Jewish Survivor Eric Flagg Testimony | USC Shoah Foundation
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It's a shame that people don't bother watching these videos.I watched at least 100 of them and found each one so interesting and educating.But what can you do when people choose to bury their head in the sand.I congratulate USC Shoah Foundation for their intelligent work!!!
marie anne Levasseur I also watch one or two a night .. it is inspiring and heartbreaking what a human being can survive and how inhuman we can be to one another.. I wish more people would watch these and see how the “ us verses them” can cause the world to convulse into madness and war..
@@emmaburgess4320 i'm doing the same.
I listen to one a night and have watched many a second time over in case I missed something. Don't know where this lady is getting her statistics that no one watches.
The best testimonial I have watched by this very special man. God bless you, Eric.
I loved listening to Mr. Flagg's interview. My background is Leeds, West Yorkshire, where hundreds of Jews came during this time of terrible persecution. We always had respect and admiration for the Jewish people of our community, when I was growing up in the 50s and 60s. I recently learned that it was the ICI company, in Leeds, where the fabric Crimplene was developed. More interesting, the fact that Mr. Flagg's wife Edith began her fortune in the fashion business by bringing this fabric to America. It is amazing what we do not know. There is always something we can learn, that will alter the way we think of all things and peoples. And, Yes, everyone should listen to these stories. Thank you for bringing them to us.
Great story of survival and some intellectual comments in the end about human suffering. Eric passed away in 1999.
I am doing a project on him at my Highschool!
Wonderful man, so brave and courageous in putting his life on the line to help save the lives of friends and strangers alike. I've see your grandson, Josh, as well as Edith on TV and I know you must be so proud of him. He has the utmost respect for his grandma. God bless you and your entire family!
I have seen many and I found them very interesting and important.
I can't say how much I appreciated Mr Flagg giving his time and candor in this interview. He didn't try to say the entire town depended on his family for leadership and guidance in everything or that the family was devoted to charity above all else before the war like a saint. They sounded like a prosperous family who were active participants within the community and not above the community. Loved how he described himself as a spoiled wealthy Jewish boy who gambled and had fun after his family left for Portugal..Absolutely laughed out loud when he talked about becoming a pimp to save himself and get situated. Amazing and as honorable as it gets for a human being when he stayed in Holland to help others when he had the opportunity to leave and join his family in a safe secure place. Many people in these interviews talk about themselves as heroes for doing things only to help themselves and their own family. Mr Flagg really was an example of what we should all aspire to be. Many people blame non-Jews for refusing to help but in the same breath state they couldn't help anyone else because it was too dangerous. They talk about buying their way out of the army but blame the army for failing to stop the Nazis. Sadly many use the terms Nazi as synonymous with Germans when it was most definitely not. It was so difficult to oppose the Nazis in any of their territories but had to be particularly difficult to do in their seat of power in Germany. Especially related and agree with his perspective that people must look at the Holocaust as it was a horrific event for many many races and cultures of people and not only Jews. Gypsies are often overlooked but they suffered the same and in some cases worse than the Jews. The Soviet Union war dead was a staggering 27million. How many more deaths could they have suffered to move quicker against the Nazis?Of all the 6 million Poles estimated to have been killed in WII, 3 million were Gentiles and Gentile Poles were the first to be deported and killed in Auschwitz. Poles were not allowed to leave the country-no different than the Jews. Polish businesses, farms and ranches were almost all taken over by Nazis and Poles were also picked up on the street as easily as Jews and sent to forced labor anywhere from Germany to the eastern front. Hundreds of thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses and Catholics were arrested and sent to camps in Germany starting as early as 1933 and remained targets as the Nazis wanted to eliminate all possible opposition from the very start. In 1936 all youth groups except for Hitler youth were abolished-including Catholic and all Christian groups. By 1939 10,000 German Catholic schools had been closed by the Nazis and the children were forced into Nazi approved schools. Catholic priests were arrested in droves and sent to "priest blocks" with especially brutal conditions in most camps.Until we can see the suffering and mistreatment of others as we see our own suffering, nothing will have changed.
Dear God if he knew what was happening today and has happened in Pittsburgh to the Jewish people .. Charlottesville was the breaking point for me when our president said there was good people on both sides.. I will always stand up for all minorities!! I will always stand up for the Jewish people .. your story and message was awe inspiring!! I’ll never forget you!! Thank you and God bless your family!
His final message was the most powerful of all.
The name Flagg was so familiar. I believe his grandson Josh is on a reality show called million dollar listing in LA. I can see where Josh got all his charm from. I find these peoples lives fascinating and horrifying at times, but I must watch them all
God bless 🙌 🙏 you always
Thanks dear
What a great man!
Hasnt anyone written a book about his life?
Would also make a great movie....
I’m in awe, in similar circumstances where fascists are killing people, I hope I would perform even half as well. The man is a hero.
Yeh I find the really intresting must of watched a 100 also
Wonderful man! However, it was a shame the lady interrupted him so many times