My goodness what a charming, well spoken, handsome, intelligent man. He is so gracious. So 😢 the antisemitism he and his family went thru. God bless him and his family. The interviewer asked interesting questions.
It’s so sad isn’t it? Those that survived have suffered as well. Poor things. All their lives they’ve carried wounds . How much one hopes that the parents last thoughts would have been “ well, at least our son is safe”. What brave Parents they all were. Trying to save a beloved child whilst hoping for reunions later. So sad. Thank you to his wife and children , may he live on in your memories and the grandchildren’s memories and for many years to come. Thank you 🙏. March 2021 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Thank you for letting us know. He was so articulate. We can watch and listen but we can never understand what any survivors endured. May Mr. Laurent Rest In Peace with his parents and sister.
Passed away in August of 2009. I enjoyed his story so I looked this up and I'm sharing for those that might be interested. He now knows exactly what happened to his family❤
I am English and he sounds me mostly English, with sometimes a very soft German accent, and he very occasionally pronounced words in an American way, but not much.
Thank you. Amazing job done with the interviews guys. Two thumbs up for your work. As for the gentleman himself - I couldnt stop listening to him ... his tone of voice and the way he speaks ... I loved it
Such sadness in his story. It’s impossible to imagine what this must have been for parents who sent their children away, hoping they’d be safe. Not that it matters at all, but my goodness! He was in his seventies here and he was so beautiful, gorgeous. Then, upon few instances he smiled and he’s more handsome than any Hollywood leading man of whom I can think. The sadness, though. The trauma. The horror.
@@JaimeMesChiens his interview was so very interesting and enlightening….the trauma and constant fear he must have suffered as a young person…yet it hasn’t translated to his features. If l may add this …. He could pass very easily as Irish or Scots …he has very Celtic features. A compelling life story with concluding wise and almost prophetic sentiments.
Fascinating. There is a woman in my community who was on kindertransport. She spoke at my school years ago. Of interest is her name is Goldschmidt perhaps that’s a common name, but she is from Berlin. She is in her nineties (2012) and has been quite well. I already sent her this video and told her that I’d like to know more about her experience
Hiya, wow how expressive, when asked about his childhood and memories were not easily recalled , he understood how he had to suppress certain occurrences that need not be recalled.
What an incredible sacrifice parents made to put their child(ren) on the Kindertransport. Fewer than 10% of the 10,000+ children who were transported to safety in this program ever saw their parents again.
Such a wise and interesting man, a lovely man x thank you for the privilege of hearing and seeing your witness testimonial, we shall never forget the atrocities x God bless you all mightily and much love from the UK xx
A small point here, we in Wales also took Jewish children, so not only in England. In our small village we housed a large number in an old and very beautiful Mansion, so my father told me. Very welcome they were too.
Listening to your story is Helpful, it gives rise to the question? Hence; the answer, in awarenes. Causal and Effect , thank you very much for being kind as to share your story.
Thank you so much for sharing with us your testimony . God richly bless this family! Like this Interviewer asking the questions. You can hear clearly the voice where as others, all you hear is mumbling.
All of these survivors look fantastic despite everything they've been through. I've seen even 90 + yr olds tell their story & look better than most Americans & remember every single detail
In 2024 ……His concluding sentiments are quite prophetic ….. l wonder what he would think of our society, if he were alive today? This is a long interview but compelling listening… an honest and transparent interview…l salute the good man.
Amazing interview!! Love his Noah's Ark shirt. Happy for him he has found a wife that understands him. His words about the Holocaust and what to remember for the future should be heeded!
Amazing man, been watching these for days, thanks for doing this, my father seldom said much, Canadian army, was the first group into BELSEN, the people there just wanted to touch him, would not say any thing else, This man is wonderful, l know i,d never would have made it.
His story about the grinshpan family is not exact. The family was a polish family who lived in Germany for years. In 1938 the natzis banished all polish jews from Germany to Poland, but Poland refused to take them. So thousands of jews were dropped in no man's land with no facilities, no food, no water. The grinshpan family was one of them. Hershel had a brother, that was with the parents, he himself was a student in paris. When he learned what happened to them he decided to kill the German embassador, but he managed to shoot only a low ranking diplomat, but that was a good excuse for Kristal nacht. Hershel turned himself to the French police, and disappeared during the war. His family survived the war and his father and brother actually gave witness in the eichmann trial.
1:22:41there was no place to go we went into hiding 1:23:36 Kristallnacht 10November,1938 1:28:26piano1:28:46 1:29:00 fear from beginning to end 1:34:47 you don’t show the oppressor that you are afraid 1:35:10this was between the adults-I don’t know 1:37:40became a master 1:37:58party song 1:45:35 no one knew inkling 1:45:46 annals of civilization 1:49:00 crossing the frontier
The constant persecution or even bullying and name calling is enough to cause negative thoughts about oneself. Yes, there are victims of wrong- doing individuals. The perpetrators must be stopped if there is to be possible reconciliation and peace.
It seems as if what became the Noah's Ark story dates back to at least Sumerian times (the most famous of these accounts is the Epic of Gilgamesh. In this version, there are two gods (Enil and Ea). Enlil decides to destroy the world with a flood and Ea secretly warns the human hero Utnapishtim and instructs him to build a boat so that life is not completely wiped out. This narrative seems to have been copied into the Jewish Torah, then brought into the Christian Bible, and then retold in the Muslim Quran.
To me he comes across as a man without emotions which explains his broken marriages. Throughout his talk his face showed no natural feelings which made the whole interview dull and empty. He was sent away at the age of twelve knowing that his parents and sister probably will face death. Retrospectively be believes he only felt a certain degree of guilt ie no distress and sorrow that would be expected.
Oh boy, you know his heart? Don’t you know most people with strong exteriors are very sensitive inside? I can hear the pain in his voice, maybe you need better hearing, or better compassion.
Agree most of the part. He is broken. Everyone’s own choice to believe in whatever they choose in the end in life but he seemed to contain that hate with him all his life in mind coming from all unjust and unhumane. The comments he made about circumcition (in today’s age), his sarcasm on how love is the answer is not realistic etc are signs. Love is not a hippie statement - it includes in it respect to all individuals, no prejudices. Hope he’s resting in peace…
He may be broken deep down but let’s project our perspective or our emotions on to him: he talks several times about the Prussian stiff upper lip. Irrespective of the war, emotions were just not shown in his intellectual bourgeois family.
Tragic experiences in childhood force us to suppress our emotions, it's a form of self protection. Unless we have been traumatized ourselves, it's really not fair to judge.
My goodness what a charming, well spoken, handsome, intelligent man. He is so gracious. So 😢 the antisemitism he and his family went thru. God bless him and his family. The interviewer asked interesting questions.
All these survivors life stories are so important so that later generation’s understand and that it’s never allowed to be forgotten x
It’s so sad isn’t it? Those that survived have suffered as well. Poor things. All their lives they’ve carried wounds . How much one hopes that the parents last thoughts would have been “ well, at least our son is safe”. What brave Parents they all were. Trying to save a beloved child whilst hoping for reunions later. So sad. Thank you to his wife and children , may he live on in your memories and the grandchildren’s memories and for many years to come. Thank you 🙏. March 2021 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Henry lived to be 85 yrs old and passed away August 18, 2009 according to Legacy online obit.
Hiya, how sweet of you to share. Thank you kindly.
God bless him. I know his eternity will be forever happy with his family and the Lord.
Thank you for letting us know. He was so articulate. We can watch and listen but we can never understand what any survivors endured. May Mr. Laurent Rest In Peace with his parents and sister.
Passed away in August of 2009. I enjoyed his story so I looked this up and I'm sharing for those that might be interested. He now knows exactly what happened to his family❤
Wonderful aristocratic voice melding English and German. Speaking with dignity of such a traumatic childhood. Bless him
I am English and he sounds me mostly English, with sometimes a very soft German accent, and he very occasionally pronounced words in an American way, but not much.
@@padmelotus very rare and unique.
Not only that , he handled words so well. Seems very educated
Yes I agree. Love Henry 's Oxford like English accent with German.
Sad I just saw his Obituary 8/16/2009. 85 yrs old. Bethesda, MD USA
I like that he's wearing a Noah's Arc shirt.
what an articulate,well spoken gentleman he is...:)...thank you for youre interview:)
Thank you. Amazing job done with the interviews guys. Two thumbs up for your work.
As for the gentleman himself - I couldnt stop listening to him ... his tone of voice and the way he speaks ... I loved it
Such sadness in his story. It’s impossible to imagine what this must have been for parents who sent their children away, hoping they’d be safe.
Not that it matters at all, but my goodness! He was in his seventies here and he was so beautiful, gorgeous.
Then, upon few instances he smiled and he’s more handsome than any Hollywood leading man of whom I can think.
The sadness, though. The trauma. The horror.
He seems much too young to have been a part of the holocaust; Is he still living,
what is his occupation, if still employed.
FOLLOWUP INTERVIEW WOULD BE SO INTERESTING.?.
@@JaimeMesChiens his interview was so very interesting and enlightening….the trauma and constant fear he must have suffered as a young person…yet it hasn’t translated to his features. If l may add this …. He could pass very easily as Irish or Scots …he has very Celtic features. A compelling life story with concluding wise and almost prophetic sentiments.
Fascinating.
There is a woman in my community who was on kindertransport. She spoke at my school years ago.
Of interest is her name is Goldschmidt perhaps that’s a common name, but she is from Berlin.
She is in her nineties (2012) and has been quite well. I already sent her this video and told her that I’d like to know more about her experience
Hiya, wow how expressive, when asked about his childhood and memories were not easily recalled , he understood how he had to suppress certain occurrences that need not be recalled.
What an incredible sacrifice parents made to put their child(ren) on the Kindertransport. Fewer than 10% of the 10,000+ children who were transported to safety in this program ever saw their parents again.
good book published in 2016 by Jason Hensley, entitled Part of the Family, on children saved on the Kindertransport
Such a wise and interesting man, a lovely man x thank you for the privilege of hearing and seeing your witness testimonial, we shall never forget the atrocities x God bless you all mightily and much love from the UK xx
Wonderful beautiful man. So eloquent
You are right. Perfectly eloquent speaker. The right words in the right place, a flow of necessary information. Very intelligent.
A small point here, we in Wales also took Jewish children, so not only in England. In our small village we housed a large number in an old and very beautiful Mansion, so my father told me. Very welcome they were too.
This gentleman experienced terrible hatred and blatant bigotry from the Nazis!God bless him and his soul🙏
Listening to your story is Helpful, it gives rise to the question? Hence; the answer, in awarenes. Causal and Effect , thank you very much for being kind as to share your story.
Another very interesting testimony. Many thanks.
Thank you so much for sharing with us your testimony . God richly bless this family! Like this Interviewer asking the questions. You can hear clearly the voice where as others, all you hear is mumbling.
He definitely loved his mother.I loved mine too and will meet her in Heaven.
All of these survivors look fantastic despite everything they've been through. I've seen even 90 + yr olds tell their story & look better than most Americans & remember every single detail
In 2024 ……His concluding sentiments are quite prophetic ….. l wonder what he would think of our society, if he were alive today? This is a long interview but compelling listening… an honest and transparent interview…l salute the good man.
Intelligent and sensitive bloke.
What a wonderful man.
Unable to hear most videos. Subtitles would be useful.
What a gorgeous & articulate man , no wonder 3 marriages , aye chihuahua !
He is so good looking. I can't stop staring at him... and his voice. I'm really impressed!
I agree! Very attractive & intelligent man! Aye chihuahua! ;-)
Aye chihuahua!
I clicked on this video cause I thought “I’ll look at this gentleman for 3 hours”
yes, a woman will fall for a beautiful voice any time.
Amazing interview!! Love his Noah's Ark shirt. Happy for him he has found a wife that understands him. His words about the Holocaust and what to remember for the future should be heeded!
Amazing man, been watching these for days, thanks for doing this, my father seldom said much, Canadian army, was the first group into BELSEN, the people there just wanted to touch him, would not say any thing else, This man is wonderful, l know i,d never would have made it.
His story about the grinshpan family is not exact. The family was a polish family who lived in Germany for years. In 1938 the natzis banished all polish jews from Germany to Poland, but Poland refused to take them. So thousands of jews were dropped in no man's land with no facilities, no food, no water. The grinshpan family was one of them. Hershel had a brother, that was with the parents, he himself was a student in paris. When he learned what happened to them he decided to kill the German embassador, but he managed to shoot only a low ranking diplomat, but that was a good excuse for Kristal nacht.
Hershel turned himself to the French police, and disappeared during the war. His family survived the war and his father and brother actually gave witness in the eichmann trial.
Thank you for this information…very interesting
God bless him. The interviewers are terrible, some are good, but they beat a dead horse and just seem to get the story or able to follow the story.
Interesting. Franz Greenbaum later became Alan Turings psychiatrist.
Technically, before Dec 7,1941 United States was officially a neutral country; despite a full support of UK and France(until June 1940).
Sad Henry died at 85 August 16, 2009 in Bethesda, MD USA. His obituary is on line.
What was his profession?
He is so smart to wear a Noahs Arc shirt to show he had his own escape from death.
1:22:41there was no place to go we went into hiding 1:23:36 Kristallnacht 10November,1938 1:28:26piano1:28:46 1:29:00 fear from beginning to end 1:34:47 you don’t show the oppressor that you are afraid 1:35:10this was between the adults-I don’t know 1:37:40became a master 1:37:58party song 1:45:35 no one knew inkling 1:45:46 annals of civilization 1:49:00 crossing the frontier
Cadê a legenda em português?
The constant persecution or even bullying and name calling is enough to cause negative thoughts about oneself. Yes, there are victims of wrong- doing individuals. The perpetrators must be stopped if there is to be possible reconciliation and peace.
Dominican Republic. Nobody else cared, to put it in a nice way.
How humiliating, the incident in the hospital!
He remembered such inane details...and uh...and uh...and uh...wow!!!!!!!! . Glad he survived tho
EN ESPAÑOL POR FAVOR.
Isn't that a picture of Noah's Ark on his shirt? I wonder why he has that there? True, it's a story from the biblical Old Testament and he's Jewish.
No it's from the Torah not the bible
@@chetyoubetya8565 the story of Noah is in the Old Testament of the Bible
Chet youbetya The Torah is the first five books of the Bible (or Old Testament in Christianity).
@@chetyoubetya8565 It is definitely in the Bible!
It seems as if what became the Noah's Ark story dates back to at least Sumerian times (the most famous of these accounts is the Epic of Gilgamesh. In this version, there are two gods (Enil and Ea). Enlil decides to destroy the world with a flood and Ea secretly warns the human hero Utnapishtim and instructs him to build a boat so that life is not completely wiped out.
This narrative seems to have been copied into the Jewish Torah, then brought into the Christian Bible, and then retold in the Muslim Quran.
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This gentleman has a stilted way of speaking which is difficult to listen to. A pity because his experience should be heard.
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To me he comes across as a man without emotions which explains his broken marriages. Throughout his talk his face showed no natural feelings which made the whole interview dull and empty. He was sent away at the age of twelve knowing that his parents and sister probably will face death. Retrospectively be believes he only felt a certain degree of guilt ie no distress and sorrow that would be expected.
Oh boy, you know his heart? Don’t you know most people with strong exteriors are very sensitive inside? I can hear the pain in his voice, maybe you need better hearing, or better compassion.
Agree most of the part. He is broken. Everyone’s own choice to believe in whatever they choose in the end in life but he seemed to contain that hate with him all his life in mind coming from all unjust and unhumane. The comments he made about circumcition (in today’s age), his sarcasm on how love is the answer is not realistic etc are signs. Love is not a hippie statement - it includes in it respect to all individuals, no prejudices.
Hope he’s resting in peace…
He may be broken deep down but let’s project our perspective or our emotions on to him: he talks several times about the Prussian stiff upper lip. Irrespective of the war, emotions were just not shown in his intellectual bourgeois family.
Tragic experiences in childhood force us to suppress our emotions, it's a form of self protection. Unless we have been traumatized ourselves, it's really not fair to judge.
What's your problem with me????
I know the story..Democratic president so it figures.