Jewish Survivor Barbara Schubak Testimony | USC Shoah Foundation

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[@djholliday4413]

Barbara Schubak is an amazing and beautiful survivor. Blessed to hear her testimony. It amazes me that after experiencing the horrors of the Shoah, survivors remain faithful, vibrant, loving & keep their sense of humor. Never forget. 🙏🏻🇺🇲❤🇮🇱

[@alfx5432]

So heartbreaking

[@Pinayukoz4108]

I cannot understand people hit dislike ! Geez! How can anyone dislike a survivor who suffered so much in this dreaded holocaust! - you must all understand there are survivors who did not want to share what they went through it was a painful experience and yet they did so today’s generation must know and not forget! - RIP Barbara ❤️

[@trishayamada807]

Ok maybe this explains at least some of the dislikes….I work with older and elderly people. They will hit the dislike thumbs down because they dislike what happened not that they dislike the person. They dislike what they went through.

[@gonefishing167]

I do understand what you’re saying about the older people ( perhaps younger as well),. I remember when I first started watching these remarkable testimonies, I actually wrote and said how awkward it was pressing the like button because of what happened snd someone wrote to explain that it was o.k to press the like button because it showed empathy. I’ve always appreciated that reply . It is hard 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

[@Albertwildhorseshoer]

Barbara, so sorry for the loss you have experienced with all of it's cruelty. Your story helps us know how to survive the seemingly improbable/impossible. Thank you!

[@dbkyhere9229]

Such a great testimony! Thank you!❤️

[@carlagoncalves531]

Barbara rest in peace. How much pain you endured ... God wanted you to survive. I have no words to say just that I'm happy that you archive a beautiful family to love after such darkness.

[@galinashkarin5797]

Thank you for sharing your story!! Can't imagine how anyone can have so much hate for anyone, especially innocent people!! You and your stories will not be forgotten!!!

[@staceygoodwin179]

My God!! no words...what a woman

[@gonefishing167]

Thank you so much Mrs Schuback , these testimonies are so important to the world but it must cause so much pain and memories for you. You are all so brave. G-D bless you and your family 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

[@sibert1974]

What a beautiful lady and family. The interviewer was excellent. She asked only pertinent questions, didn’t interrupt and had obviously done lots of research before conducting the interview.

[@hartyjay187]

God bless you and everyone else who suffered during this horrific event 🙏

[@GreerSquadProductions]

Thank you for your courage to share your story ❤ I will teach this to my children so that they never forget what happened to all these innocent people. God bless all of the survivors❤

[@margaretroselle8610]

Thank you so much for your honest and heartfelt testimony.

[@debraberg4513]

Ms. Schubak shows stamina and emotion in a very healthy way. Like her, I'm very conscious of eating everything on my plate. I only know this because of how my mother raised us. She was poor and always was grateful of having food. Food is EVERYTHING to life like Ms. Schubak emphasized. Many folks from the older countries tend to be like this. Americans just have no clue the struggle people have gone through the centuries including those among slavery. I can only hope we move forward and never have this kind of garbage in any part of the world. Just awful.

[@raes6829]

We are blessed to hear your words ❤️

[@sarahedington]

I am polish my grandparents were poles we have cousins n family still there. I do not know what they did during the war my heart hurts thinking they might have been like these poles. I am not my family is not i listen to testamonies because i think its so important to know history n i honor them im hearing there story's straight from them.

[@gerrymarmee3054]

sarahedington I have wondered and hoped that my distant relatives were not anti semites, too. We can only educate our children to honor all life.

[@elapaszczynski8292]

You have to take in consideration that a lot of Pols lost lives for helping Jewish people during the war.

[@karenwilson712]

Probably not everyone was that way, it was survival

[@TheGrimhilde]

I am Polish and I love Jewish people. Such a loss for Poland most of them don't live here anymore. My dream is to learn Hebrew one day an also in their honour!

[@januszrybicki9314]

She should be ashamed as a Polish citizen for supporting the Soviets as they invaded Poland jointly with German Nazis in September 1939. Read more on wikipedia concerning: The Holocaust and Polish - Jewish relations during WWII

[@susanbeasley723]

Thank you

[@alanthiercelin5218]

Barbara Schubak passed away on July 9, 2016 in Manalapan, New Jersey RIP

[@debraberg4513]

it's good that she lived a long live....these Jewish folks sure can live long.

[@adrianapop558]

God bless her soul!

[@staceygoodwin179]

@@adrianapop558 Yes

[@kellybourque5391]

Beautiful Barbara is in Heaven God Bless her ❤️🙏🌹. She was a beautiful person

[@thesimulation9651]

May her memory be a blessing

[@nicksg3002]

They took away so much and yet you did much more good. Beautiful woman!

[@karenwilson712]

What a wonderful woman

[@nayaslime6462]

thank you for your story

[@teresasmith4446]

May rest in peace Barbara with your family because this is 25 years since you gave your testimony so yes I'm pretty sure you were with your beloved lost family now thank you for your testimony I like hearing about what happened in the past people say to me sometimes that doesn't affect us why do you care to hear things like that I say we're all human beings what can happen to one person can happen to us no matter where the person is from I'm sorry your family suffered the way they did not all humans are horrible rest in peace God bless bye

[@lauferrari6998]

Thank you for being able to share all this.

[@mickgeorge5975]

Thank you for sharing your story. I have listened to a few testimonies. I am a very empathic. The pain the suffering. The brutality is kind of unfair beyond comprehension. Why I asked myself. Why why so many died so many just like that. God bless each and everyone of you and thank you for sharing your testimonies.

[@reneeaustin1271]

Thank you so much I know must have been hard to say your story but thank you

[@chrissims3810]

Thank you for your testimony.

[@aydagunes9130]

Why do People dislike this? There are 72 dislikes, none of them commented

[@alfx5432]

Makes me wonder to.

[@Be_An_Esther]

Antisemites

[@deerheart87]

Anti semantics exist I'm afraid

[@colleenluna8583]

Thank you for living

[@user-qo1rw3et4h]

I enjoyed her testimony on what she went through. What an amazing lady. How could anyone dislike her story?. I admire her greatly. ❤❤❤❤❤ANNE ABRAHAM

[@edwardnewsome7200]

Wonderful woman

[@user-re9gc7zo8f]

2023 Barbara’s testimony is full of hope and such endurance! You have blessed me!

[@susanmartinez1577]

Thank you for your story

[@elaneradim6117]

THANK YOU HEART BREAKING

[@juliaturner6658]

Thank you so much. What an amazing woman 🖤

[@natashamichelle8330]

What a story! Beautiful person

[@jlcollins7673]

Such loss and heartache. What a beauty she was/is.....

[@deltaboy767]

I'm a person of Polish heritage, and to hear that my fellow Polish people helped the barbaric Germans to anialare these poor people, hurts me to the core. I want to say I am so ashamed of what my fellow countryman did to you precious people, and I sit here in tears listening to her story and the anger is boiling in me to know my fellow Polish countryman assisted in this massacre. I am so sorry.

[@nayaslime6462]

please, educate yourself. these survivors tell their own story. there are a lot of people. who were saved by polish people. read about Pilecki who in fact wanted to get into Aushwitz so he can tell the world what was going on in those camps. also for helping,you would get killed. polish people also died in camps and suffer during the ww2. polish people saved many people during those horrific times. camps were organized by germans not only in Poland.

[@sabreecarpenter4285]

Thank you for sharing your heartfelt words. You have much compassion and empathy for others. Never change. You have a beautiful gift. May God continue to bless you, and keep a shield of protection around you. Maybe I shall meet you someday.

[@kellybourque5391]

Beautiful lady God Bless her Dear God❤️❤️🙏🙏

[@lauravazquez285]

God bless you! Such pain!

[@lauravazquez285]

God blessed her amen

[@pamneff7541]

Bravo

[@katherinedorsey3426]

~Buba ❤️

[@putziiputz9439]

Wow, terrible terrible circumstances. SO STRONG.

[@jaykay6315]

Finally! I have found someone who gave God thanks for saving her and keeping her during the Holicaust! She honored God!

[@wanda520]

This is the first survivor I’ve heard who attributes survival to God . She’s a remarkable person.

[@Indygirl9229]

Corrie ten Boom

[@wednesdayschild3627]

I believe her deceased mother did come to help her and give her water. When I was in bad trouble and having a medical procedure, nothing like what she went through, this pet cat I had, he died long ago, he came to help me

[@christinephur9130]

Unable to listen! The volume is always too low! Sad!

[@gianna5869]

darn i really wish i could have listened to this but unfortunately some of the recordings are too low and no close caption. I just watched the testimony of Mary Natan.

[@katherinedorsey3426]

Gianna The volume is quite low and I can hear something that sounds like the Long Island Rail Road blowing through, but with headphones you can hear it very well and it is really worth hearing. She takes you through a harrowing journey and then brings you back. An absolutely wonderful woman.

[@Kid_Kootenay]

Ouch low blow on the husband, "it's the duty of every survivor" poor guy

[@kellieb4898]

Beautiful soul!!!❤❤❤

[@annarublik7546]

Thank you for sharing your painful story. It is important to do that, this way the new generations will be able to learn about Holocaust. I am very sorry for your suffering and the unimaginable loss of your whole familly from the hands of Nazist. Your story shouldn't be ever forgoten.!!!!

[@AMANSHARMA-xw8qi]

INDIANS WATCHING THIS NOW 🧐

[@TheAlmightyAss]

2:02:08 was a lovely little moment wasn't it? His face when she said that was just great.

[@wincentywiewiorczak4114]

Please listen Władysław Szpilman testimony about Poles.

[@lordharry423]

She is not mentioning the Soviet deportations of the Poles under the 1939 occupation.

[@dieselegoiste]

Perhaps because she is talking about her personal experience 🤷‍♀️ which is about being Jewish in Poland under Nazis… It’s her personal story, the minimum people can do is listen without complaining

[@kaitdrollinger7978]

The 1 hour and 45 minute mark: When the Unites States had honor and opened its arms to refugees.

[@frenchartantiquesparis424]

The USA took in 60,000 Jewish people per year from 1939-1944

[@vacheriedevacherie1959]

@@frenchartantiquesparis424 only if you had family already there to sponsor you…

[@lauferrari6998]

I feel so so ashamed for the sake of humanity, and so so sorry!!!!

[@lauferrari6998]

How can a human being be so cruelly inhuman!!

[@putziiputz9439]

RIP BEAUTIFUL LADY

[@carolnelson6536]

CC please

[@luisacarrasco6883]

EN ESPAÑOL POR FAVOR PLISSS

[@utapao74]

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[@cay820]

The microphones are terrible on these older tapes

[@lisaottomann2396]

I can’t believe they gave out so much personal information 😱 seems unheard of today, Geeze , asking her her maiden name and birthday….otherwise I’m so glad the sound was great! I could hear the interview nice n clear. 👍🏻 I think her mom did give her water, our loved ones that have passed on come to us in our dreams, that’s what I think

[@emmaburgess4320]

I share your testimonies.. I love your strength and courage .. God bless you and your family .. may each generation multiply.. I think the Polish and Czech people are cruel like the Germans.. I think they live in such a harsh and bleak surroundings it somehow has seeped into their souls.. of course the Romanians and Hungarians were horrible too! I would not want to live in any of those countries!! Or Russia!!

[@richard9316]

Yet Poland was the only welcoming place for Jews throughout centuries. Perhaps you should learn some history

[@rmartyn1103]

...And the cruel Americans treatment of Black people. You can’t generalize an entire people. That’s racism.

[@leechristy7003]

That sounds as bigoted as can be, Emma -- as for Russian people, they ground down and broke the back of the Wehrmacht and it's allies by 1944, inflicted 4 out of 5 casualties and loss of material on their fronts, so that nazism would implode and be sent to straight to hell. The mode of thought that categorizes people by ethnicity, rather than dealing with individuals, political leaders or racist or bigoted ideologies is the root of the problem. .

[@elzbietaroman5418]

If you write this pointing bad nations, there is no difference between you and German Nazis. It is a shame.

[@sabreecarpenter4285]

​@@elzbietaroman5418 I agree. As I was reading these responses, I was thinking, God has people with genuinely kind hearts, in all parts of the world. Just because someone was born in a particular place in time, doesn't define them.

[@tonnyengert]

She got a re-used number, they before her got that number where murdered and one prisoner wih that number was otto orabka. The germans destroyed so many document and they never know exactly how many people are killed because the re-used every number again and again

[@Wowwwzaaa]

Her dad married his sister-in-law…his first wife would be rolling in her grave! That’s disgusting…

[@donnydarkoh777]

Weird - no evidence of burials is anywhere on grounds

[@luisga3709]

terrible how the Poles and others profited, hunted, denounced, looted their neighbours...

[@JimVonSchmittou]

M Mcmillan no the actions of people like your grandfather do not justify the majority of Poles who hated Jews.

[@desreaable]

@@JimVonSchmittou yes some Polish people were horrible to Jews, but lets not generalise as many Polish People lost their lives hiding Jews and helping them.

[@lizhart1526]

@@JimVonSchmittou give me an example what did you do for your neighbours who are not the same race as you? Jews would never save Poles!!!!!

[@gerrymarmee3054]

The nature of evil can invade anyone.

[@Ladybird1967]

It’s so sad to hear about her mother starving due to her religious beliefs. Really horrible. Religion sucks.

[@janetblanc7658]

I agree. Such ridiculous rules in most religions. Superstition....