Holocaust Survivor Anton Mason Testimony | USC Shoah Foundation
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- This testimony from Jewish survivor, Anton Mason, 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.echoesandreflections.org
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These testimonies should be watched by everybody. A lovely man. After such a hard life how he can be so optimistic and he can still love people. I hope every one of us could be like him. With all love and respect Anton.
Very good interviewer, unlike other interviews
I agree with those who admire this man. Anyone would benefit by listening to his story and his response to the circumstances in which he found himself. Listening to him can’t but leave me a kinder, stronger person.
This lady was a great interviewer ..this testimony was very moving and sad 😞
What an intelligent man. It's not a pleasure to hear of his wartime experiences, but certainly a pleasure to listen to Mr. Mason.
One of my favourite testimonies that I've listened to
It’s always an honor to listen to these testimonies. 🙏🏻
God bless this decent dignified man. I don’t know how anyone could survive going from a happy comfortable life, to pure hell. Thank god that he did survive to testify 💜
An amazing and important eye-witness account. Thank you to the foundation for its work in gathering and posting these full length interviews: I consider myself fairly well learned in matters of historical import, including WW2 and the Holocaust, and I have heard through this and other testimonies many facts, both big and small, of context and foreground, that I did not know and never heard about. These testimonies are a great gift to humanity. Thank you to the witnesses and survivors, for going through the pains of retelling and reliving these trying times for us all. We are in your debt. Never again.
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Mr. Mason is such a wise man. I am blessed to hear his detailed testimony. This interviewer was wonderful. Mr. Mason went through so much, throughout WWII & the Holocaust. It always blows me away that survivors have such a beautiful outlook on life, after all they endured. They succeeded in building productive lives full of love. Mr. Mason is no exception. You can feel the love for his daughter & wife Betty.
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Thank you so much for sharing your life story. I learned a lot from the way you described your inner world. What you have been thinking in the long hours of terrible work and hunger. You had the courage to talk about the pain to see your father suffering and his in seeing yours. It was a moment of great honesty and humanity. Thank you so much. All the best to you and to your wife.
Thank you so much for posting this!
I just loved to listen to every word, to every thought expressed by this remarkable man. My deepest thanks for posting this admirable testimony. The best of humanity. ❤
A survivor of man's inhumanity to man. God Bless his soul and the others and may he and they rest in peace.
This is my uncle. Haven't watched it in 10 years since his death.
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It must have been good to have such a warm, intelligent man in your family.
I mean all Fascism is horrific.
God bless you and your family if you don't mind me asking, how old are you and are you in America? Just curious
His life is a blessing.
He was Elie Weisel's best friend. What a wise man.
In Sighet
What a beautiful kind gentle man.
This man experienced Hell on Earth;God bless him,all other survivors of the camps,and the millions that were killed🙏🙏🙏
very thorough story with so much inspirational insight. he lost so many family members and bravely carried on. I hope his family grows and grows! 'he cant forget he cant have regrets because he was a good man, achieved the goals he set out to do and is happy about life in the present'. 'dont pick a job that will hurt others' words to thrive on for everyone. they help me really realize Ive raised good people, took jobs that helped people. when I feel lonely and empty nested and lost loved ones I'll remember I did good and be content! thank you Anton
When he said that 60 of the 62 people in his family died, I started crying. I can't imagine losing one member of my immediate family in such a way. What was done to these people is horrific. 😥
For once a decent and respectful interviewer.
Thank you so much for sharing this testimony.
Thank you for your testimony.
Thanks for posting this story so present and future generations will see to it this will not happen again. This man’s cruelty to man is documented, thanks to this foundation and the men and women interviewed. The story is not forgotten thanks to this great man, Mr Mason.
It's happening now in North Korea and China
This was fabulous interview with a terrific interviewer. I have to tell you as a woman this man has a certain sex appeal that is my kind of man! Ha! I’m sure his wife would’ve been pleased to know that women all over the world think he is a very attractive gentleman. The way he told his story what’s so interesting and it was so wonderful that the interviewer gave him full reign to tell mini mini interesting incidents. May he rest in peace!Members of his family today I know are extremely proud of this wonderful wonderful man. He had such high morals and I’m sure was admired by fellow prisoners. And he has such a love for his father!
Thank you for this detailed testimony sir and God Bless you!🙏
Imagine a world where you cannot ask questions. I can't imagine I would survive long. I am not jewish, (actually, I think I am but this is too long of a story) In college, I was so grateful when I had a jewish person in my classes so I won't be the only one asking questions.
That is what the US is now. It will get worse unless we take action
Astonishing testimony... the story itself, so terrible as all the stories are... but also, in Mr. Mason's case, his special lifelong personality. I don't want to cite all the personality attributes that strike me as I write this, after listening closely to his entire testimony, some of it on repeat. It's all here for others to experience. I just want to say that I greatly appreciate the existence of this testimony and that I am grateful to the foundation... to all its stakeholders... for this work. Alas humanity continues to be riven by violence seemingly rooted in the greed and powermongering and prejudice that Mr. Mason warns against.
😢 So very sad. I hope this man and his family have found peace. ❤️
God bless this poor man OMG;lost his whole immediate family!!!very sad😢family is waiting for him in Heaven🙏
Such a difference between my childhood and Anton’s. Although religious Catholic, I had lots of Jewish friends because that’s who lived around us. As kids, it didn’t really matter. It was matter of fact. Sometimes the Jewish kids weren’t about because it was a holiday; sometimes the Catholic kids had a Holy Day of Obligation, and the Protestant and non-religious Christians stayed home only on the major Christian holidays like Christmas and Easter. Non-religious Jewish kids also had those holidays off from school. But our play and games were more important than religious things. Whoever showed up to play, played. Sometimes we went to each other’s homes to see holiday gifts, foods, game, so we learned about others faiths.
Thanks for your testimony sir!God bless you🙏
Thank you.
please reload and adjust the audio so I can turn up the volume. why is it so difficult for everyone to upload videos and not have adequate sound quality...
It is quiet and difficult to hear also.
Please show a little respect,,
Use ear buds
Because this was recorded 30 years ago
PASSOVER! We do in Greece as well, with the Lamb, and take the bread and the wine.
Most definitely, something the whole world needs to listen and play close attention to, particularly if you're Black in the Westen Hemisphere. Too many think this is foreign and ancient and that this could never happen again. Do You want to make a bet?😳
Fascinating, the contrast between Abraham and Mordecai; and he chose Abraham. Tell only what’s necessary to avoid sin, let God do the rest. IOW, let God take the lead and control, not man.
It's too bad that because of the low volume during that time ,the interview was not loud enough making it hard to hear. No one will ever understand the horrors that the Jewish people endured. I've listened to many hours of testimonies of the survivors of the persecution of GOD'S people.
Wouldn't it have been dangerous for a non-Jew and have put their lives in jeopardy by visiting a Jewish friend in a ghetto and bringing food and other things to help them? Perhaps it was fear that kept their friends away.
I thought the same thing when it was explained that no one would help. I'm sure it was fear of death themselves and their family.
This man has a detailed memory which is able to paint a picture that cannot be forgotten. I have watched this several times and enjoyed it each time.
I would like to say that those who he thought were Christians but abandoned them in their time of need were not true Christians, those Christians who follow the Jewish Messiah Jesus Christ, and follow HIs commands, to love your neighbour, would have reached out. And in fact many did including Corrie Ten Boom and others whose names are not so well known. Rosie Higgs
Why where most Christian starving at that time. And why do they hate so much
If you knew Jewish History, you would know what could happen.
The Crusades, the Inquisition, 1648 massacre in Ukraine, all recorded mass murder!
How easily we forget?