Floris Kalman - Holocaust Survivor Testimony

[@hampshireoak]

Thank you for telling your story. Many people do care.

[@Perspective125]

I am deeply grateful for the honor of listening to this beautiful woman. As a child, she experienced everything on a much more intense scale than adults would have, especially because they were in her formative years. And because she was far too young to have the experience necessary to deal with such a massive trauma. Finding herself suddenly cut completely off from everything she knew as her world, and immediately thrown into a very different world must have been terrifying, all by itself. I am so very happy that she survived, and happier still that she was in fact, finally liberated by finding her own voice, her own significance, her own importance. Thank you Floris. And thank you to those who made this video possible for all of us to see.

[@ja2416]

Likewise. They experienced the worst of humanity, as children.

[@helenangus1675]

Thank you Floris for your story you have really impressed me.

[@adambrocklehurst4211]

Every single person who helped the girl put their lives, and the lives of their family, at risk by saving her. So I imagine these people suffered terrible anxiety, which is probably why some were less than perfect carers.

[@helenh493]

This story of a young hidden child in the Holocaust years, her loneliness, sadness, her confusion of what was happening to her and why it was. To be parted from her family without even the simplest of explanations, my heart went out to her. Not able to express her feelings, her fears to strangers, she kept it inside herself and suffered alone. I can't imagine how she felt.. no doubt she felt abandoned by her parents, and unwanted and a hinderance to at least some of her (so-called) saviors, her pseudo families during that time. True, these people did above and beyond what was a humane thing to do.. even though some (if not all) had never allowed her nor themselves to express any kind of caring beyond the superficial type. I can only imagine what she went through. There were many "Hidden Children" of the Holocaust years, who felt abandoned by parents, and although (maybe or maybe not) felt neglected and a hinderance. feeling utterly separate and "alone", while burying all of these negative feelings deep inside themselves. And last, some of these Hidden Holocaust Children, sadly and unfortunately were not only not able to re-bond with parents (afterwards), but when having their own children, they were distant, in ways, with their children. They had become desensitized during the times of being moved from stranger to stranger family so often, it became a way of coping, and a way of life at that time. I cannot imagine this of any adult for very long, let alone a very young child who didn't and couldn't have-a-clue. Bless Floris, for telling her story, as a Hidden Child of the Holocaust. She and they had to go through their own kind of Hell, even as they were hidden. Some tortures are Not physical, some are emotional and psychological (and can be worse).

[@blancabulgrin5560]

Lovely lady we care .I'm sorry.

[@sheilahunter8807]

I had the privilege of doing some transcriptions for DC Holocaust Museum - these stories are miraculous & heartbreaking.❤️🌹🙏 G_d Bless these Dear Survivors. & their posterity Families are Forever❤️

[@glendaharris7219]

You survived....you were fortunate...be thankful.

[@cozygoats550]

She can be appreciative for surviving while acknowledging her loss emotionally from this period in her life. It’s not that simple and she shouldn’t have to be grateful for surviving.

[@johnburman966]

Met an older Jewish lady in a Bank in South Africa. She told me as a child she lived in the forests, living rough. People would leave food for her. She said her health was damaged.

[@miriams76]

She's lovely.

[@colettegillard]

How families could leave their homes to go to a city square, ghetto, is beyond belief! But that's what they did , when they left the gettho, they traveled by cattle car train to the concentration camps, Auschwitz or Bergen belsen, Dachau, etc it must of been terrible to live their & get woken up in the early hrs of the morning just so the officers (ss) or Nazi officers could count how many heads were there, so they didn't escape ! It was called roll call. They were lucky to get food, water, or even a hot drink! They had to march in the snow as the death march! Some got diseases, got sick got starved I really don't understand how cruel some of those people could be! Hitler ordered them to do it! Or they would be killed themselves. Some of the officers got hung for what they did, murdered the Jews or any religion they were, it didn't matter what they were exterminated ! It's living proof when you hear the experiences of what some of them went through! How they survived being treated like dirt I don't know! But they also separated the men from the woman & little kids who knew nothing or were too young in age to understand! Babies etc I really hope no human being ever has to go through that again, there's enough violence in this world without that atroscitie ! Very sad! ☹