"My memories of Jewish Williamsburg" | In Conversation with Harry Weiss

[@billducker7404]

Another wonderful video. Mr Weiss is living history and his testimony must be preserved. Please archive these testimonies. May HaShem bless you. What you are doing goes all over the world. Bill. UK

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Oh Bill, I'm so happy you're watching these oldies. Hope all is well in the UK. Here in NYC we are bracing ourselves for a rare snowstorm hopefully lots of snow for a change!

[@moshewertheimer8871]

I always wondered how my mother survived Auschwitz

[@melakify]

I have watched this multiple times. I cannot get enough. Please Please have him on again! Please have him take you for a tour. I would pay money to sit with this man and listen to all of his stories…..what a rich, warm, wonderful interview. His memories/stories are book material for sure! Thank you so much for this! Both of you!

[@HarryWeisskaimu]

it would be my honor to take you back in time in williamsburg . but it is a very different then it was 30 years ago .. all the jewish survivors are all gone

[@firelensman]

Harry Weiss has got it right. Bernstein's on Essex Street was one of the "greats" on the Lower East Side. The Chinese waiters spoke yiddish. It was not a "Hassideshe" scene but the restaurant was glatt kosher with an interesting mix of customers. Some of New York's frum "big shots" ate there. My father, may he rest in peace, loved the Peking Duck ! (I am not sure you could get Glatt Kosher "Peking Duck" anywhere else in New York City) So sad the Jewish (Religious) Lower East Side is almost completely gone.

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Thanks so much for the memories, I love hearing them

[@raeperonneau4941]

I’m neither Jewish nor a New Yorker yet I absolutely love these interviews! Mr. Weiss is a fabulous story teller and a charming gentleman. I loved listening to his stories and learned a lot. :-) …and I’ve always thought men look very handsome with long hair.

[@kittykate314]

That was a magnificent interview. I enjoyed it so much! 🥰

[@dougratner3203]

This is beautiful.

[@louisemay1976]

Charming, moving and engaging! Thank you from London x

[@rivkiesilberstein5978]

your guest reminds me of my childhood. He is truly entertaining. I really enjoyed your interview with him.

[@MusicaAngela]

What a great interview. Thank you for documenting this. It’s significant that he said, “The last thing we wanted to do was hurt our parents who suffered so much in the holocaust.” 23:00

[@chiefswife1212]

It is not children's jobs or worry for parents so traumatized, most of these kids had horrible childhoods

[@HarryWeisskaimu]

I did not have a horrible childhood As many children of holocaust survivors . Many did have bad childhoods. Same as today. Many bad and many good . Yes they were very protective and controlling

[@amyt2400]

Gd Bless you. ✡️

[@HarryWeisskaimu]

@@amyt2400 god bless you as well

[@MaestraEva]

Frieda, you are a good listener.

[@lindastein2401]

Wonderful man. Delightful interview.

[@laceystovall8828]

Fun & intense interview! What a personality :) Harry & his long hair, haha!

[@corinapintea9496]

I have seen a few of your videos now. It is so interesting to me to discover a piece of history about my country (Romania, when Pearl mention Satu Mare i just then made the conection to Satmar, and in this video Sighet was mentioned). I had a vague ideea about a jewish community living in the northern part of Romania before WW2, but didn't know their story at all. When Mr. Weiss refered to his father as "tati" my heart just skiped a bit, that being the Romania and Hungarian term for daddy. I am Romanian orthodox, my husband has Hungarian roots and is romano-catholic. These stories are so fascinating to me. Thank you for puting them out in the world!

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Very interesting comment. Thank you!

[@cindy77277]

I am new to your blog posts, I find them so very informative. I am learning so much and I have a better understanding of the religion I respect you and what you are trying to do. May God bless you. 🙏❤️

[@caroledrury1411]

Thank you again for the for the stories. I am really appreciating your videos. I hope I’m not too bold to ask if you could possibly translate on the screen more the Yiddish terms that are used by some of the interviewers. I think they’re very interesting terms that we could all learn from what they go back by quickly in the conversation and in some of your videos, you give the translation and that really helps

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

I'm trying to learn to do that. Thanks for the feedback. This channel is a work in progress, always :)

[@bellpeppergreen8602]

So educational

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Thanks. Harry is such a lovely person.

[@sam-uf2ri]

Freidale,you are such a sweetheart and such a gite neshoma ,you belong with us ,back home ,back to where you be long ,not kiyath yoel if you don't want to, but back home ,as you are such a special bas Yisroel, such a good heart.love you.

[@BrooklynBooms]

The last trolleys in Brooklyn were on Church Ave and McDonald Ave. The very last run on each Oct 31 1956 😊

[@freespeech100]

What a great interview!

[@desertpriere]

amazing how one could survive the holocaust and still have the strength to immigrate and work. People these days do not have that kind of strength.

[@spelaresnik2646]

I personaly knew two ladies,who survived. One of them teached me german for six years. the othet was my neighbour's aunt. we used to drink coffie once a month... they both worked, but they never spoke being traumatiesd... also non- jewish people were in camps, but without such a great stigma as jewish people... Slavic people were the next to go after they would finish jews... Only thing that I noticed was the care, that this two ladies took for their looks. They were dressed beautifully and wore a lot of jewellery... They sad, this was to remind them of their worth...

[@ohgrammy48]

I loved Zoro, and Art Linkletter!

[@MimCotton]

I love your videos. As a non-Jewish person (albeit with some Jewish ancestry) it's hard to follow the conversation at times because of not understanding the terms (Yiddish? Hebrew?). Could you edit some captions or explanations into the recordings?

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Oh, good idea. I'll go back to some of these older ones and add in translations.

[@kham6006]

I like this guy

[@morehn]

Have you interviewed any Rosenbergs, Schweid, or Isseroffs? Those are some Williamsburg families we brought over after the war.

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

I'd love to.

[@Allergictocatstoo]

So rich with life!

[@rivkiesilberstein5978]

Hi, I am new to your channel. I was wondering how i can get in touch with you personally. Do you have a website where i can reach you?

[@user-eg8pv2om7j]

Beautiful, special and fascinating. Do you feel interviews work better face to face together in the room ,maybe neutral territory or online,apart ?

[@victorblock3421]

My father was from Hungary. He was also a Zionist and followed Jabotinsky, probably as Harry Weiss' father. A Rabbi also yelled at my father and said he was crazy to talk about running away. When did the Germans come? also Pesach 1944. Soon he ended up in Auschwitz. My dad was young and strong so he survived as slave labor. His whole family was killed in Auschwitz a few hundred members. Survivors from Hungary had basically the same story. Oh and family name? Weiss/Klein/Friedman/Roth It's a small world. When I'm in Brooklyn or at a simcha and meet people, everyone seems to have a connection. We are all related.

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Thanks for sharing - it's all around so sad.

[@HarryWeisskaimu]

amazing that you have the same story and history as i have . all survivors had very similar stories

[@miriambanda8427]

Where in Williamsburg did he live?

[@HarryWeisskaimu]

126 lee ave between hooper and hewes street

[@grasmereguy5116]

@@HarryWeisskaimu Do you daven by Pollack or Isaacson?

[@HarryWeisskaimu]

@@grasmereguy5116 young israel of Staten Island. Rabbi pollock is a dear friend

[@grasmereguy5116]

@@HarryWeisskaimu I think you look familiar to me from either YISI or Rav Pollak's shul. MY father O"H also was close to Rabbi Pollak and helped urge Rav Pollak to move to SI from Boro Park in the early 1970s. I am at the other end of SI, in Grasmere, near the VZ Bridge (as my screen handle indicates).

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Thanks for answering here Harry. I just noticed you gave answers and I appreciate it!

[@johnjacobs7426]

The tall waiter is still there

[@chiefswife1212]

So many traumatized by holocost had children and shouldn't have, many of those children suffered greatly :( I'm so happy we have generations now insulated from that trauma and hate.

[@normanfriedman8586]

The BEST response to the Holocaust was to have children. The Lubavitcher Rebbe stated this firmly. The Nazis wanted to extinguish us; by procreating, these brave survivors defied them and spit in the face of those who wanted to destroy the Jewish people. (To not have children would be to accomplish exactly what Hitler wanted, Chsv'shlm)

[@HarryWeisskaimu]

Great observation thank you

[@marcpelta4055]

The Hungarian Forced Labor was called "Munkaszolgalat", pronounced 'Munkasholgalat'.

[@blessings42]

Munka Tabor

[@moshewertheimer8871]

Waiter name is berney