Jewish Survivor Pepe Chouake Testimony | USC Shoah Foundation

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[@robbie_]

Fascinating and horrific in equal measure. I wish more people would watch these interviews.

[@cindyhalpern3187]

For once, I can say this particular interviewer let the Survivor tell her story. She knew the interview had to focus on the survivor's narrative. So wonderful to just listen to the story without alot of interruption. This is how an interview needs to be conducted.

[@mootar1]

What a lovely woman. Thanks for sharing your story, I will carry it in my heart.

[@cafeolelloret]

This woman, such pure Love despite all the horror she and her family went through. My respect Mrs. Chouake.

[@blancabulgrin5560]

This is the most crying I've done ,I have heard many interviews very sad what the jewish people went through, I wish I could give this beautiful lady n her mon n sister a hug.!!! I will see the jewish people as very good morals , family is very important to them . Thank u for telling us you story.

[@youtubeuser6325]

I have watched so many of these videos. It’s so heart wrenching and their stories stay with me. Every human being should be viewing these stories. Everyone should know of the atrocities that took place.

[@josebarberena9564]

This is one of the hardest testimonies I have ever listened to. No human being should ever have to live through such horrendous events. What an amazing woman of courage this was. Listening to her brave actions as a little 13 year old is so hard and such an honor to hear as only she experienced it. The will to survive within her 13 year old self is humbling to list n to and should anger any life loving person that people went out of their way to persecute and murder fellow human beings bearers of lives of incalculable value and all out of some idiot prejudice and racial hate. To imagine that millions went through that same hell on Earth is beyond comprehension. We are all human beings and such horrors brings an overwhelming sadness to my heart and to know that these things still exist today is unacceptable.to decide over life and death should NEVER be a power any person(s) should have. We pride ourselves on the great achievements of life but dismiss how unfortunately primitive and murderous mankind still is. Events transpired in WW2 are so appalling it is hard to accept as part of the ugliest darkest reality in our history.

[@sicah8898]

a lovely lady who went through hell but came out the other side as a victor not a victim

[@helencoven]

What a testimony!!this lady went through such a terrifying hell for a life and I’m so glad she survived! I do hope she has lived a happy and peaceful life after all of this as it must have been so difficult to live normally after such an existence 🌸👍🏻🌸🙏🏻🌸🙏🏻🌸🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

[@wandasteeves5239]

It eye opening that the persecution of all those during WW2 was far longer than what history leads us to believe. To hear her story was just heartbreaking, so young to suffer. I know that these German Natzis had children, they suffered to, and live w the pain, and pure hate for their fathers. These stories must be told, in 2016 it's happening in Syria, now, yet we close our eyes to beautiful children who r going thru the exact same thing,NOW. Why can we not live w respect of ALL human beings, one race. TY for telling your story.. ❤️🇨🇦🌹

[@rachaelwachstein6726]

Sean Spicer's comment that Syrian President Bashar Assad was worse than Adolf Hitler, because the German dictator “didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons" is disturbing. It is unnecessary to compete for the morbid gold metal in suffering. Many people have suffered terribly in all manner of genocides and conflicts. It is important to understand the uniqueness of the Holocaust and portray it accurately because it is incomprehensible. And mankind can't afford to forget it. How is the Holocaust Unique? (various sources) Murder as an End in Itself The extermination of the Jews had no political or economic justification. It was not a means to any end; it was an end in itself. The killing of Jews was not considered just a part of the war effort, but equal to it; thus, resources that could have been used in the war were diverted instead to the program of extermination. "Civilized" Murders Perhaps the most inexplicable of all the aspects of the Holocaust - the question that forces us to come to grips with the very meaning of the word "civilized" - is the realization that took place in the twentieth century and was the work of so-called "cultured," "civilized," highly educated Germans. "The death camps," as Franklin Littell pointed out, "were designed by professors and built by Ph.D.s." Nazis tortured by day and listened to Wagner and Bach at night. They put down a violin to torture a Jew to death. They used their advanced scientific knowledge to design crematoria and, most amazing of all, they had highly skilled people devise the most fiendish medical experiments to test levels of pain, how long someone could be immersed in freezing water before dying, and even, as the infamous Dr. Joseph Mengele (chief "physician" at Auschwitz) was fond of doing, performed gruesome experiments on twins such as sewing two children together to create a "Siamese pair" and to measure their reactions. The Crime of Existing The "Final Solution" was designed to exterminate every single Jewish man, woman and child. The only Jews who would have conceivably survived had Hitler been victorious were those who somehow escaped discovery by the Nazis. Jewish birth (actually mere evidence of "Jewish blood") was sufficient to warrant the punishment of death. This feature distinguished Jews from Poles and Russians who were killed because there were too many of them, and from "Aryans" who were not singled out unless they chose to single themselves out. With the possible exception of Gypsies, Jews were the only people killed for the "crime" of existing. It is not the same.

[@RoseMary-vs3io]

True

[@heikkijhautanen4576]

What a brave old lady, cant imagine the things she has seen.

[@juliaturner6658]

What a woman ...and a beautiful family

[@ladybearbaiter]

Why can't people just be kind to ALL people ? I don't understand So very sad, no words to express how horrible life was for these people. May God bless them forever

[@rescuepetsrule6842]

What a beautiful woman, inside and out. I'm glad she kept her faith as her father did- so many survivors have become Atheists, saying that if there was a God, why didn't he stop the torture. I don't have the answers, but my faith has taken me through times of great loss and suffering, and I always knew it was temporary- and it all was. SALUTE Pepe!

[@margaretroselle8610]

Thank you for this testimony. Much appreciated!

[@dreamxraven]

I have listened to many of these interviews and I find it reprehensible that people deny these atrocities napped . Do they th I l these people are such talented storytellers to invent these stories? Each time I listen to one I am so crushed that one human could do that to another. I just keep crying. I had a vague idea of what happened but I had no idea of the horrors. For 30 years I avoided anything about the Holocaust but as my life is winding down O knew it was wrong to leave this life with knowing. I am devastated more with each petty I hear tell their story. Such happy families torn apart!

[@englishlady8863]

The human sprit is an amazing thing. I have no idea how survivors overcome such tragedy. I am so sad and sorry this event in history ever took place, including all other hate crimes.

[@deanbostinto1133]

Quote by Edmund Burk The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. As Christians we are to observe the new commandment issued by Jesus; John 13:34 New King James Version (NKJV) 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. Genesis12:1-3 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. 2 “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.[a] 3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse;and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”[b] Pepe Thank you for telling your story. Dean

[@gerrymarmee3054]

This interview showed yet again the horrible depths of cruelty human beings are capable of.

[@user-nq6oo3yv5y]

I agree that the interviewer is annoying. She might be better doing story hour at a library for very young children. What’s with the “sing-song-ie” voice?

[@cay820]

She did a great job. You are negative and annoying though.

[@funone2312]

the dog knew...

[@rescuepetsrule6842]

They ALWAYS do. Even though they tried to make all Dogs vicious, other accounts have said the Dogs they encountered also failed to hurt them. They DO know a child from an adult-maybe it kept that Dog from hurting her. Good Doggie! I hope he is in Doggie Heaven.

[@user-yo9iq6go8l]

I bet she's afraid to take a shower even now