I started crying before he started talking. His face carried so much pain and compassion and the suffering that compassion allows. Mind blown! This is true oral history.
Just the fact that this happened in reality is so horrific, it's beyond belief. It had to be painful to do, and yet Tobias did it so we can feel what so many had to go through at the hands of the heartless killers in power. We must never let this happen to anyone again.
This & atrocities like it happened all the time.. all the time in this world... What mainstream media doesn't tell it, nor show it, or misreports it, and otherwise distracts you to look the other way.
@@longshotny exactly! For a lot of Africans and other "third world countries" we lost against our Hitlers. The imperialists won. And now they turn around and lecture us on human rights and the need to sacrifice for the greater good.
This speech makes my hairs stand on end. The reality and gravity of the speech strikes home with Tobias Menzies's powerful deliverance. He is an incredible actor. To deliver such a speech like this is incredible.
I have the honour of having a decades long friendship with Abram Goldberg who stood there in the Lodz ghetto and heard this speech as Mordechai delivered it. He has spent his life telling the world about the horror he , his family and millions more Jews ( and others) endured.
Tobias Menzies is profoundly talented and brave actor. I love watching him work. This monologue is painfully devastating because of its truth. Menzies converts that truth. Never forget.
This was brilliantly read and it affected me deeply. It's one of the most unimaginably horrific events in history and needs to be remembered so that it can never happen again. Ever. Honestly, I don't know how you shake witnessing a performance like this one. Maybe you aren't supposed to.
This was a compelling performance. Thank you. In retrospect of course you can tell that the Nazis had no intention of letting anyone survive and that this man was a Quisling. But to hear the words said so realistically is horrifying beyond words. I can't imagine letting anyone take my child. Take me instead. From this experience Jews learned that appeasement and concessions lead to disaster. And so we find ourselves in the current situation. But once burned, twice shy. Never, never again.
The thing is, more Jews from his Ghetto survived than from any other Ghetto. He is probably the most morally ambivalent person in human history. The Nazis had no intention of letting anybody survive, but his procrastination made it impossible for the Nazis to kill them all. The time between the end of his Ghetto and the liberation of Auschwitz was too short to kill them all.
yet many the mother has heard this speech in some form on the border ,while seeking refuge, and her child is now in a concentration camp in the republic of the united states, (among many places) the horror continues
People often imagine they want to be Leaders right up until decisions as to who lives and who dies. Bless him for doing what he thought best on that day with the choices as he knew. No one on earth could have believed they all would be exterminated. It was incomprehensible.
Powerfully delivered. Briefly discovered that Rumkowski was a complex individual, which for me, re - watching , made my reaction to this speech second time , less emotionally reactive.
Poignant & compelling ~ with eyes closed I saw reason in the unfathomable; kindness amid despair. Loved the cadence in this read :) Tobias is among the best. ⭐️🌿🧡🕊
At the 2.58 minute mark, I was so emotional I had to stop. My ancestors left Germany in 1710 and ever since I learned that, my heart has ached for what the Nazis did to those who worshipped differently than they. I thank Tobias for so eloquently repeating that speech, but I couldn’t listen to any more of it. May God take special care of the souls those innocents lost and damn to eternal hell those responsible.
The Nazis did not do what they did to religious Jews, but to Jews as a caste. Those descended from Jews who converted to Christianity generations before were just as much Jews by the Nuremberg Laws as a rabbi known for his piety.
Well, I tried to watch this again today. I was able to watch through to the end, but only because I turned off the sound and just watched Tobias’ facial expressions and body gestures. That told me enough. 💔😢
An incredible speech, given by a wonderful actor. However, I think maybe some people commenting here might have a distorted view of who Rumkowski was. Go check his Wikipedia page : it may give you a more nuanced opinion of the man
With the authority i have been given i call upon the name above all names to cast light in all this darkness. I ask it. Amen. You may fool the world but you will not fool me.
When people have very little and their personal hopes are few. Their children and their hopes for their children become their most precious dreams. They will sacrifice themselves for their children. Education, compassion, the value of human life becomes greater. Yet, in the rich countries we see people and children thrown onto the scrap heap. Jxxx
Whew, immigrants having children torn away from them at the border,even upon seeing their own mothers after months apart are now afraid of them.thousands fleeing danger and now sleeping in tent city.being tear gassed so as not to enter the US. I've never heard this speech, I got here wanting to learn more of Tobias Menzies talent. I am not surprised by his talent,but of how it tears my heart the meaning of these words!
You might be tempted to read what I wrote and label them as "talking points." They're not. You might be tempted to label me a Republican. I'm not. Or a Trump voter? I didn't. I'm simply informed and have a tremendous distaste for being lied to, *especially* in an attempt by an organization seeking to manipulate my feelings in an attempt to manipulate by vote and my wallet. Especially by people who don't lift a finger to help the people they presume to speak for, and whose other main motivation is to paint half of my countrymen as evil. First, I'd like to ask you a question: what's the alternative to separating children from parents when the parents are arrested and no family member is in the correct country to take them? Do you argue that children should just be stuck in the jail with parents under arrest? Or in prison with convict-parents? I sincerely doubt your would say that. Serious question: what do we do, then? So, I do wonder if you'd advocate putting children in adult prisons, and I do doubt it. Because we don't let adults who have been arrested take their children into adult jails, nor the convicted take them into prison. And with good reason. But I doubt you would advocate for that. And would you hate the cages more or less if you knew they were built in Pres. Obama's time? The child separation policy goes back much further, of course, for all illegal immigrants arrested at the border. Trump is unique in that he ordered that *all* illegal migrants be arrested for committing the crime of illegally crossing the border. But what else can one do with the children of illegal immigrants who might be turned back at the border? Let them loose in a border city? That would incentivize more people to come on a trip where a significant percentage die on their way across the deserts; where anyone who cannot keep up is abandoned by the coyotes, and where 80%--80!--of women and girls are raped or sexually assaulted. Is it compassion to encourage those odds Do you think it's good for law enforcement to leave children in the hands of slavers? I rather doubt it--yet 30% of children crossing the border illegally are traveling with people not related to them who claim to be their parents. They're trafficked into sexual slavery, labor slavery, to work for the cartels as mules. That is a hell on earth without end; the cages are unpleasant at worst for the 72 hours maximum that children were held in them...during the window of time they were needed, as the facilities were for overflow. The children, by the way, who were detained there were required by law to be transferred no more than 72 hours after arrival to a foster care center--in fact, the temporary containment is only used when so many people attempt to jump the border that regular holding facilities cannot hold them all. I say "were" because the practice was legally and officially halted by Pres. Trump in 2018 as much as possible, though he left some control in the hands of border agents. So what's the alternative? It's very easy to get upset by the images (like the 2014 photo widely released as depicting the effects of Pres. Trump's zero-tolerance policy that was taken in 2014) but it's much harder to think of what one could do differently, besides deter people violently or simply abandon national borders. Please do read up on this subject, and please do make it a point to pay attention to news beyond mainstream media, to balance out Right-wing slanted sources and Left-wing slanted sources, and think critically about claims...especially during an election year. The mainstream media makes money from clicks and views and sensationalism is how they generate them. It's appallingly unhealthy for the body politic.
A friend suggested this reading, knowing my interest in Holocaust history I found myself unable to watch the first time. Simply too painful. Rumkowski is not well remembered by historians. Found myself seeing him in a more sympathetic light than felt comfortable. Came back to it today- prompted by incarceration of children by my country. Could it help me grasp the ability of some to sacrifice children? Impossible choice. Impossible to understand. As I recall, Rumkowski was murdered by his fellow Jews in the concentration camp to which he was sent. After Lodz was emptied by the Nazis.
Thank goodness, in the middle of the speech my Internet broke. I then realised I'd been holding my breath for the best part of 5 minutes. I have one question for the director or Tobias Menzies himself, though: there's a shot where we can see Tobias Menzies hands in pockets. Is it an unconscious way to keep a bit of distance from the speech? A kind of self-preservation reflex maybe?
I noticed that too. I can imagine the original with his hands clenched into fists or hands twisting together. Maybe the hands in the pockets were intentional to show the speaker's deceit and collaboration. My mother's family escaped Germany and Poland but not everyone made it out. The Jewish people survived and remain determined. We will not let this happen again.
I could listen to his deep, raspy voice ALL. DAY. LONG. He is such a fine actor. I felt that deep in my soul.
Tobias is an incredible actor, the finest living actor. He embodied the pain of this horrific atrocity.
I started crying before he started talking. His face carried so much pain and compassion and the suffering that compassion allows. Mind blown! This is true oral history.
Just the fact that this happened in reality is so horrific, it's beyond belief. It had to be painful to do, and yet Tobias did it so we can feel what so many had to go through at the hands of the heartless killers in power. We must never let this happen to anyone again.
This & atrocities like it happened all the time.. all the time in this world... What mainstream media doesn't tell it, nor show it, or misreports it, and otherwise distracts you to look the other way.
@@longshotny exactly! For a lot of Africans and other "third world countries" we lost against our Hitlers. The imperialists won. And now they turn around and lecture us on human rights and the need to sacrifice for the greater good.
This speech makes my hairs stand on end. The reality and gravity of the speech strikes home with Tobias Menzies's powerful deliverance. He is an incredible actor. To deliver such a speech like this is incredible.
this speech is so heartbreaking. Tobias Menzies performed it with great depth and emotion.
I have the honour of having a decades long friendship with Abram Goldberg who stood there in the Lodz ghetto and heard this speech as Mordechai delivered it. He has spent his life telling the world about the horror he , his family and millions more Jews ( and others) endured.
This is tragic, and his reading so real. Thank you for featuring this poignant speech and this very talented actor.
Magnificent as usual. I started crying the moment I heard his voice. He's a great actor and so handsome.
Tragic...never forget...😔😔😔
Wonderful reading from Tobias Menzies.
From the second I hit "play", my heart started breaking. Well done, Tobias.
Tobias Menzies is profoundly talented and brave actor. I love watching him work. This monologue is painfully devastating because of its truth. Menzies converts that truth. Never forget.
This was brilliantly read and it affected me deeply. It's one of the most unimaginably horrific events in history and needs to be remembered so that it can never happen again. Ever. Honestly, I don't know how you shake witnessing a performance like this one. Maybe you aren't supposed to.
This was a compelling performance. Thank you. In retrospect of course you can tell that the Nazis had no intention of letting anyone survive and that this man was a Quisling. But to hear the words said so realistically is horrifying beyond words. I can't imagine letting anyone take my child. Take me instead. From this experience Jews learned that appeasement and concessions lead to disaster. And so we find ourselves in the current situation. But once burned, twice shy. Never, never again.
The thing is, more Jews from his Ghetto survived than from any other Ghetto. He is probably the most morally ambivalent person in human history. The Nazis had no intention of letting anybody survive, but his procrastination made it impossible for the Nazis to kill them all. The time between the end of his Ghetto and the liberation of Auschwitz was too short to kill them all.
This is absolutely heart breaking
This is a tremendous achievement by Almeida Theater... quite remarkable.
Tobias read that with emotion. Gave me a lump. He is fab!!!!
Imagine being a Jewish Mother hearing that speech... I couldn't even begin to fathom it. I really couldn't
yet many the mother has heard this speech in some form on the border ,while seeking refuge, and her child is now in a concentration camp in the republic of the united states, (among many places) the horror continues
@@DockyardDiva us border officials aren't killing the children.
@@DockyardDiva the majority of children are being trafficked by people claiming to be parents who turn out to not be blood at all.
@@DockyardDiva Not true with illegal aliens who get benefits that US Citizens don't get
Imagine now a Palestinian mother doing the same...
People often imagine they want to be Leaders right up until decisions as to who lives and who dies. Bless him for doing what he thought best on that day with the choices as he knew. No one on earth could have believed they all would be exterminated. It was incomprehensible.
This speech, way of thinking, the result, is a loud conclusion there's no negotiation with criminals. Intriguing interpretation. 😊
Powerfully delivered. Briefly discovered that Rumkowski was a complex individual, which for me, re - watching , made my reaction to this speech second time , less emotionally reactive.
I cried all the way through this. Tobias is a marvellous actor.
Such an incredible, amazing, and heartbreaking performance.. Hats off
This deserves way more views.
Read this in a book of speeches, but this takes it to another space in my mind...
Amazing.
That hits my heart :( Tobias read that with so much emotion, wow he is sooooo awesome♥
Amazing. You can see the inner struggle, the pain but the determination the situation requires. Heartbreaking and powerful.
An amazing gifted actor! He feels every moment🌼
Tobias, thank you for reading Mr. Rumkowski's speech. It is heart and gut wrenching.
I cried all the way through
Yes - the thought of it is so horrific - how could anyone be asked to "give up" their children? God bless you all, you poor little innocent souls.
Poignant & compelling ~ with eyes closed I saw reason in the unfathomable; kindness amid despair. Loved the cadence in this read :) Tobias is among the best. ⭐️🌿🧡🕊
Fantastic! So moving, can feel the desperate sadness!
Loved this dude in Rome. Brutus!
This voice, that eyes.
Wonderful as usual. Heartfelt
Great job Tobias! I love your voice and you did so good.
At the 2.58 minute mark, I was so emotional I had to stop. My ancestors left Germany in 1710 and ever since I learned that, my heart has ached for what the Nazis did to those who worshipped differently than they. I thank Tobias for so eloquently repeating that speech, but I couldn’t listen to any more of it. May God take special care of the souls those innocents lost and damn to eternal hell those responsible.
The Nazis did not do what they did to religious Jews, but to Jews as a caste. Those descended from Jews who converted to Christianity generations before were just as much Jews by the Nuremberg Laws as a rabbi known for his piety.
@@Egilhelmson thank you for clearing that up. My post still stands, regardless.
Well, I tried to watch this again today. I was able to watch through to the end, but only because I turned off the sound and just watched Tobias’ facial expressions and body gestures. That told me enough. 💔😢
I wish they would continue making these!
Wow. How horrible that this is true. I would love the opportunity to see this actor on stage.
Love his voice soo so much,
Amazing work, heartbreaking....
Atuação brilhante do Tobias!! Mas, que história triste...😭😭. É de cortar o coração!!
An incredible speech, given by a wonderful actor.
However, I think maybe some people commenting here might have a distorted view of who Rumkowski was. Go check his Wikipedia page : it may give you a more nuanced opinion of the man
Incredibles, brilliant speech!
Very compelling! Wow!
Beautiful man. I hope to see more of him! He would make the perfect actor for a movie as Severus Snape's father.
With the authority i have been given i call upon the name above all names to cast light in all this darkness. I ask it. Amen. You may fool the world but you will not fool me.
He certainly brings the words to bear. Imagine being put in a situation such as this.
wow, thank you this is so important.
This was amazing
Brilliantly performed
Love tobias so sexy, manly and child like all rolled into one. Above all, the most amazing actor alive xxx 💝
This is terrible reality our loved ones had to live in. It was hard to watch to the end. But I did it.
Wow that was amazing 😢
The voice, the performance...
When people have very little and their personal hopes are few. Their children and their hopes for their children become their most precious dreams. They will sacrifice themselves for their children. Education, compassion, the value of human life becomes greater. Yet, in the rich countries we see people and children thrown onto the scrap heap. Jxxx
In the poor countries, too.
Immense performance
Whew, immigrants having children torn away from them at the border,even upon seeing their own mothers after months apart are now afraid of them.thousands fleeing danger and now sleeping in tent city.being tear gassed so as not to enter the US. I've never heard this speech, I got here wanting to learn more of Tobias Menzies talent. I am not surprised by his talent,but of how it tears my heart the meaning of these words!
4shys2 a very different situation to the holocaust. Even beginning to compare them downplays what happened to the Jews. Comparing them is insulting
You might be tempted to read what I wrote and label them as "talking points." They're not. You might be tempted to label me a Republican. I'm not. Or a Trump voter? I didn't. I'm simply informed and have a tremendous distaste for being lied to, *especially* in an attempt by an organization seeking to manipulate my feelings in an attempt to manipulate by vote and my wallet. Especially by people who don't lift a finger to help the people they presume to speak for, and whose other main motivation is to paint half of my countrymen as evil.
First, I'd like to ask you a question: what's the alternative to separating children from parents when the parents are arrested and no family member is in the correct country to take them? Do you argue that children should just be stuck in the jail with parents under arrest? Or in prison with convict-parents? I sincerely doubt your would say that.
Serious question: what do we do, then?
So, I do wonder if you'd advocate putting children in adult prisons, and I do doubt it. Because we don't let adults who have been arrested take their children into adult jails, nor the convicted take them into prison. And with good reason. But I doubt you would advocate for that.
And would you hate the cages more or less if you knew they were built in Pres. Obama's time? The child separation policy goes back much further, of course, for all illegal immigrants arrested at the border. Trump is unique in that he ordered that *all* illegal migrants be arrested for committing the crime of illegally crossing the border.
But what else can one do with the children of illegal immigrants who might be turned back at the border? Let them loose in a border city? That would incentivize more people to come on a trip where a significant percentage die on their way across the deserts; where anyone who cannot keep up is abandoned by the coyotes, and where 80%--80!--of women and girls are raped or sexually assaulted. Is it compassion to encourage those odds
Do you think it's good for law enforcement to leave children in the hands of slavers? I rather doubt it--yet 30% of children crossing the border illegally are traveling with people not related to them who claim to be their parents. They're trafficked into sexual slavery, labor slavery, to work for the cartels as mules. That is a hell on earth without end; the cages are unpleasant at worst for the 72 hours maximum that children were held in them...during the window of time they were needed, as the facilities were for overflow.
The children, by the way, who were detained there were required by law to be transferred no more than 72 hours after arrival to a foster care center--in fact, the temporary containment is only used when so many people attempt to jump the border that regular holding facilities cannot hold them all. I say "were" because the practice was legally and officially halted by Pres. Trump in 2018 as much as possible, though he left some control in the hands of border agents.
So what's the alternative? It's very easy to get upset by the images (like the 2014 photo widely released as depicting the effects of Pres. Trump's zero-tolerance policy that was taken in 2014) but it's much harder to think of what one could do differently, besides deter people violently or simply abandon national borders.
Please do read up on this subject, and please do make it a point to pay attention to news beyond mainstream media, to balance out Right-wing slanted sources and Left-wing slanted sources, and think critically about claims...especially during an election year. The mainstream media makes money from clicks and views and sensationalism is how they generate them. It's appallingly unhealthy for the body politic.
A friend suggested this reading, knowing my interest in Holocaust history
I found myself unable to watch the first time. Simply too painful. Rumkowski is not well remembered by historians. Found myself seeing him in a more sympathetic light than felt comfortable.
Came back to it today- prompted by incarceration of children by my country. Could it help me grasp the ability of some to sacrifice children?
Impossible choice. Impossible to understand.
As I recall, Rumkowski was murdered by his fellow Jews in the concentration camp to which he was sent. After Lodz was emptied by the Nazis.
Rutkowski also ruled the Lodz ghetto like a tyrant and used the deportations as opportunities to remove anyone who crossed him
He would make an awesome bond oo7
Thank goodness, in the middle of the speech my Internet broke.
I then realised I'd been holding my breath for the best part of 5 minutes.
I have one question for the director or Tobias Menzies himself, though: there's a shot where we can see Tobias Menzies hands in pockets. Is it an unconscious way to keep a bit of distance from the speech? A kind of self-preservation reflex maybe?
I noticed that too. I can imagine the original with his hands clenched into fists or hands twisting together. Maybe the hands in the pockets were intentional to show the speaker's deceit and collaboration. My mother's family escaped Germany and Poland but not everyone made it out. The Jewish people survived and remain determined. We will not let this happen again.
He can have anything....
The English did the same to Australian aboriginal inhabitants
And to the Indians, for centuries. The English have a terrible history
@@Anyrandomnamewilldo And to the Native Americans
So tragic
Tobias is soo hot!!!!!
(Yes, but it wasn't Poland. Germany forcibly and bloodily incorporated these Polish lands into the Third Reich.)
He negotiated the deaths of every other Jew for his own life. And he even failed at that.
House of tully
Pass the kleenex.
Biggest coward in history
Terrible speech!!
Wanted to have a peacful glass of red wine and stumbled upon this...saddest glass of wine ever.
That hits my heart :( Tobias read that with so much emotion, wow he is sooooo awesome♥