Nick Hope, at 100 years old, looks back on his long life and chooses not to focus on the atrocities he has endured at the hands of evil men.
CALISTOGA â 'Somebody suffers their whole life. I don't. I don't,' Hope said.Hope is his chosen name. He was born Nikolai Choprenko in 1924 in Ukraine.There are times his dreams take him back to horrendous, starving nights in Germany at Dachau concentration camp.'I say, 'No, no, no. Everything is over. Everything is over,' ' Hope said.
'But thanks to my grandfather, he teaches me a lot of things, but patience, any condition, patience.'On to AllachAfter three months at Dachau's main camp, Hope was moved to a Dachau substation called Allach for forced labor.'They put me first on a conveyor, I would put two parts of a cylinder and put together with a special instrument,' he said.Hope was working at a BMW motor factory. The popular company admits today its former, dark connections to the Nazi party at the time.
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