A Disturbed Child in a Warsaw Orphanage 1948

[@Jenny79513]

8:27 'Romanian or Gypsy' - a 'Romanian' is from Romania, and amongst the victims of the Nazis were the Roma or Romani, a stateless ethnic group. 'Gypsy' is considered a slur at worst, or at the very least a non-preferable way to call the Roma People. I thought it's good to let you know in case you cover something including them in the future

[@historyandhearsay]

@@Jenny79513 you know, I used to think that Gypsy was a slur, but all of the historical references listed them as both, leading me to believe that they preferred to be called by both, depending on the area they live, I will have to do some more research on it! I’ve research lots of WWII stories and I’ve found this in all of my sources, so I may have to look into it again, specifically in regards to that issue. I know there is a trend in todays society where people like to be called Gypsy, in certain areas - though that is a whole separate thing

[@Jenny79513]

@historyandhearsay I also saw that for example Romani people in the UK still use it, but I would say that in my country of Poland which was being largely discussed here, in present day it's definitely a trend amongst the younger, more inclusive generation to start avoiding the Polish equivalent of the word Gypsy and go for Roma. language is ever evolving so I guess we just need to watch and see!

[@historyandhearsay]

@ ah! Okay, and yes that is true! Thank you so much for being kind in your comment! I love to learn & it’s nice when people can help me learn, without being rude about it 😆 so I appreciate it!💕

[@Jenny79513]

@@historyandhearsay of course, we all learn every day, I also learned about this little girl for the first time today despite being from the same country as her, so thank you for this video! ❤️

[@historyandhearsay]

@ 💕

[@h3art_3y3s]

I work at a Holocaust museum so I deal with some pretty heavy stuff on the reg. The thing that broke my heart into pieces was listening to a survivor give a talk in which she broke down in tears. She was over 90 years old and talking about this event that happened in her childhood that had reduced her to tears once again. Interestingly, it was actually talking about the transition back into society that caused her the most anguish - her family had NOTHING and no one to help them. I can’t imagine what these poor children went through. RIP Veronica.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@h3art_3y3s 😭 truly heartbreaking! I’m sure many of them held on to get back to “normal” it must’ve been devastating to realize that their old normal was no longer a reality 💔

[@itsalwaysteatime3803]

The poor child,she was probably so scared and confused.. ❤❤ and all the poor children who suffered under the nazi occupation. Proud that I have members of my family on both sides who fought those nazi bastard's.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@itsalwaysteatime3803 so very sad! But I’m so glad there were those who had the ability to fight them & win!

[@marjolaine6274]

To dziecko doznało uszkodzenia mózgu po wybuchu bomby, czytałam o niej artykuł. Do końca życia została upośledzona.

[@molls127]

as an autistic jew it really pains me to hear stories like this, but you did a good job humanizing this little girl

[@historyandhearsay]

@@molls127 thank you! Sometimes they are hard to learn about! 😞

[@RFergusson]

Do you support Israel?

[@deearr420]

Do you go around asking every jew this question? Sit down. ​@@RFergusson

[@gigglyme2001]

@@RFergussonI do!

[@SonjaMorrison-i7j]

Not a disturbed child. A normal child responding to disturbing influences.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@SonjaMorrison-i7j The title is the title the war photographer gave the photo 💕

[@theboujieproletariat]

Disturbed has more than 1 meaning- the child isn't mentally disturbed, the child has BEEN disturbed by her situation.

[@ungenbunyon5548]

So a disturbed child.

[@pbohearn]

Actually, she was brain injured

[@historyandhearsay]

@ yes! She was, poor thing!

[@jesusisking288]

your pronounciation of tereska actually surprised me! i dont know if you looked it up before, but still thank you!!!

[@jesusisking288]

also if you are into ww2 check out the story of lužice a ležáky

[@historyandhearsay]

@@jesusisking288 I look all the pronunciations up ahead of time because I’m terrible at them🙈 usually I still mess them up, but I do my best! Sometimes I can’t find the pronunciation, like with her last name. But I try! So thank you! :)

[@kimisorensen4974]

Another thing that makes me even more thankful that I was taken out of an orphanage because it was recognized that I was so sick. They knew if I was kept in an orphanage I wouldn’t make it. I was born in Korea. So sad. But these orphanage horror stories are still very much prevalent today, it doesn’t even have to be in a war zone. I know a story about a little girl who wasn’t picked up for 3 years because workers were afraid she would give them what she had. Now that little girl is with an American family and is doing great. She still has many challenges but she’s doing so much better than she was.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@kimisorensen4974 yes, it is truly so tragic! I love hearing the positive stories though, of children who found people to take them in & love them! 💕

[@Laurie03]

This young girl must have felt her home was scattered about and must have felt that her life was a scribbled mess. Having such an injury must have made it more difficult to express her life on paper at such a young age, possibly a reason for the way she drew. It must have been very hard and challenging life for her and her brother. The children during these times suffered unimaginable pain, both physically and psychologically. My heart aches for them,

[@historyandhearsay]

@@Laurie03 I agree! So very sad 😔

[@maryfreebed9886]

My first thought when I saw those were that they were not simply scribbles, but fairly accurately rendered barbed wire coils. It's an odd place to start a basic drawing of home, like starting to draw a human being by starting with their toenails, but it would make sense she'd draw that if that's where she'd been for a long time during her childhood, wouldn't it?

[@historyandhearsay]

@@maryfreebed9886 it really would, though we now know she didn’t spend her life in a concentration camp, but I’m sure she saw that barbed wire if she was anywhere near a camp!

[@Nat_BLSK]

People who were part of underground Armia Krajowa (Home Army) were NOT ACTIVISTS. They were sworn in as soldiers and went through as much training as possible, although it wasn much. Even smallest diversive actions could result in the death of not only those who took part in them, but also their families and friends. Many times if the perpetrators weren't caught, the so called "hostages" were killed by Nazis. "Hostages" were just people who happened to be imprisoned or caught in raids for literally nothing. If anyone got caught they were tortured and killed after weeks or months. Those were often women or teenagers, sometimes kids. Armia Krajowa was responsible for many big and important operations, like stealing an Enigma machine, which helped Allies to finally decipher German radio traffic. Also the name Tereska can only be spelled with an "s". In Polish names can't be spelled differently (like Ashley/Ashley). Tereska is an diminutive of Teresa.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@Nat_BLSK I know there were different groups, some are recorded in history as activists- possibly due to the involvement in the underground actions even prior to the war starting, I’m not familiar with the specific group your referring to, but I went into more detail about a specific polish group in a previous video, that I mentioned in passing here. The group referenced here, was similar based on my research, but I know I did not go into details in this video. (If your interested the other video is the only about Irena, the polish woman who helped save 2500 kids with her work in the underground) Thank you for watching & sharing about the Armia Krajowa.

[@Stefiiiz]

​@@historyandhearsay Armia Krajowa was not a "group", it was a military organisation, the literal Polish army. Also, please check your pronuciation when preparing videos. While things like surnames can be hard for you to find, you definitely could have checked "Otwock" or "Luftwaffe". With that being said, congrats on doing your research. I realise that what you know is way more than an average American knows about WW II anyway.

[@historyandhearsay]

@ thank you, I called them a “group” bc OP was explaining something about a group of people who I was not talking about. So it was just a quick way of referencing multiple people associated by the same thing. We would call our police here a “group” if we were trying to talk about multiple different types of people groups. (Hope that makes sense) If referring to them in abstract. And as far as the pronunciation, I work very hard on it, but it clearly does not come naturally to me! I’ve only ever been exposed to English and some Spanish, so it’s a very large learning curve for me - especially as a southern American where we pronounce even American English differently than much of the rest of the country.

[@apalyna2173]

Such a sad story, but I always enjoy your videos!

[@historyandhearsay]

It is! And thank you! :)

[@NotWhatIamMadeFor]

Thing is...that look in her eyes - that drawing? Yes they are historic and yes they are things of the past but this kind of damage exists today in children with the same haunted eyes. The suffering continues

[@historyandhearsay]

@@NotWhatIamMadeFor sadly, it does 😞

[@NotWhatIamMadeFor]

@@historyandhearsay yea sadly

[@anniej1834]

Happy 🆕 year thanks 4 another fantastic video 📸 now time 2 buckle up and get stuck in and here's 2 spending many more videos 📸 with u

[@historyandhearsay]

@@anniej1834 happy new year! And thank you!! :)

[@clarencedavisiii1412]

Thanks Christina happy new year ❤😊

[@historyandhearsay]

@@clarencedavisiii1412 happy new year! :)

[@Prince9743]

Very interesting 👍

[@historyandhearsay]

@@Prince9743 thank you for watching!

[@meridaskywalker7816]

Mote details of about her later life: as a teenager, she got addicted to alcohol and cigarettes she would steal from her father. As her mental health deteriorate, she also became aggressive towards her little brother, so much so that the family decided to make him move with their eldest sister. Her parents kept taking her to different doctors and psychiatrists, but none of them managed to help her. At 20 years old, she was placed in a mental hospital in Tworki. Her family would visit her regularly, but as years passed she became more and more detached from reality. She died at 38 years old by choking on food she stole from another patient.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@meridaskywalker7816 yes! I had all of that written down, I don’t know how I missed sharing it!! (I must have mistakenly deleted it from my notes) Such a sad ending to her life 😭

[@Noel-s1c3p]

Thank You and Stay Safe 👍 🤠 ✌️from Australia ✌️

[@historyandhearsay]

@@Noel-s1c3p thank you for watching! :)

[@Meow-ix6wg]

Hi! So Tereska is actually a diminutive to Teresa

[@historyandhearsay]

Ah yes :)

[@aprilknerr4443]

Such a sad story.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@aprilknerr4443 it really is :(

[@babiegirl526]

i feel so bad for her like its not even fair things just happened to her and she had to deal with it its just so sad for adults living in that let alone growing up in this enviourment and not seeing your family ever again

[@historyandhearsay]

I agree 😭

[@cathyv51]

I remember this picture of the girl by the blackboard from my first year (1978) psychology textbook. I think it was used in the chapter on childhood schizophrenia.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@cathyv51 oh interesting

[@michaelclark8474]

It would be Awesome if you would do an episode on the Silver Lake Sea Serpent! 🙆

[@historyandhearsay]

@@michaelclark8474 ohh I will look into that one!

[@Miso_Soup_1]

Great video! Sorry about some of the Polish people in the comments being offended by the smallest things. WW2 is still VERY fresh in our collective mind, so this topic always brings a lot of strong emotions. I think it'll take at least a couple more decades to heal this national trauma. So please don't take any of those comments too personally. You're doing a great job and your videos are very fun to watch :)

[@historyandhearsay]

@@Miso_Soup_1 thank you so much! I feel bad when people get so upset because I truly do spend a lot of time on trying to get it right! Making these types of videos has caused me to realize how fresh this still is to people! 💕

[@theboujieproletariat]

It's REALLY important to refer to people by their real names. You should have called her by her name, and just checked with a Polish person how to pronounce it. This would make your video more respectable for European audience and Polish descendants in the USA who watch. This isn't a little thing, it's something that will make your videos much more authentic in the future. And I agree with the below comment about the gypsy slur. European cultures are different to yours, names and ethnic groups identities carry a different weight and meaning, than what they do in USA or Canada.

[@historyandhearsay]

Yes, I do my best but some people get more offended by a mispronounced name, than if you just say it in your own language. Which is why I chose to do that in this video. I’ve since learned Teresa is a nickname for Thereska & not “the English version” of her name, so I guess I was saying it correctly afterall! :) I don’t have polish people at my beck & call, so the next best thing is that I look up audio of how to pronounce the word. If that’s not authentic enough for you, I understand, but i do the best that I currently can. I’m sure I will get better with time 💕 As far as Gypsy being a slur, that is also of mixed opinion - I thought it was also, until I found lots of reputable historical sources using it, (currently) and people calling themselves that also. So I figured it may have changed or be different by area. I’ve spoken to polish people, (who found me from the video) since making this video who have confirmed that it depends on the area, wither it is considered offensive or not. With some young people in certain areas now “wanting” to be referred to as gypsies. Language is always evolving. But now I know that some do still consider it a slur. Also I try to make it clear in my videos that I’m learning with my videos & am certainly no expert. I’m sure there are plenty of experts, you can find, if that is what you are looking for. Thanks for watching!

[@InsoIence]

@@historyandhearsay I agree with the OP. (I am Polish, so I will be biased) I would like you to know (please don't take my dry tone as offended or meaning offense, this is just how I express myself), how important it is for many people out there to preserve their heritage. Polish names (among many other nationalities and ethnicities) have a long history of being mispronounced; sometimes purposefully, sometimes carelessly, sometimes because of lack of effort. Its bearers have been severely discriminated against by 'western' nations on many occasions throughout history. (Post WW2, post Brexit etc) I don't believe this person meant malice. I think they are giving you a recipe for success: go above and beyond and different cultures will embrace you and lift you up in the algorithm. I like to use Google Translator to help me with name pronunciations, if that helps. Later on, you can write it down using very simple English pronunciation system. "Adwentowska" would be "Adventovska", where all of the vowels are always pronounced in a hard way: "A" - "Advent", "E" - "vEnt", "O" - "cOd". Hey, as long as you listen, learn and improve - it will be alright. It can be harsh hearing a lot of of people repeating the same criticism, as it compounds in our brains. I believe the respect you gain from 'character progression' is invaluable, so never get discouraged. Take care of yourself. :)

[@historyandhearsay]

@@InsoIence thank you so much! You are very kind in the way that you share & that means a lot :) And I get why people can be sensitive. I try to show that I am “trying” but I know that if I don’t post unless it’s perfect, I would never post a video at all, so it can be a hard balance at times. I get some comments that seem to think I have a big budget for my videos, since spend 20-40+ hours on videos that make $2 on ads… I don’t have a budget 😆🙈 That being said I spend CONSIDERABLE time trying to get words as closely as I can. I typically look up a native speaker (in this case a polish person) saying the word, but I can not always find that. I will look for any spoken audio of the word. If I can’t find that, Then I try to look up the way it’s spelled out.. I then practice over and over to try to get it right… but even in the best case scenario where I find a native speaker, I sometimes still get it wrong. That’s why I say I do my best & hope that it never comes across as intentionally mispronounced or callus, but it can be hard if people assume that, after the hours & hours that have gone into trying to get it right 💕 it does make me want to avoid certain topics, but they need to be talked about. So I just continue to do my best and try to improve.

[@agnieszkakowalska7564]

Seymour visited Otwock [otvotzk] - south east of Warsaw, area of pine forests and prewar resort, traditional place of resting and healing respiratory problems -also for plenty of Jewish people from Warsaw.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@agnieszkakowalska7564 I didn’t know that it was a pre-war resort! I’ve only ever learned about it in relation to the war. That’s very interesting!

[@agnieszkakowalska7564]

@@historyandhearsay The area along the railway from Warsaw to Otwock had a picturesque style of wooden houses, villas, guesthouses called jokingly "świder-meir", written also "świder-majer" (analogy to biedermeir). "Ś" is a softened short s, (try to shortly, softly whistle "s" sound 😉), [śvider - mayer]. Świder is a name of a small river, pouring into queen river Vistula.

[@historyandhearsay]

@ thank you! :)

[@carleyberndt8398]

So glad to see your name pop up as I'm laying in bed!

[@historyandhearsay]

@@carleyberndt8398 yay! Thanks for watching!:) I wanted to have this up MUCH sooner today, but I’m glad I at least got it up before the day was over! 😆

[@RFergusson]

I live in Warsaw.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@RFergusson oh wow, I’m sure all the history there is incredibly sobering

[@Glooot]

Tereska is just a version of the name Teresa 😊

[@historyandhearsay]

Another commenter just taught me that! Nice to know that either way I was actually calling her by the correct name! 🥰

[@marylove909]

I have been very interested in how the world helped the victims move back into society. It's almost impossible to understand why the Holocaust happened and what people and communities went through, but I also think about how people endured what they did and just moved on. What was done to help children, especially those with no family or real community support will be interesting. I feel all we can do is pray for their souls, learn the lessons and signs of it happening again, and to always remember to love our neighbors and treat each how we want to be treated. We are all God's children.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@marylove909 💕 it truly is so hard to leave about… the episode coming out today (in about 10 minutes) talks a little more about what was done after to help children, though of course it still wasn’t enough & I don’t know if anyone ever fully heals from going through something so traumatic. At least not in this life.

[@itsalwaysteatime3803]

Nollaig Shona na mBan- Happy Women's Christmas ❤️❤️❤️ The 6th of January is nollaig na mbhan - meaning women's Christmas a day of rest for women after all the Christmas rush and preparing. So traditionally in Ireland years ago the women would organise a day out together for themselves as a treat or they would gather in one of the women's homes for lunch and drinks and a mini party basically, all the men would take the kids and feck off and leave the women alone for the day. It's not done as much here because gender roles now aren't so strict and rigid. Just thought I'd share that with you guys ❤❤

[@historyandhearsay]

@@itsalwaysteatime3803 very cool! Thanks for sharing :)

[@itsalwaysteatime3803]

❤❤❤❤

[@deearr420]

Romani is not romanian and the G word is a slur. I doubt there was any ill intent in this video, i just wanted to speak up so hopefully this is seen.

[@historyandhearsay]

Yes! Someone else commented! I misspoke on Romanian… I’ve corrected Romani in my next video 🙈 I also thought the G word was a slur but it’s used in ALL of the current historical pages where I research, so I thought it must have changed or depends on the area (I also so interviews with people calling themselves that) There is also a trend of young people wanting to be called that… I guess it all depends on the area and/or the context maybe? I know language is always evolving, thanks for thinking the best :) No ill is ever intended! 💕

[@felicitypasquill9194]

@deearr420 why is gypsy supposedly a slur?

[@hedgemist691]

You should have stuck to the original pronunciation of her name. It was Tereska not Theresa, and her father's name would have been pronounced 'Yan'.

[@historyandhearsay]

Thank you! Teresa is apparently a nickname for Tereska (I thought it was the English translation) according to other commenters. I only know English, so have to look things up often, and thought I knew how to pronounce “Jan” didn’t think to look that one up! I learned from another commenter that is it’s Yan & also in English it’s “John” so cool to learn! 💕

[@HybrydaArt]

about the name, how is it debatable, Tereska is the only proper way to write that name, it's cute version of Teresa

[@historyandhearsay]

I look things up to be accurate & people are debating which is accurate. That’s how it’s debatable, because people are debating it :) thanks for watching!

[@agnieszkakowalska7564]

Tereska Adwentowska [adventovska] - sounds very Christian, Latin word "adventus" - "arrival", in Polish adwent is atime of waiting and preparing both spiritually an materialy for Christmas (in English culture - have you eaten your chocolate from the calendar?)

[@historyandhearsay]

@@agnieszkakowalska7564 oh I love that! Thanks for sharing! That makes sense, as her family was catholic & I know typically Catholics love to give “Christian” or biblical names. I never would have connected it with advent, but that’s beautiful 💕

[@agnieszkakowalska7564]

​@@historyandhearsayYou are a nice, good- willing girl and I say sorry if I am too strict and too furious about widespread misconceptions about WW2 in Poland in world's opinion. You are innocent😊❤❤❤. I am here to answer your questions. Poland was betrayed by Western Allies and trampled, torn apart by Hiter and Stalin. Therefore, thrown behind the iron curtain and being not convenient, somehow forgotten, diminished. (Please do not betray Ukraine!) Tereska's trauma is same like of our parents, grandparents. If our elderly are afraid when we are outside after the dark - it is because of the war. Being a child in a concentration / or slavery work camp for Polish child it was nothing unusual. You needen't have even a parent in an undeground army. Being Polish was enough. Maybe your mother kept a little swine, not registered for Germans. You could also be chosen as of "Aryan look" and given away to German family, and rest of your village&family exterminated. You have given a bigger description of Warsaw Jewish Getto - at first I thought that Tereska was Jewish. But the reality of Polish fate is faintly descripted. I guess it reflexes general knowledge of Western societies, also USA. What had symbolic Tereska seen? A siege on Warsaw, meticulously planned barbaric bombardments of Warsaw in 1939. Mass street executions both of Polish and Jewish people. Maybe heard about the reality in the getto. Maybe have seen people dying from starvation through the hole in a painted white glass of a tram window passing through the getto. Have seen huge fires of the burning city during extermination and Jewish uprising. Travelled in overcrowded Polish part of a tram wagon, looking on a vast empty space for bold German overlords. Ate bread backed from nobody knows what, which tasted like mud. Could be caught with parents in a street "catch" so called "łapanka" [wapanka] - to be killed f.ex. in revenge for was a Polish partisan action, or send to slavery work /concentration camp. And experienced 63 days of Warsaw Uprising (imagine Wordl Trade Center x 63 - 200 000 died). Bombardment, fire, lack of food and water, being trapped in basements, wounded, seeing Germans and their Nazi , also -post Soviet collaborators murdering with cruelty whole districts. Being expelled from the ruins, taken to concentration camps/ slavery work. Escaping between fronts, being hunted by pilots with machine guns on the snow. Being "liberated" by Soviet soldier from your spoon - the last memory of somebody from the family. Luckily, maybe not raped, although it was also possible. Luckily, someone told you not to go to Russian post, only to Polish soldiers - you avoided being takem to Siberia. Or just the opposite. I can't write all the possible fates. You return, ruins of the house, whole city does not exist, you are all alone. Or later, your tortured by Germans heroic patriotic partisant father is now tortured by Soviets for "being a Nazi" " a spy" - whatever. If he fighted in Western Europe - that is bad. Thousands lost their health and life in Stalinist prisons. You can read books by Norman Davies, Timothy Garton Ash f.ex. "Blooded lands"

[@agnieszkakowalska7564]

​@@historyandhearsayAdwentowska it is a surname. Traditionally in Poland except from birthdays, older generation celebrates "imieniny" - name's holiday. In older times often people were given a name from church calendar of martyrs , so of the saint from the birthday. Custom practised among nobility, but maybe not only.

[@RFergusson]

You pronounce it Adventovska

[@historyandhearsay]

@@RFergusson thank you!

[@agnieszkakowalska7564]

Tereska is a cute deminutive of Teresa. It is not "teriska" - how you pronounce it in a naughty English manner. [TerE- ska] second "e" sounds like "wEstern" and always sounds like this in Polish! Tereska - without any doubt it is "s" not "z". Thanks for making this film 😊

[@historyandhearsay]

@@agnieszkakowalska7564 very interesting, I may have still pronounced it incorrectly . But at last I know I got the English pronunciation of Teresa right 😆 (I have friends with that name) thanks for the explanation & for watching! :)

[@agnieszkakowalska7564]

Polish prounciation has a stable rules, it is pronounced basicly in the same manner how it is written. English is ambiguous and has changed the expressions of basic vowels represented in Latin alphabeth.

[@agnieszkakowalska7564]

Name of Tereska's father was Jan [Yan] - John.😊

[@agnieszkakowalska7564]

Sister of Tereska - Jadwiga [Yadviga], [i] is always pronounced like in "disk'

[@historyandhearsay]

@@agnieszkakowalska7564 I was wondering about the dad’s name! Because Jan in English is a female name.

[@RFergusson]

Warsaw wasn’t aerial bombed after the uprising. The Nazis systemically went from building to building and killed everyone and then firebombed. Please. It wasn’t only Jews who were the victims of the Nazis in Poland. The Poles faced equal brutality.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@RFergusson yes, of course. Which is why I always try to mention the other groups that were killed,including poles, in all of my WWII videos. Some go into more details than others, depending on the topic (I have to try to stay on track with the story I am telling, so sometimes it’s simply a quick mention) like my video on Irena Sendler & my next video, that goes up on Sunday :) Thank you for watching!