2022 First Person with Holocaust Survivor Rose-Helene Spreiregen

Watch to learn how Rose-Helene Spreiregen’s maturity and determination saved her grandmother’s life, and her own. In 1943, at the age of 12, Rose-Helene and her grandmother used false papers to flee Paris on an overnight train to the south, where they hoped they would be safer. Rose-Helene acted as the adult, telling her grandmother to feign sleep while she faced the German and French police checkpoints alone. She later recalled, “I don’t think I was ever more scared.”
Hear Holocaust survivor Rose-Helene Spreiregen’s experiences in her own words recorded on July 20, 2022. 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.
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[@katewoolf6059]

I always appreciate Bill Benson's respectful, compassionate and very kind interviews :)

[@Catslady1224]

Congratulations and thanks for your testimony
I was born in 1947 in France. This is part of my history, although we are born from a catholic family. Nevertheless I share the shame of French collaboration and applaud the courage of our friends in the Resistance

[@barbarabukovssek7062]

Amazing lady. All my respect to you to speak up for those who cannot.

[@luisaustinriddle554]

Voice of the voiceless right ?

[@janetcarey6954]

What a strong and beautiful woman to have gone and survived with her grandmother during the Holocaust. Thank you so much.

[@lyricalaska]

Thank you from North Pole, Alaska. Your story is amazing!! Blessings to you always.

[@claudetteduplessis4345]

Thank you, Rose-Helené, for sharing your story. The world must never forget 💐

[@kimpreston3628]

Thank you from the West coast of the United States, for sharing your amazing story.
You have a strength, wisdom and grace that I pray will help others understand. Love and light ❤️

[@marciadoan4249]

Hi W

[@microprosouthafrica5800]

Thank you Bill these series are so enlightening for people all over the world. Lots of love from South Africa

[@zwijntje3010]

Hallo from the Netherlands! It's awful what happened in WW II, I'm almost 60, but I can cry a lot about these poor Jewish people! Why, I'm always ask myself, why had they to endure this??!!! Thank you so much for uploading this vid, we must NEVER FORGET, that's our duty!!! Accept my love for this beautiful lady, it's not fair, life isn't fair!!! A lot off love from the Netherlands 😥😥💜🇮🇱✡️🌹🙏🏻

[@robbo26ful]

I am from New Zealand. These testimonies are so important today as we see the dangerous rise of extreme right groups.

[@marierex8490]

This history of 1930 into the mid-40s' holocaust is so important to have chronicled, so we learn and never repeat. Thank you, Rose Helene, and all for your sacrifice and bravery.

[@bronwynnembe4159]

HELLO FROM SOUTH AFRICA,THANK YOU FOR SHARING THESE STORIES

[@arabellabirnbaum3997]

Hello from Israel 🌹

[@oliviaginsbourg6541]

Will never comprehend how anybody participated in mass murder. I cry every time I hear or think of the innocent victims

[@josieferraris2553]

Thank you for sharing your story and having the courage to speak out. I agree, it is never over, until everyone has been rounded up! So many lives are gone now and who knows what or whom is next. I live in fear every day. Thank you again.

[@adielstephenson2929]

What an amazing story and a wonderful person.

[@misskitty2133]

Thank you from Michelle in Boston. God Bless🌹

[@marilyn6556]

Thank you for sharing your story. I cannot imagine how horrible things were at that time for you and all of the Jewish people. The Antisemites are so ignorant. How could they talk so terrible to children? I am happy that you survived, along with your grandmother and cousin. GodBless You! I am in Wisconsin!❤

[@tiffanyprichard2197]

This is such a shameful past, my daddy was born in 1944, my mother was 1943 and I am so humbled and so grateful that we did not endure such horrible conditions and some will never be known. Never again anywhere I do not like torture or bettings or hatred, it’s my honor to hear your story. So many lessons to learn from every persons story. With great respect and love.

[@callmekris2080]

Thank you for sharing your incredible past. I've been through enough to believe that the best part of the past is that you can leave it behind you for the most part. 💕 I'm so sorry that a day exists where the beautiful sister I see was ever treated,..words do not, the heart doesn't.. Thank you for sharing your life it was my pleasure meeting you. ❤️
My deepest prayer is that the heart of man that committed such atrocities is equally willing to love, agape love 💞💞💞

[@franciefernandesjoseph6776]

Thankyou god bless you n all those u lost in ur fly...

[@jenniferbaragar8254]

Thank you. From Michigan

[@alishadavidrichard5494]

Usually I'm commenting on the strength of the parents on these first person interviews. For you, it was your own strength and wit. It reminds me of myself in a less dangerous situation as the child of a drug addict taking care of myself and siblings from a young age. Obviously, it's not even the same situation or danger, but maybe the same resilience. You were and are so incredibly strong. A hero for sure. Your tenacity and will to survive and thrive is admirable. I can still see your strength to this day in your eyes. You are so beautiful and admirable.

[@melaniamonicacraciun9900]

Web connection is giving us the huge chance to have now self service TV entertainment, free to pick up what is more suggestive and having such shootings available any hour of the day . .hoping you guys are Ok, now that this crazy weather is burning us inside and out...stay safe and never let any evil dare to harm you guys, pull out the famous Jewish wisdom and ..remember how our lives are the most precious thing we could ever have. Recalling the most painful episodes is always..such an iconic celebration of life... there's a God out there to love us and save us from any bad situation... because evil never sleeps as you can realize so well

[@barbaralivingston1836]

Thank you for sharing.

[@JaneGiesbrecht]

Thank you from Turlock, CA.

[@barbaraoshea7701]

Brave greetings from Dublin ireland

[@karlaseggelink3205]

I am watching from Holland

[@luisaustinriddle554]

Nice to have you here,I hope you had good time watching the voice of the voiceless ?

[@tiffanyprichard2197]

Tiffany from Georgia

[@diddlemccartney4025]

The girl on the front I have had dreams about her in the past that picture of that girl she died in the holocaust didnt she?

[@brianszad7194]

Vermont