"No," says Dita Kraus very firmly when I ask her if there's anything she doesn't want to talk to me about. "You can ask me anything." This openness is surprising. It takes several attempts before there is even a conversation. If you want access to contemporary witnesses, you will meet contacts who ask sharp questions and sensitize the interlocutors. Now we're sitting across from each other, each at our computer in a video conference. Dita Kraus, one of the last living contemporary witnesses of the Holocaust, in Israel. And the journalist, more than 3500 km away in Munich.

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