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Soviet soldiers in Poland liberated the notorious Nazi concentration camp known as Auschwitz. It's estimated that more than a million people perished there. the vast majority of them Jews. In 2005, the United Nations officially designated January 27th, the day Auschwitz was liberated, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. With that in mind, this morning Lee Cowan will tell us the story of a righteous few who helped some Jewish people avoid the fate of so many others.
Every year we pause to remember. to think and to question about how the Holocaust could have happened. But in those dark thoughts, often forgotten are the flickers of light. We talk about the banality of evil and, like, well, certain people are raised to just go along with authoritarian regimes, and good Germans fall in line. These people didn't.
They were raised in a different way. Ahead this Sunday morning, Respect for the righteous rescuers. who gave us more than you might know.
So who do you think holds the record for most appearances on the cover of Vogue? The answer Legendary supermodel and actress Lauren Hutton. who, at age eighty two, remains a fashion icon. She'll be talking with Anthony Mason. You never really wanted to be a model.
Never heard of it. With her gap toothed smile, Lauren Hutton was told she'd never be a cover girl. But she became one. I was not there to see myself on the stands. I was there to get the money to go see the world.
And she has. The Adventures of Lauren Hutton, the original supermodel. You moved here in 1964? Yes. Coming up on Sunday morning.
After a week where the future of Greenland was center stage, Mooraka offers us a short history of the world's most sparsely populated territory. Lisa Lang pulls back the curtain on Shenyun, the colorful and controversial touring production depicting traditional Chinese culture. Plus Nora O'Donnell with Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. And more. This final Sunday morning of the month, January 25th.
2026. We'll be back after this. Yeah. As we've told you, Tuesday is Holocaust Remembrance Day. marking the liberation of the infamous Nazi concentration camp known as Auschwitz.
It's a time to remember the millions who perished during World War two. and, as Lee Cowan reminds us, honor the righteous few who shepherded some to safety. Mark Chagall once commented, if he wasn't Jewish, He might not have been an artist. His faith profoundly influenced his works like The Praying Jew, for example. As well as this, a never-before-seen work that she got.
gave to his granddaughter. Bellamire. And he tells the story of Shabbat from back of his memories. I watched him paint and I loved it. I adored him.
But her grandfather's faith also got him into trouble. In Russia, where he was born, Chagal was jailed for not having his Jewish residency papers. He later moved to Paris. France for him meant freedom. But in June 1940, Hitler smashed through the Western defenses and overran France.
Freedom, that is, until the Nazis marched into Paris. For him he was French rather than Jew. The Nazis certainly didn't see it that way. They considered Chagall's work degenerate art. In 1941, the Vichy police tracked him down in Marseille in the south of France.
And detained him yet again. Had it not been for the courage of strangers non Jews mostly who risked their own lives to help smuggle him and his paintings to safety, That might have been the last we ever heard. of Mark Chagall. I don't want to think too much because I'll cry and I don't want to cry in front of you. Yadbashem.
Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. has a name for such rescuers. It calls them the righteous among the nations. I mean the word righteous is of all the ones who helped, No better word. Um I mean no.
There weren't that many righteous rescuers, however. It's easier to discount horror with blind eyes than it is with eyes wide open. Compare the 6 million murdered Jews to fewer than 30,000 non-Jews. who have been recognized for helping. One of them said, you know, you didn't care whether they were Jewish or Catholic or Eskimos.
They were persecuted people and you had to help. Using taped and transcribed interviews from the U.S. Holocaust Museum, filmmaker Nick Davis brought 45 extraordinary stories of those non-Jews who did help. to life. We have paid enough attention to the bad guys.
Hitler, Timmler, Göring. And we don't think as much about the good people who helped. on a sort of superficial level, I felt like Ugh, haven't we seen enough Holocaust films? But when I looked at the stories that we were going to be telling, real goodness is what you do when no one's looking. I never talked about what I did during the war.
And I still wouldn't if I hadn't read that article in the newspaper that said the Holocaust didn't happen. That's Oscar winner Helen Miran. voicing the sacrifices of Irene Gutt Updike. who was forced to become the mistress of an elderly SS officer. To buy his silence, After he discovered that she was hiding Jews, he was in his villain.
I won't tell you it was easy. Not only because he was an old man, But I knew there were 12 lives depending on me. Alex and Mila Roslyn sheltered three Jewish brothers in Warsaw. They couldn't call a doctor, if things went bad, for fear of being discovered. What happened with them, and far too many others, is relayed by Jeremy Irons.
He says, I would feel better. If you would hold me. I picked you up. My arms. We buried him in the basement, sitting up, because Someone told me that was the way to bury a Jew.
More people. would have done more. if only they had known what to do. Deborah DeWork, a professor at City University of New York and a Holocaust historian. says whatever the motivation of rescuers was in the case of the Holocaust, The end.
often did justify the means.
So there really isn't no. necessarily a line that connects them all other than the fact that they must have had Good souls.
Sometimes they didn't even have good souls.
Sometimes greed. motivated them. And I say, three cheers for greed. because it was thanks to the greed that they put their lives at risk. Or put themselves in harm's way.
Her latest book is about American relief workers who help save Jewish refugees. most of the Americans you've likely never heard of. Think about it, the best known of the Americans is Varian Fry, and very few people know about him. Varian Fry brings us full circle. for he was the man who helped organize Marc Chagall's escape from France.
he was the first American to be given the title of the Righteous Among the Nations. His son James accepted the honor, on his dad's behalf. Why do you think he wasn't recognized more? I think The country wanted to move on. And focus on rebuilding, like getting life back to normal.
People Didn't want to remember, I guess. Fry rarely talked about his time during the war. Poor variant for I am bon souvenir. although Chagall paintings sometimes mysteriously appeared in the Fry household. presumably as a thank you.
Do you remember these hanging in your house? Oh yeah. Yeah? Growing up. In retrospect, He says his dad suffered from outsized bouts of righteous indignation.
And that's your dad. Yeah. To the point that he believes. His dad's bravery may have sprung in part. from his being bipolar.
I think he harnessed sort of his manic energy to do something that most people would have thought. not worth trying. And it's that. The not worth trying part. that haunts any discussion of these righteous among the nations.
What would you do?
Well, I have a wife and two amazing daughters, and I don't know that I would risk their lives for a perfect stranger. Let me correct that. I know I wouldn't risk their lives for a perfect stranger. Mean, I wish I would have the courage to do even a a little ounce of it. We'll never know just how many there were.
those hiding Jews in attics or basements or crawl spaces. rarely survive their generosity. But those who did, did more than save a life. They created opportunity for life. and art.
and beauty. Oh wow. for years to come. If he were here. Then you could have a conversation with Varian Fry.
What would you want to say to him? I would just Hug him and thank him for existing Mm-hmm. This past week was an especially rocky one for relations between the United States and its allies. as they debated the future of a relatively obscure corner of the world.
So if you're wondering why Greenland, of all places, is at the centre of so much discussion, Moraka is here to help. This past week Greenland was big in the news. Of course, Greenland has always been big. Three times the size of Texas, the world's largest island, dominates the Arctic space between North America and Europe. Its name notwithstanding, 80% of Greenland is covered in ice.
So who named it Greenland and why? Oh, well, that's actually an interesting case of place branding. Robert Christian Thompson is a professor of social sciences at Aalborg University in Denmark. Greenland got its name, he says, from Erik the Red, a Viking who came from Iceland and settled there around 985 AD.
So he went back to Iceland and there he. Told the old Norse that lived there, there's a magnificent greenland to the west of here. You should go, you should come and join us. In 1814, Greenland officially became part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
So why all the attention to this mostly desolate landscape? First, there's security. If you look at a map You'll see that the shortest distance for a missile to travel between Moscow and Washington is immediately over the North Pole in Greenland. And climate change has made Greenland even more coveted. More navigable for commercial and military vessels, and easier for mining its rich resources.
The receding ice means that there's a much more much better access to oil, to gas, To minerals, including the rare earth elements, rare earth minerals that are needed for our computers, for our electric cars, for batteries. American interest in Greenland isn't new. During the 19th century, around the time we bought Alaska from Russia, the U.S. expressed interest in acquiring Greenland. Nothing materialized.
But in 1917, the U.S. did buy territory from Denmark, the three islands in the Caribbean that are today's U.S. Virgin Islands. In return, we recognized Danish sovereignty over Greenland. Then came World War II.
How important is Greenland to the United States during World War II? It's tremendously important that Denmark is already occupied. By the Germans, and so Greenland is sort of floating out there unprotected. The American administration says we need to occupy Greenland to make sure that the Germans do not do it. The Allies used the island as a refueling hub for military bombers.
After the war in nineteen fifty one, the US and Denmark agreed to a more permanent arrangement. that says the US Pretty much has free access. You know, it can do whatever it wants in terms of establishing military bases, radar, you name it. The US just has to ask. Politely.
But enough about its location and resources. Greenland, of course, also has people. a tiny population of about 57,000. What's it like growing up in Greenland? It's wonderful.
I mean, it's a very, very safe country to grow up in and we're frolicking about in the snow. Tilly Martin Newson is a native Greenlander and former Member of Parliament. She, like almost ninety per cent of the population, is of Inuit descent. And what would you say Greenlandic values are? They are we have to take care of each other, we have to stand together.
Very much a community driven as opposed to most of the Western countries, which are a lot individually driven, right? We live in a society where only two generations ago we were used to people going out hunting to get getting their food and we are used to sharing kind of still a state of mind. While polls show most Greenlanders don't want to be American, Martin Newsen says it's nothing personal. I actually love the United States. I love the American people.
Don't get me wrong at all. I mean, one of my dreams was actually going from east to west there in a car. One way or the other, we're gonna have Greenland. But after President Trump's aggressive rhetoric on Greenland and longtime ally Denmark, that love is being sorely tested. We have been good allies for 80 years, which makes this.
Treachery feeling so strong in us right now, children that we have now, we're going to grow up, and being afraid of the United States is the aggressor that we remember.
So there is a sense, I think, of betrayal. I grew up with, and most Danes I think grew up with the notion that The US is our best friend in the world, you know.
So, to all of a sudden realize. That The bad guy, the one who wants to take something away from us and to hurt this state and this people. Is not The Russians. It's not China. But our best friend.
He's the governor of a key battleground state who wields an increasingly influential voice in politics, and some believe he'll soon make a run for the White House. Pennsylvania's Josh Shapiro is in conversation with Nora O'Donnell. And you've been coming here your whole life. Yeah, since I was a little boy and actually sat right over there with my family every Saturday morning. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro says it's special to visit his longtime congregation, Beth Shalom Synagogue, in the Philadelphia suburb of Elkins Park.
Yeah. Oh, that's a good idea. Dr. and Mrs. Steven Shapiro.
There you go. His father, a pediatrician, and his mother, a teacher and activist, inspired him into a life of service. but we learned it was also his mom's struggles with mental health that may have had the most impact on Shapiro. There were moments where A switch could be flipped, and there'd be a lot of yelling, a lot of chaos, and a lot of tumult in the house. you would just want to retreat to your room and try and escape it all.
You also write that you had a happy childhood and at points an unhappy childhood home. It's something you've never spoken about publicly. What does that mean? I wanted to share that. In part, because I know there's a lot of other families out there that go through this kind of stuff.
But in part I want my mom to know that for as difficult as our childhood was at times. For as difficult as I imagine hers was. you know She really set me on this path of service in a way that, you know. I hope she sees some of her self in and I hope she takes pride in. The 52-year-old governor details his childhood and his decades-long career in a new book.
Where we keep the light out Tuesday. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and his family are safe. The memoir begins with a deeply personal recounting of the arson attack on the governor's official residence in April 2025. while Shapiro and his family slept upstairs, hours after conducting a Passover Seder. I know your son Reuben asked if someone tried to kill your family.
Because you are Jewish. Yeah. How hard was that conversation? It was really hard. We had to have some honest tough conversations with our kids about what political violence is all about and how it's designed to maybe target one person but affect a broader swath of people based on a particular characteristic, perhaps in this case, our faith.
And look, it's a hard thing for a parent to have that conversation with their kid when they know in this business they can't necessarily guarantee. that level of safety. What I really hope for every day is that kids stop having to worry about that. Not just my kids, but... All people have to stop worrying that violence is going to come to their community because of something they believe.
who they voted for, how they pray. who they love. Less than a year earlier, President Trump had nearly been assassinated while campaigning. in your state. How is that political violence change now.
How you Carry out your work. Nora, I think. Political violence has gotten worse in this country since Butler. And I think it is. only going to get better.
when all politicians, all people. condemn it universally, no matter Who's the target of it, and no matter who carries it out? I don't care if you're. Left-wing ideology, right-wing ideology, it should not be hard for us to say that it is all wrong. This year, Shapiro is in the middle of a reelection campaign, but he's also considered a top contender to represent the Democratic Party in twenty twenty eight.
Does the Democratic Party have a clear set of ideals? I think the Democratic Party has a lot of clear ideals and And wonderful values, otherwise, I wouldn't be a member of this party. But are they articulating in a way in a national message that will win elections? Yeah, I think folks are hoping that there will be one person every day. who's going to go out and be the alternative to Donald Trump.
or be the voice of the Democratic Party. And that one person certainly does not exist right now. And that's okay. Because there are wonderful Democrats. We're governors, we're mayors, who are members of Congress.
who are doing really good work every single day. And that work they're doing. I think is helping shape and define. the new generation of the Democratic Party. Right now, Shapiro is watching closely what's happening in Minneapolis with the president's immigration crackdown.
Why do you think he's doing it? The president claims it's all about safety. What do you think it's about? I think what the president's trying to do is show that he can be the dominant figure. that he can dictate behavior.
whether we're talking about Minneapolis. or Greenland or Venezuela. This president wants to try and show what he believes to be strength that I think is a facade of strength. and ultimately a veneer of strength, and ultimately what he's doing is making people worse off. Less safe.
What Governor Shapiro won't say is whether he will ultimately run for President himself. Here's what I can tell you with absolute certainty. I want to be a part. of the dialogue that helps shape us going forward into a party that can Be one that helps people get a great education, that creates safer communities. I want to help build a democratic party that sees us as part of a world order, not going it alone.
So, yeah, I want to be a part of shaping that dialogue. And then ultimately, from that dialogue that we have, There will be people who emerge who ultimately want to lead that party. And that's a conversation for another day down the road. Before Christy Brinkley, Cindy Crawford, and Naomi Campbell became global stars, there was Lauren Hutton. A trailblazer who in the 70s redefined what a supermodel could be.
She's our Sunday profile from Anthony Mason. In this photograph, we actually see the gap in your teeth. But in the beginning they didn't want you to show it. No. And I had to buy a little $300 plastic thing that went there that I would sneeze out and lose.
Lauren Hutton was told again and again in the 1960s that she wasn't cut out to be a model. You've got that space between your teeth, your eyes are crossed a lot of the times. And I had improper everything. She still owns the record for most cover appearances on American Vogue. And at 82, She still has that smile.
How do you feel about Basically haven't been the first supermodel. Yeah, certainly it was about money, and I changed the whole money system. Lauren's not nine anymore. In 1973, Revlon signed her to an exclusive deal for a quarter of a million dollars a year. It's a whole lot better than natural.
Then the biggest contract in modeling history. You moved here in 1964? Yeah. Coming from college in New Orleans, she saw New York as a gateway to the world and the wild places she wanted to visit. Ask her about modeling, and somehow you'll almost always end up in Africa.
But I lived with pygmies and I lived with Kiramojong and I lived with uh Kalhari Bushman, you're constantly excited. You're constantly thrilled. And everything's beautiful. My life was none of this stuff. My life was traveling.
Right. That's the only reason I came to New York. You never really wanted to be a model. Never heard of it. It was all an accident.
Amen. Amen. I've always been lucky. Yeah. I was born lucky.
She was born Mary Lawrence Hutton in Charleston, South Carolina during World War II. Her dad was an Army pilot overseas. He wrote me every single day from the war, and my mother very kindly and beautifully put it into books for me. Her parents split in 1945. She grew up in Florida with an abusive stepfather.
So she treasured her father's letters. 'Cause I wanted my daddy. Bad. But you never met him. No.
But I He gave me enough love in those letters. that held me. all this time. And uh made me love men. I mean, you guys are something else.
My name is Zulu Porter. Hutton made her scream debut in 1963 as a decoy contestant on To Tell the Truth. Number two, you got to vote. What is your real name and what do you do? My name is Lauren Hutton, and I'm a bunny at the New York Playboy Club.
You were actually in the beginning turned down by what, four different modeling agencies? Yeah, well no, I was turned down by five. Eileen Ford, who'd call Hutton a believable beauty, finally gave her a shot. Later admitting, I still don't know what made me take her. Tell me about meeting Diana Vreeland.
Heaven. Hutton was sent to see the legendary editor of Vogue. And she'd said, You! And I looked, and she had pointed this long, beautiful finger at me, and she said, You. Have quite a presence.
I had no idea what that was. What was a presence? And But I took a chance and I said, Well, you sure do. Vreeland quickly connected her with one of Vogue's top photographers. She said, I'm calling Dick.
Ever done. That's what she meant. There was only one. And we made wonderful. There's still some of the best pictures I ever took.
I have to come with a hairback. Abaddon and Hutton became frequent collaborators. I can't stand this dick! Lauren, that's fantastic.
Soon, she was the hottest model in the country and a household name. natural shining free. Just the real natural me. I think that's pretty nice. Liquid Prel for naturally beautiful hair.
The light bulb is great. We met Hutton at the Rauschenberg Foundation, the studio of the late artist Robert Rauschenberg. I always feel easy and comfortable when I'm around his pictures because that's what he was. A friend and neighbor, Rauschenberg, created this collage portrait of her. I finally decided she was a goddess.
Yes, she is. Which I identified with her. Hold it. Hutton landed film roles, too. In Paper Lion with Alan Alda.
The Gambler with James Kahn. How many uh Languages to Speak and American Gigolo with Richard Gere. That's the um International. Language. That's right.
For someone who didn't want to be a model. Or an actress. Or an actress. You turn out to be really good at it, and you seem to not only understand to do it, but you seem to figure out the economics of it. Twice.
I did that twice. Because Bob lost all the first punch. Bob was Bob Williamson, for nearly three decades, her boyfriend, father figure, and financial manager. You'd hear all his girls say. My sweetheart's in high finance.
What is yours in? I'd say low finance. No, he's right. They travel the world together. Until she discovered he'd lost nearly 13 million dollars of her money.
Bob was very, very smart. about all kinds of stuff. But he also lost all your money. Yeah, but you know what? I'd do it again in a second like that.
You wouldn't trade everything you got with him. No. She went back to fashion and earned her fortune all over again. I just kept on plugging. Resilience is a recurring theme in Hutton's life.
In 2000, a motorcycle accident knocked her 20 feet into the air. I can remember every second of it and it was really Sort of rapturous. She'd been riding to Las Vegas with a group of friends that included Jeremy Irons and Dennis Hopper. You were badly hurt. Oh, I was dead.
And they, I wasn't breathing at all. Those boys saved me. My gang, my guys saved my life. My wingman. Don't make me start crying.
But the cover girl came back from that too. Lauren Hutton has never regretted. An adventure. I was not there to see myself on the stands. I was there to get the money.
to go see the world. I've had a great life. I've been very lucky. For 20 seasons now, the traveling stage show Shenyun has offered audiences a glimpse of what it calls China before communism. Chances are you've seen the ads.
But there are questions about what goes on behind the curtain. Lisa Ling explains. Deep in the woods of New York, behind guarded gates, lies a vision of ancient China. Reborn. What is this place?
It's another world, and for us... It's like a sanctuary. This private sanctuary is Dragon Springs. 400 acres where faith and art share the same stage. It is the creative center of Shenyun.
The epic stage production of Chinese history. Legends and politics. We are putting on stage the tyranny of the CCP. Ying Chen is a vice president and conductor with Shen Yun and the CCP. is the Chinese Communist Party.
It calls the group behind the show an evil cult. Known as Falun Gong, it's a spiritual movement rooted in Buddhism. Use the rotation of the Falun to rectify all abnormal conditions of the human body. That's founder Li Hong Zhe demonstrating Falun Gong's meditation exercises. He started teaching the practice in 1992.
Falun Gong spread quickly throughout China. And Beijing responded. China today banned a popular religious group that's been challenging communist rule. The government now considers Falun Gong its public enemy, number one. Ying Shen says practitioners were imprisoned and tortured.
Including her own family. My mom and my brother were sent to a labor camp. and he endured 18 months of agony and his survival was a fragile miracle. He was literally tortured every single day. Founder Li Hong Zhe settled in the US and in 2006 launched Shen Yun.
It would ask much of his followers. including Jeff's son. and Ashley Cheng. Li Hong Ji made it quite clear that Shenyuin was the highest form of how practitioners can support the movement.
Now married, Sun and Chang both grew up in Falun Gong families. We spoke with them from their home in New Zealand. Their parents sent them in the late 2000s to a boarding school at Dragon Springs, where young performers train for Shen Yun. The entire community I grew up in was very proud of me. They thought it was a great honor to live with Li Hongzhi in that compound.
As if, like, I made it to Harvard. He was 15. She was thirteen. nearly nine thousand miles from home. Everything was very isolated and our main job is to dance.
What were you told about having any contact with the world outside of Dragon Springs? If our parents asked any questions, we had to tell them that we were happy. That Master, which is Li Hongjie, was taking great care of us. The reality, Sun and Cheng claim Was they were part of a group of child laborers living in constant fear. I was in survival mode.
It's about not exceeding 100 pounds every day. It's about following the footsteps of the person in front of me so I don't get yelled out of line. There's no one we can talk to, the adults there who are your educators but also your persecutors. You want to speak how you feel to them but the next day you get told that you're thinking different to everybody else, that you are the problem. That was the weight of the mind.
The body, they say. would bear its own. Two kids kind of pushed my legs open in the side split and it was the most amount of pain I ever experienced, ever. I had internal bleeding. My entire inside of my legs, both legs, was purple.
But every day I still had to do the same thing. My shoulder was stretched. for an abnormal amount of time. once and I lost all feeling in it.
So I had issues from showering to going to the bathroom. Did you ever tell your instructors about your injuries? Yeah, I did. And I was faced with the eye roll. I have not had or seen a single pill of medicine.
during my entire duration. Sun and Chang are part of a growing group of former dancers contending that medical care was discouraged. a belief they say is rooted in Falun Gong teachings. Any injury that you have, if you mentioned that you want to go to the hospital or if you wanted help, it will be d denied. And it will be quickly, very quickly associated to you got injured because you disobeyed Li Hongji.
It is your fault. It is your fault. In 2015, they were kicked out of Shenyun. Last spring, they sued one of two federal lawsuits against the performance group, alleging forced labor. Jeff, I can see the emotion.
in your face. I wonder what it's like to relive this right now. Um Every time I think about what happened to me, And it kinda breaks me apart, you know. Um And nobody deserves this. And um I mean, we're all kids, you know.
We wanted to impress our parents. We wanted to do what we thought was right. We asked Shen Yun about these allegations and they invited us into Dragon Springs. It's totally quiet in here. What's happening right now?
Spokeswoman Ying Chen showed us around. It's a little bit like praying. We settle down our minds and try to purge distracting thoughts. We just stay really focused. I notice that the men and women are sitting on opposite sides.
We're very conservative in values and the school, so they usually keep separate. You've never allowed outside media to come into Dragon Springs until today. Why have you agreed to allow us to come in? I think part of it is because they talk about a compound. Does it look like a compound?
I think it's true that we work hard. This is a place that provides top-level dance training. And also it's a faith-based community. The plaintiffs allege that while here, they were not allowed. To get the medical attention they may have needed.
I cannot speak to what they went through, but I just find it very shocking and very different from. the practice here and our policies here. the Chinese government is behind these lawsuits? These lawsuits emerged at a time when Beijing escalated its global campaign against Shenyun. It's really hard to see it as a mere coincidence.
And just this month, the Chinese embassy called Shenyun a cult propaganda, using culture as a cover to deliver indoctrination. The CCP has been trying to sabotage us since day one. We've got death threats, bomb threats. And this tactic that they're using now is very similar to what they're using to persecute Falun Gong. Shen Yoon company members Regina Dong, Shindi Kai and Peter Huang were also sent as teenagers to Dragon Springs.
Do you feel like your parents pressure you in any way to come here? Not at all.
Now, if they came and tried to drive me away, I wouldn't go. Do you feel like you have had access to the proper medical attention that you needed. Yes, for sure. Achilles a few years back. My Company manager, she gave me the contact to our doctor, had an MRI done, and said, Okay, you have this, this, this, this, this.
You should do blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Shindi, you said to me earlier that you never get sick. Do you think that? Your faith. has helped you to not get sick.
I actually do think so, because I almost find it strange sometimes. I'm like, you know, usually I'm supposed to come down with like a flu, but never. And I think a lot of it has to do with the energy. For Jeff Sun and Ashley Chang, they return to New Zealand and no longer practice Falun Gong. The Falun Gong describe you as disgruntled performers.
How do you respond to that? I have a response for this. Um yes we're disgruntled. What happened to us? was not our fault.
We were children. And we've been living with the shame. And I don't want to live with it for the rest of my life. New York's Department of Labor is now looking into Shen Yun's working conditions and child labor practices. Thank you.
just as the show's 20th season goes on tour. Each year is a new show. But the final scene is always the same. a Chinese city on the edge of destruction. Until the deus ex Machina, a mystical being resembling Falungong founder Li Hong Zhe.
descends from the heavens. to save the world. But for now, the story of Shen Yun seems neither so simple. Nor, perhaps So sacred. Thank you for listening.
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