Jewish Survivor Jan Goldberger Testimony Part 1

Jewish Survivor Jan Goldberger Testimony Part 1 | USC Shoah Foundation

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@donnaeberhard5379 Жыл бұрын

For this Gentleman to recall so much some 50 years after the fact is a testament to the trauma sustained. He was 12 when his world was shattered. I'm so grateful that he survived and was able to share his story with the world. History DOES repeat. We MUST learn from it and educate ourselves and struggle against hate always.

@monatingbjr6636 3 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful man ❤️ God bless your family ❤️

@genjulie3703 Жыл бұрын

Bless her heart, this interviewer kept asking the same questions over and over. Jan was so patient to answer her questions. The video would have been much shorter if she had just listened the first time he told the story.

@donnaeberhard5379 Жыл бұрын

I too became a bit frustrated with the interviewer . Then I remembered a class in college where studies show asking repetitive questions can assist a person to remember more information, especially 50 years after the incident.

@JaneDoe-ql7sc Жыл бұрын

Right on! I'm just very upset how she didn't let him tell his personal stories. Every survivor of the Holocaust is special!

@kathleencollins2629 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your story. The journalist was determined to get answers from that poor man that he didn’t have! She would not give up.

@bfhfhfhdj Жыл бұрын

What an extraordinary story. Thank you for sharing you memory. I will show my childldren.

@79wingham 3 жыл бұрын

A wonderful man. Such courage.

@jeanhenderson1277 2 жыл бұрын

What a gentleman thank you for your testimony sir his laugh is infectious god bless you x

@mindtouchone 3 жыл бұрын

The interviewer kept asking irreverent questions.

@jumpin4joync Жыл бұрын

The questions gently help an individual remember memories they believed were long lost. The interviewers are usually excellent at drawing out memories in a very gentle method. These individuals are going to be sharing horrific memories. Interviewers never dive immediately into the war. They ever so gently bring the individual from as early as possible to the events during the war. I have noticed the longer the video, the more the individual remembers/shares and communicates very well to the camera.

@jumpin4joync Жыл бұрын

As I am watching, during the 2nd tape, he remembers that in 1938 his 2 cousins come to stay with them. However, he stated in the first tape his memories only go back to about 11 or 12 years of age. In 1938 he would have been 9 years of age. He didn't realize that was an earlier memory.

@JaneDoe-ql7sc Жыл бұрын

@@jumpin4joync Sure, however as this gentleman began recounting his memories, she'd cut him off with "What is 1 plus 1?" "What is 2 plus 2?" You could see his gentle exasperation again & again at being denied his opportunity to share his personal recollections.

@marvinfrancis7599 4 жыл бұрын

Wish the interviewer had listened to the survivor. She asked questions he had already answered, and many ridiculous questions.

@jumpin4joync Жыл бұрын

Interviewers may ask the same question more than once to draw out more details from the individual. I've watched other videos where the person shares more, sometimes, when asked again later in the interview. They don't even realize they remembered a wee bit more. Also, sometimes, individuals aren't quite ready to share the first time and as they become more relaxed or more comfortable they share a wee bit more.

@JaneDoe-ql7sc Жыл бұрын

I so agree with you! So glad i'm not alone in that feeling!

@donnaeve6084 8 жыл бұрын

this is just so sad the way these families were separated so suddenly,I hear it so often ' never to see again' mothers,fathers,sisters,brothers,never knowing this would be the last time. 😳

@lonnekekalf7471 7 жыл бұрын

donnaeve awful isnt iT

@jankench1731 Жыл бұрын

Cant help but think this would have been better with a different interviewer. Far too much on small detail that she lost most of the important things he did remember. Very brave man.

@kathleencollins2629 10 ай бұрын

Totally agree about the interviewer.

@laurap.5804 3 жыл бұрын

it's incredible, after having listen to many and many testimony, his was unbelievable, little time in every camp, light work, food...he was blessed not lucky!!!

@laurap.5804 3 жыл бұрын

of course I am very happy he did not have to suffer at least for these things. Just not to be misunderstood!!!!

@valor101arise 2 жыл бұрын

Anyone who survived this time was protected by someone higher than themselves. Miraculous

@mrbatman4robin Жыл бұрын

@@valor101arise And the ones - deeply religious or not - who were killed so brutally and randomly had no such protection? Why? So many survivors insist: it was a varied combination of factors at once, most of all pure luck and 'not to look Jewish'.

@JaneDoe-ql7sc Жыл бұрын

blessed & lucky!

@helenf.7221 4 ай бұрын

How heartbreaking his grandfather just didn’t show up one day. I can’t imagine that let alone all of the things he and his family went thru. Truly terrible

@UNITED-SNAKES-OF-WEIMAR Ай бұрын

🤦‍♂

@JaneDoe-ql7sc Жыл бұрын

I love this gentleman, he is a survivor, he is a special person, he has stories that perhaps have never been told, too bad we can't listen to them: the interviewer wants to know about the toilets. I'm very upset about that.

@instinctivechannel6668 10 ай бұрын

thank you sir you comfirm harry balsams story see you went thru same this is survival on steroids god bless we never forget

@jumpin4joync Жыл бұрын

The gentleman is very adamant that he 'can't remember' but while he is answering a small memory about the question does come back. It happened more and more as the interview went on.

@JaneDoe-ql7sc Жыл бұрын

I wish the questioner hadn't diverted the gentleman so frequently, especially as he was about to recall a personal experience; probably many of us wished to hear his stories of his experiences. Please, just allow him to recollect rather than simply answer your questions such as "How were you assigned your work detail?" "What sorts of food rations did you have there?" It is important to think: what makes him an individual? Is it - how he was assigned his work detail in the concentration camp? No. Please, the questioner actually stops him from recounting an experience and asks him one impersonal question after another. Why bother to invite individuals to tell their recollections if all they will be doing is answering questions whose answers are identical to everyone else's? Don't these individuals matter as unique survivors as well as for their common Holocaust experience? Here is a special individual, & all the questioner is interested in is: "What is one plus one? What is one plus two??" By now, doesn't she already know those answers?

@englishlady8863 2 жыл бұрын

Why the hell, are these lovely people ask to spell locations, name and so on. Absolutely ridiculous.

@valor101arise 2 жыл бұрын

Because it is hiatorical documentation. Also, many people deny the holocust so them stating these facts proves the historical validity of their testimonies.

@jumpin4joync Жыл бұрын

Spelling accurately documents individuals and location in history. These videos are such a wonderful way to offer individual personal experiences of the WWII era. These are treasures.

@suetownsend1656 Жыл бұрын

As the others have said, this is historical archive material, not entertainment. It can be difficult for people brought up with television and the internet to recognise that not everything exists to entertain.

@bellaadamowicz8380 Жыл бұрын

@@valor101arise absolutely ridiculous to ask how the places or names are spelled .

@JaneDoe-ql7sc Жыл бұрын

I totally agree, have thought the same many times, the program personnel certainly are familiar with the names of the locations & already know how to spell them.

@januszrybicki9314 3 жыл бұрын

3rd May is Constitution Day in Poland

@wendyhannaford7696 Ай бұрын

Too many questions from the interviewer and inappropriate for the age he was during this time period

@asdaisy7759 2 жыл бұрын

The interviewer sounds like Lara Logan

@MarkEliasGrant 2 жыл бұрын

I don't know who that is. Is Lara Logan as dumb as this painfully awful interviewer?

@m.mm.m9277 Жыл бұрын

Am a Polish person and it is very interesting but i have to say i found something very puzzling this man has no idea about Polish culture its like he knows the polish language but nothing besides and another thing he confuses Polish people and germans this is very wierd

@donnaeberhard5379 Жыл бұрын

He was a child when his world fell apart. I find nothing odd about it.

@m.mm.m9277 Жыл бұрын

@@donnaeberhard5379 No this is important this answer's a few questions if a jew could not recognize a German and a Polish person during the occupation its a death sentence

@bellaadamowicz8380 Жыл бұрын

I think he knows everything there is to know, the war started when he was 12 . And in that part of Poland they spoke German . He knows that Poles. Allen the Germans when they saw a Jew, so the Jew will be shot , isn’t i to denounce a Jew a part of Polish culture ? I think it is a very big part , it shows what wonderful Christians Polish people are . So, mister Polack, he knows all there is to know about your culture . He is an American now, why should he be interested in Poland , it is one huge cemetery.