Also watch my interview with Gita’s son Ysoscher Katz 😊 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/btWGlqZm35iYk2g.htmlsi=V0zsGYauSXL-E8kH

What's wonderful about Frieda Vizel is that, though she left the Hasidic community, she retains such warmth for the people. And they trust that she will portray their lives with kindness and mercy, rather than criticism.

What a blessing to hear these stories. The Jewish people are such a blessing!!

Frieda you are a blessing to the Jewish community. Thank you for finding so many inspiring stories.

This video is more important to me than any other video. People today do not know what kind of hell our grandparents went through. Thank you for bringing up the issue. We must never forget the suffering they caused the Jewish people.

In my parents house as a child one always had to be busy. My mom was 13 the year she spent in Auschwitz. One day I said Mom the Holocaust is over! She replied it can happen again any time! Little did I know how prophetic her words were. I had 1 Grandparent survive out of 4

A big thank you to Frieda and Gita for sharing this important story with us. To think of a generation that grew up without grandparents is heartbreaking. A grandparent's love is very special.

My goodness what a beautiful lady. Such an amazing life story. I hope she gets motivated to write a book of her life. So much to teach us about family, love, suffering and resilience. Thanks for the upload. I am moved

Thank you, Frieda for bringing us these very important stories. It has never been more important.

Thank you Frieda for giving Gita a platform to tell the story. We need to keep telling it. If it happened once it could happen again. The veil between good and evil is thin and it doesn’t take much for humans to sink into horrific behavior. God forbid it. We must be strong and never allow it to happen again.

You can just tell by this short video that Mrs. Katz has a fun, spunky spirit. Thank you both for sharing.

“Just because he blushes doesn’t mean you’re smitten”, amazing. Yet another outstanding interview with a fascinating person. I hung on every word. Thank you Frieda and Mrs Gita.

I was completely fascinated by Gita and her story.

Documenting the lives of survivors is so important. Thank you, Frieda and Gita.

Thank you Frieda, this interview made me think a lot about my long gone grandparents and uncles. Gita is so right, we need to keep our elders' memories alive and teach our young people about them. Their stories of survival and post-war lives are a source of great strength to me.

Gita is a wonderful human being. Thank you for sharing her story.

Many thanks to you, Gita Katz and the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies for this video. Heartbreaking details; my heart weeps but this must be told and it must be heard. Thank goodness her grandmother's story can be told. ❤🇨🇦

Her brother Y. was married to my sister ob"m. I remember her grandfather Reb Yisroel Yosef Krakower as well; my nephew is named after him. I also remember her husband from Montreal. Exactly the same story happened in my school in Satmar Montreal when one boy spoke of his Zeidy/grandfather and all the boys gathered around him awestruck. I still remember it vividly.

What a powerful interview, Frieda - and what an unfathomable loss to live with!

What a treasure hearing this conversation. The joy of laughter and friendship shines so bright after the stories of such horrible darkness... Thank you both... I won't forget your words.

Thank you, Frieda, for this touching video with Frau Gita Katz! You can’t stop watching and feel every minute of her life. I am so happy that she found this gentle and kind husband. May she and her loved ones be blessed.

Heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time.

With gentle and curious questioning interviewer Frieda Vizel gives us insight into the life and history of Gita, a Chasidish woman with a big, charming personality. We learn intimate details of dark world history as well as bright moments of a loving family & community. Especially touching to me is Gita’s love and care for her husband Leiby, obm, and the revelation that out of her class of girls she was the only one to know a grandfather. Another must view interview. Shkoyakh!

What a true blessing to be able to hear this amazing woman's testimony and see her zest for life 💗 Thank you so much Frieda for spotlighting such wonderful people it's amazing how much knowledge, empathy, unity and laughter you bring through your videos!! כֹּל הַכָּבוֹד

Thank you for this .. My father was a Holocaust survivor. He would tap his numbers and tell us, "Never let this come to America" He told us the stories and as your guest describes, each time more details came to mind.

I can see why Pearl & Gita are friends. Both women show so much conviction in their faith, but seem like very strong, determined & intelligent woman who don’t sit quietly back. They both also have a great sense of humor!! I also love Pearl’s unconditional love for her son who left the Hassidic community. They both come across as a bit progressive sometimes, even though I know they are very traditional. It’s the way they carry themselves, I think. Yet another powerful & dynamic interview!!! I was excited when I saw you had put out a new interview. You have really developed your interview skills & are able to connect w/ your subjects in such a genuine, validating & respectful way. All of this is reflected in the quality & professionalism of your videos. Thank you for continuing to seek out people to interview who have such dynamic & powerful stories they carry & are willing to share w/ you.

I am so humbled by this interview. I am equally humbled by some of the comments, children of survivors. Thank you for these stories that are so important in these days of war and ugliness of every kind. These stories you share remind me of seeing a single flower growing in a sidewalk...the strength and beauty of something in the midst of cold hard ugliness. ❤

Thank you for bringing us Gita again. Her stories have such vivid detail. Appreciated.

Oh Frieda.... Thank you and thank you Mrs. Katz...What a treasure touching, touching.... one of the best interviews I've ever seen in my life...seriously... remarkable story and such a unique perspective!

May God continue to bless Gita and her family!!!

Thank you, Frieda, for introducing us to Gita Katz!

These conversations are so important to document!

Thank you Frieda for Gita’s wonderful testimony. Yes the secret things belong to HaShem. There are things we can’t know or understand! In the Book of Daniel what happened in the Burning Fiery furnace! May HaShem bless and keep safe this lady, her family and you and all that lovely Williamsburg Community. Trust in His name and cry out to Him even when we don’t understand Frieda. HaShem loves you all so much but He never said it would be easy. Gita bears testimony to this! Thank you for this wonderful bringing us these amazing testimonies Frieda. Bill over the pond🙏🇺🇸🇬🇧

🙏🏻 thank you Frieda and Gita, so much sadness and grief and so much joy and hope. May H-Shem bless you ❤

Allison and I were in Amsterdam, at the Anne Frank house this past week, on what would have been Annes 95th birthday, so this resonates with us even more so. Thank You for sharing this and keeping the memory of holocaust survivors alive. The Franks almost made it, they were on the last train to the camps -

We must never forget!!!!

Frieda my dear, You have done it again. You find the sweetest women to interview. I felt like I was sitting around the table with you. The subtitles in time were perfect. Please send my appreciation to Fairfield Univeristy/Bennet Center for Judaic Studies. Here's to many more.

Thank you! You are performing a major mitzvah with your show!!! 👏

What a wonderful video. Thank you so much for sharing this story. It should be shared widely.

54 minutes of a precious interview. I love your guests and their experiences. I also love how you let them just talk on, but then interject a pertinent question, often something I was wondering already. You and your videos are a treasure trove of enlightenment.

Hugs to both of you. Thank you for sharing real history.

Hi Frieda how are you ? Many people like this wonderful Gita have exactly the same history and story . All of us who were first generation children of holocaust survivors from the camps share a burden of being born to survivors. I may have grown up in the fifties in Williamsburg at the same time like Gita

Wow. Thank you so much for this interview

Thank you Frieda and Gita for sharing Gita's grandmother's story with 52,000 people who can honour her memory.

What a beautiful interview! Thank you so much Frida for sharing Gita's story with us. And a thousand thanks to you Gita Katz for sharing your memories with us. They are with us now. Thank you.

Thank you so much Frieda for allowing us to meet Pearl and Gita.

Ms. Gita, I'm so glad that you (and your children, and your children's children...) are here. Please don't ever stop sharing your mother's story. My grandmother was 15 when Germany invaded France, 16 when she joined the resistance. I can only hope that the people she smuggled to safety have flourished so well!

What a gift you have given us. To be able to listen and learn from these stories and experiences is precious. As someone who is not Jewish, I so value the fact that Gita has willingly and freely shared about her family for all of us. I believe we ALL have an obligation to humanity to never forget, and to always remember by continuing to tell these stories, so that it never happens again. God Bless❤

Wow!!! Amaizing the people you find to talk to when you listen with an open ear

Frieda, this is such important information-thank you for the educational interview. Unfortunately, antisemitism is still around, and is worsening. And unfortunately, Jews appear to have always been scapegoats for any of society’s issues. We must hold our heads high as proud Jews. And I think it is important for Jews of all “persuasions” to try to get along. We have enough enemies outside the Jewish communities. With love, blessings, and gratitude, Maralyn in Virginia🩵🇮🇱🙏P.S. Your interview style is warm, respectful, & engaging.❤️❤️

Thank you for this wonderful interview. My Grandmother's side was nearly wiped out save for a few relatives back in Hungary. She managed to escape, also by luck. Our lineage goes back to Csenger, now called Szatmar. Whenever I am in the area of Hasidim in NY, I know that I walk among family. God bless you all.

You are amazing my dear Frieda, thank you for your content. Here in Italy we are very educated on this subject, it is taught since the first years of elementary school even if it’s quite terrifying for a kid to learn these things. I couldn’t sleep well after learning that people there were put in ovens. One of of our best writers called Primo Levi ended his life at 80 due to the trauma he couldn’t heal. The Jews are cherished in my heart ♥️

Frieda and Gita, how generous of you both to share this story, from a genuine and heartfelt place, and with so much joy amongst such sadness. Thank you both. ❤

Thanks for recording this testimony. Its extremely important that the last remaining eyewitnesses have their testimony documented so that future generations have points of reference and are able to sift The Truth from revisionist history

Thank you for sharing this sad story. We can NEVER let this happen again!!

Frieda, this is an amazing interview. I can see your sincere interest and it makes the interview so wholesome. Please, please more of these with from Chasidishe women!! Job well done!!

IT'S UNBELIEVABLE HOW MUCH YOUR INTERVIEWEES OPEN UP TO YOU

Thank you for posting this amazing interview.

I loved this and enjoyed hearing Gita speak and tell her story. I was laughing to crying to laughing. She is a sweet special woman. Thank you for sharing her with us.

My favorite interviewer and one of my favorite aunts. Thank you for sharing the greatness that is Gita. May Hashem bless you both with long, healthy and happy years.

Delightful. What a wonderful interview with a wonderful woman. Thanks to you both. I love to hear the stories and glimpse at her life.

What a delightful interview. You do such a good job bringing out the stories!

I so enjoyed meeting Gita and listening to the interview. So interesting! I especially enjoyed hearing her include the Yiddish and most appreciated your subtitles, as my understanding of Yiddish is very limited. I'm now about to watch the interview with her son.

Thank you for this very important interview. This is clearly a very strong woman who came from strong parents. Her faith is a wonderful legacy of what her parents gave her. Love to you both from a young Traditional Catholic in Indiana.

Wow, amazing story to hear. Thank you so much for sharing ❤

Thank you ladies!!! Such an important conversation.

Gita and Pearl are very wise women. We should all learn from them and follow their words.

What a wonderful woman. Thanks for sharing this amazing interview.

I loved this interview! What a charming woman. Her mother’s story echoes mine.

Great video. Such important stories. Thank you.

Gita's story shows how lucky those of us whose families came to America through Ellis Island before WW1 are,we all had loving grandparents who came here as young people and lived their life in freedom.

Thank you SO MUCH for this! To a hundred und tzvanzig Gita!

Thank you so much Frieda and Gita! My family (both sides) came from Germany in 1938, but no one would ever speak about what happened to them or any one in the family before leaving. This video was wonderfully inspiring and heart-warming.

Sweet, touching stories.

Thank you for bringing this amazing story.

She was wonderful Frieda. Thank you for bringing us Gita’s story.

oh I just loved hearing Gita’s story about her family. Thank you for sharing

Absolutely amazing!

This was THE BEST INTERVIEW EVER!!!! Fantastic lady!! I could listen for hours and hours. I wish we could have seen photos of the Mother, Grandfather, the Husband the Siblings the Children, Grandchildren Great Grandchildren!!! I want so much more! Geta is a gem!❤

Thanks so much for sharing Gita's story with us. You do have a knack interviewing!

Thank you SO much, Frieda and Gita, for such an informative video. I learned so much. Gita is such a gift.

I loved that! I love those Jewish stories. Each one of us has a Jewish story.

Frieda and Gita thank you for this wonderful interview. So very inspiring . I just had a chance to sit and listen to the whole interview. I look forward to your interviews so much

The stories are always heartbreaking, and what’s even more so is thinking of the relatives I lost to the holocaust and whose stories I’ll never know 😢. Thanks Frieda for this interview with beautiful Gita!

Thanks for sharing! It’s so important for this history to be preserved for the future generations!

My graduating class in Bais Yaakov of 1969 had 22 girls, and 5 of us including me had American parents. The rest had European parents who spoke Yiddish. This was the norm in the 60s. The parents were survivors of the war. But parents never talked of what happened then. It was off-limits. My parents encouraged us to read memoirs by survivors that we got from the library. My grandparents, 3 out of 4, were fortunate to have come to the US well before the Nazi period. Only one grandfather was European, and he came from a shtetl (village) in Ukraine in 1910.

Wonderful interview and visit, Frieda - dimensional and thorough. Gita is, truly, a lovely spirit. Thank you.

Frieda - I love your channel - so very informative, the interviews are remarkable - and your funny side comes through especially with your son. Thank you for doing this for all of us!!

I Love these long form convos. I’m sure there are many hidden gems in these neighborhoods to interview. Real grit, real life. A beautiful break from the rat race.

I have wiped away my tears of sorrow and joy. You know how much this means to me, keeping the stories so no one forgets. What an amazing story. What a wonderful storyteller. I will never understand how people can be so cruel. We are blessed to have you Frieda and the people who are willing to tell their stories. I look forward to hearing more stories. Have you come across any stories relating to summering in Sharon Springs to partake of the healing waters? I have something in common with Gita. I lost my husband to cancer. I know how hard it is. Bless you both Frieda and Gita. Keep finding and saving the stories. We must never forget.

Miss Gita, I’ve stood with you in front of the shoes at the Holocaust Museum. I can still smell them in my mind. I also stood in the train car in the corner thinking about being squished with the community. I met a lady in PA with a number on her arm. I was crying and she was comforting me. She gave me her book, and her name slips my mind, but her face is in my heart. 💙

Thank you for introducing us to Gita. And many thanks to her for sharing her story. I once read that “a remembrance” is also a physical action, not just an individual’s mental recall. Your conversation with Gita is a good illustration of what “a remembrance” looks like.

Awesome story of Gita and her family history,Frieda. Just love you thank you, Frieda ❤

Love Gita! Such a warm personality. I know what type of person her husband was, because mine is that way too. If you're happy, they're happy. Thank you for telling your family's story, and I hope you come back to visit with Frieda (and us) again.

thank you for this......amazing amazing lady

What a blessing she is… I so enjoyed listening to her speak!❤❤❤thank you God bless her and you

Wonderful interview!

These interviews are such an incredible gift and an important part of history. Thank you for capturing these stories. My grandfather’s family was from Czechoslovakia. I never met his parents but hearing these stories helps me understand a little more of my own family’s journey.

Thank you both so much for sharing Gita's story. Many blessings to both of your families

Thanks for another fascinating interview with Mrs Katz. She was friends with my mom and I knew her husband a’h.