Holocaust Survivor Kristine Keren Testimony | USC Shoah Foundation

[@denisetaylor-crommett4781]

Her Father and Mother were amazing in my opinion.

[@janetblanc7658]

And Kristina too. A little girl protecting her smaller brother. Unbelievable courage.

[@JayveeSonata]

I am presently reading her book "The Girl in the Green Sweater". It is an extraordinary story - - deeply touching.

[@MsWobie]

Thank you so very much for having the courage to share your story.

[@margaretroselle8610]

God bless the Jewish nation. Wonderful people who have faced unending persecution. Thank you for this excellent interview.

[@jpmd2011]

Forever my hero. Kristine Keren, if you ever see this just know that you have inspired me so much!

[@luckyduck63]

I read with awe her book, "The Girl in the Green Sweater". Kristine Keren is an inspiration and a hero.

[@tessadrake824]

What an AMAZING woman. Such a moving story. A testament to the power of the human spirit. I'm so in awe of her father's complete dedication to his family, her own resilience, and Soha's humanity. So much to learn for us all.

[@evytoro1960]

Thank you for sharing your amazing life story. God bless you!

[@sheebakitty378]

Evy Toro she didn't remember hardly anything. then she rem odd random details.

[@mlmbeliever]

@@sheebakitty378 we don't remember much from kindergarten. So as she got older she remembered more information.

[@sabx345]

A remarkable and beautiful lady, what strength and role model... Chapeau!

[@noracathrine]

Wow her father was really amazing and so brave to keep his family alive!!

[@natashamichelle8330]

Exactly

[@Bangirn]

What an inspiring woman. There is much learn from listening to her. I particularly like her calling on people not to forget - 'If we will forget, if they will forget, it can happen again'.

[@candicechristian7344]

Thank you for posting this amazing , beautiful woman's story. So encouraging, and, heart touching ... ❤❤❤🌹

[@patriciasalassbirthdaysala4963]

Beautiful woman inside and out. Very smart too!!! Thank you Kristina. May God have you in his Glory, together with all your Jewish brothers and sisters that perished. Please accept my love, respect and admiration. Shalom 🇮🇱🇪🇸

[@silverbreezeRn]

Thank you for sharing your story. I will remember your story always. 😭

[@victoriasmith815]

I was moved by the honesty and courage that was shared, very inspirational. The interviewer is excellent, thought provoking questions and kindness in her voice.

[@solangeboudreau6467]

Thank you for posting these important testimonies.

[@NatalieYOT]

What an amazing survival story, and also how they overcame all the problems afterwards to go on with life and succeed against all odds is very motivational, thanks for this

[@timdetmers3240]

I read Kristine's story, and it is an amazing story indeed. Speaks eloquently to the will to survive.

[@malky736]

An incredible woman, like so many others who gave their testimonies.They all demonstrate the power of the human spirit. Such a contrast between the evil of the Nazi’s and these glowing beacons of humanity.

[@Genevieve4260]

God bless the Keren family....XXOO

[@eritain]

I'd guess the interviewer was pretty young at the time. We who have the good fortune not to be schoolchildren anymore can go easy and be grateful for her helping to get this documented.

[@lorirogers9570]

The interviewer sounded too young for this extensive harrowing interview ! I’d like to read the book These horrific stories are paralleling what’s happening in 2020

[@gracechristina8869]

@@lorirogers9570 are you kidding??? How can anything compare to this

[@mlmbeliever]

@@gracechristina8869 if we aren't careful we'll let ppl continue hailing dictators and autocracies as if nobody can understand what these ppl suffered.

[@victoriasmith815]

That’s what I thought as well , I’m so grateful for the work of the interviewers .

[@szyhaPL]

Wysłuchałem prawie cały wywiad. Cieszę się, że ułożyło się Pani życie, ma Pani dzieci i jest szczęśliwa. Życzę dużo zdrowia! Bardzo żałuję, że to wszystko się wydarzyło... Że Polska wygląd inaczej niż przed wojną... I wsytd mi za te wspomniane przypadki antysemityzmu ze strony Polaków.

[@nicolenedekker8373]

How inspiring! Thank you for sharing your story.

[@rowan655]

Most amazing testimony ive heard yet and ive heard quite a few.

[@joywisdom6598]

The interviewer really is irritating , but the Survivor is exceptional & beautiful.

[@NatalieYOT]

The interviewer has to ask a lot of questions because the interviewee gives short answers and then stops

[@rondobson1828]

After listening to many of these interviews and I have to say this one is especially harrowing, particularly with the woman who was pregnant in the sewer. The choices that people had to make during those times were unimaginable and so tragic. There are people in the world today who have a fascist mentality and they need to be taken seriously as a threat to humanity.

[@rondasuzette7611]

Lovely woman. Silly interviewer didn't listen well. Thank you for your testimony.

[@elizabethbrown8833]

I agree. 🙏

[@lisaottomann2396]

Honestly the interviewer sounded 10 years old… I wish they would just let the person tell there story in an authentic way, not have these unfeeling robotic questions fired at them!

[@anne-marienordin7636]

The look in this brave womans eyes tells everything.❤️

[@monikarobinson8456]

I’m sorry but the person conducting the interview is beyond annoying. Some questions are so irrelevant, and the breaks between each question are way too long and create an incredibly awkward moments. I applaud the survivor for answering each question, especially the irritating ones.

[@fada7903]

Such brave parents! What a blessing! However, I can't even imagine such ordeal

[@leannmeddings4068]

She's a beautiful spirit. An amazing person.

[@christichristi5481]

Amazing story, the part about her grandmother really got me.

[@giggie]

They were obviously non religious like many , why does the interviewer keep hounding her to be religious ?

[@Sarah-mc7hn]

She’s beautiful! Handsome husband! Bless them both. ❤️❤️

[@femmefatale6132]

Amazing, both ladies

[@noracathrine]

Beautiful woman. So sad what they had to live being so little. Terrible situation for a child

[@femmefatale6132]

Very motivating. A different Story. Thank you 🤗💐

[@teemarie5478]

It’s beyond devastating what the Germans did to the Jewish people. It makes me so angry, sad, & so many other feelings 😓 Edit: all these video’s have the most amazing people that were so strong. she is a beautiful woman as well.

[@michelleclark9463]

What a beautiful couple, Her story really hit my heart. I can't imagine all they had to go through at that young tender age. Thankyou for sharing your story.

[@MrCOUNTYCORK]

That lady questioning asked so many nonsense and irrelevant questions when the lady was getting into her story, cutting her off all the time but what an amazing story of survival, god bless her and her family

[@pamcarson1180]

This beautiful woman has a gift with words. I cant believe the details she recalls. The people that spent months and months helping them and risking getting caught doing it. Ugh....... they are so rude when they change tapes.

[@karolinakocemba6291]

There is a movie based on this beautiful lady’s experiences called ‘W ciemności’ english: ‚In Darkness’: a very moving polish movie. Ps. As a polish national, I feel so sorry for the antisemitism that was present in Poland pre, during and post war. I was brought up in a very liberal non religious household and I cannot understand this. I still do not understand why there was so much hatred towards Jewish people post war in Poland… I guess it’s different now: with young generation, like me.

[@misiasert1348]

What a fabulous lady 😍 & her heroic family

[@Starmccarver1]

I watched this movie that was based on this story, amazing! truly amazing! God bless the Jew, The green sweeter I think it was called...amazing!

[@corysbeehive]

God bless this woman and her family.

[@barbaralivingston1836]

Thank you for sharing your story. It’s a selfless gift that will inspire for many generations.

[@virtuousmountainwoman]

Thank you. I have listened and will be careful to pass on to my child and grandchildren how important it is to keep a nond of love with all people🎉

[@mesenteria]

I have to agree that the interviewers needed more skills-development. They were not active listeners, and did not appear to empathize in the least with the speakers, whose story is presumably so compelling and significant that they are worth hearing in the first place!! Active listeners would have understood the words needed when the tellers are obviously searching for words that, in turn, are rather clear. However, and that aside, it must be that this is a labour of love and respect, and that the interviewers are not paid professionals with considerable training and supervision. So, perhaps we can bite our tongues and just enjoy the fantastic stories and the horror that underlies them so deeply after all these years. Finally, as I type this, it is quite probable that these people are gone. This work is going to be a lasting testament to everything they left behind, loved ones not seen in 50 years or more, neighbours, friends, teachers,....but never their own pain. What I like is that they have retained their dignity despite every unreasonable and execrable attempt to snatch it from them.

[@dianahrapczak7738]

Amen

[@electronichome1153]

Wonderful lady! I hope she is alive and healthy, and happy after these nightmares!

[@patriciacobos7828]

Amazing story of survival, family ethics and wonderful loving marriage 💑

[@faithdavis4453]

I couldn't watch all of this interview. The interviewee was asking the most ridiculous irrelevant questions. This lady is stunning.

[@koogle5410]

I agree… had to stop watching lots of these testimonies due to infuriating interviewers. so sad

[@LindsayLarrabeeHeabel]

The courage and strength her parents possessed to protect their children and each other is truly inspiring. That is the definition of love. ❤ The questions the person who interviewed her were that of ignorance and lack of education, not youth. Believe me, well younger than she, I would have never ever asked, "Were you hopeful that the Germans would lose the war?" Oh, no, we hoped they would win so we would be gassed and then burned in a crematorium. What kind of question is that? Why did she think they lived in a sewer for 14 months? Oh, and the question about the rats. Did she think the kids were playing with stuffed animal rats in the sewer? Did the interviewer fill in for somebody who was sick that day and did not know a thing about WWII and the Holocaust? Ugh. This lady was very gracious, more than I, and did not insult the woman interviewing her. She was raised very well.

[@patmccarthy]

To have such a sense of humour shows the strength of this beautiful person

[@gyorgyakos9618]

I heard about 20 interviews. This is the worst interviewer, although there were many bad ones. This stroy is exceptional. So is the lady who tells it, and her father who seved 11 lives!

[@giggie]

That’s something that people must understand , most of these people were regular nationals ... the Nazis and locals made them “Jewish” and “different “ there is no difference among humans ... that’s the sickness ...

[@mlmbeliever]

The man that helped them in the sewers was a very religious Catholic person who obviously felt that we're all part of the human race. There were priests who also falsified baptismal record for Jewish ppl to hopefully keep them iut of danger. There was at least one priest who ended up in a concentration camp so some religious ppl risked their lives to keep others out of danger. We all need to live together and help each other when possible.

[@sylvia-maryonlavi7704]

an extraorinary story and very brave and strong people, they live an example for other never give up.........

[@jackiejoy1852]

❤️❤️❤️

[@MargaretHillsdeZ]

From Lvov, Ukraine

[@anaschieck1883]

Adorei o final, com a declaração de amor que ele fez para ela.

[@teresaproano7984]

What an incredible story of life and death. Blessings to you and your family.

[@glengonzales6991]

Please interviewer, stop interrupting the witness while she's talking important things

[@Somelady464]

What a beautiful woman!

[@alicjaes2813]

You should probably train better your interviewer. “How others were interfering with rats?” Really? One among many silly questions. Truly amazing story

[@madhudean769]

The interviewer was hopeless

[@MargaretHillsdeZ]

The interviewer is driving me mad...

[@phyllisfleming7821]

Amazing story and a righteous Christian helped their family. I have learned to concentrate on the survivor and ignore the interviewer....

[@hannahrosa5485]

A terrible interviewer who doesn't listen. This lady deserves better than that.

[@jagust1613]

"What did you dream about?" ??What is wrong with this interviewer?

[@queenbeedat8726]

This interviewer is very insensitive, almost rude. Definitely annoying. This poor woman and her family... like many other families. I hope to God we stop hating and realize we are all brothers and sisters. Very very sad about the baby 😢

[@wwayne2318]

Superhero!

[@janetblanc7658]

The terror those children and adults must have felt when trying to hide from those monsters.

[@raeannaroylance5401]

When they kiss at the end❤️

[@kaszup1]

Kristine Keren said here that they had lived in Kopernika 14 in Lwów . In Polish version she said that it was Kopernika 12 . Needs to be clarified

[@paperchain1239]

It's amazing how this deeply courageous woman is treated so disrespectfully by this interviewer.

[@melissapollom427]

What an incredible story. Did someone make a movie aboit her story? It sounds familiar.

[@jlcollins7673]

I feel like the person doing this interview was almost not prepared..... She left very uncomfortable pauses....

[@carolwaldon8526]

You have to invest in ear pods for these testimonies the volume is awful.

[@christinephur9130]

As always the volume is so low so unable to watch

[@geafcrm]

I agree with the others. Brave woman but the interviewer wasn’t listening!!!

[@koogle5410]

some of these questions are ridiculous.. so obvious the interviewer has experienced zero hardship. Zero empathy. What a string and elgant person KK is, so dignified.

[@io7161]

Such incredible and touching story, the strength and power of all of them is just a real miracle. A part if it, Just it seems to me that the host are so cold, ? maybe there is special reason for it, ? any way, I can not help to ask myself why.

[@lenamesis3015]

My heart cries for God's chosen people. These interviews should be part of every history class around the world. I pray this will never happen again. But you know this is happening in communist countries. Stay close to God!!!

[@SuperMan-xy8ui]

The leading photo shows all the necessary spelling, typed. The same thing is shown in handwriting, then it’s verbally spelled out on film, it’s redundant.

[@gfitz6001]

I cannot watch. 😢

[@yorktown2203]

Beautiful lady, the interviewer was what, 10 years old ? I can’t suffer through the interview.

[@dontwantthisacount]

First honest account iive heard yet

[@tinasmith770]

This interviewer sounds like a young child..shes driving me koo koo...very un professional

[@margaretmaged2584]

I think it was movie In darkness I remember the name Socha the polish sewer guy

[@Alina_yt.729]

And now those stories making in gaza for future generations

[@mattpaola65]

Ridiculous interviewer... beautiful family

[@crochethappy3786]

In the movie, it appears that her grandfather had the money and the hidden jewelry in the graveyard to pay off the man who helped them. . Can anyone confirm whether this is true?

[@Greencloud8]

I apologize that aoc disrespected you all

[@MrEdkern]

She is a very pretty woman.

[@mizztia5303]

I was about to say could the baby have benn given to the sewer worker but then it was too late

[@duttons21]

The movie is all in Jewish or whatever. There's subtitles.

[@adambrocklehurst4211]

Jewish or whatever? You mean Hebrew or Yiddish?

[@Дорогаяумрао]

Ужас

[@carolwaldon8526]

The interviewer sounds like a child.