Holocaust Survivor Brigitte Altman Testimony | USC Shoah Foundation

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  • čas přidán 19. 08. 2024
  • This testimony by Jewish survivor, Brigitte Altman, 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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Komentáře • 73

  • @dbkyhere9229
    @dbkyhere9229 Před 3 lety +15

    Lovely woman, the most articulate survivor I’ve ever listened to. I wish there would’ve have been more time given to her story. Possibly at her wishes, but nevertheless a wonderful woman, wife and Mom who was able to have the American freedom, and happiness she deserved in spite of her terrible hardships .

  • @mserinlannalibrarian6486
    @mserinlannalibrarian6486 Před 2 lety +5

    I loved watching her light up when she was talking about meeting and marrying her husband. How wonderful that she found such happiness after the horrors of her early life. I'm sure she was also very pleased to be over the worst of her stories at that point in the testimony. Thank you for continuing to share this project with the world.

  • @ednavita5143
    @ednavita5143 Před rokem +6

    What an adorable woman. Very touching life and suffering that did not change her lucidity and softness. I learned a lot from you. Thank you for your honesty

  • @ocheltree1
    @ocheltree1 Před 10 lety +60

    To those wondering why the interviewer always asks for spelling of name, towns, dates etc., I don't know but suspect it is so people searching for any ties or information about their ancestors/friends might make some links like maybe they heard their ancester lived in the same place or mentioned a name they recognized. Possibly, people investigating the historical aspects might cross reference information.

    • @sarahwolfe1265
      @sarahwolfe1265 Před 2 lety +8

      That's correct. We don't see it here, but the Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive uses keywords for personal names, place names, and concepts like "concentration camp" and "ghetto". It's important to have all spellings correct to link to other survivors' testimonies and scholars' material.

  • @gyorgyakos9618
    @gyorgyakos9618 Před 3 lety +27

    Listen to her beautiful Englishb and the way she is always trying to find the most adequate expression. Intelligence and warm family upbringing comes through in each of these interviews I have heard so far. A relatively lucky sutrvivor. (i myself am the child of an "escapist" family.)

    • @BreaMichelle3
      @BreaMichelle3 Před 3 lety +1

      You are a child of someone who escaped during the war? If you don’t mind me asking, in which country was this? I am always so fascinated by these stories and big respect to your family for enduring the horrors of world war 2. ❤️

    • @gyorgyakos9618
      @gyorgyakos9618 Před 3 lety +9

      @@BreaMichelle3 My parents emigrated with my (then) 5 year old brother in May 1940 from Hungary (Budapest) to Uruguay. My uncle (later a famous conductor "Pablo Komlós") lived there with his wife since 1938. My parents and my brother came back to Hungary in 1948. I was born a year later. My uncle remained in South America but moved to Brazil. His son (my cousin) was born there. My paternal grandparents were in the Budapest ghetto but survived. My maternal grandmother died one week after the liberation of the ghetto. Greetings from Hungary.

    • @laurenanderson7330
      @laurenanderson7330 Před 2 lety

      Englishb

    • @gyorgyakos9618
      @gyorgyakos9618 Před 2 lety

      Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!@@laurenanderson7330

    • @RD-0101
      @RD-0101 Před 2 lety

      @@gyorgyakos9618
      Why your parents didn't stay in America and returned to the communist Hungary?

  • @Pommy1957
    @Pommy1957 Před 4 lety +25

    She's a really classy lady.

  • @sarahj.8372
    @sarahj.8372 Před 3 lety +2

    Very deeply touched by all these stories. Her daughter defined her perfectly...from this elegant sad history.

  • @nokumira
    @nokumira Před 7 měsíci +1

    Interestingly, there's a small town in South Africa called Memel. Most Dutch founded towns here are named for their European inspiration. Thank you for your testimony Brigitte.

  • @lauravazquez285
    @lauravazquez285 Před 3 lety +7

    God bless her heart ❤️ god “ KEPT HER IN HIS HANDS 🙌 AMEN 🙏 SHE SURVIVED

  • @KlaraMoody
    @KlaraMoody Před 2 lety +2

    An absolutely wonderful and impressive document told by Mrs. Brigitte Altman .
    It moved me greatly and I wish to convey my greatest
    Thank you...
    From
    PERTH,
    in Western Australia.

  • @TheAcquibajo
    @TheAcquibajo Před 4 lety +6

    I agree with you about the revisionists. It is heartbreaking.

  • @LUVJONZ99
    @LUVJONZ99 Před 11 lety +4

    Thanks for taking the time to explain this to me, I did not want to guess but wanted a formal explanation. Thank.

  • @doriasalmon4790
    @doriasalmon4790 Před 3 lety +7

    Good interviewer, allowed the survivor to speak without interruption; glad the survivor managed to escape and make a life for herself; very slow delivery from the survivor, made it difficult to endure

    • @janetblanc7658
      @janetblanc7658 Před rokem

      I have the same problem. Even though I'm almost 80 I speak quickly and am not very patient I'm ashamed to admit.

  • @gyorgyakos9618
    @gyorgyakos9618 Před 3 lety +6

    I would have liked to listen to what the daughter wanted to add! You either have a full testimony or none! This is not a way to treat an interviewer, young or old! Thanks for the story from Brigitte and the other family members. The cone in the photo of her first day at school is called "Tüte", and contains treats to "sweeten" the child's first day at school. (Nice German custom. I spent 3 years in Hamburg as a child and I do remember it.)

  • @MR-mv6hd
    @MR-mv6hd Před 4 lety +4

    I have been in Klaipeda, Lithuania. It is beautiful in the summer, but the water is way too cold.

  • @LisaRichards_123
    @LisaRichards_123 Před rokem +3

    None of my relatives that applied could get in. They were all killed, and very few survived. I don’t use my real name in CZcams, because of trolls.

  • @suzyinstitches273
    @suzyinstitches273 Před 3 lety +3

    Klaipeda Lithuania!! I have relatives there, also in Andriejavas❤️❤️

    • @guliver2559
      @guliver2559 Před 3 lety +1

      To the memory of all Ellert family members from Jung Fern Str. 1-2 Memel ,murfed in Holocaust ,we will not forget.

  • @margaretroselle8610
    @margaretroselle8610 Před 3 lety +9

    God’s richest blessings to the Nation of Israel.

  • @LUVJONZ99
    @LUVJONZ99 Před 13 lety +11

    What is the purpose of having persons interviewed, spell their first and last names?

    • @sandraobrien8705
      @sandraobrien8705 Před 4 lety +1

      I always skip the spelling segments.

    • @wanda520
      @wanda520 Před 3 lety +10

      They want to be very precise for those in the future who may do genealogy study.

    • @binkytube
      @binkytube Před 2 lety +2

      It would be nice if they only had them in captions. The vocal spellings can be tedious.

  • @cherylstaples1790
    @cherylstaples1790 Před 4 lety +7

    How rude to edit out this wonderfully articulate daughter's final comments about her mother!

    • @BreaMichelle3
      @BreaMichelle3 Před 3 lety +1

      I know right :( I think it might have something to do with the tapes, since this was filmed in 1997.

    • @joycepurcell1457
      @joycepurcell1457 Před 3 lety

      @@BreaMichelle3
      S

  • @vo7877
    @vo7877 Před 3 měsíci

    why no subtitle on any of these video?

  • @katyhemsley6846
    @katyhemsley6846 Před 2 lety +1

    Yo,u can SEE the pain 🟣

  • @binkytube
    @binkytube Před 2 lety +2

    She reminds me of Shelley Winters.

  • @erinlevere6881
    @erinlevere6881 Před 4 lety +3

    The interviewers accent 👌

  • @marekdudek
    @marekdudek Před 3 lety +1

    naprawde nasze matki nas urodzily a co przeszly nawet nie probuje myslec.

  • @desertbreeze69
    @desertbreeze69 Před 4 lety +4

    I’m so glad she was relatively safe however her slow delivery was difficult to endure.

  • @fabiesque
    @fabiesque Před 12 lety +1

    what do you mean?

  • @empress2529
    @empress2529 Před rokem

    Lovely, smart & beautiful woman. Is she the Grandma of Sam Altman - ChatGPT?

  • @swiater1
    @swiater1 Před 3 lety +2

    The commentator is very low keyed and there is no personality in her speaking, actually boring. The testimony given by Brigitte Altman is very eloquently given.

    • @ajarnwordsmith628
      @ajarnwordsmith628 Před rokem +1

      Good gracious! That's the whole point of "interviewing" someone in this situation. You're supposed to focus on the interviewee, Brigitte Altman, not looking for the "personality" of the interviewer or seeking to be entertained by her to relieve your boredom. I don't know if the interviewer is a lawyer or not. Still, her interviewing technique is as good as any top lawyer in court conducting an examination-in-chief or a cross-examination of a witness to elicit testimony. That's what is going on here. Stay alert...

  • @manueladarazsdi9675
    @manueladarazsdi9675 Před 4 lety +4

    Why doesn't she have an accent?

    • @greatmusicfan57
      @greatmusicfan57 Před měsícem

      Perhaps elocution lessons and extensive English lessons. You can hear a tiny accent if you listen.

  • @gopalreddy4671
    @gopalreddy4671 Před 2 lety +1

    why worry about spelling. Nonsense and waste of time.

  • @RositaAHuff
    @RositaAHuff Před 6 lety +9

    Where was God....any God...of any Religion? Where was God?

    • @sheilahowe8861
      @sheilahowe8861 Před 5 lety +3

      @@iloveglitter149 Many people are misguided about our Creator. They're mislead by their religious leaders.

    • @desertbreeze69
      @desertbreeze69 Před 4 lety +3

      Rosita A. Huff there’s an answer but most don’t want to hear it

    • @desertbreeze69
      @desertbreeze69 Před 4 lety

      Sheila Howe are you my sister? YHWH

    • @cope9900
      @cope9900 Před 4 lety +2

      There is no god

    • @malindyo
      @malindyo Před 4 lety +2

      If you read the Bible and really dug deep you would understand where God was and why this happened and it will happen again 😢💔

  • @damonmelendez856
    @damonmelendez856 Před 2 měsíci

    7:32 such privileged people, ‘before women had to work’. Lmao

  • @alonsosevilla2301
    @alonsosevilla2301 Před rokem

    The brawny japanese aetiologically breathe because sturgeon conspicuously scrub but a juicy hydrogen. certain, fantastic periodical

  • @RW-kp3wr
    @RW-kp3wr Před 6 lety +3

    I am not sure why, she reminds me of Hillary Clinton, her intonation.