Eyewitness to History: Holocaust Survivor Susan Warsinger

The Eyewitness to History video library was created to enable audiences everywhere to hear firsthand testimony from Holocaust survivors. This video was created from a live digital program, First Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors, recorded on March 16, 2022. It features Susan Warsinger, who was born in Bad Kreuznach, Germany in 1929. Following Kristallnacht, Susan and her brother, Joseph, were smuggled into France. After Germany invaded France in May 1940, they were evacuated from a children’s home in Paris and fled with their guardians to the unoccupied part of the country. They eventually immigrated to the United States in September 1941 and were reunited with their parents and younger brother.

[@KCBfly25]

Thank you, Susan. I volunteered with the Auschwitz Exhibit that was here in Kansas City last year. Its stay was extended a few months, bcuz it was sold out every day. Unfortunately, we had to remove the message/sign-in book bcuz racist & pro-authoritarian things kept being written by a few guests. We need to keep revisiting history. So many ignore it or call it fake. It is sad & maddening. I have a degree in history, specifically comparative genocide. We say, "Never forget," but this keeps happening. Genocidal history MUST be taught. The ways authoritarians take control MUST be taught. Language that leads to these horrific events & the way controlling leaders take over must be taught, not only the actual deaths of people. I appreciate your time. Thk u!!🦋

[@kathrynwilliams7917]

To lay amongst blooded bodies must have been horrific!!

[@dianakent8393]

Thank you for sharing your story ,W.W.ll.was a shocking time in history.. so sad..God Bless you and your family .

[@elisabethweil8975]

Thank you very much, Susan. I'm so glad, that you got out of Germany and found a good home in the States.

[@Jetmab04]

Thanks so much for sharing and yes Susan, I agree 100% - we have to get past all the hate we are now facing again. Thanks so much for sharing your memories 🤗

[@farapipsqueek636]

I KNEW based on that last name that she would be from Germany..Anyway. My mom also grew up in a spa town. Her town is in Poland but before the war in Germany.