Holocaust survivor recognizes himself in documentary
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- A Holocaust survivor recognized himself and his brother as children in a screenshot from a recently released documentary.
The image is deceptively cheerful.
Taken in April 1945, it shows a dozen or so children smiling through a barbed wire fence. They are prisoners at Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi Germany concentration camp, and they have just been liberated.
Yehuda Danzig, 82, recognized two boys in the picture after it was recently published in the Times of Israel. One was him at the age of 11. The other was his brother Michael, who was 12 at the time.
It was the first and only photo he’d seen of himself as a prisoner.
“I started to cry,” says the soft-spoken Danzig. “I couldn’t believe it.”
Danzig had been in the kitchen reading the newspaper on his tablet when the black-and-white still frame caught his eye. It was taken from the Holocaust documentary German Concentration Camps Factual Survey, shot at 14 different camps and sites of atrocities in Austria, Germany and Poland, including Auschwitz, after the fall of Hitler.
Though parts of the footage have been shown over the years, the film, directed with the help of Alfred Hitchcock, wasn’t completed until 2014, after the British Imperial War Museums took over its restoration.
Danzig refuses to watch it, but says its existence validates the nightmare he suffered through.
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The hurt that must be so deep, no embedded in someone's soul that they can still cry about it 70+ years later.
Robert Hurley...Same here, this broke my heart, made me so sad watching his still pain.
Healing. Time will tell
well said
Fortunately, crying is a good sign: it shows you are able to feel your feelings. Too many victims lost contact with their feelings and could not cry and relieve their suffering. :(
I've asked my grandfather many times, but he never speaks about it and that's so devastating 😢
It broke my heart when he started crying
R M I know. That pain is still so fresh for him. I just wanted to hug him 😥❤️
Came on to say that very thing. Desperate to hug him.
Why? Open your eyes and look at palestine's kids and women.
@@rajpootzada4677 what's about Israel their children too. No one wins in war it's unnecessary.
Amen. The hurt must be unbearable.
I started crying when I saw his face....I can’t believe people could do this to others. I am not Jewish, but I live in a town with lots of Jewish people in it, and I am friends with most of them. I can’t believe people would do such a thing.
Yes it was horrible I would love to punch hitler in the face and because I’m a kid it would be easy to then punch him in the nuts 👊🏽
China is having concentration camps for Uighurs, and many are disappearing. Into force labour camps, or forced organ harvesting
I have worked for Jewish people all my life I see no problems at all very nice people very thoughtful and generous. My brother worked for them all his life again very generous people. This was because of one person who had a personal problem with them and when he came to power he had them murdered in the millions.
@mark q awesome Do you have a problem in typing in the same comment?
@mark q awesome are you having a stroke while writing?
It was the darkest moment in history and it is not very distant from our present.
People like you are genuinely so thick. How can you even compare this to the present
@@JS-id7nd Just check out how one person can make people hate others they don't even know -- it could happen again.
@@JS-id7nd it seems like do you live in a bubble and yo u don´t know the world, the REAL world.
I hope that it will never be distant so that it does not occur again. All I can do is pray
It was one of many past and present very sad and we must not forget I pray the world becomes a kinder place
1:23 That empty look broke me. There's so much pain in his eyes.
I am thankful to God that Mister Danzig survived, he has a sweet soul!
he is simply lucky. chance. millions of good, innocent people, children
and adults, did not. And before their death they were brutally tortured. For no reason at all. They did not deserve their lives any less. Mister Danzig does seem just lovely. however, it still breaks me.
💘
He had every reason to cry!! Coming face to face with your heartbreaking past must have been a great shock.
True but i dont think anyone said he didnt have a reason..hes has very much a reason and anyone who fails to see that is a fool.
Absolutely so glad he survived. So sorry about the hate nazis did to the Jews . Beyond horrified. Never forget. God bless this man❤️❤️
Sadly humanity learnt nothing....it's still happening
@@mandybiffin absolutely indeed. People need to wake up before this happens again. They are removing important history too from schools.
@mark q awesome u ok?
@mark q awesome u need help
@@mandybiffin in srilanka Tamil Peoples Killed by 18 Nations.
#May18
Watching a man who’s been through so much try not to cry is just.. heartbreaking
LAMOOOOOOO XDDD
sorry i feel nothing!
Beautiful man I'm so glad he survived.
I always wondered about that, people recognizing themselves in those pictures. How emotional
Every time I watch anything on the Battle of the Bulge (or 99ID), I look for my dad. Of course, he was 42 when I was born, so I'm not so sure I'd recognize him at 21, grizzled and in the field - but I still look!
remember to report anti-semitic comments, do not interact with them in any other way.
Wildland Firefighter nope, this is not “ freedom of speech “. Free speech for neo Nazi/ white supremacy doesn't necessarily have the intended effect: protecting other kinds of expression. In fact, in practice free speech for Nazis is often itself a threat to free speech for everyone else, because Nazis use their freedom to violently suppress their opponents. Racism is built on inequality and disproportion; you can't confront it by pretending that we're all in this together when we manifestly are not. Do you know why the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 ended up with the death of Heather Heyer ? Because a neo Nazi used his freedom to make sure that Heather Heyer would never speak again. So, NO: first learn how to talk to others, THEN you can get “ freedom of speech”. Otherwise you will all end up like entitled ignorant spoiled brats who will learn to shut your mouth in PRISON
ciao !
remember to forbid any comments that we don't like here ..censorship and dictature only allowed .. sounds familiar :)
@@DarKRiseR it's not about 'not liking' something. there's a difference between freedom of speech and prohibiting hate speech, which anti-semitism inherently falls under. the youtube comment section is, surprisingly, not the place to practise your freedom of speech freely. youtube has clear rules prohibiting hateful speech towards persons or groups, which you'd probably know if you didn't get so defensive about your right to be racist on a video sharing platform.
Scott Grudziadz - When you are on CZcams, FaceBook, Twitter, etc., you agree to comply with their respective terms and conditions, as in effect from time to time. The protections of free speech set forth in the US Constitution are utterly irrelevant as a legal matter to what you are permitted to say on CZcams as it (CZcams) is not the government full stop. If CZcams were to adopt a rule prohibiting everybody from writing the word “Scott”, they could enforce that with zero legal problems insofar as the US is concerned.
@@DarKRiseR Does reporting a youtube comment really do anything though?
When he cried, I cried too. That moment I realised that he still feel wounded even after 70 years from the unpatched hurt memories he been through... I can't describe how sorry I am....
HAHAHAHAHA
@@coloradostrong 😐
Me as an Austrian, it‘s my goddamn duty to remind all of us and myself: „Never ever let this happen again“!
But further evil, ethnic cleansing has continued since that awful time.
unfortunately it's happening all around the world and the west doesn't seem to care.
1:20 this look literally brought tears to my eye.. god bless him
Me too!!!!!!!! Me too!
Me too. Sad...
I cried with him.
The girl on the left at the start reminds me of Anne Frank ; - ;
😂😂😀Lol
I said the same thing!! ; - )
Yes, she looks like her but it can’t be coz these children were liberated 😔
Awe that really looks like her when she was 8
Same here!
So incredibly sad what people had to endure. I wish I could give him a hug
I wanna give this sweet man a hug.
What a fine man he is. A big sorry from germany. My sympathy for you Yehuda
It is 29 October 2019. It is the first time I see this footage and I am crying How very, very moving. YOU, Yehuda, are a beautiful person!!
It is now 2022
@@Mini-wd7qzJust saw footage again, tears in my eyes again. Very moved. 14 February 2022.
I have viewed many videos of Holocaust survivors. Most of them have shown unbelievable personalities. Not bitter, some express great forgiveness and a forward looking hopefulness. One thing I have noticed is a haunting sadness in the eyes in all of them.
I cry with you and always will. From Germany
Means u hate the fuhrer
@@kashmirtellerking827 He also believes the Greuelpropaganda he's been fed all his life.
I cried too seeing these happy faces... the few who survived the worst nightmare in history. I lost most of my family
I’m currently learning about this at school and I find it discussing that people could be so heartless and would watch people die and get tested just because they were Jewish! I also find it horrible that people were separated from their families and if they were twins they were tested on. The world has changed and I hope discriminating against people will end soon and nobody is like people then! It so good that people that have survived have lived to tell the story and be thankful they survived! I really hope discrimination against people ends very soon because we’re all human and we’re all equal no matter what race , gender , religion or beliefs everyone should be treated equally❤️ RIP to the innocent people who passed ❤️
Unfortunately hate still goes on
(I'm currently crying)
@mark q awesome I know I shouldn't give you guys attention but just go away and cry to Trump.
@mark q awesome you sound like a trump supporter with your idiotic ideas.
@mark q awesome 🖕🖕🖕
Amen!
I can see his pain in his eyes when he broke down 😢 I start crying too
Emotion is very strong, I sometimes fill up like that for no strong reason but this guy has every reason to feel like that. God bless him.
What a incredible good and sweet man…I’m so grateful he spoke up..a witness
My grandfather's name is Danzig.. he and his wife and first-born left Poland and came to SA in the 30's to escape growing Hitler-ism / Nazism. My grandfather had previously escaped the pogroms in Russia. I have never learnt what happened to the rest of his family so i wonder if this Danzig may be connected....
Sweet & heartbreaking..The pain & sadness in his eyes..Breaks your heart 😥
I am Muslim,i am very sad for this 😢
Same I am also Muslim
Me too😔
Me too. I will never tolerate anyone hurting others.
I am also Muslim, I believe in humanity and would never ever allow this to happen to anyone, God Bless this gentle soul, my heart aches for him and all who were exterminated and dehumanized, how can human beings do this to one another, no group of people should be dehumanized regardless of race, religion, ethnic background, we are all same before God, we are all one and connected
I am a Christian and I feel terrible what Hitler did to Jewish People against the teachings of Jesus 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I think seeing that picture of such a little boy and knowing what he endured made him cry. It confirms he was really there and was an innocent child. Just a child
"We were free .... but we didn't know what we were free for"
that got me 😥
You can see such pain in his eyes. Truly, the eyes are a window to the soul. God bless.
I cant believe I have to share a world where people dislike this video
Sending this beautiful man a virtual (hug).
Thank you for sharing. 💕
His kind kind soul just poured through🙏🙏🥺♥️The hardest battles are given to the toughest people. ⚡🙌🙏
We will never be able to grasp the horror of actually living in a concentration camp. I am so glad he survived. RIP Michael Danzig. May his memory be blessed.
You might get a chance to learn in the near future.
@@SkyCloudSilence , I know! Scary thought!
Bless you Mr. Danzig. We must Remember this dark and horrible history to prevent it happening again. We are all equal. Love one another.
I know why he still cries
OMG the look on his face at the end, his eyes. He said so much it could fill a book. I hope sir that your pain is lessened somehow. My heart goes out to you and all who suffered such horrible events.
When he began to cry, my heart shattered. I have thick German ancestry, and I am ashamed of it. How could anyone do such things. So glad this man survived. The nightmares he must have are things I cannot imagine. Lest we forget ❤️
Yes... what happened probably caused a heavy trauma in the alive victims, and also in the people related to it
Don't be ashamed of your ancestry, i have ancestry that many would be ashamed of, but it does not bother me. The actions of our ancestors needn't define us, since we are not them. We all have ancestors who have done despicable things in the past.
I feel you. I can't imagine that this happened in my country! I am German too with mostly German ancestry and a bit Danish...
I always cry while seeing footage or documentations about that time.
My grandmother turns 86 this year(she is born 1935), she grew up in a small village with a lot of agriculture. When I asked her about that time and what she noticed as a kid, she said that sometimes she went with her mother to a small town, Jewish people had many little shops there. But she was never in touch with Jewish except while visiting town because in her village there were no jewish... She can't believe why people have done this at the time.
My grandfather was from Frankfurt, he was traumatized by the war, they lost everything and he saw many dead people as a kid.
We can't change what people in the past have done.
Today there is still genocide in other countries which is so sad.
@Cui Bono nothing is wrong with Germany today. I just feel like everything we did back that will not be forgotten no matter how much time goes by or what we do.
Am lost for words as tears swell .
Thank you for sharing and what a cute little boy you were.
My heart breaks when I see what those innocent people gone through, just because of someone's sick mind.❤
Heartbreaking - I want to Scoop all those Kids up and Love, and a protect them so much 😢❤️
Sweet Man ❤️🙏
so glad you survived to tell the world the real story but so sorry that you had to endure such cruelty and hatred god bless you
Crying and not going whether it’s for sadness or joy makes complete sense to me.
This is very heartwarming.
I wonder what came of the other kids in the photo, hopefully they all went on to have happy and better lives
What beautiful children. Who could do such atrocities to people like this. Especially children!!!!!
I’m polish and I get attacked by neo nazis I couldn’t imagine getting attacked by nazis in real life it would be and it was devastating
I want to hug him
My best friend and his brother are standing just two feet to the right of you in the same clip of film. He survived the war with his parents and brother as well and was in Bergen Belsen for 7 months .
I am literally crying my eyes out right now. I am so sorry.
No reason - I agree... no reason. Amazing to see you & your brother.
Heartbreaking. He must have held all the grief in for years- that's why he started crying. I hope it helped him to release some of the anguish. RIP, gentle soul.
So much pain in this video. So sad to have to see that moment again and not know why he was crying. I just wanted to reach in and give him a hug.
My mother kept secret the pain she suffered during the war. She could not relive it and said "secrets must be taken t the grave". She only ever told us about how she and her family had to run in the middle of the night, because the Nazis were rounding up people for the camps. This was Italy in 1943, just as the allies were coming through. They found a family that hid them for three months. They stayed in a coal bin to avoid detection. The horrors of WW2 sadly continue but it is us who must remember.
Very sorry to see this type of atrocities happened in this world and how ,why people are tolerant. I can’t imagine. My heart bleeds and I can’t control my tears . I am 74 yrs old Indian settled in USA and share the condolences to those who lost their loved ones in this tragedy. From USA
This is heart breaking😢 God bless all the Victims of the war 🙏
This is so so heartbreaking.
The hurt that those poor people went through......it's beyond sad. Such a dark period in humanities history.
I just wanna hold him. He made me cry.
What seen amazing gift that picture is. But the pain it carne out of is inconceivable.
made me cry watching it now
It’s heartbreaking for anyone to go through what these human beings had been forced to go through.
None of us can imagine the horror, fear and pain Jewish people went through during this time in history.
It truly breaks my heart to think about it all
I love his voice.... I couldn't be happier to hear the beautiful voice of one of the angle's we were lucky to have survived the holocaust....we lost so many beautiful souls and all we can do is pay them respect and rememberance.😔
The little girl on the left resembles Ann Frank.
What a handsome guy!😍
This makes me cry too! Wish you all the best Mr. Danzig
The trauma is so deep, that a entire life is not enough to overcome. While seeing these videos related holocaust, we got traumatized as just an audience. So how the survivors will overcome and speak casually about those incident? It's so normal for him crying.
I started to cry after seeing this ...God bless you Sir ...🕊🕊🕊
You're an hero, dear sir!!!! You survived them, you know what that means?! I'm so very proud at your brother and you! This is the best revenge to those bastards!!! I'm really very proud at the both off you! You're a very blessed person, I hope you found your luck. From Holland with love 😘💜🇳🇱🔯🇮🇱🌷💋💋💋💋🐈🐾🇮🇱🙏
His eyes said it all
Germany has still big Problem with Jewish Haters....Difference is that the most haters arw coming from islamic states were they were educated to hate jews. Nobody is talking about it. Germany 2019 still no jew can wear a Kappa in public without getting hated!!! Very sad and scary!
@Kristie C What about the ignorance of the left wing in the States, where if you wear a MAGA hat you may get attacked by some ignorant left wing Nazis
Are you German? I live here and this is just bullshit... last antisemitic attacker was German.
sara matasssi exactly I faced antisemitic attacks from Germans themselves
Don’t say anything ant-Semitic.
So let’s have no talk of them killing sixty million Christians in Russia.
Anyone stating that fact should be reported for being anti-Semitic..........
@@krazytroutcatcher exactly,better watch out or you'll be called a Nazi
I just wanna hug him
Wow I can he looks like him. God bless this man.
What a blessing thank you Yahusha to give this man his photo
This little girl on the vidéo looks like Anne Franck 💖
Bahahaha lol 😂
Frank*
So much love to this man. I can't even imagine what he had to endure. 😭
Never forget.
these videos slay me. so important to witness.
He didn't even finish his sentence and started crying. How sad
Danke für das Überleben, für das Foto und für das Zeugnis, danke
You've seen too much Greuelpropaganda.
@@BasementEngineer The recent movement of holocaust denial and ridiculing victims is seated in your country while you appear to be a part of this. Even youtube does not take down your comment, shame.
@@Niels596 The truth will withstand the most critical of inquiries; only lies require draconian laws to prevail. That and the imprisoning of 90+ year old grandmothers in Germany.
We should never forget.
What a pain, my God. Why nobody did anything. They were left alone. The world was indifferent to this masacre. 😔😔😔
such a sweet man.
I just want to hug him. I can’t fix it but if I had been there I wouldn’t have been able to stop myself from hugging him
May we forge on this one planet we know of peace safe for children safe for all ages where our wise elders are content and memories are sweet .
Omg!!!!!
God bless you dear sir !!!!!!
It's 20 20 and stuff like that has only just begun
Well noticed. People's internal alarms should be off the charts at this point, yet most are drugged with suicidal apathy.
Thank you🙏
How could 249 people give this story the thumbs down.....what is wrong with you?? Where is your humanity??
Man hard stoy...you are a strong people..
It's perfectly understandable that he cried. A lot of emotion would wash over him seeing that photo! I notice that this was a Toronto Star project. I graduated from UofT in 1974. I met a lot of kids who were first generation Canadian. One was my Jewish boyfriend, whose parents had BOTH been put in camps during WWII. After what they went through, they opened their hearts to a Catholic girl from the U.S.!
That’s so upsetting 😥
Made me 😢
God bless you sir. I’m crying as I watch this video.
Just seeing a picture from the past can make you cry. Combine that with what happened to those people and you totally understand why he broke down.