Holocaust Testimony: Murder of the Jews of Lithuania
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 เม.ย. 2008
- Dina Baitler, age seven, was brought to the forest of Ponary outside of the city of Vilna, Lithuania together with thousands of other Jews. From morning till night the Jews were lined up and shot into pits located in the forest. Although wounded, Dina miraculously managed to escape. In her testimony here Dina describes here the horrors that took place that day in Ponary. Her eyewitness testimony ensures that the mass murder that took place will not be forgotten or denied.
For more information: www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/ab...
Or in Hebrew: www.yadvashem.org/he/holocaust...
This video is one of many that can be viewed in Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum:
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Thanks to Dina for telling this horrible but important story.
Man is mans worst enemy.I hope this lady was able to find peace in her life.
I think the best thing about this video is that she puts aside her emotions to tell the story.
Genuinely, I felt the deep pain and suffering the woman had suffered at her young age when she saw all those astrocities happening before her as the woman retold her story. You can see and hear the terrible emotions she had went through and still have till this very day whenever she retold her own survivor story. Who are we to judge if she is telling the truth or not? We were never there, but those people were and any human being can see from their faces how much they had suffered.
I do not understand some of the comments. I found this video very personally touching. My own ancestors left Lithuania before the travesty she speaks of, but it was during a similar event driven from Moscow.
These things are real. They happened.
I do not want to see it again.
Thank you for reading my comment.
Thank you for posting this video. My grandfather is a Holocaust survivor as well. Although he doesn't talk about it often, I've heard a similar story from him on how he survived, but I don't really want to share it right now. One of these days I'd love to visit Israel and go to the museum.
This is a sad story for all Jews and humanity ,may they rest in peace. Thank you Dina.
She was hit with a shot and was wounded. Even if she had not been hit, she would have HAD to fall. They would have shot again, had she been left standing.
Can you imagine going through this at any age, much less being only 7 years old? That woman right there must have more strength that a lot of us combined.
Surely... the there is a reason to consider this womans' terrifying story as nothing less than precious?
Her chance survival, her witness and testimony show us so starkly the value of taking a stand against brutality and oppression where ever it's happening
How could anyone live a happy or 'normal' life knowing such crimes were being committed?
We all have to do what ever little we can to oppose such vile ideologies
thanks for posting
From accounts I've read Lithuanian fascists were the actual executioners although under SS supervision
when something that horrible and dramatic happens theres a pretty good chance you will remember.
Poor lady, I would've been traumatized :(
@blackvulcan100 whether they knew it or not, the germans and anyone else who hates the Jewish people
hate them because they are God's chosen people and they have His blessings... I feel sorry for wheover hurt
the Jewish people in any way when God comes back to bless this race. God said "I will bless them which bless thee and I will CURSE them that curse thee"
wow she was 7 and she managed to survive
Sounds like my fiance. She is Assyrian and speaks aramaic the root language of Hebrew. She studies the same alphabet, numbers exactly! I love the sound! Beautiful accent!
How did she get away???
Except Denmark.
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really moving.
this is so sad....
I've heard several more of these stories: in the Neterhlands, many joined because they would go and fight boshevism. No hardcore National-socialists or anti-semites there (give or take some fanatics).
To give an idea: of all Dutchmen, 5% openly supported or collaborated with the nazi's; 5% joined the resistance; and 90% simply tried to survive Nazi occupation.
Wow.... sad....
Why oh why?
Very Sad!
er, not forced... voluntered... and read the history if you don't believe me. but Lithuanians are human beings and like all humans, some are good, some are bad and most are somewhere in the middle... but lets not pretend that people were "forced" to these things..
My grandfathers' brother did the same: he, and dozens of others forced into slave labour (he was not Jewish, European men were forced to work in Germany) were lined up near a ditch and then shot at with a machine gun. He dropped himself, some bodies fell on top of him, and he just kept quiet untill he was sure he could escape safely. Horrible thought!
may be you need to read her whole story & not an extract to find out how she survived
wow it been years that she been true nd look at her shes still misreble wow
how can poeple be so heartless..
wow...
so sad
Yeah, I've seen it.
woa thats harsh......
wow
I was going to say the rest of us would'nt let that happen but I'm sure there was those who could'nt stop it. I would stand up so that would not happen to you.
My father told me about him.
:( sad
Maybe you really want to say that your Grandfather was not a bad person? Revenge on the Soviets might have been honorable motive but by joining the SS he corrupted himself as a human being. Ask yourself: Why choose to join the SS? Wasn't there another way to take revenge on the Soviets? And did he really not believe what the Nazis believed? Can you defend this choice, even if he was your grandfather? To desire a free Lithuania; this I understand. But this is no defence to being an active Nazi.
I do not know the full story. He died before i was born and never told anyone, even his wife about his experiences. All i know is he went mad after the war. No one knew his real age. For all i know he willingly killed Jews. But i do know the Russians destroyed his hometown and the Wermacht was his reprieve.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
ditto
what do u mean karma
ENGLISH!
Hey, hey. It's a legit question, although a little ignorant. :)
In Yiddish it's Vilna. In Polish it's Wilno.
Sad sad stories... and not only the German Nazis were the killers, there were also local groups in Lithuania and other Baltic States helping...
Sorry tren7777, I clicked the wrong 'thumbs',
ment 'thumbs up'!
grow up
yeah that sucked boooooooooooo
and ur also a good actor - the way you pretend to ignore past atrocities sickens me - its people like you that allow other genocides to occur.you know that cliched but very true quote about those that ignore history are bound to repeat it. i think u should clean up your attitude and show some symptahy. she was 7 years old and was shot at and saw hundreds of people die and u can tell me thats shes a good actor?
I hope it's a pathetic provocation and you don't actually believe in what you are saying.
stop whining about what happened 60-70 years ago. WE HAVE OTHER PROBLEMS TO SOLVE NOW. jesus christ.
how can she remember every detail now when she was only 7 years old then. I think she is making things up to get attention and money and she's putting the Germans in a bad daylight.