2021 First Person with Holocaust Survivor Esther Starobin

Esther Starobin was two years old when her parents sent her out of their German hometown to an uncertain life in England. An organized rescue effort for Jewish children, known as the Kindertransport, took place between 1938 and 1940. Esther spent the next eight years with a foster family, largely unaware what was happening to her parents and brother who had remained in Germany.
Hear Holocaust survivor Esther’s experiences in her own words recorded on October 6, 2021. 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 KZbin channel.
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[@mariekatherine5238]

Hello! Just found this now, three days after airing. I’m watching on KZbin from Northern Maine, USA. I’m originally from New York, oldest of nine children, age 73 today. My mother’s family came to the US, NYC, in the 1880s from Poland for reasons of pogroms, extreme poverty. My father’s family were from Ireland, coming to NYC in 1849-1859, refugees from the potato famine.

[@richardsee818]

Qq

[@debracornelison1411]

Beautiful lady, sorry for all you went through. Thank you for sharing this with us ❤

[@shimmeringfairydust3275]

Such an important series. We must never, ever forget the Holocaust and its innocent victims. Thank you for this series. My love and prayers to all victims of the Holocaust and other victims of genocide, prejudice, discrimination, assault and other crimes against humanity. Oh, and I’m in Boston, MA.

[@pierrettedecinti573]

I can’t imagine how heartbreaking it was for your parents to give up their children so that they could survive. I truly admire them.

[@sandraobrien8705]

That would be almost impossibly hard. It is quite extrordinary that all siblings survived.

[@janfriedel4503]

Your story is so important. It is so horrific that people say it could not have happened. Thank you for sharing

[@estherkessler]

From Esther Kessler to Esther Starobin:A great testimony!

[@wesleystewart5398]

A parents love has no boundaries...her parents made sure that this children would survive....an extremely fantastic conversation...loved it....

[@monicahart3071]

Mrs. Starobin, thank you so very much for sharing this. May God continue to bless & keep you.💙

[@smoothsailingmp]

Love, just love the graph with them all together....and to know the children survived....GOD bless them and you for having these First Person programs....much love to all.

[@robbo26ful]

Thank you for sharing your story. It is important that it is told time and time again to try to stop another Holocaust. I fear man forgets too easily the horrors man can do to fellow man.

[@martarico186]

This is such a touching and different holacoust story. So refreshing to know that love from dad and mom and the foster parents made such a difference in these kids life, especially for Esther.... Thanks for sharing Esther....

[@tomdick1777]

I love this lady. 🙏 its unimaginable what she went through.

[@kristinamelnichenko5775]

Thank you so much 💔❤️

[@sandraobrien8705]

Two sets of parents who loved her as their own had to give her up, send her to a country where they had never been to stay with people they did not know. They would have been constantly so worried whether people were kind to her, if she was safe, if she was being looked after, if she was sad or lonely. The Harrisons sound absolutely lovely and so does Ester's mum but the letter from the American uncle is so cold. I was quite shocked at that, so unfeeling.

[@GdHr-oz5ph]

Another wonderful beautiful survivor.♥️

[@cecilefox9136]

Thank you for your very moving testimonial!

[@enrilacroix]

My love to Esher and all the victims of the Holocaust! My best from Mexico City

[@saffronbay]

I’m from Indiana USA. God bless you for speaking up with your story. My grandfather served in WW2 and met his uncle who was still living in Germany at the time while he was stationed there

[@sanmarino8605]

Im from Indiana & its tragic to see all the terrible things that happened with the holocaust and some things are so bad there beyond human competition

[@jessicahubbard7218]

Yes God please bless them amen amen

[@cindymaulden2226]

I wish I could shake the hand of a survivor, it would be a great great honor.

[@michaelluna1968]

Listening to these powerful stories. Oxnard California here. Blessings and 🙏 prayers

[@jessicahubbard7218]

Yes yes blessings and prayers going up up amen amen

[@chrissims3810]

Thank you for your testimony.

[@glennanddorothyspeight6111]

I am in New Zealand. Those were terrible times and even now we must be vigilant against such anti-semitism.

[@gonefishing167]

Hi from Australia 👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@thingsyoumaynothate4560]

What a Woman, what a story.

[@barbaramattingly9449]

I am writing from Oklahoma. I have always been so intrigued with the holocaust. I found a magazine when I was a child about a boy and his mother on one of the trains. The mother was pregnant, went into labor. She and the baby froze to the floor and of course died. Since then I have read everything I could get my hands on. For 70+ years I have been absorbed with the holocaust. May God be with you all.

[@fayadamson5584]

I am from New Zealand my heart goes out to ones who went through the holocaust

[@cherylmccarthy2932]

I want to thank Mrs. Starobin for sharing her life story. The evil that ran rampant during the Holocaust must never be allowed again! It was wonderful to hear about the Protestant family that loved the e little Jewish girl for a lifetime. Love knows no color or ethnicity.

[@martarico186]

Thank you Forst person!! I pray for this mission and the awakening of today's generation towards this episode in the 🌎 so it will not occur again.....

[@louisegross3886]

Wow as I scroll loving the history of this channel

[@misskitty2133]

Hi Esther. Thank you

[@misskitty2133]

Thanks so very much. God Bless❤️

[@wednesdayschild3627]

I think it is pretty cool that Alan got a big family. Even in the worst tragedy, there was a crumb of goodness.

[@jeanrichardvarre6062]

Shalom from Spain.

[@nancycornett9949]

Thank you.

[@polarbearsrus6980]

Thank you for sharing, we must never forget.

[@gailforro3525]

Wonderful account from such a very horrific time.

[@martharamos2104]

Was a very sad but I’m Happy for all you Family came together again you still look beautiful

[@OliaLO123]

Hi from Toronto Thank you for your interviews Always watch it and teach kids and adults to remember history to do not repeat human mistakes Very thank you for your work 🙏💗🇺🇦

[@celestteazulee3527]

Grande Martin,no tengo redes sociales,te sigo por youtuber only m8 querido,,pero una labor maravillosa la tuya,,como todosesos ciudadanos concientes🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️🌎🌏🌍👍👏❤🔊👉unidos somos mas conciencia,gracias mi querido Patriota,

[@situationroom3090]

Thank You for sharing your stories.

[@bouvardc.2334]

Never forget. So things like this never happen again.

[@malcolmdale]

One of the children on the Kindertransport was adopted by an English family and grew up to marry my cousin. He went back to Czechoslovakia after the war to find that not one of his extended family had survived.

[@hazelnorfolk6964]

Incredible parents!,

[@misskitty2133]

I just don’t understand the hatred against Jews. I grew up in Newton, MA which had a large Jewish population. My dad was a floral designer and most of his clients were Jewish so he provided floral & design for bar mitzvahs & weddings. My mom lived in Denmark during the occupation and came to the USA in 1950. She had many stories to tell me. So I became very familiar with Jewish traditions, history, etc. My very best friend was Jewish. So I just can’t understand the mindset behind the hatred. God Bless you, Esther. ❤️

[@theresekirkpatrick3337]

Thanks for sharing your important experience in this travesty on humanity. So sad

[@joslynandcarltonramsubhag1836]

Interesting. Viewing from Trinidad & Tobago

[@rudymazar5266]

Very interesting story ...Hi from Australia

[@anne-marie5197]

How would I go about finding her sisters interviews?

[@moniquechat6860]

I'm sorry you're very lucky that you got all that most people don't get any of that they must have been bribing them so they could you could get letters you are so lucky most families didn't get that keep those letters I'm serious this is a really nice thing but I'm very sorry for your losses

[@vapues873]

I love Esther!

[@michaelhoggarth89]

Mrs H 🇬🇧 ..My Mama was born in 1931..She was a child when WW2 Broke out..From 1939 til 1946..She suffered..( Not like Millions of other in Austwich & other camps 💔 ) She never knew of that Evil til the early 60's ..She lost many a young friend in UK with the Bombing THAT she needed professional help... I'm thankful that she NEVER suffered like many others.. I visited Auschwitz and it was Worst that you can imagine.. In the late 70's early 80's ( Series World At War ) I didn't pay much attention as I thought it wasn't possible to do such heinous crimes ( I still believe that ) Only Evil monster's in human form could cause such monstrous devastation.. Those that are in there 50's who are now Grandparents yourselves who have been told & experienced PTSD Cos it's not just WAR that causes extreme anxiety & flash backs .. It's trauma of all kinds.. I'm so devastated for all victims & For those that never made it through WW2 & for those that lost they lives .. If I could bring you all back ..I would.... I'm just thankful I wasn't born in that era... RIP to all those that lost they lives in WW2.. 💔🇬🇧

[@tennyceb]

California here

[@janblackman6204]

So what happened to Herman

[@albertovillegas1875]

Hi I’m Jewish and this is really cool and sad o learn about

[@miriam2137]

Fontana California.

[@estherspence918]

What became of your foster family in England

[@tiffanyprichard2197]

Oh no!!!! I am not sure why I am shocked that such hate is alive and well. Im so very sorry to hear, i try very hard in my part of the world to not hate or show any such cruelty.

[@mamaw9634]

She and Allen could have been brother and sister- they looked like family!!

[@moniquechat6860]

The kinder trains only took up to certain age and if they got so many of the family members out they would refuse one of the children if they came from large families I know because my family had to go nutrition cancer but they only could send so many children they would only allow it the ones that did get choose was just the way it was but some of my families disappeared into Ireland Scotland and France and in the United States

[@philippeceline984]

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[@smiyahwhite3821]

Hi my name is S’Miyah

[@kimpreston3628]

Humankind - be both

[@mylahsanchez9958]

I can see my family in her! Our last name is unique (Starobin )

[@luzalgarin9518]

Esther Sterobin, thank you so much for sharing with me this so personal fragment of your life. It must be a very sad odyssey to recount it. The crimes and cruelties committed against my sons and daughters, my fathers and mothers, my brothers and sisters hurt me deeply, regardless their ethnicity and nationality. In Isaiah 2: 4, Jehovah God, the Creator and Source of life, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, promises: "He will be judge among the nations and will settle matters in relation to many peoples. They will turn their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. The nations will no longer raise their swords against each other and learn no more to wage war." My immediate neighbors are Jews and I am a Jehovah's Witness. Their hearts are superior than pure gold by far. They are extremely kind. The gentleman takes care of my trash can every Wednesday without my asking him to do so. They are lovely human beings, and they are not in need of the smallest improvement.

[@estherspence918]

Have you gone back to your home where your parents lived

[@estherkessler]

👍👍👍👍💯💔✡️

[@hubertcarrolljohnson6580]

LOVE+

[@luzalgarin9518]

Thank you so much, Esther Starobin, for sharing with me an infamous fragment of the Hitler's Nazi horrendous regimen via your life. It must have been a painful odyssey to recollect such memories and to recount them; they only echo the evilness of Hitler and his followers. The crimes and cruelties committed against my sons and daughters, my fathers and mothers, my brothers and sisters hurt me deeply, regardless their ethnicity and nationality. In Isaiah 2: 4, Jehovah God, the Creator and Source of life, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, promises: "He will be judge among the nations and will settle matters in relation to many peoples. They will turn their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. The nations will no longer raise their swords against each other and learn no more to wage war." My immediate neighbors are Jews and I am a Jehovah's Witness. Their hearts are superior than pure gold by far. They are extremely kind. The gentleman takes care of my trash can every Wednesday without my asking him to do so. They are lovely human beings, and they are not in need of the smallest improvement.

[@luzalgarin9518]

May Psalm 37 alleviate your suffering: "Do not be upset because of evil men or envious of wrongdoers. They will quickly wither like grass and shrivel like green new grass. Trust in Jehovah and do what is good; reside in the earth, and act with faithfulness. Find exquisite delight in Jehovah, and he will grant you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to Jehovah; rely on him, and he will act in your behalf. He will make your righteousness shine like daybreak, and your justice like the midday sun. Keep silent before Jehovah and wait expectantly for him. Do not be upset by the man who succeeds in carrying out his schemes. Let go of anger and abandon rage; do not become upset and turn to doing evil. For evil men will be done away with, but those hoping in Jehovah will possess the earth. Just a little while longer, and the wicked will be no more; you will look at where they were, and they will not be there. But the meek will possess the earth, and they will find exquisite delight in the abundance of peace. The wicked man plots against the righteous; he grinds his teeth at him. But Jehovah will laugh at him, for he knows that his day will come. The wicked draw their swords and bend their bows to bring down the oppressed and the poor, to slaughter those whose way is upright. But their sword will pierce their own heart; their bows will be broken. Better is the little of the righteous one than the abundance of many wicked ones. For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but Jehovah will support the righteous. Jehovah is aware of what the blameless go through, and their inheritance will last forever. They will not be put to shame in the time of disaster; in the time of famine they will have plenty. But the wicked will perish; the enemies of Jehovah will vanish like glorious pastures; they will vanish like smoke. The wicked one borrows and does not repay, but the righteous one is generous and giving. Those blessed by Him will possess the earth, but those cursed by Him will be done away with. Jehovah guides the steps of a man when he finds pleasure in his way. Although he may fall, he will not be hurled down, for Jehovah supports him by the hand. I was once young and now I am old, but I have not seen anyone righteous abandoned, nor his children looking for bread. He always lends freely, and his children are in line for a blessing. Turn away from bad and do what is good, and you will remain forever. For Jehovah loves justice, and he will not abandon his loyal ones. They will always be guarded; but the descendants of the wicked will be done away with. The righteous will possess the earth, and they will live forever on it. The mouth of the righteous one imparts wisdom, and his tongue speaks about justice. The law of his God is in his heart; his steps will not falter. The wicked watches the righteous, seeking to put him to death. But Jehovah will not abandon him to the hand of that one or find him guilty when he is judged. Hope in Jehovah and follow his way, and he will exalt you to take possession of the earth. When the wicked are done away with, you will see it. I have seen the ruthless, evil man spreading out like a luxuriant tree in its native soil. But he suddenly passed away and was gone; I kept searching for him, and he could not be found. Take note of the blameless one, andd keep the upright one in sight, for the future of that man will be peaceful. But all the transgressors will be destroyed; the future of wicked people will be cut. The salvation of the righteous is from Jehovah; He is their fortress in the time of distress. Jehovah will help them and rescue them. He will rescue them from the wicked and save them, because they take refuge in him."

[@luzalgarin9518]

My comment has the goal to share an up building message full of hope and can console your broken heart. Jehovah God promises that those who have died will live again in Isaiah 26:19: "Your dead will live. My corpses will rise. Wake up and shout for joy, residents of the dust! For your dew is like the morning dew, and the earth will let those who are powerless in death live again." He will bring them back to life; that is the hope of the resurrection. Have a super great peaceful day!

[@A-Grammie-On-the-ROCK]

Not happenstance but Providential ...

[@tufawelalam4578]

High ghg

[@smoothsailingmp]

Not happensttance....that is GOD!

[@jessicahubbard7218]

Yes it is amen amen

[@johnathanjarisch7323]

What about Holodomer, what about the great leap forward, what about the second Sino-Japenese war, what about Genghis Khan. Why are all these crimes against humanity ignored while they act like the Holocaust was the worst thing that happened to humanity. Can't we remember all these things instead of just one of them.

[@noobie7719]

If we choose to remember “all these things”, it lessens the impact! It was a STATE SPONSORED effort to extinguish one group of people because of their ethnic and religious identity, it was an attempt to literally rip the heart and soul from the Jewish people, and they came dangerously close to doing just that! I can easily imagine the impact of losing ONE family member, can you try to imagine the impact of losing SIX MILLION?? We might have had a cure for cancer by now, how many children were never born because their great great grandparents were slaughtered, and what would THEY have accomplished? The Nazi’s slaughtered all who they thought of as “sub human”. I have to wonder if any of US would have been born if Germany had won that war?

[@johnathanjarisch7323]

@@noobie7719 You obviously don't know that much of history, do you?

[@johnathanjarisch7323]

@@noobie7719 Maybe you should go take a look at some of the tragedy's I mentioned. Especially the second Japanese-Sino War.

[@hollyisalwayshopeful2688]

Let this be your inspiration to start your own channel about other atrocities throughout history! I search out information about many historical events not only the holocaust, so I am sure your contributions would be appreciated by many!!!

[@FunnyAndCleverHandle]

Just because this video is about just one horrible thing doesn’t mean that there aren’t other videos about those horrible things.