2021 First Person with Holocaust Survivor Irene Fogel Weiss

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  • Irene Fogel Weiss was only 13 when Nazi collaborators shaved her hair soon after she entered an overcrowded Hungarian ghetto. Her mother gave her a scarf to wear around her bald head, making her look older and potentially saving her life when Irene was later sent to a killing center.
    Hear Holocaust survivor Irene’s experiences in her own words recorded on July 7, 2021. First Person is a monthly hour-long discussion featuring a live interview between journalist Bill Benson and a survivor and including questions from the audience, available on the Museum’s TH-cam channel.
    Read about the German occupation of Hungary
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  • @inocencianieves9909
    @inocencianieves9909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Thank you for shearing your story. I’m a Puerto Rican woman married to a Jewish, awesome, handsomes, caring, loving, father and husband. We live in NYC and our five children are well educated on the Holocaust and Jewish history and culture💝. Never, never forget 🙏🏼

  • @henrybostick5167
    @henrybostick5167 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    An inner strength that cannot be measured by any dynamic. What a touch of class. Thank you Irene, your story has touched me berry deeply.

  • @anigrahpeer3150
    @anigrahpeer3150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Very eloquently explained. Truly moving. What an elegant speaker!

  • @brianbodine8938
    @brianbodine8938 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    I see 4 thumbs down. Nobody in their right mind could give thumbs down to program so well presented.

    • @henrybostick5167
      @henrybostick5167 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Excuse my French, but how in the balls could anyone possibly thumbs down this video? I noticed it too. Shameless.

    • @TheAmandahc
      @TheAmandahc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@henrybostick5167 I wrote against racism in a group I am in and was astounded that behind some of the negative comments were people who are racists but unwilling to be openly so. Those thumbs no doubt sadly prove that such people still exist today and we can not possibly rationalize such attitides for who in their right minds could understand such people?

    • @pippa212
      @pippa212 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@TheAmandahc just look at what is happening in the US. When she said the new government gave permission to people to be anti Semitic, it triggered in me how people here now feel it’s ok to be racists. Will it ever end?

    • @annieg745
      @annieg745 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Probably nazis

    • @SnickersEatsCookies
      @SnickersEatsCookies 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@henrybostick5167 exactly! this is amazing

  • @antaibhshaglas3737
    @antaibhshaglas3737 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Amazing testimony but very frightening.I will never understand,how neighbours who've shared their lives with others,could possibly change like this

    • @dr.calebrobbins.3177
      @dr.calebrobbins.3177 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      THEY , IN SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES ARE A POTENTIAL THREAT ... SOCIAL HISTORY HAS MANY A TALE TO SHARE ! CALEB R.

    • @staceyclark6694
      @staceyclark6694 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I feel like the days we are living in now make it easier to see how it would be possible.

    • @antaibhshaglas3737
      @antaibhshaglas3737 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I dont know where youlive.But that would be very frightening

    • @husher5142
      @husher5142 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@antaibhshaglas3737 poke your head up and look around, it is happening.

    • @smashthestateX
      @smashthestateX 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      the most likely person to report u to Tax police is ur neighbor

  • @ginaryan4957
    @ginaryan4957 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    How anyone can give this testimony a thumbs down really needs to have their head examined. I pity you that you have no mercy or compassion in your heart.
    Thank you Irene for sharing your heart and testimony. God bless you.

  • @squirrel6536
    @squirrel6536 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I just recently found this page because a Facebook friend shared the most recent video and I - well, I've always been the weird one reading memoirs to try to learn and understand people as well as the past, because without learning about it you can't learn from it and if you don't learn from it, history repeats itself. I greatly appreciate each and every one of the speakers who give their first person testimonies on here as well as the museum for setting up and creating these videos. This is an expanse of our history that I hope is forever learned from and never forgotten. I realize this one was shared many months ago, but I have to say it ~ Thank you, Irene, for sharing your story. Love and blessings to you and yours.

  • @felipenathaniel8838
    @felipenathaniel8838 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hello. It is amazing that after such cruel degradation you speak with such grace and patience; you do not seem vengeful or filled with hate fpr those who hated you. You are a marvellous witness of a trully human caring person . Thank you & God continue to bless you.

  • @blbkyne
    @blbkyne 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    This part of history mustn´t be forgotten, who forgets the history is deemed to repeat it. It must not happen again.

    • @teenherofilms
      @teenherofilms 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      TeraWolf I agree. Even now I shudder when someone suggests German food.

    • @MegNotTheStallion
      @MegNotTheStallion 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's already happening again, unfortunately.

    • @chrispy1065
      @chrispy1065 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      More slaves today than us civil war days . Some of our middle Eastern and Chinese and African friends don't seem to mind

  • @amariliscampos2521
    @amariliscampos2521 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Irene, all my respect for you! Thank you so much for sharing your life experience with us! You are an inspiration. I'll continue doing my best to try to build a better world. God bless you! Much love from Sao Paulo, Brazil.

  • @ehitsliz
    @ehitsliz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Just amazing. Thank you for providing these first person conversations…I will definitely be going back and watching all of them. God bless❤️

  • @karenharper2266
    @karenharper2266 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Thank you for sharing your story.

  • @7artbound
    @7artbound 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    People like you are historic TREASURES. I'm so thankful you were able to give not only your family but every holocaust survivor a voice and testimony to the most horrific event in human history. Thank you!

  • @catherine5599
    @catherine5599 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Very, very professional, sensitive and well prepared interviewer. Irene is so well-spoken. What a compelling story of this witness. Also, it is heartbreaking when you consider she lost four siblings to those wretched Nazis. So very heartbreaking.

  • @dianpan8132
    @dianpan8132 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Bless your amazing heart, Irene.

  • @urmomsfoot1537
    @urmomsfoot1537 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    omg…i remember learning about this specific person in my english classroom. we each got specific people that we would learn about and i got this woman.

  • @lorraineyee5355
    @lorraineyee5355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Thank you and bless you with this horrific and evil story that you bravely lived through to inform us first hand. God be with you!!!

  • @NataliaArantsevaPhotography
    @NataliaArantsevaPhotography 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you so much ❤️ We remember and always will 🙏

  • @dr.calebrobbins.3177
    @dr.calebrobbins.3177 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    IRENE, (MAY YR. FAMILY 'S SOULS RIP) YOUR BRAVERY AND YR. INNER STRENGTHS BOTH TOUCHED AND INSPIRED ME ... IT IS EASY TO SEE YOU ARE A GOOD PERSON. PERHAPS THAT'S THE REASON FOR YR. SURVIVAL ... AS AN EXAMPLE TO US LESSER MORTALS . THERE SHOULD BE MORE PEOPLE IN POSSESSION OF THOSE CHARACTERISTICS. SHALOM. CALEB R.

  • @gonefishing167
    @gonefishing167 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hello, I’m from country south Australia. Very pleased to meet you 🙏🙏🙏🙏🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

  • @daryledelman894
    @daryledelman894 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My heart bleeds

  • @ginagina9720
    @ginagina9720 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you for sharing your story…

  • @queenydollsempire9487
    @queenydollsempire9487 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thank you for sharing your story

  • @isabt4
    @isabt4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you for this important testimony 🙏 ❤️❤️❤️

  • @lindsey7951
    @lindsey7951 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    God bless her

  • @alph1057
    @alph1057 ปีที่แล้ว

    She just turned 92 as of 11/21/22. Amazing and sharp woman

  • @MrsTadeo-mi1cb
    @MrsTadeo-mi1cb ปีที่แล้ว

    So horrendous! I'm so sorry this happened. God Bless you for sharing this story.

  • @gonefishing167
    @gonefishing167 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Hi, sorry I don’t wish to comment too much but , isn’t it so sad that people you’ve known all your life , turn on you? It’s one thing (/even though it’s not acceptable) to be in fear of your life to perhaps not acknowledge someone , or a whole family - different story altogether to go into a known acquaintances home and ransack it. Makes we wonder, how did these people feel after - were they ashamed? You hear stories of survivors coming back (/after horrific experiences) and be refused access to their own homes!!!!! I’m afraid man is only always just a step away from brutalality. Unless we change this behaviour , is their any hope for the human race? ‘ Man is an evolutionary experiment that has gone horrifically wrong’. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏🙏🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

  • @sannakarppinen4163
    @sannakarppinen4163 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A true Lady 🌹

  • @TheAmandahc
    @TheAmandahc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you so very much for sharing this with us. These testimonies are so very important to those that come after you and I hopefully to learn from the mindless acts of cruelty and murder visited on such innocents as the victims of the Nazi regime.

    • @chineainguanzo6341
      @chineainguanzo6341 ปีที่แล้ว

      I follow this courageous lady,I'm afraid we are in for a Holocaust again.rscism is a pandemic in the United States. A racist cup d'etat planner has divided this country.

  • @margaretfalzon9512
    @margaretfalzon9512 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Such a moving story !

  • @ernestgreen6821
    @ernestgreen6821 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wonderful!
    Thank You!

  • @Emptynester
    @Emptynester 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Listening from BC, Canada..... thank you

  • @handlebar41
    @handlebar41 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    She looks so much like her mother…I’ll never understand of such prejudices

  • @mariskagoosen5149
    @mariskagoosen5149 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Humankind must never forget!! This was an absolute nightmare, but people must always remember!!! I am from South Africa, I don't even know if my country was involved in this atrocity, but I'm teaching my kids about this. Because this happened, and sadly this is what people are capable of 😢. Irene, We will never forget 😢

  • @gonefishing167
    @gonefishing167 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That lady who was in your home - she knew she’d done wrong. It must have been so traumatic for you, I just can’t imagine it. I’m sure some lovely mother or a kind grandmother would have taken your sister under their wing if she didn’t find your mum. Mothers always have room for 1, 2 3 or more children. She wouldn’t have been alone , I’m sure. Your family lives on in the blood of you and your sister. Blood carries the genetics of all family members , it carries traits of all. In our case I csn say “ my daughter is like Aunty Yvonne or Aunty Bev or my mum or my husband. My daughter said to me one day , aged about 7, “ well who am I like? Make up your mind’. ( it’d Been a tricky day). My hubby never saw our grandchildren and yet I can see my husband so much in him. They’ll never be too far from you. They loved you all so much. G-D bless you and your sisters families. Thank you for being so brave - and h interview as well. It must be harrowing for you as well. I’m sure I heard a catch in his throat. 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️ from country south Australia 🙏🙏🙏🙏🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

  • @stevenbrown6277
    @stevenbrown6277 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you for this interview. I always wonder what holocaust survivors thought when they arrived in America after the war. Were they astonished at the intact cities, traffic, abundance of food, and wealth after being in war-torn Europe? It must have been a shock to them.

  • @nattygsbord
    @nattygsbord 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    A horrible fate no human deserves to suffer. Nazi Germany should always be remembered as the evil empire who killed innocent and defenceless people. I am grateful that she share her story while she still are alive, The pain of losing ones family, friends, your home, your dear possessions, your childhood and having memories of pain, fear, loss that haunts you for the rest of your life must be an unbearable burden. And having nightmares about it and never have the chance to take farewell of those you love...
    This was a beautiful girl with many friends who could have had an entire other life, if the nazis hadn't stolen everything from her.
    I am not a jew, I am an atheist but I can only feel immense feelings of sympaties for the jewish people after what they have been through.

  • @Shine-wb6ll
    @Shine-wb6ll ปีที่แล้ว

    She is nothing short of a legend.

  • @rimelasri3732
    @rimelasri3732 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Is the live finished already??

  • @lskalf497
    @lskalf497 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am just amazed…….😔

  • @luzalgarin9518
    @luzalgarin9518 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you so much for sharing with me an infamous fragment of the Hitler's Nazi horrendous regimen, via this conversation.
    It must be a very sad odyssey to recount it.
    The crimes and cruelties committed against my sons and daughters, my fathers and mothers, my brothers and sisters hurt me deeply, regardless their ethnicity and nationality.
    In Isaiah 2: 4, Jehovah God, the Creator and Source of life, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, promises:
    "He will be judge among the nations and will settle matters in relation to many peoples. They will turn their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. The nations will no longer raise their swords against each other and learn no more to wage war."
    My immediate neighbors are Jews and I am a Jehovah's Witness.
    Their hearts are superior than pure gold by far. They are extremely kind.
    The gentleman takes care of my trash can every Wednesday without my asking him to do so. They are lovely human beings, and they are not in need of the smallest improvement.

  • @concepcion2680
    @concepcion2680 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Siento no saber inglés. Le presento mis respectos.

  • @floridalife215
    @floridalife215 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you Jesus.

  • @mainicoletti7702
    @mainicoletti7702 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ontario Canada

  • @goodluck9905
    @goodluck9905 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    why the lady did not tell anything about the moment of her personal liberation how she remembers this moment

  • @teenherofilms
    @teenherofilms 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Can anybody explain why more of the Nazis were not executed after they lost the war?

    • @1414141x
      @1414141x 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because of the chaos that went on for many years after the war. All the surviving Germans (and others who supported Nazism) new that they had to conceal if they were involved in the Nazi regime other than just being a 'soldier'. There was not the ability to check out every soldier so they just blended back into society as it re-established itself. Europe was too busy trying to re-build itself than spend time and money on retrebution. That started to happen years later when there were people who wanted to make those involved in the atrocities accountable for their actions. Also, many people just wanted to forget what had happened and get on with their lives as it was so difficult to look back - they were traumatised.

    • @juliaturner6658
      @juliaturner6658 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A lot of them left the country by pre- arranged means. On a day-to- day basis for instance in a camp prisoners never knew the names of the SS any more than the soldiers knew the names of the prisoners.

  • @ceceiliaayon3506
    @ceceiliaayon3506 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I here from Washington state

  • @marciobaterahvoltandoasrai793
    @marciobaterahvoltandoasrai793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    shabbath shalom

  • @marcellemccallahan495
    @marcellemccallahan495 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My first husbands last name is Weiss his family comes from Chez

  • @ihavenoname1293
    @ihavenoname1293 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi

  • @diabetonorm
    @diabetonorm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What she said , exactly what isreal has been doing and more and more ,the only difference is that is against Muslim people

  • @williamridenour6410
    @williamridenour6410 ปีที่แล้ว

    M.j kmM
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  • @deanahmadyar4922
    @deanahmadyar4922 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What about Palestinians ?

    • @johnniejackson899
      @johnniejackson899 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well said

    • @loislondon5780
      @loislondon5780 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What about Palestine! They teach their children hatred for the Jews. Do you know another country that warns the citizens if they’re going to be bombed?? I am so tired of the miss information about Palestine.They were offered land in Israel for peace and they turned it down. They just want all the Jews killed and they say so

  • @incorectulpolitic
    @incorectulpolitic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sooo what about all the other holocausts from the past and the ones happening right now all over the world?

    • @johnniejackson899
      @johnniejackson899 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      There not trying to steal land and need public support