Jewish Survivor Anna Bergman Testimony | USC Shoah Foundation

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[@sebastianmelmoth685]

I watch these regularly. I am not Jewish myself, but I make it my duty to keep these memories alive.

[@carlprovorse1510]

I feel Jewish but not by birth. I love these stories and share them quite often.

[@zigzag554]

Anka was an amazing, elegant lady. She told her story beautifully, with humour and sadness, Her testimony was an honour to hear. The interviewer seemed unsympathetic and asked irrelevant questions. However, Anka's performance was superb.

[@lisaherrling6880]

Dov Yawetz I have watched 120+ interviews and I have found, in most cases, that it is best to let the survivors tell their stories with minimal interruptions from the interviewer. They are reliving so much pain, and they need to be allowed to do this in their own way. Mrs. Bergman was an amazing woman!

[@mocsaiorsolya5292]

My husband's step-grandfather was a suvivor of this camp ... He used to keep the relegion in some ways but after the war he always said "God has died with my two sons and my wife in the camps." Bless his heart, he lived on till 2007, died at the age of 96!

[@vin720]

Wow, Barbie! You are a real sick person ... Think about it please 👎😱

[@laurawyeth1384]

Hopeful Agnostic RRT L

[@sophiavukasevic4626]

Hopeful Agnostic You need to have your brain examined you are a pathetic sick human being if l could call you that, honestly you truly need to see a doctor cause you have a big chip on your shoulder that doesn’t seem normal

[@emmaburgess4320]

It is a long interview but I’ve watched it three times .. I cannot say how honest and brave this lady is , I only wish she was alive and I could have in some way said thank you.. thank you for this interview and thank God you survived with your beautiful intelligent graceful daughter.. I wish millions would watch with an open mind and heart .. because it can happen again ! We need to be on guard.. thank you For sharing your life .. I wish you had written a book .. like you I have read everything on this and still cannot understand how these monsters happen to live among us.. but they do !!!!!

[@seemarajderkar3019]

Anca Bergman and her daughter Eva... Your story of survival is simply amazing. Thanks for sharing. I wish you both good health and many years of blissful togetherness.

[@ginagina9720]

Thank you for sharing your story I was listening to your story with tears in my eyes RIP to all the people who died And god bless you…

[@donnaeve6084]

Wow what a story! And Eva looks just like her dad did,beautiful story of survival ✨

[@ninanina4799]

I love this woman. My hero! What a positivity. What a spirit. No bitterness! She must have had survived to tell the story 💕 her and her beautiful, intelligent, sophisticated daughter cera Eva!

[@kristabell5107]

What a woman. She’s the definition of strength. Yet also so warm and clearly adored her daughter, who his equally lovely. Thank you for sharing your story.

[@rescuepetsrule6842]

What a story- 2 babies born not only during the war, but 2 born in horrible camps! I have always been very grateful for my life and never take things for granted- I'd feel bad if I lost it all like the survivors and realize I was spoiled when I still had a good life. SALUTE Anna!

[@emmaburgess4320]

The best of all I’ve watched!!!

[@MrPaultopp]

Each is special in their own ways

[@JaimeMesChiens]

Perhaps the most-amazing survivor narrative I’ve ever heard! Eva looks so much like her father. I may have missed it, but do not think his name was said. I’m going to watch again, anyway. Their wedding photo took my breath away. Both so beautiful. So is Eva.

[@karennguyen4115]

I think her father's name is bernd nathan

[@user-du3nx4kp6o]

I love the lady’s house in the background. It reminds me of growing up. British style is very different to American in the 1990s. Most of these videos are filmed in America, so it is a novelty to hear one where the person left to live in Cardiff. The background reminds me of my grandad’s house or great grandma’s house. You can even hear the clock ticking in the background. Such brave survivors spread everywhere. These should be compulsory viewing in all schools everywhere. Lest we forget.

[@Haerton]

I thank you for sharing your story and am glad to have had the experience of hearing it. Llke you with your books on the subject, I seek out stories of experiences of those times to get to the why but doubt I ever shall, except to the normal, school yard bully reasons. So liked the honesty and smiles.

[@Somelady464]

I love that beautiful smile and chuckle❤

[@Pommy1957]

What a lovely lady.

[@p0ppyfarr95]

Absolute raw beauty from Anka and Eva. Beyond glad that they lived to tell the tale of their survival. I’ll never get the chance to meet Anna but I’d love to meet Eva someday.

[@emmaburgess4320]

I have watched you over and over!!

[@AmyK-jw5bu]

I love her spunk and positive attitude! A tough lady!!! ❤️

[@phyllisfleming7821]

Wonderful woman so amazingly optimistic and full of positive thoughts. Interviewer is obnoxious, asking questions that had already been answered!

[@petrahora9115]

I can't agree more, the interviewer is so painful. It is quite embarrasing. The survier is amazing.

[@emmaburgess4320]

I wished I had. Met you .. I can’t remember how many times I’ve watched you!!!!

[@j.williameustice6110]

Her baby daughter is still alive and you can find her and her story easily online Eva Clarke “Against All Odds Born in Mauthausen” youtube.

[@abdussattar4881]

Beautiful story ending. Eva looks just like her father. Blessed family.

[@marilyndonald9174]

I thought it was a mercy from heaven that the interviewing lady seemed to have a tender heart at difficult moments in the interview. Some healing can happen when a listening heart takes the time to ponder and care, when sorrows are expressed. Some survivor interviewers have seemed to me to be appallingly abrupt and cold hearted. Clearly Anka doesn’t EXPECT tender hearted people to be around her…. witness the way she thought it was kind of that man who reported her first husband’s death so bluntly and abruptly and with no maudlin attempts to help God heal her heart at such a hard moment. It amazes me how gratefully Anka and her daughter accepted whatever kind relationships came their ways over their lifetimes and how much love and respect they have for one another when their relationship started in a place like concentration camps. The many mercies Anka had even in those hellish places, including her own spunky, hopefully and resilient survivor spirit, and long-standing ability to keep on caring, in my mind, is more proof that the God of Israel who put Job through hard paces in order to elevate his memory for 6000 years, was alive and well throughout the holocaust and will still be alive and well through the last and final holocaust. May God be pleased to bless and keep Anka and Eva and their loved ones eternally.

[@saminaali2705]

Great lady, so courageous and very positive, loved her interview

[@marilyndonald9174]

A stunning testimony. Anka is so inspiring. Oh, l hope she finally realized that she is an adorable and blessed lady and that God loves her…. Before she entered eternity.

[@Jerseyboondocks]

Wow! What an incredible story. But absolutely awful what happened to her how she lost her husband, her mother, her father, and how her little baby son died while she was in the camp

[@layasaul28]

I started watching this and the story was more and more familiar... This and two other stories in the book "Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope".

[@metoofunny1]

I have watched many of these testimonies. This was a fabulous idea to have these testimonies recorded...but this interviewer here with this wonderful lady Anna Bergman, seemed to not understand ANYTHING about what the Holocaust was and asked ridiculous questions! Anna Bergman answered them with humor and grace, she was wonderful.

[@laurabrizendine1256]

What an amazing woman!

[@emmaburgess4320]

You are my heroine!

[@gyorgyakos9618]

Let's also have one word about the child born in Treblinka (!!); Eva. Besides being beautiful and charming she is also a very wise woman and a joy listening to. I am thankful to her as well as her mother of course for this very frank, moving and iexceptional nterview. She and her family are really the ultimate revenge on Hitler! God bless them all.

[@jasminejones9937]

The SOUND is crap ! Why bother if the SOUND sucks ???

[@ln8601]

this interviewer is sooo disruptive!

[@alberrtogarciagonzalez8937]

why is the sound that bad

[@MrPaultopp]

Use headphones.....perfect

[@shawkra6335]

It’s from the 90s dear, not everyone had iPhones ; )

[@katarinasvensson9801]

I agree I hardly can hear a thing

[@cammyshelton196]

What 2 Gorgeous ladies ❤

[@johnforeman634]

I’m so proud of her that she could say religion means nothing to her. They were brought up free thinkers so she obviously rationalized how ridiculous the whole story is. So many people are just sheep and believe whatever people tell them.

[@Jerseyboondocks]

Exactly, but people are evolving not to believe in that much anymore, especially the newer generation. But my generation they are the majority believers so I was always looked at like the black sheep while they judged me from their supposed moral high ground

[@asedymng4423]

Such a nice lady ⚘⚘⚘

[@ruthless9604]

LEST WE FAIL TO REMEMBER.

[@oceanrock733]

Love her

[@trishdaly5761]

❤️♥️💞💕💖💓🙏🙏

[@manueladarazsdi9675]

The amount of tape changes ruins the flow of the interview.

[@MrPaultopp]

So sorry the tape changes mess up your day ....very petty

[@DebisDesignDiary]

Complaining about the inconvenience of tape changes? as this woman describes starvation and genocide? Wow.

[@Jerseyboondocks]

That's just so petty back then they had to change tapes. They didn't have the technology they have now. That's all you took away from this video. That's all you can comment about it?!

[@beccascarborough3292]

What an amazing woman. I’m sure she’s gone now. I do hope she’s given extra extra love in Heaven.

[@redwater4778]

I heard the same donut story on another video from a different lady . Same.

[@properlybonafidetv7172]

ice water me too

[@vin720]

Or you nan't see the difference... 😕 Question of inteligence ?? Hm....

[@claudiaperfetti7694]

I think it is the same lady. She has many interviews!

[@yosefyehudahbendavid7866]

The "different lady" you are speaking of is her daughter who also retells her mother's donut story in her video entitled, Againts All Odds: Born in Mauthausen with Eva Clarke that you may also view here on KZbin.

[@gurungujonsdottir1086]

Yes that is her daughter

[@cindyhalpern3187]

This interviewer is the worst ever. Asking her terrible questions that she should not be asked. Only if she wished to tell it. How did she feel? What do you think she felt? This interviewer ought to be ashamed!

[@melissaforgiven2825]

Hmm..I say no more. Well, She didn't care about her faith yet she wore her star proudly? Still has no faith? And I will never apologize for believing in Christ. Hitler, and his henchmen did not follow Christ. They were responsible.

[@Pommy1957]

Being Jewish is also a cultural identity , not only a religious one.

[@allabiel3340]

you cannot measure someone's faith by practice amount, maybe her non-practicing faith was more noble than your belief you're so religious and believing? it is more about what's in the heart not how much Bible you read, just because people go to church doesn't mean they're good people. Also, you don't understand what she said about wearing Star of David, she was proud of herself, not showing she is faithful at that moment, she said" she couldn't care less" she was forced to wear it, your interpretation is she was not faithful, but what kind of a christian are you to judge others?

[@Jerseyboondocks]

If I was her I would never believe in God either. At least not in a good god. Because a good god would never have allowed that to happen in the first place. For him to sit up there from his beloved paradise and watch people suffer is cruel and unforgivable