Holocaust Survivor Helen Fagin Testimony | USC Shoah Foundation
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- This testimony from Jewish survivor, Helen Fagin, is from USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive and is also featured in Echoes & Reflections: A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust. For more information, visit: www.echoesandre...
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All of these videos are gold
We are so lucky to have these.
This is the 8 time I watch this incredible LADY!!! If only everyone will take the time to Learn from her and every survivor. Her eloquent way and kind Soul make her a Giant of Love and an example for Humanity. The love for her sisters and strength is a legacy for every Family member and her students for ever. How I wish she was my teacher but none the less she touch my life thru this video and will never forget you. May God protect everyone she loved and I will teach everyone about the Holocaust till my last breathing day. Is the only way we can Honor all survivors. Thanks to this organization for keeping record of all this Heroes for all generations to come.❤
This wonderful lady is still alive at 101!
103
She passed at age 104 on March 13th, 2022.
@@audreygibson8307 Ohhhhhh no It was my life long dream to met her. Rest in peace
I'm so glad she lived an incredibly long life. It was so sweet to see how much her husband loved her..
I love her ❤
She is amazing woman. Her story broken my heart. God bless you and your family.
Rest in peace, dear Helen. Thank you for sharing your experience with us. You truly were a light in the world.
What a wonderful woman. Despite all she and her sisters endured during the Holocaust, she remained steadfast to the wishes of her parents and dedication to her siblings. Dr. Fagin is a warrior for good! Thank you Dr. Fagin and thank you USC Shoah Foundation for making this testimony available for ALL GENERATIONS.
Helen's story of her childhood, adolescence, and later life was so beautifully told. Of all the hundreds of testimonials of Holocaust survivors, I feel Helen's eloquent words weave such a beautiful picture and story of her personal historical experience. Your husband, children, and family truly have a rare jewel to cherish for generations to come.
Dr. Fagin is a remarkable women, she spoke so elegantly. God Bless her and her Sisters. Thankyou for sharing your Amazing Story. So Sorry you lost your Parents and Grandparents.
Really so inspired by Helen’s testimony. Just so unbelievable how these young children were able to survive the Nazi’s invasion into Poland. Helen is a very special lady and so glad she shared her story to the world.
I watched hundreds of these testimonials.. I was brought up Catholic but at the age of 13 I read Anna Frank.. I've been completely absorbed by the Jewish life, pogams, spent time in Israel and now at 58 I'm still in awe of Jewish families, holocaust..next life..I hope to come back Jewish.. Love everything about their family community... XX
Noreen, as a Catholic born woman I agree with you. Jewish people are well educated, cultured, gentle and dignified. I admire them immensely.
What an amazing woman! Enjoyed every minutes of her testimony.
Please anyone who comes across this video, do not get discouraged with episode 1. Continue watching this incredible account of experience.
Trusting you, friend! Because yikes at some things so far...
Helen I am Polish and just want to tell You, that my grandparents did save a life of Jewish boy. Thank You for telling us Your sad story.Nigdy nie zapomnimy.
Lena did that boy give a testimony ?or wrote a book perhaps ?
I loved when she said, "I have lived happily ever after." 😭😭😭
All these survivors deserve to after all the hardships they had endured
Yes, it kills me how ppl scream oppression in 2021 when these people came out of hell to become doctors and business owners
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You're right,people nowadays don't even know the meaning of the words OPPRESSION,RACISM,FASCISM. So uneducated and ignorant and so easy to manipulate by evil criminal corrupt powers and media.
Yea that got me too I was so happy to hear that
She was such a strong woman! Her whole life was like an epic movie! Amazing story!
What a sophisticated lady...beautiful vocabulary...tragic but ultimately victorious...What a life story
I have no words. She is so amazing I wish modern women could 10000% of who she is
Such a beautiful lady inside and out. While watching this documentary, there are parts of her story made my heart pound and a big smile and teary eyes when she was introducing her family.
This was the best interview that I have seen of all the others. The interviewer was simply AWESOME. Thank you for sharing your experience.
So interesting and beautifully described. Wonderful woman....
…may she be rewarded…and her memory a blessing !
Just breathtaking to me that she used a novel set in the Southern US to soothe the minds of the girls. What a woman.🖤
Another story of slavery and genocide!
@@minounah excellent point!
@@juliaturner6658 What do u think about events in the world today? Putin, another bully, is manipulating the world and gobbling up countries like Georgia , Ukraine and pieces of countries. How long can the world appease this guy? Putin wants the old Soviet Union back. He was disgraced to see it go, just as Germany was disgraced by the Treaty of Versailles. Wake up world, and stop history from repeating itself.
Thank you for your testimony.
Beautiful Lady God Rest her precious soul. Dear Helen you are in Heaven❤️❤️🙏🙏
Thank you Helen
Helen you’re a very strong woman and amazing person
Enjoyed listening to her interview , she is such a wise and knowledgeable lady and what a strong person , I admire her so much . It makes me sad to hear all that she experienced . God love these people !
Helen Fagin, Extraordinary woman, life, career. You are an inspiration.
such a couragious lady.....may i just remark on how her son looks the image of her father.....thank you for sharing your survival story....xxx....tony in ireland
What a fascinating lady.
Dr Helen what a great lady plus the HUTZPAH
One of the best interviews I have ever seen.
:) Heart just melting when she made the school for the girls in the ghetto.. "The most incongruous subject matter".. ;) :( Amazing.
God bless this woman. The part @54:00 with the operation.. that was absolutely terrifying.
These are so important for us to hear they went through this even if its hard to hear its important for us to listen.
Humble person ..
It's so ironic to me that these gentiles called themselves christians. Very few truly were
Can someone tell the Shoah Foundation to please activate CC on these videos? These interviews should be available to the Deaf, the Hard of Hearing and non-native English speakers as the interviewed often have strong accents (although this lady in specific has a very clear accent). But not all of us can follow without captions. I have ADHD and it's much easier for me to hear and read the captions.
An exceptionaly intelecctual testimony among the may other fascinating testimonies. For two other intelectually challenging testimonies let me rreccomend that of Halina Strnad (Poznan) and Shoshana Kahn (LIbau) - both are exceptional.
That is one incredible woman.
So sad her children did not produce grandchildren to this amazing woman to continue her legacy
Indeed. ❤️🩹
However, as a professor, it seems she has created a different sort of legacy.
Remarkable woman !
I think her daughter wanted to know her past a lot sooner than now.
Perhaps but sometimes I think it’s better parents don’t tell their kids everything
The passages of the New Testament was written in which they were governed at the time. The Romans persecuted Jesus.
The Jewish community was so exceptionally educated of the Gospels; they must have thought the Nazi’s and Christians were very ignorant. To be treated so brutally by an uneducated insane group of people. Had to have been a nightmare.
Be careful about how you interpret the Bible and how your being taught.
There are words that are Greek that mean something completely different than what it means in English.
Better to follow your conscious. There have been too many misinterpretations of the Bible, Koran or other.
Wow, what smart thinking on putting her sister in ophange
Bravo
Disgusting how you put that horrible deafening sound in at the beginning, very disrespectful.
That wasn't added, old tapes just sometimes have weird auditory defects. They of course can't remove these defects because there are thousands of these videos.
sound at start scared me. lol
funq
It's so annoying, deafening and unnecessary. Strikes me it's all done "on the cheap" Disrespectful to each survivor and,in view of their immense individual suffering, beggars belief!
I really like this interview, but the interviewer keeps scaring me. I get so invested in the story and then she says something and I jump and look over my shoulder like someone's talking to me.
You did have your sisters...it would have been worse not to have them...you were blessed
My grandmother’s maiden name was Helena Fagin!
I agree with other comment, I went to a Christian church are we were taught that Jews and Israel were the chosen people. I think people are just jealous of them but there is a place in heaven for all of you live a good life
depends if you are catholic or christian.
gotta point that mic at the person being interviewed
@100Arceuslover It's not a censorship, some Jews (not all, but many) use G-d as a means of elevating His name to the level of respect He receives in Hebrew. His name is not said aloud, but rather he is afforded different titles (Adonai, Hashem) so that His name is always reveered and not used in vain. Long story short, it is out of respect and honor that drdad7 said "G-d bless her". Hope that helps.
The Molotov Ribbentrop pact ended long before onn 22 June 1941.
Your maiden name please?
Towards the end, she said: Neimark and that her father had changed it to Neumark.
Wonderful interview with a remarkable woman. Great interviewer however the camera person was too much!!!! Spent too much time (way too much) on awards and photos. Eg: handshake with Pres. Clinton.
This is very nasty racist way these pple have of referring to polish / Christians etc etc Imagine if this was all reverse the Bruja they would make
Unfortunately, she is completely wrong in her assessment of the Gospels. She does not understand them.
Scared the life out of me with that loud beeeeep around 18 seconds
This is not true that there were restrictions in Poland before WWII as far as "gymnasium" education for Jewish girls is concerned. Many Jewish girls went to the public gymnasium with Christian Polish girls and if one is really interested in this part of the history, there are many testimonies on this subject.
Did you live through this? What are your sources?
Dont lie… you didn’t live in her life!!!
I think she was talking about private education.
Both can be true. The lady did not talk about gymnasiums in Poland but in Radomsko - small town, where they probably did not have enough places at public school
It is maybe worth mentioning that 10% in a 30,000 town is low for pre-war Poland. There were usually 1/3 and more proportions
Please , anyone from Europe, save us, the USA , from Trump.
Please, we are in much more trouble in the US with the the man in office now.
Firstly, in this time of history Jews had been living in Poland for centuries. While they were prosecuted all over Europe, the polish king in the 14 century let them come and live in peace. Yet they lived in enclaves and did not assimilate into the polish society.
Secondly, she keeps saying that Jews were immigrating to Israel in 1930s. At that time there was no Israel, there was Palestine. We all know what have happened to the Palestinians and their land since 1948.
The assimilation was perhaps what angered the gentiles and made it easier to turn on Jewish people once Hitler said it was ok to do so
Umm customers not wanting so engage socially with the owners of a business? 🤔, not that I've ever witnessed. My kids play with his kids he gives me a special price. In my experience the people on top choose not to associate with their "customers" be honest now 😂 it's still the same today Kardashians don't hang with their followers and it's not the followers decision 😂
good God, please remove this awful piercing sound that is there for quite a time before the interview starts please! It’s torturing our ears with it
atheists killed atheists .. worshiping God is about making good to all sacrificing personal life saving souls.. not visiting relatives on sabbath..
So sorry but this lady constant gulping makes it impossible to listen to
Lucrezia Roman Wow , your remark is very picky , I disagree. You remind me of a nasty / mean individual.
Lighten up, toots
Make that enlighten up
Polish doctor saved her life,he could be killed by Germans for preformed surgery.
@@elizabethpaszczynski67 so? There were polish people who risked their lives to rescue jews, there were much more of them who did nothing which was bad but not as bad denouncing them to get a small reward, or looting their property the minute they were thrown out of their houses. There were polish who took every zloti the person had and when tge money run out they turn him in. Some poles where paid to keep small children but when the parents were sent to concentration camos and couldn't go on srnding payments they took them to a convent hoping the nuns would take them or even just left them to freeze to death on the street... They were more antisemite poles than righteous ones. If that doctor wouldn't have saved her life it would have been against everything medicine stands for and against tge oath he himself took when he finished medical school. I've seen wiseass people like you on several of these testimonies you will not get get the better hand against me on this mmkkh