Jewish Survivor Diana Golden Testimony | USC Shoah Foundation
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I had the immense pleasure of meeting Diana in the mud 90’s. My husband is Sephardic and we knew her via the Sephardic synagogue. She was just a lovely woman’s and very open to discussing her experiences. Amazing woman. Joy to be able to listen to her testimony.
I’m listening to this in 2021. This beautiful lady is no longer with us .May she Rest In Peace.A wonderful person.
Your testimony was one of the most cohesive I have watched .. my heart is full of admiration for you and your family .. I’m so sorry for the inhumane treatment and torture you have all suffered .. and for your loss.. thank you so much for sharing..
Emma Burgess Amen
Thank you for your powerful testimony. You explained everything so well. God bless you and your family.
Totally agree.
❤her❤ lip❤ stick❤ love❤ her❤
Lovely lady with clear recall. Bless her 💕
I stumbled upon her story by chance really and ended up listening the whole way through. This project is really something special.
It is amazing! I can't believe we have access to it, freely! 👏
Diana is just brilliant.To live through all the horror and then after to have a family and a wonderful life.She is amazing
Wow 😯
The ultimate revenge was to have a wonderful life and a huge family!! 😍
She is the most amazing speaker. Very, very detailed historical knowledge.
This woman tells such a lovely story, but I found the questions disruptive. Thank you for such an informative story.
"A lovely story" [sic]. Please reflect on how you use words. The lady is lovely but her story is horrendous.
I found the lady rude when this wonderful woman didn't understand her question.
The Questions are very important as draws out critical information that may have been forgotten + as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr said, " Silence is Betrayal".
I agree .. the narrative is broken up by the questions too much.
The interviewer obviously wasn’t trained, cutting her off midsentence a few times. Nevertheless, her story is clear and amazing! And she shows great patience and understanding with the untrained interviewer. A lesson for us all.
Me. Golden’s testimony is heart- wrenching. I so appreciate her sharing her experience. I wish the interviewer had been better trained. The interviewer rushed Ms. Golden, interrupted Ms. Golden and actually distracted from her testimony.
She is so comical about her gentile son-in-law! I hope he has a sense of humour.
Leave the narrator alone!! I had no problems, complaints with/about the narrator! Can’t you find something better to complain about??
Yeah Diana would say something so horrific and emotional and all the interviewer could do was immediately interject with some cold question of fact.
Very glad you did speak out Diana. Thank you.
Aww I just want to give her a hug, she’s so sweet! ❤️
Thank you for being so open about your experiences and eventual triumph through darkness.
I wish the interviewer would shut up.. let this lady speak.. you were so eloquent in telling your story
The interviewer is very skilled at what she does. Far from interposing herself, she guides Diana Golden most effectively through a long and gripping interview which results in a historical document of great importance. She asks the right questions at the right time. Both interviewer and interviewee comport themselves in an appropriate manner, with both parties adopting the right tone throughout to achieve the intended result. This is one of the clearest and most compelling narratives conducted by the USC Shoah Foundation.
Literally my thoughts. Let the lady speak! Always interrupting with asking the person's name or when? or how long? I was just so captivated by Diana and her story and I kept holding my breath because I knew the interviewer would interrupt any moment and disturb the fluidity of how Diana was telling her story.
This was a historical testimony you clowns. The interviewer did a wonderful job. This lady did a beautiful eloquent job with her testimony.
I wish she would have written a book. It would have been amazing.
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I think she said someone in her family wrote a book called Remembering Rose
@@deannemiller891I Remember Rhodes
@@goldenlass9488 thank you!
What an amazing story. So brave so beautiful.
Precious lady 🙏 All my love. God has blessed us all because of you and what you have shared. Blessings to you and yours
What a lovely thing to say. Blessings to you and yours also 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
I really developed a care for this woman during the duration of this video. It really touched me so much. I wonder if she’s still alive. I would love to hear her story live
Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful testimony, Mrs, Golden. I am so sorry for the terrible crimes committed by the Nazis against your sweet family.
This made me cry I feel so bad for all the hell this lady went through :(...God bless her
What a horror this extraordinary woman has survived. And what dignity and strength she has. This is another impelling recollection of an unimaginable time. I found some 'personal and intimate' details I have always wondered about explained for the first time. She did not shrink from describing them - and that took another level of courage. Thank you Diana. And your beauty and your smile says much about your inner state despite the cruelty you had to endure... and you still maintained hope.
Your reply is an articulate and powerful rebuff to the many who post comments that are inappropriate and ignorant.
So lovely to hear someone speaking with so much respect to the survivor. Oh my, we cannot begin to imagine what these people have been through and, you’re right, they maintained their dignity somehow and ‘ got on with life’. Puts the problems of the woke moaners to shame does it not. How would they cope. They wouldn’t , because they do not have the inner spirit and beauty these people have, Man is an inhuman creature at times. Sad testimony for humanity . G-D must shed many tears over his children 🙏🙏🙏🙏🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Thank you for the extremely humbling privilege of listening to your testimony.
I will never forget.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. I am constantly amazed by the courage of these survivors.
Can’t you have your interviewers show some empathy for these survivors? None of them show any kind of sympathy especially when it becomes very emotional.
@@ilenekaplan109 Ilene, permit me to point out that this is an oral history taking place for the historical record. "Emotion" emanating from either party would only cloud the testimony. The neutral tone is one of the reasons that Diana is debriefed so effectively. I consider the "exchange" between Diana Golden (interviewee) and Hilary Helstein (interviewer) to be exemplary, one that might be shown to trainee interviewers and held out as a benchmark to aim for in conducting such interviews which are archived as a matter of historical record.
What a wonderful testimony.
Mrs. Golden was a very engaging, beautiful lady and she taught me a lot about her homeland of Rhodes that I didn't know. It's amazing how different one survivor's story can be from another. I have to say I didn't like the interviewer's style. She was abrupt to the point of being rude in her way of asking Mrs Golden questions. She frequently interrupted, rushing her and asking her "what happened next." But Mrs. Golden was always gracious and eloquent. She went through a lot and she survived. I am grateful for her memories and willingness to be interviewed and share her experience and strength with the world.
She does sound Portuguese. And you can tell she has a young spirit bless her soul
Carla Gonçalves she sounds like she has a Greek accent to me such a beautiful soul I’m so sorry you all had to endure all this suffering all because of one sick delusional person l don’t even want to mention his name 🤬😡
I agree it sounds rather like a Greek accent ! Wonderful women
No the accent to me is Italian she sounds just like my grandma
@@sofiasecchi3421 Diana was Greek, born on the island of Rhodes.
Doug R actually when she was born in Rhodes and was living there it was part of Italy, she also spoke Italian and not Greek.
This is by far the best explanation of what life was like back then. Amazing to see how long all these orthodox customs have survived! Amazing memory and how she organizes her thoughts. Love this!!!
There may be awkward pauses when the interviewer interrupts with a question but it is not out of rudeness, rather a responsibility to keep the guest on track and get as much information for historical record as they can.
Well said! I see a lot of negativity in the comments in regards to the interviewers but I believe they are trying to keep the interviewee on a steady timeline of events to make everything more structured and fluid!🙏🏻🇮🇱👍🏻
Thank you for mentioning that!
I kept expecting the bored interviewer to yell "SCNELL!" to make this sweet woman hurry up! SALUTE Diana!
God...that "tell me what happened." After she just said her father died...just seems so cold and hard..it made me tear up
Great testimony. Very well spoken by this impressive human being.
An amazing life story of bravery love and courage by Diana
God Bless you xx🙏
Lovely woman. She's very right, prisoners who didn't speak Polish Yiddish or German were at a major disadvantage. And the ones that had been there for years definitely resented those that came much later in the war.
Thank you for sharing your story.
I really prefer the parts where she gets to speak freely without being rushed or interrupted
The more I listen to these stories the more I admire Jewish people and their culture. Through so much tragedy and being always stateless until Jewish state of Israel was established they still maintained a very strong sense of Jewish cultural and religious identity. Just amazing.
Bless her heart! What a wonderful woman! Beautiful family! I'll always pray for your family and your little brother bless his heart! Bless you all.
Listening in 2024, fascinating!!! History , learn something new at the ripe old age of 70. May she RIP 🪦 MY GOODNESS XXX
I love her. She doesn't want to kill the chickens because they become friends....awwwwwww
THANKYOU for your story x
Thank you so much for telling your family story. What every one had to experience was unspeakable 🌺
“How can you kill a poor chicken that’s your friend?” What an exceptional soul 💓 So much intelligence, grace, and love pour forth from this woman. Countless people like her retained or even honed their humanity, despite being subjected to the cruelty of brutes. The world continues the battle between our basest instincts and our noblest inclinations. Apathy is a vote for evil to prevail! We must never forget.
What a woman 🖤
God Bless Mrs Golden. Thank you for your story. Lovely woman.
"How can you kill a chicken that's your friend?!" This sweet lady is a hoot. Love her mischievous laugh also.
Where do they find these Interviewers? A beautiful, intelligent and extremely articulate lady being constantly interrupted with largely irrelevant questions that seem to be an attempt to keep Ms Golden "on track" but have the very opposite affect. Not to mention her utter lack of humanity/empathy, why oh why?
I love her story about the chickens .. so precious
Almost every interview I’ve seen these “interviewers” are so cold almost rude in their tone.
One had a nose whistle in my right ear - I had to listen without it :\
Yes, I agree with you, Your not imaging this, Its true... Such a shame to them... May God bless Diane and her family, AMEN.
I do not know if it's because they are American. Many know only English, anyway they do not strive to be understood or heard properly, no symphaty for the old person. It is pittiful for us foreigners ( from Argentina) to hear them.
@efopo I agree, however, there have been some who were downright rude and horrid. Nothing like seeing an elderly lady being interrogated :(
Agree. I wish the interviewer would just be quiet and let the lady speak and tell her story. Even if the interviewers are volunteering, as someone said in a comment, common courtesy dictates to let people speak and be respectful
Is the interviewer listening to what this woman is saying? She’s interrupting her to asks questions that she is in the process of answering or has already answered. The interviewer seems as though this is a job she’s trying to get through and doesn’t understand the significance of this woman’s words.
I have watched many of these testimonies. I often am puzzled by the questions asked and often there are negative comments regarding the interviewers. I try to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Probably they were trained to conduct interviews a certain way and ask certain questions. Videotaping was not so widespread and easy in the mid 90's as it is now.
Possibly they wanted to prevent long rambling stories. But often that is what we listeners now want to hear. I am thankful these important testimonies were taken and preserved.
Many thanks to all involved. It can happen here.
Sweetest little Lady, how could anyone hurt her, unfathomable
The survivor’s’ stories have so much more impact when they are allowed to speak freely and narratively and the interviewer essentially fades into the background, only speaking to clarify something or bring an important point to light, based on what the survivor has said. So much emotion is lost when it is a Q&A session. Q&A’s also push the interview to three and five hours, and not many people have that much time at once to listen, not to mention ‘listener fatigue’ setting in. I fast-forwarded a lot trying to find the most pertinent parts.
You have completely missed the point. This is a personal testimony, a historical record.
@@rogerlephoque3704 No, I haven’t completely missed the point. You’ve completely missed mine, though.
@@gabe-po9yi Your response is akin to a dog going round in circles, chasing its own tail. Going nowhere fast...
@@rogerlephoque3704 Have you always blamed your inadequacies on others?
@@gabe-po9yi Do you usually waste time engaging in ad hominem confrontational exchanges in cyberspace? This is a serious subject matter, one that the USC Shoah Foundation documents as a matter of historical record. I am calling a halt to our personal exchanges. I shall not respond to you again. Watch out for my next posting, directed at no one in particular, but meant to inform people out there who don't understand the nature and MO of Foundation's interviews in general and Diana Golden's in particular. Both interviewer and interviewee conducted themselves in an appropriate manner at all times. The interviewer is very skilled at debriefing the interviewee. The interviewee was cooperative and forthcoming, with a narrative that was clear and delivered in impeccable English (her 4th language after Ladino, Italian and French). This wasn't meant to be a fireside chat over coffee.
Love this lady xx
Fantastic. however the interviewer should have done her homework on Ladino and the Sephardic communities of the Mediterranean.. Ladino is a Jewish language not just Yiddish for God sake---also the school is the Alliance Israelite Universelle which was very active in North Africa, Greece, Turkey, etc. The communities of Greece especially Salonica were beacon of Ladino and Sephardic culture. I am happy however that Diana Golden was able to testify. Out of almost 2,000 people deported only 151 survived the Shoah---
All of these survivors are so elegant and intelligent. The world lost so much with the Holocaust and now that the survivors are passing away. Thank G-d for these testimonies.
Interviewer...watch your tone!
Her tone in neutral, the most appropriate and effective way in debriefing Diana and recording her oral history as a matter of historical record. This is neither entertainment nor a fireside chat over coffee.
I agree entirely with you Maddie Ferraro; her tone at points verges on impatience and frustration.
One can achieve the objectives of achieving historical record, whilst maintaining a sense of humility and appropriate compassion - or at least - appreciation.
I noticed the impatience also. It wasn't too bad but seemed rude, at times.
Ms. Goldman's story was wonderful and she is good hearted person but the interviewer lady was very dumb, not allowing Ms. Goldman to explain her story properly simply puts next questions quickly.
Spot on. Dumb interrogation.
Evidently, you did not watch and listen to this interview. To describe the interviewer as "dumb" [sic] is impudent!
thanks for your courage your beautiful love and peace for all
What a lovely, brave woman. Thank you
I can't stand when these interviews keep interuppting beautiful stories.
Thank you so much.
The Jewish people are amazing, I am not Jewish but respect and love them ❤
Thank you for your testimony
The interviewer is annoying !
The rudest interviewer ever and if I were Diana I would’ve told her to get out.
She is inspiring.
Another Survivor Testified that the morning coffee contained something to STOP women from having their period..... Maybe that’s why hers stopped totally. God Bless all of these SURVIVORS 🙏🕊✨💖
So default testimony from a lovely dignified lady. I’m so sorry for your heartwretching loss. No words can express it to you. At least you have some photos - little comfort maybe but I’m sure they’re a treasure to you . G-D bless you and your family dear lady. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
What a beautiful, well spoken lady. RIP Diana. 🔯
Thank you and well posted Diana Golden (Galante) is my second great grandfather's wife's brother's wife's great niece's husband's great uncle's wife's uncle's wife's son's wife.
Why do these interviewees ask these people to spell everything. 😬
faith Davis If you read at the top of the page there is a description of how these interviews will be indexed etc. Remembering and identifying people lost in the Shoah and documenting it for history is an important factor. There are testimonies not just personal remininscences.
The "interviewees: are the people responding to the questions asked of them. American 'education', aint it grand?
@@christopherbattle5161 Amen to that, Mr Battle. We had exchange students from William & Mary College in the US at my law school in the UK. They were ill-equipped in the kind of knowledge (history, geography, etc) to prepare them for what is needed at Law School. However, they were outgoing and personable, and one of them taught me how to throw a frisbee.
For the historical record...
Wonderful testimony
I love her.
What a beautiful woman.
Someone from another testimony mentioned the Greek Jewish transport from Rhodes.
An amazing life story of bravery love and courage.
The interviewer is absolutely ignorant!
I recognize her light italian accent...this donna meravigliosa
These stories of such courage movies should be made about these stories.
This is an oral history recorded for the historical record; it's not "show biz".
The sick part is this is still going on at this very moment in China & many other places😓 I’m pretty sure I’ve recently watched almost every single one of these testimonies😞 I was born in 1980 & during school I wasn’t particularly interested in learning about the past & now as a mother/ grown adult I find myself wanting to know it all. These people have been through so much. I truly hope they have found happiness in their lives! Sadly, now in America they now pushing critical race theory so now if they’re here their grandchildren will be taught that they have to feel guilty because they have white skin. Most Americans POC don’t understand that in America you have people who came here from all over the world that went through some of the same things they’ve went through & never owned slaves. I feel in America people have it too good, to the point that they’re looking for reasons to be angry with others, all races these days here have some reason to be upset. My ancestors migrated from France. My mother didn’t know English until she started school but they were made to feel ashamed that they spoke French so they assimilated to the point that they stopped teaching French to the children. I’m 40, my mom didn’t teach any of us French & it makes me so incredibly sad that she chose not to teach us.
Why is the interviewer firing questions and siging humming and harring like she is bored
thank you!!
She said a punishment was to give castor oil and they were "send out". What does that mean? The interviewed didn't ask what it was and instead ask the names of the people it happened to.
Hi, I know that your comment was made 1 year ago but I saw this great testimony only today. I am Italian from Bologna (the actual city that was also mentioned by this incredible lady). I know what Mrs, Golden was referring to about the Castor Oil see that I grew up listening to our father and mother talking about the war. The Camicie Nere (Black Shirts / Fascists) used to force people that they considered against the regime to drink extremely large amounts of Castor Oil and then let them go - the consequences I can leave them to your imagination. I would like to add that this Testimony really touched my heart so deeply - a truly amazing woman
What a lovely, lovely lady, I hope she's still alive. The first account of a Sephardic Jew I've heard. It was very interesting.
Diana Golden, a beautiful, dignified, courageous lady and then the interviewer, cold, rude and discourteous. Not deserving of breathing the same air as Diana.
Interviewer sounds bored
I hope this lady did not mean Magda as in Magda Hellinger… I just read her book, “The Nazi’s Knew My Name” and so many people have said things about her but she was trying to save them overall from the SS. She was so misunderstood as a block elder! I hope Dianna did not mean her
I’m so sorry, I just noticed I’d made a mistake. I have no idea how the word default got in there. Darn auto correct. Apologies. May I add you looked absolutely beautiful on your wedding day 🙏🙏🙏🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
That was a good question asked”What did you do to maintain your dignity” I would have asked ....”Was their anything that you did that would comfort yourself”? The interviewer is a bit cold.. but she’s trying to keep the interview on track and I think not feel about the horrible things she’s hearing but she has an abrupt manner and her tone is harsh ....It detracts a bit from the interview....
Exactly, so the interrogator is making a mockery of the purpose of the testimony. Asinine.
I don't understand why she spoke about caucasian and mongolian Russians?
Many Soviet soldiers who fought against the Germans in WW2 were either indigenous people of Siberia and surrounding areas or ethnically related to them:
Indigenous peoples of Siberia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Siberia
why is the sound so low? why are all these interviews so screwed up?
Old technology. 🌹
I hate the questioner. Like an interrogation. With no empathy.
Of course there's lots of survivors.
She's talking about the Greek
cc please!
Your Amazing no one can understand the horrors
Interesting lady, rude interviewer
Evil 😈 is how to describe what went on
I’m offended by this one,I’m American..we did nothing to do with this..maybe that was our fault..ppl say you do thing is the same
Absolute nightmare....😢
Casro oil? My gramma gave me that for my cold…I find this story hard to believe…😊
CC, & LOUDER PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!