Jewish Survivor Vera Federman Testimony | USC Shoah Foundation

[@RamonaRayTodosSantosBCS]

I'm 70..she would be 98 in June. I was born in June also. 25 years zipped by. Soon in a twinkling of an eye I too will be but a remote memory. It's remarkable that she survived. It never fails to amaze me.

[@SD-co9xe]

I'm so grateful these stories have been preserved and shared. I have learned so much and it goes way beyond just understanding what happened in the camps.

[@damonmelendez856]

This is amazing that millions of survivors can have their story documented for posterity

[@janroach1852]

I am so glad her parents gave her such a wonderful childhood and took such care with her education. The love they gave her sustained her and her schooling armed her with intelligence which helped her survive. Angels watched over her and survival was also a matter of luck. It is amazing she seems unscarred by the horrors she lived through.

[@chrissims3810]

Thank you for your testimony.

[@rogerlephoque3704]

I have listened to many of these personal accounts and Vera Federman's ranks as one of the most articulate, measured and important testimonies that USC Shoah Foundation has on file.

[@theresabraddock9310]

demonstrate to your children that they are loved. that is how she survived filled with that love. when you are or were loved youre lucky indeed. grateful to hear her experience and the interviewer was great for a change.

[@rescuepetsrule6842]

This is a vert well told story. If you have trouble understanding people with accents, you will have no trouble listening to this vivid account. Thank you Vera!

[@stephaniealexander3314]

Vera is soo articulate and very well spoken...thank you💜💗❤️🙏🕊✨Bless you and all your family

[@christophermattheis1998]

What was her mom's favorite color?

[@clc7763]

To me it took a lot of courage for most of them to talk about. So many didn't speak about it until later. It was cruel of people not to want to here about it.

[@zararoyce319]

I am glad that she mentioned the story about stealing the sanitary towels because I have always wondered about the aspects of feminine hygiene in the camps but I have not yet come across anyone else who has touched on that very difficult subject

[@kathleenferrarihale2272]

In some testimonies they say the" morning coffee" had something in it to stop the period .

[@HornsbySydney]

Yes that’s right, a few of them say something was in the coffee to stop the period and also to keep them calm or withdrawn. Women also naturally stopped menstruating due to malnutrition and weightloss.

[@rescuepetsrule6842]

@@HornsbySydney True, and women with eating disorders like Bulemia also stop having cycles.

[@helener7545]

Eva Austin Bromide, it was a sedative/anti convulsant

[@clc7763]

@@helener7545 that's what I heard too. I kind of hope so, because on top of everything else, how awful to have to deal with that

[@pamnichols7877]

What a beautiful lady!!!!! God bless you!

[@joanneguerrisi888]

I have watched many of these testimonials.. When this beautiful lady Vera pointed out how they were living in Limbo during the begining of the war That there was hope for Germany to be defeated.. It bought tears to my eyes if only that had been the case..So many lives would have been spared..Thank you Vera Federman ♡

[@lanacmurphy]

She speaks very clear English. All my love to the Jewish people

[@kikcta]

very,very impressive words at the end of her story

[@xxthatpookieeditsxx]

Vera deserved a most educated interviewer. I am from the same city where she is from and I feel her love for Debrecen.

[@tamrivers8463]

Plz turn up the volume...

[@aussiealison7579]

Listening to your story and the harrowing will to survive. You beautifully recounted your experience during what I would image to be HELL. I only pray that you had the opportunity to find a little bit of HAPPINESS through the family that you created for yourself....and to of course find PEACE...I'm sorry, so so sorry that you and all that had to endure this heinous war. But the courage to continue is the STRENGTH that got you all through those dark dark years...MOST OF ALL ""THANK YOU "" FOR SHARING YOUR MOST PAINFUL STORY....AND FOR EDUCATING THE NEXT GENERATION ❤❤❤

[@desireegarza6733]

The perso who wrote this i want to thank you how so respectful and the way how you wrote to this poor women your a very good responderd

[@aussiealison7579]

@@desireegarza6733 thank you for your lovely comment. I am very moved by listening to these lovely warm intelligent people.

[@yvonnegrassi2701]

Thank you for your lovely comment.

[@kikcta]

video and audio is ok an extraordinary woman.what a harrowing story!

[@LisaRichards_123]

My dad’s cousins were taken away by the Nazis in Budapest, and never heard from again.

[@claudiacampbell7328]

Such a lovely soul.

[@russellcrowell5857]

Vera is telling a great story one of the best.

[@amyg3525]

It’s important to remember that these interviewers are all volunteers- However, this one is almost interrogating rather than having a conversation. It made me very uncomfortable to listen. But Mrs Federman didn’t seem too bothered by it so perhaps I’m over-interpreting.

[@jojo-ir9um]

So sad...Im lost for words...

[@TM-pc6us]

What was all the banging and crashing half way through? That was very disrespectful, also so many pauses at crucial parts of this lady’s story.

[@lanacmurphy]

I don’t understand why this interviewer had to keep interrupting her with so many breaks. This is the only one that I watch that’s had this many breaks. That had to be really hard on this woman. She probably wanted to tell her story and be done

[@DarbiJasmine99]

It’s not actually for small breaks it’s actually to make Tape Changes

[@judymohre1430]

No pictures,??

[@helencoven]

I notice there is a part two for this testimony and the thumbnail is an old photo!👍🏻

[@LordTantrums007]

Mortal body, timeless soul!

[@russelconor8704]

Poland was only just beginning to stand up and rebuild in 1918 after 123 years of occupation by Austria, Russia, and Germany, so literally after World War I and the war with the Soviets when Poland saved Europe from the Lenin/Stalin regime, Poland had only 20 years of freedom, and then Hitler and Germans on the one side, and Soviets on the other side once again came in 1939 and ruined everything. So it was a country facing many complex challenges economically, politically, and ethnically. This is why it was different from Czechoslovakia or Hungary. Czechs had a stable country for centuries and weren't occupied or facing so many problems for centuries as Poles did. These testimonies are very narrow when it comes to the world's complex history and view, and very one-sided.

[@Sad_Bumper_Sticker]

[@joachim5080]

Yet for some reason the toxic antisemitism in poland lives on and on.

[@jeanhenderson1277]

The world during this period of time was a mad world please god NEVER again god bless them all xx

[@middle-ageaintnothinbutanu4129]

As was it during all.times of racial strife, struggle and the mindset of a group of misinformed people who think they are a superior race . Slavery in America.

[@jeanhenderson1277]

@@middle-ageaintnothinbutanu4129 it shouldn’t happen to ANY human no matter what religion , colour or beliefs they have I honestly don’t know how one human can treat another thinking they are less important 😢 x

[@sakunamanussa9876]

3:48:00 Yeah, that love of your parents that transends death, I think that you can call that "God", the Supreme and in that love there is also wisdom and justice.

[@xxthatpookieeditsxx]

This is Vera neni from Debrecen.

[@summern8041]

cc please!

[@zulmabontiffe487]

Background Noises are too much... This seems to be a MAJOR problem with many of these interviews. So unprofessional!!

[@lianabart8949]

tova is my favorite

[@athenetan6457]

Video and Audio does not sync, picture gets faded and sound disappear....

[@CathyGrant-jh3im]

I wonder why she doesn't have an accent

[@MonicaM444]

She does if you listen carefully. What does that have to do with what she went through?

[@doribellan]

She speaks of being in a different camp but very close to the gypsy camp of Birkenau. There weren’t other camps that close by. Except... the “Mexico” section of Birkenau... it was always described as being under construction for an addition to the camp. She must have been housed there, which is on the north end of the gypsy camp. She notes how it wasn’t completely finished too. I find this very interesting. I haven’t heard another testimony of a Birkenau prisoner being housed there. She also mentions how she’s close to the road, which would have separated the two areas. If anyone has any other hypotheses, please let me know. I find this extremely interesting. God bless her and the strength they had to continue another day in this hell on earth.

[@clc7763]

Sounds like she was one of the last ones there

[@clc7763]

I was surprised her and her friend beat someone up, I bet she felt vindicate, after all.

[@lidiyapriyadarsinik2815]

It's painful to hear how disconnected the interviewer's voice is. Even a little rude too. It feels as if she is interrogating. The lovely lady is opening up and telling her memories heartfully. This interviewer is just plain arrogant and takes the survivor for granted

[@saroltajoo3605]

Thank you! It was God who gave you good parents

[@bonnie_gail]

@3:36:59 what was that all about, body language of being caught in a discrepancy

[@doribellan]

Looks like she messed up on the number of years. Someone in the background corrects her but I cannot tell what he says.

[@DarbiJasmine99]

She does this 3/4 times first time I noticed was 1 1/2 hours into the interview and again at 1 3/4 hours

[@damonmelendez856]

Getting the story straight.

[@SuperSilviao]

Yeah! She probably went to charming school, Stephanie. Some women were born very lucky indeed.

[@giselagetz4811]

Silvia osorio. What an idiotic comment . Buy yourself a history book and Read it. Providing you are able to read.

[@damonmelendez856]

They lived a luxurious life before the war. It must’ve been hell to have their privileges taken away. It’s much harder to lose luxury if that’s all you’ve ever known.

[@LisaRichards_123]

Half my family was in Nagy Kanizsa.

[@jsheekey1]

💔

[@clc7763]

I used to live in Bellingham Washington .Mercer is very nice

[@swiater1]

dVera Federman is a wonderful speaker, articulate, and easy to listen too, the interviewer has a dry flat affect, boring actually..

[@harrynking777]

The Germans diverted foolishly, a great deal away from their war effort with their senseless persecution and murder. Had the opposition behaved in such a way, the outcome may well have been different.

[@gyorgyakos9618]

There is a second part withb family together and photos if you'r interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6WoXnyLhJurd5o

[@noraarico1313]

Vera, I am sorry you don't believe in God. The Holocaust was not of God but of Satan. You suffered so much during WWII and it's understandable the hurt you retain. I hope you will not blame God but instead realize how much your good and bad experiences bring to us when you tell your life's story.

[@Dave-nv5rv]

I have watched about 40 of these survivor interviews. Many, many of the people interviewed no longer believed in God after their Holocaust experience. I didn't keep track but but if I were to estimate, the percentage is probably about 40%. These people went through unimageable horrors, it's easy to try to understand but we can't, I understand why they stopped believing. To be honest I would too.

[@sabreecarpenter4285]

​@Dave-nv5rv Especially after witnessing babies being thrown into the sides of brick buildings, or, babies being thrown up into the air and then caught at the end of the german's guns. Many witnessed these horrific events.

[@sisterkathleen]

gentiles are not Christians, gentiles were before Jesus …THINK

[@LordTantrums007]

Post 1945 same issues, same politics and still the same solution!

[@hopefulagnostic336]

If you're saying what I think you're saying, it will never be allowed. The majority of the world has picked up the torch, and those of your ilk will be smashed like bugs before you're ever able to do such a thing again.

[@xxthatpookieeditsxx]

This interviewer is terrible. Vera went in to the same high school with my mother.

[@slewvian]

How sad for a young girl to suffer these terrible memories.I hope you found happier memories after your freedom from these terrible times God bless you Vera.

[@haregewoyntekeste3067]

Your question is nonsense

[@LordTantrums007]

I reckon Joseph Goebbels should take a look at this vid!

[@damonmelendez856]

He tried.

[@marisita77]

I wonder if she was an observant despite no belief in GOD? Were her children raised Jewish or secular American?

[@LordTantrums007]

The Berghof the spiritual home of the famous 18!

[@hopefulagnostic336]

The Berghof--a glorified roach motel whose former inhabitants are hopefully roasting on spits in Hell for an eternal demon's picnic.

[@zulmabontiffe487]

Just started watching and I had to speed it up so to avoid hearing the interviewer ask about spelling her name ,what's her AGE , and all the ages of her parents, grandparents and all the very annoying questions!!! You should NEVER ask such personal questions as their PRESENT age. I find that disrespectful on all levels. Let the survivor tell his/her experiences and not spend useless time asking useless questions that have NOTHING to do with me or anyone else on this side of the screen.😢😢😢😢😢

[@MonicaM444]

This is a living testimony of her family, of which most were murdered. It’s important to know ages, names, spelling for historical purposes-as there is no one else to tell their stories -because they were murdered.

[@evagueron7277]

O un u k Lo El ñññ o th ugh Styx😮❤😅 X

[@JohannaOberlechner]

Es macht mich traurig, dass jemand, der soviel Bewahrung erfahren hat inmitten grössten Elends, Gott dafür nicht dankbar ist.

[@LordTantrums007]

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