was all a mistake. I Didn't really want to kill that old lady. Yes, you did Now don't you say that to me. Don't you ever say that to me? I'll kill you. You ever say that to me again. You're this message from your local station What if you went off to college and found that you were different from everyone else and Everything was designed for them not for you Suppose you went to the library and all the books you needed were in Braille and you were the only one who couldn't read You'd feel left out. Wouldn't you and what if you went to class and found that there were no chairs? Because all the other students rolled in with their own wheelchairs Suppose one of your professors gave his lectures talking with his hands only his hands and Everyone understood sign language except you you'd think it wasn't fair Well, that's how handicapped people feel now when they go to college and find extra handicaps But things are changing and we have free information that can help write closer. Look box 1492 Washington DC 2003 a public service message on behalf of the United States Office of Education There's a million stories in this city and it's my job to see they have happy ending. I'm Sam Hart I was working the warehouse district with shorty and I'm a bleary-eyed 4 a.m. Wednesday I'm walking down the valley. I could swear I was being followed. I turned it As I moved on I felt a sudden fullness pressure in my chest. I felt nauseous Somehow I knew that the big one heart attack had caught up to me shorty shorty heart heart can't be Kitten call for help. I'm starting CPR. I'm going already without kitten and shorty around the corner I would have taken the deep six. You think it will never happen to you, but I had it common I knew I had high blood pressure, but I wasn't taking my medicine a lot of people don't contact your American Heart Association For information on heart attack and high blood pressure. They're fighting for your life. Let me Tyson again And here's the concluding act of the long night. I Think Ernie's finally going to sleep. I'm glad Being trapped in this elevator has done something to him. It's done something to us all Yes, it's true. It's done something to us But what made Ernie into what he has happened long ago not tonight in this elevator? You're as bad as Ernie You're so bitter Can't you accept that what happened in Vietnam was a horrible mistake on Ernie's part? Can't you believe him when he says he didn't mean to do it? No, I can't believe or accept that has your whole world become a death camp Do you think that everyone is cruel and evil and that we're all murderers? I don't believe that bunny Shall I tell you what I do believe? I'm not sure I want to hear it I do I ain't been sleeping I've been listening and I want to hear what she says now. It's not true that my world is all in Auschwitz not anymore There was a time when it was but no longer I believe that there is within the best of men within all men all human beings the possibility of Inhumanity of evil it is within us all I saw it in Auschwitz and Ernie has told us of it in a tiny village in a little country very far away It was not a mistake that Ernie shot that woman. It was not a mistake. It was hatred and revenge He meant to do it. He wanted to do it Ernie knows that and he knows that I'm not afraid to confront him. Don't you Ernie? Yeah, I know it The knowledge the admission of the deed must come first Then comes forgiveness Have you ever been forgiven Ernie? No never Nobody never forgave me because there ain't nobody who can yes, there is I Forgive you Ernie. I know what you did and I forgive you. Why should you you of all people who better than I? I'm a survivor. I lost everything and everyone that's dear to me What good is a person like me a survivor, but to remember to forgive Then life may go on I know that some people think forgiveness is God's alone to give but God seems so far away sometimes Where was God in Auschwitz? He was in the survivors. That's where Where was God in Vietnam? He was in the boys who were driven mad with guilt for what they'd done You Ernie you too are a survivor of a holocaust You must remember and you must give your forgiveness with mine You must forgive yourself Ernie as I do Thank you, Anna, and I'm so sorry for what I said to you. I didn't understand. I know I know It's difficult for a girl like you to even imagine such horrors as death camps and massacres And how could you know such things? How could you be expected to understand them a girl like you? It might be easier for me than you realize The summer that I turned 19 something happened to me Something happened that I'll never forget Yes, Bonnie My parents thought that I was in California attending the summer session of my college They thought that was why I wasn't coming home in June And I wasn't lying to them not in the beginning. I Really was going to take some classes. I Hadn't done very well my first year nothing like I had in high school in high school I did everything I was always involved in activity straight-A student, but it didn't help I Still felt so alone and isolated Put all my hopes into college. I thought it would be a kind of miracle Finally, I'd be inside. I'd belong But it didn't work out that way What happened that summer I'm trying to tell you I knew it wouldn't be easy But I didn't think it would be this hard look kid. Maybe it just ain't the right time for you to talk No, I have to I want to tell you Just before the summer session was to begin I met this girl You see I lived in a dorm on campus. I used to eat all my meals there But I'd heard some kids talking about a little health food restaurant a few blocks away. I Decided to go there That's where I met Monica She was a waitress there She was really friendly and nice to me I think she talked to me more in just a few minutes than my roommate in the dorm had all year She dressed a little strange. She wore her hair all wild long and frizzy But I didn't think very much about the way she looked. I was so happy to have a friend She lived close by in a big old house with a lot of other kids All I could think about it as we walked over there was that I hope that they all liked me as much as Monica seemed to On the front porch a boy with a beard and no shirt sat and played a guitar Inside there were old bear mattresses everywhere and murals on the walls Painted sunrises and clouds and people floating through the clouds Strange and beautiful pictures like I'd never seen before and sounds like one of them hippie pads I didn't know what it was It was all so different and strange I Guess I was pretty backward coming from Oregon My hometown was such a little out of the way place. We didn't know what a hippie was Oh, sure. We saw the news on television student riots people burning their draft cards, but that was television It was hard for me to believe there really were people like that Anyway, Monica and I sat on one of those mattresses and talked for hours. I should say I talked Monica listened Nobody had ever really listened to me before Then this man came up and sat down between Monica and me He had long hair and a mustache, but he looked different older There was something in his eyes He just sat there and watched me When he left Monica turned to me and smiled That was Larry she said and you're in if you want to be I Didn't have to ask what she meant I moved into the house that night. I Didn't attend any classes that summer This man you speak of his name was Larry. Yes and his last name. I didn't know it at first Monica never mentioned it. Everyone just called him Larry. That was all I didn't know his last name then But you know it now Bonnie Yes, I know it. So what's the big deal? What was his name anyway? Who even cares? It was just some hippie creep. No Larry was more than that much more Not just a creep worse than that and not a hippie the hippies preach love remember Larry preach something very different Anna knows don't you Anna? You know his name. Yes, I think that I do and why don't you say it? No, Bonnie. I think it's for you to say Larry Larry Jordan Larry Jordan, he was the guy who murdered 12 people He gave the orders to do it and his orders were always obeyed believe me. I know but you weren't I mean you didn't kill for him No, I didn't I Left that house before anyone died, but I didn't leave it soon enough. I Went home to Oregon. I Didn't return to school that fall and In December just before Christmas the stories of the murders began to break in the papers At first I couldn't believe it, but then I knew it was true. I Never told my folks or anyone about that summer Until now but you never really did nothing nothing to blame yourself for I live there with those people those horrible people. I Could be in prison right now like Monica is Monica who was always giggling and playing with his silver puzzle ring in prison for stabbing three people to death That could have been me. I Could have stayed you could have but you did not still I felt marked spoiled by what had happened I quit college It was as if I felt I didn't deserve to go I've allowed no one in my life No one to love me because I didn't feel I had the right to be loved. It's not so bunny You deserve to be loved you have the right to love what Anna says is true kid Don't be so hard on yourself Look at me. I forgive you Thank You Ernie Anna it's been a long night. What is the time now Ernie? It's almost six. You think I should hit the alarm I mean, you know, maybe my luck is changing Maybe just this once basketball beyond time a little early even try and see Ernie Somebody we're stuck in the elevator It's me Matron. No ladies in here with me. We've been stuck on basket You think you could get us out of here? The first time Baskin's ever been early for working his entire life All I wanted this whole night was to get out of here. It's funny now that we're going to I almost don't want to I feel very much as you do Bonnie. Yeah, I guess I sort of do too Listen if I was a little rough at times, you know, I I'm sorry. You were fine Ernie just fine I want to always remember this night in the both of you We won't forget will we Tomorrow next week or next year we won't pass each other in the corridor and not speak will we no this we will not forget No, I won't forget the two of you and I'll talk to you when I see you, but One thing I ain't gonna do again in a hurry. What Ernie? I ain't gonna climb into an elevator with you again, okay? He wouldn't climb ten flights of stairs of his grandmother was stuck in here All right Baskin, what's up? 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