Holocaust Survivor Herman Cohn Testimony | USC Shoah Foundation

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  • This testimony by Jewish survivor, Herman Cohn, is from USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive and is also featured in Echoes & Reflections: A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust. For more information, visit: www.echoesandre...
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  • @AmberPearcy
    @AmberPearcy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Incredible testimony! I’m truly grateful that these stories have been recorded and can be accessed on TH-cam. Thank you!

    • @1neAdam12
      @1neAdam12 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was real in their minds.

  • @jodiutley7292
    @jodiutley7292 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This interviewer should have took over every interview as he asked intelligent, on topic, we questions. Very respectful. Thank you.

    • @sibert1974
      @sibert1974 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I agree. He is polite and only asks pertinent questions as opposed to many who bark out their questions like interrogators.

  • @joanvandermeer3240
    @joanvandermeer3240 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    This is the first interview I have heard of a us soldier who returned to Europe and saw first hand what happened
    Great job by interviewer

  • @Sav-ze4iz
    @Sav-ze4iz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    The person conducting this interview, is by far the most upbeat and caring person I have heard out of all of the testimonies I have listened to so far.
    The interviewer shared giggles, sighs & gasps.
    And although there was a bit of construction in the beginning, I was delighted to not hear a single phone go off & interrupt.

    • @1neAdam12
      @1neAdam12 ปีที่แล้ว

      Interesting though how we never hear of the Judeo-Bolshivik terrorism that lead up to the World Wars.

    • @sandybrand3230
      @sandybrand3230 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      100%

  • @leslieparsons408
    @leslieparsons408 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Mr. Cohn's testimony is more than as a survivor. It is an amazing journey and an American life shared by many others and unique to him. It is one of the most enjoyable testimonies of the many I have witnessed. God bless you Mr. Cohn. Your triumph is a salvation to us all!

    • @1neAdam12
      @1neAdam12 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It was real in his mind

  • @victoriasmith815
    @victoriasmith815 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The
    “side stories “ let me tell you - make that part of history come alive for my generation. (More please) 🌿

  • @jayelliott564
    @jayelliott564 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Fascinating gentleman. Thank you for your service! Articulate speaker. God bless him.

  • @monicapoole2115
    @monicapoole2115 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Your testimony most certainly matters!!

  • @lindaturner2302
    @lindaturner2302 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    What a beautiful man! Thank you, Elliott, for such a thoughtful and thorough interview. You facilitated the questions in a wonderful manner. Your patience and respect for this man was so obvious. Herman will always be remembered. His remembrance of such horror and yet his resound determination and resolve never left him. What a beautiful man. I know his family is extremely proud of him! Thank you, Herman, for sharing your story with the world! May God Bless Your Family and the Jewish people!

    • @leslieparsons408
      @leslieparsons408 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I agree! This interviewer is the best I have heard so far and I have lost count of how many testimonies of this type I have seen.

    • @sabreecarpenter4285
      @sabreecarpenter4285 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@leslieparsons408 I too have watched countless of these testimonies. So much history told as each soul tells of their struggles and triumphs through these tumultuous years. After years of testimonies, I just now have come across Herman's. Wow, what a gift to all who may be genuinely interested in such historical events. Just an amazing account. Worth the wait !

  • @dmariegreene
    @dmariegreene 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Great insight and interview. Thank you for your service sir. Rest in perfect peace.

  • @michael.whelan2537
    @michael.whelan2537 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fascinating interview. All of these USC interviews should be so well conducted.
    Mr. Cohn is a treasure. It makes me proud to be in the same country as such a worthy individual.

  • @melanieheath5978
    @melanieheath5978 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    What a fascinating story ! A real insight into what happened , sad to hear of his passing but his story will most certainly live on through generations because of this interview . ✨

    • @1neAdam12
      @1neAdam12 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, they certainly are professional story tellers

  • @bleacherz7503
    @bleacherz7503 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Excellent interviewer and a tremendous story

  • @raes6829
    @raes6829 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you sir for your service. Incredible story, pictures and all. God help us all.

  • @njz1788
    @njz1788 11 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Very professional interview. Very moving. I am ashamed that people who claimed to be Christians could do such horrible things. Anyone who has studied the Bible knows beyond a shadow of doubt that Jesus laid his life down, and the reason, no one took His life.

    • @sabreecarpenter4285
      @sabreecarpenter4285 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wow !! Reading comments this morning, noticed your comment from 10 years ago ! I have been listening now for around 5 years. I'm sure there's still so many more to hear. So much more informative and endearing are these testimonials than most of any mind numbing programs on tv today.

    • @jeffreykuhn965
      @jeffreykuhn965 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And, he was Jewish

  • @judyfudge2458
    @judyfudge2458 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I really enjoied Mr Cohn's story. It was thrilling the way his family got out, then he returned as a liberators,

    • @1neAdam12
      @1neAdam12 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Cool story

  • @revitalsela4063
    @revitalsela4063 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The Dutch ss soldier story is amazing. Way to go!!!

  • @theflaca
    @theflaca 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    'And many years from now' did indeed come,
    Signed Melbourne, Australia, 10 June, 2021.

  • @francesjones4305
    @francesjones4305 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Please increase the volume on the testimonial of Herman Cohen and other videos.
    English captions are not offered and being able to hear the speakers clearly is very important to the narration.

  • @kellybourque5391
    @kellybourque5391 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Thankyou Sir God Bless you an Angel in Heaven. Rest In Peace" ox

  • @royshaw7058
    @royshaw7058 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR MEMORIES XXX

  • @tinaloveseddie
    @tinaloveseddie 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Wow! He was a “Boss!” What a great asset to have in the US military. Very eloquent and informative interview.

  • @rockynanach
    @rockynanach 11 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you sp much for sharing such an important story, may you have a long and healthy life .

  • @leoren2685
    @leoren2685 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Excellent interview. Pity about the banging in the background - couldn't the sound engineers mitigate it somehow?

    • @Gekky222
      @Gekky222 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I know. it really made it hard to listen for big parts of the interview

  • @helenajennings4912
    @helenajennings4912 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This info needs to be shared around the 🌏

  • @susanmartinez1577
    @susanmartinez1577 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for sharing your story.

  • @kennethpoe5298
    @kennethpoe5298 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent interview with a historical perspective that is so important for viewers today.

  • @VixCrush
    @VixCrush 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Its like this video has a drum track....

  • @beverleygailluen4714
    @beverleygailluen4714 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is as meaningful as he intended it to be .. THANKYOU 🙏

  • @a916LEX
    @a916LEX 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing testimony and amazing interviewer. The other interviewees should take a note from this gentleman.

  • @beverleygailluen4714
    @beverleygailluen4714 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Loved the picture of this living family 🙏💐🙏

  • @margaretroselle8610
    @margaretroselle8610 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Most interesting testimony! Thank you so much!

  • @Gatsof7
    @Gatsof7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing testimony! Thank you!

  • @fairlyvague82
    @fairlyvague82 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I gave up at the 30 min mark because that background noise was annoying the heck out of me. Why wasn’t it edited out at the time??

    • @laurens7542
      @laurens7542 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      It was awful! It only lasts for a few minutes. You should continue on!

    • @melissaknauer5196
      @melissaknauer5196 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It sounded like a bird messing about his cage

  • @salutiesse
    @salutiesse 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you so much for your testimony- aren’t I glad this was released before YT’s mass censorship- those photos are really important (Heaven knows what they looked like in colour and huh resolution).

  • @summern8041
    @summern8041 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    LOUDER

  • @Aozziegamer99
    @Aozziegamer99 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Another fascinating testimony. His wife must be a wonderful woman. He speaks so highly of her.

  • @robertcampbell9319
    @robertcampbell9319 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Incredible interview . Excellent interviewer!!

  • @faithdavis4453
    @faithdavis4453 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What happened to his material mother?

    • @amyschwebke4007
      @amyschwebke4007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      She died in childbirth. His brother was in a breech position & she died of blood loss.

  • @MistressTargaryen
    @MistressTargaryen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Bad ass!!! Great interviewer

    • @sabreecarpenter4285
      @sabreecarpenter4285 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agreed, just now listened this morning. Amazing pictures he has acquired. To think this atrocity happened within a decade of my birth. Unfortunately events as this are still happening throughout the world.

  • @hollykacz1958
    @hollykacz1958 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fantastic interview by Elliot!!

  • @hollykacz1958
    @hollykacz1958 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent interviewer!!!

  • @martinfabiano9668
    @martinfabiano9668 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great testimonial and interviewer.

  • @lindataylor3834
    @lindataylor3834 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is a powerful testimony and account! There are pictures, videos, and so much physical evidence that these things happened. How can anyone presume to deny it?!

    • @1neAdam12
      @1neAdam12 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I can show you a pic of a young child standing in a meadow, picking flowers, but with the correct lighting, eerie muzak and a sinister narrative, that same scene could send chills up your spine.

  • @kathleenjohnson9767
    @kathleenjohnson9767 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The best one i have watched

  • @JoyP-rw5bc
    @JoyP-rw5bc 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This man kinda looks like Benjamin Netanyahu

  • @jonasklingberg822
    @jonasklingberg822 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Were all Germans of this era sadists?

    • @sabinegroe2006
      @sabinegroe2006 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Opinionated I call you Jennifer!
      2020 we got.... go back to the atrocities committed by so many nations, even your own. Slavery is nothing else.
      Hitler seized power due to the aftermath of First World War and the unbearable reparations.
      Unreflective is opinion about an entire nation.
      Please listen to the testimony of
      Frank Schurrmann

    • @tundrellaCat68
      @tundrellaCat68 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      No, they were just like you and me. Fed full of propaganda, divisive politics and just add mass poverty and it will make some bad things happen.

    • @nightwish1000
      @nightwish1000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Jennifer Blane and jenny you are just a blunt racist, obviously not much better than the nazis back then.

    • @helenajennings4912
      @helenajennings4912 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Propaganda msm controlling the people

  • @3746463
    @3746463 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    55.45: Greulmärchen means "horror stories"

    • @karo1564
      @karo1564 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No, it's means "fairytales of atrocities" , to be more precise.
      Implicating that he made up and invented stories of atrocities.

    • @JEWNITED-SNAKES-OF-WEIMAR
      @JEWNITED-SNAKES-OF-WEIMAR 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@karo1564 bingo

  • @jomama5186
    @jomama5186 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    🙏❤

  • @bleacherz7503
    @bleacherz7503 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The jewish survivors seems incredibly bright. I wonder if this is literally survivorship bias?

  • @victoriasmith815
    @victoriasmith815 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of my very favourites this first hand account. ♥️

  • @markgillespie8829
    @markgillespie8829 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The Catholic Church saved many Jewish lives.

    • @Pommy1957
      @Pommy1957 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Some individual Catholics helped. The Catholic church did Jack.

  • @maryrosed8475
    @maryrosed8475 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Dreadful that the Pope did not denounce Hitler in 1933. Roman Catholic Church does not have a great history. I think Pope Francis is a little better.

    • @joywisdom6598
      @joywisdom6598 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Helmut Sonntag May God's mercy fall upon you , otherwise hell awaits those on the road of perdition which you are on , filled with hate , shame on you . Justice awaits at death 😇😉🕊🌈

    • @binkytube
      @binkytube 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Unfortunately all religions are mostly misogynist, exclusionary and often a ruse for being awful and ridiculous people.

    • @janetblanc7658
      @janetblanc7658 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@joywisdom6598 best not to play God.

  • @ronaldalarsen8925
    @ronaldalarsen8925 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Aq

  • @janetblanc7658
    @janetblanc7658 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love the sweet revenge in forcing the Germans out of their homes.

  • @annekremer3585
    @annekremer3585 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The hammering in the background is really irratating. It detracts from Mt Cohn's testimony.

  • @desertbreeze69
    @desertbreeze69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The way the interviewer says his s’s is so distracting.

  • @karajohnson5329
    @karajohnson5329 ปีที่แล้ว

    😅😅😅

  • @JEWNITED-SNAKES-OF-WEIMAR
    @JEWNITED-SNAKES-OF-WEIMAR 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    wooden doors

  • @megannorton8104
    @megannorton8104 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for sharing your story.