Jewish Survivor Helena Jonas Rosenzweig Testimony | USC Shoah Foundation
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This beautiful soul left this world December 20, 2018 at the age of 94 may she Rest In Peace and be reunited with the rest of her family
As well as beautiful, she is also tough. Goeth was executed September 13, 1946 so she outlived him by over 73 years. God bless her soul.
Thank you for sharing
@@DianneElizabeth64 Did you know Helena?
Antonio Acevedo wow bless her heart.
@@sharonanne6293 Yes, bless her heart and her soul. If anyone deserves eternal peace with her loved ones and her questions asked as to why the Holocaust happened, it's her and all those others that suffered under the Nazis.
Evil doesn’t need a reason only an opportunity. Thank you Helena for telling us what happened to you and millions of others. We will never forget.
According to the Bible, tyranny, scapegoating and murder are the way to satiate God's feelings.
8 years on from your comment, we now have a vile Cancel Culture mob trying to erase our history. Tearing down statues, censorship in the media and the entertainment industry. It's disgusting.
If you are talking about what l think you are (the Confederacy) we are only trying to cancel the glorification of their *heros*. These men are still being worshiped for being traitors to their country.
Her statement about not hating, not wanting to hate, describing herself as carrying pain, instead, brought me to tears. A woman who has every reason in the world to hate, but refuses to let that imbue her soul because of its association with evil and the evil done in its name. Out of everything she says, that was the most powerful. What a lesson.
Yes, it’s amazing she understood that! Our soul cannot be free if we have hate in it.
@@luciatat4084 So true.
She's stronger than I am. If a spoiled, rich bully boy psychopath tried to kill my parents and made me clean up after his murderous dogs, here's what I would do. I would find the worst, most festering, most odorous, pile of dog feces (I'm not talking about Goeth. I mean, actual dog feces) I could. And then I would show up to that motherf@#$er's execution and do everything I could to force feed those feces to that wretch before he swung. Sorry not sorry.
The interviewer was great. She asked excellent questions and simply let Mrs. Rosenzweig tell her story in her unique way.
What a beautiful, beautiful woman. Her heart still one of love. Her testimony is more than powerful - it is a lesson of how so very special the Jewish heart is. Not to be mocked. God is watching.
jane gallagher YOU ARE A BLESSED SOUL JANE🙏🕊✨💖
I can imagine how beautiful she was back then and she’s gorgeous tone too. Absolute beautiful soul. Rest In Peace 😢
So much love and respect for this amazing woman
Read Jennifer Teege "my grandfather would have shot me." May we never see such evil again in this world!
@@Votefreedom 💕 Thanks for sharing it's on youtube thank you
I've been watching many interviews by Jewish survivors and each has a unique experience to share. They are all so strong. I am glad they had good lives after the holocaust.
As sad and terrifying as Helena's story is...seeing her grandchildren is proof that her struggle was not in vain and that a sweet and innocent young lady ultimately defeated the powerful and evil characters that took so much from her.
Mrs. Helena Jonas-Rosenzweig, you won not they. You won with dignity, they lost all their dignity. Thank you for sharing. I send my humbled greeting from Singapore to you, Mrs. Helena Jonas-Rosenzweig.
Peter Kroll She should have learned to buy a gun.
MRS HELENA JONES I'M TRULY IN LOVE WITH YOU YOUR STRENGTH AND HUMBLENESS HAS TRULY TOUCHED MY SOUL I WILL FOREVER REMEMBER U. FROM SOUTH AFRICA
You express yourself beautifully.
Remarkable interview of a very remarkable woman. It’s an honor just to be able to hear her testimony.
What a brave strong person you are Helen Jonas Rosenzweig. Thank you for sharing your life of those dreadful years with the whole world. Thank you. May God Bless you and your family.
Richard Boudville BLESS YOU RICHARD🙏✨🕊
This is the third time I’ve listened to this, and it’s not old. I could listen to her speak for hours and hours
Dear one, the most unimaginable and unspeakable things you have endured, and yet it has not dimmed the very beautiful soul that you are to this day. All of my love.
***** Hope you're talking about Amon Goeth when you say "Sick bucket please!!" ;)
What an incredible woman. Her memory is definitely a blessing!!
Her whole expression changes when she mentions Schindler.
Im always struck by the strength and courage of the Holocaust survivors. Beautiful woman, inside and out.
Helena's testimony is a story of survival against evil, which is very different to many other stories of survival during the Nazi occupation of Poland. Helena Jonas Rosenzweig was an eye witness. As she said, her experience was one where she was completely alone, she had to endure the daily sadism and mental abuse of an evil man, without any support from family or friends. I admire how she helped others at the constant risk of capture. How she stole important documents. I also liked the way she portrayed Oskar Schindler as being a "decent man" and not as a deity. A human being who was prepared to support the weak and vulnerable.
There are an uncountable number of testimonies to the barbarity by some during the Second World War. However, this story stands out to me as a reliable eye witness to a sadistic Concentration Camp Commander.
imagine going through so much hell that aushwitz and the hard work that the rest of the camp people had to go through would look very nice and safe.....
This is my second time to listen to this beautiful Lady. Her story is incredible and they all deserve for their stories to be heard
Wow. What a beautiful lady with an amazing, heart breaking story. So very strong. Grateful these stories are recorded by the survivors. ❤
She took very good care of herself. Her skin, teeth, etc. Looks so much younger than what she was. I feel so bad for her hearing her painful story. Thank you for sharing. I hope you are with your family again.
What a heroic lady. God bless her
This interview is extremely moving.
Her story just gets more and more fascinating. I first saw her in the film Inheritance, which I highly recommend...but here I've learned how much more she was actually involved with. What a brave, amazing woman.
took the morning to watch and listen it was so powerful.
netsirenful BLESS YOU MY DEAR🙏🕊✨💖
Amazing woman! watched the 3 hours in awe!
5/7/18: This beautiful lady is probably gone now ( 2018 ), but the knowledge of the holocaust continues. I am so glad that someone had the thought to have the survivors make videos of their life prior to the holocaust during it and after the liberation . I bought the movie Schindler’s List. There was a time when I could not watch that movie. I finally watched the whole film and I cried my eyes out. Thank you for sharing, Helena, thank you so much.
Jada Parks/Villanueva she’s 93
she's alive
Paleo Mama Sept 2019, and Mrs Rosenzweig is still alive and still beautiful. What an incredibly lady!
Jada Parks/Villanueva BLESS YOU BEAUTIFUL JADA 🙏✨🕊💖
according to Wikipedia she passed away December 2018, nearly a year ago, aged 93. What an inspirational life and outlook on it, despite what she has been through!
Agreed - a beautiful woman, an articulate speaker, and educator....and a blessed survivor. Astounding testimony. Bless you Miss Helen and your entire family.
An incredibly moving testimony from a remarkable woman. How she survived her experiences we will never know. Thank god she did.
An incredible and elegant lady.
I'm watching this after seeing Schindlers List. Sorry to hear she has died. What a beautiful lady she was. I think it was this lady in that doc Inheritance where she met Amons daughter Monika. Thank you for telling us your story Helen and I hope ur resting in peace xx 🌹
I’m watching this lady give such a heartfelt story of her life in WWII. I pray we never ever forget what happen to Jews, gypsies and others. anyone who says this didn’t happen should have to watch the films and hear the stories.
Shame on them who have no love for our fellow people’s .
I'm sure you've the same feeling of sympathy for Palestinian people these days.
@@sobbyhasselhoff don't bring Palatine into this
@@isaacrailson8148 ill do whatever I want.
@@sobbyhasselhoff anti semite
I can feel her love and her pain. What a beautiful lady and what an important testimony. I believe she is finally at peace and reunited with her loved ones.
I will forever be changed after viewing this. I know her soul soars!
When you fear everyone-- not knowing who your enemy is for the rest of your life-- it takes tremendous bravery to come forward to talk about this atrocity --- I salute the brave people who have come forward. the post traumatic stress from this experience must be unthinkable.
And by the way--- to the others who have written here-- no money in the world could compensate for the pain and suffering done to the survivors and their families and friends who perished. One would have preferred to be poor, free, and their peace of mind and communities in tact, I assure you.
Peter L.Smith JESUS WAS A JEW and the bible never said that. You're making stuff up to add to your own demented agenda.
That's why descendants of enslaved people in the U.S. have full right to reparations, because even after slavery ended, they endured decades without civil rights, very similar to the peoples pursued by the Nazis.
Wow hard to believe she was 71 at this taping, she looks no older than late 50's.
CHRISTINE she spoken God spared her she doesn’t look like what she been through but noticed when some parts she tries not to remember she cough she’ll always cared her pain but even though she Still believe in God kept her faith and didn’t let hatred harden her heart God is good
I have noticed that many of the women that survived look young with few wrinkles- and she lived to a ripe old age-93!
@@shondagrice2947 I agree with you. She did not blame God and I must say that I am sure that I would not have had such an attitude if I had gone through what she went through. An amazing lady indeed. I hope that she is reunited with her murdered loved ones in the afterlife.
Antonio Acevedo Amen 🙏🏾 😇
@@shondagrice2947 I encourage you to see a documentary called "Inheritance". It is about Helen's return to Ammon Geoth's villa where she was enslaved. She recalls her memories with Amon Geoth's daughter. It is a tremendous documentary.
Amazing woman. No room in a loving heart for hate. What a strong message
What a wonderful doc. What an amazing women. Good bless all the victims and survivors.
Beautiful photos. Can u imagine how precious these was to her. She was a stunning lady and I'm happy she lived and had a nice life. Bless her heart x
Amazing lady....God bless her and her family.
so proud of Helena. God Bless you for telling your story.
Thank you for this, testimony (just a suggestion for anyone after my comment-if u stumble across any nasty filthy comments just ignore them don't feed the trolls)
why not. let them know we out here
I finished watching this today......…the things that Amon Geoth did were horrible, and I feel so sorry for her and the others forced to work under him.....he is proof of what evil walks among us on earth..... but when all is said and done at the end of the day, I find some comfort in knowing that she is now in the house of the good Lord, with her parents that she missed so much, and her sisters, and old friends,.....and his hideous face and cold heart are melting in hell, right now, as I write this. Might not make me a great Christian, but I guess we're all a little flawed. P.S. Thank you, Oscar Shindler, and God Bless You.
Darlene Andrews DARLENE YOU ARE SWEETNESS AND VERY BLESSED🙏🕊✨💖
You sum up how I feel exactly. Thank you.
I have been watching these stories and my heart goes out to these people.
I was shocked to see her son and his wife at the end as I went to Chiropractic school with her, and they were at my wedding the weekend we graduated. Her son was and probably is still a practicing Chiropractor.
Hope you are doing well Holly if you see this post. I had no idea your husband's mom was involved in the war in this fashion. You must have been very proud of her.
Some of these survivors, by the grace of God lived well into their 90's.
They have become my greatest heros. Their stories are unimaginable.
Oh my! Did anyone else notice how her lovely face becomes even-more beautiful when her husband came to sit beside her? She smiles when she looks at him.
This woman is beyond gorgeous, inside and out.
She really does light up when he comes out. So sweet.
She is such a beautiful woman.
that struck me too... like a beautiful shine from her
The documentary she is in with the daughter of Amon Götz is one of the biggest tear jerking films I have watched.
Tanner Loewenberg im searching for it as we speak :))
It's called Inheritance! It's on iTunes.
I’m writing this Sept 2019. Mrs Jonas is 94, alive, and relatively well.
Google her, if you like.
She’s still beautiful, well into her nineties.
She looks so young. What a wonderful family. This made me cry.
Totally agree... So 😭😭😭
The offensive comments posted here reflect the depravity of some very troubled people. It's a sad commentary on the human race.
Nwad Setab They walk among us; they are libtards, demonrats: the AOC’s, and Omars, and Schiffs, and Maddows.
What a fantastic woman!! So brave, so sweet, so full of respect. She's got such a light, an aurea around her....Amazing!
Rest in peace Helen . I'm so sorry for what you suffered in your lifetime and I hope you will find your peace with our Creator and that you are reunited with your loved ones. You were such a beautiful gracious and gentle woman and your voice like an angel I will never forget. Than you for what you have taught us and I will share your story with my children 🙏❤✝️
I feel so sorry for this lady watching this makes me very emotional for her and miss Perez always does an excellent job with her interviews letting the person to speak instead of interrupting them every five seconds
very impressive testimony.what an extraoedinary woman
I also watched a lot of memories and interviews with Holocaust Survivors, but Helen's story hit me incredibly strong. This Brave Woman told it so vividly, so detailed, so emotionally that her emotions touched me so deeply that I got chills. However bad and inappropriate it may sound, with all due respect to all those who gave their lives in the extermination camps, Helen's story is better listened to than any film on this subject could convey. It made me move to pre-war Krakow, to the ghetto, to the camp, to Goeth's villa. It was incredibly vivid. And this awareness, surprise, that She was Helen Hirsch's companion in misery, whose story we learned thanks to Schindler's List. An amazing Woman. Unique. Dividend. So Good. Peace to Her Soul❤😢
Thank you for sharing your life story, a very brave lady. A beautiful family to carry your name into the future.
This lady is so graceful and strong. A women who lived through the most evil part of human history, yet came out so successful, beautiful, clear and determined. I admire that a lot!
To her children.keep ur mum's memory alive.she was so strong and so together.in spite of her circumstances she rose above the occasion.A truly beautiful soul.RIP
This is the most beautiful person I have ever heard in my life. I cant imagine what it would be like to be near her. She has such a wonderful outlook
What a beautiful soul. I have been watching these interviews this past month and each one is a unique story of human grace against utter evil. I am so glad these were recorded. We must not forget.
Fascinating testimony! I listened to the whole thing.
💞Helena your such a beautiful resilient SOUL🌹
Stay strong my lady you are loved,
poor woman. to go through all this , survive the horror and evil is still there accusing her and others of lying. not to worry ma'am. God does smile at you and I am sure you are surrounded by dear family and friends that adore you. I love you too and I am not Jewish.
Celia, I am Israeli and I have great admiration for you
Wow I can't believe the many vile posts on here. This woman is giving testimony to her experiences during the Holocaust. She is not feeling sorry for herself. Shame on all of you deniers
Amen Mary. I find all this ignorance and hate disgusting. Unfortunately the hate still survives. So very, very sad.
There are hideous comments on many of these survivor videos. Whatever you think, the horror and tragedy can never ever be justified. RIP to ALL those persecuted in this way, whatever their religion. Have to ignore the haters, I wouldn't give them the time of day.
Well maybe if Israel wasn't a fascist state there'd be more sympathy
how awful!!!never again
mary o'connell Mary, that’s why this sort of thing CAN happen again because with each generation that deny these horrible events, the heart of many will continue to be hard. May GOD bless the Jewish ppl. GOD bless Jerusalem the capital of ISRAEL.
Absolutely incredible woman. Such a moving testimony. So inspiring. God bless her and her beautiful family.
RIP Helen and thank you, thank you, thank you! I’m imagining you reunited with all the loved ones you lost and still watching over your beautiful family.
Brave woman. Thank you for sharing your story
What a beautiful, wonderful woman. I am beyond moved...I salute you Helena Jonas Rosenzweig. And what a beautiful brave smile she had, made me weep. Rest in peace x
HEARTBREAKING LISTENING TO THIS... WHAT HAPPENED CAN NEVER BE FORGOTTEN
Thank you for your story. ❤️ We shall NEVER forget!
Such a beautifull woman, may god continue to bless you and your entire family, wish i can give you a great big hug.
tracy grant BLESS YOU TRACY🙏🕊✨
Quite possibly the strongest bravest person who ever lived so sad she carries so much pain but brave and amazing to share her story what an amazing lady I’m so happy she lived to feel the happiness of having her own family and freedom ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The woman doing the interview is just awful. Not only does she ask bad questions at inappropriate times, her nose has been whistling throughout the 4 hour long interview. Helena you are such a beautiful person inside and out. Love, peace and happiness to you and your family always...
Awesome woman. What a wonderful outlook on life after what she has gone through.
Came here after watching the documentary of her returning to the camp and the house and meeting Amon Goeth's daughter Monika. Utterly heart wrenching and much harder to watch than I thought it would be.
Ive Watched a few interviews with this lovely woman and the thing that strikes me most is how passionate she is about her friends and the people that lost their lives in that terrible concentration camp. It moves me beyond description.
Thank you for your testimony.
What a charming lady. Rest in peace 🙏 🕊 my loved one
What a sweet, precious, lovely human being she is. So attractive and endearing. I wonder if she realizes how strong she really is.
God Bless this lovely lady❤
A poignant story. We must review these testimonies over and over and pass them on to our children so that we never forget. Thank you Helena for your story! Rest in peace ❤
Helen ,you're amazing.
It is incredible what happened then - it is devilish. More astonishing how this woman is positive and how she can say that God was with her there in this hell...
Claudia F. Demonic. I’m convinced MANY officers were possessed.
God is always with us in hell, that's how any of us can make it out
Lovely lady, amazing resilience, she was saved by Schindlers from Goeth....
What a breath-taking story my Lord...she was so very young. She is beautiful.
What a lovely, remarkable woman. Thank you to Stephen Spielberg and everyone else instrumental in documenting personal experiences, individual testimonies involving the Holocaust. We must not, we cannot forget.
May God bless you Helena Rosenzeig...
Thank you to sharing your story. It was hard for you.Thank to God you survived and tell story for all generations.
The recollection of Amon Goeth is chilling. No movie can match the reality of the madman. G-d bless her.
I swear to God, it felt like she changed about 200 tapes.
Thank you so much for putting up this raw interview, with a first hand testimony of such an important time in history.
And the fact that it is in it's original, really really uncut version, makes it all the more valuable.
Never seen something like this, truly priceless. 👍🙏 ✡
VHS tapes were the limitation of the times. Just be thankful someone bothered to tape these interviews while they still could.
I know what i saw . She's more brave than you could ever be.
While hearing her testimony I can feel her pain in her words. It must feel awful loosing your parents in that way specially when you have such good parents.
Good bless them in heaven
If I could be even partially as strong as this survivor. Thank you for sharing
I'm Jewish and I know everything about what happened I had a relative in Auschwitz who made it through he was a Baker Both sides of my grandparent's were born in koretz, Russia and got over to Hamburg Germany and got over to liverpool England and got on the the first voyage of the Mauritania ship. My grandmother lived in Chelsea, ma . My father would pick up my grandmother and I had many good times with both my grandparents. It's June 1st 2019 I am 62yrs old and my heart still hurts for being Jewish and my grandparent's making from koretz Russia over to Hamburg Germany and got over to liverpool England and on the first voyage of the Mauritania ship. I still had some relatives that didn't make it Jewish. Shalom Helen .
I pray that you will find peace and comfort, God bless you and your family.
Barry Shulman
Millions of people lost family members in that horrible war and during that horrible time, Jewish or non Jewish.
You being 62 or 63 now means that you did not know any person who didn’t make it through WW2 and that even your parents were children during that time. Also even your grandparents made it in contrast to some of mine who died in a concentration camp. It appears to be inadequate for you to claim hurt feelings. Leave that to people who really suffered or lost loved ones.
The pain this woman endured is unimaginable. She lost family, friends, and went through horrors unknown. She survived the holocaust, married, had children, but her husband ended his own life. He, too was a holocaust survivor, and the pain he went through finally broke him. I can't imagine her pain. She later met Amon Goeth's daughter, inside Amon's villa. This woman was comforted by Amon's Goeth's own daughter as Helena cried, remembering how Amon had abused her. Not in a million years, did this woman imagine that would ever happen...but it did! A true survivor, indeed.
"Hate brings evil!" Mark Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig's word's! Being German I am disgusted beyond any expression about the crimes of the Nazis. Bliss, love and compassion are the feelings I would like to be dominant in people and I will do whatever I can to make my contribution. I am confident it will happen since it is so much nicer to feel love than hatred.
She is so beautiful, shines with inner beauty..
Im absolutely breathless, 3 hours and I catch my breath, so I wouldnt miss a word. There are no words this woman is an angle
I hope her family knows how loved she was! I have seen her testimony 6 times.... I cried when I found out that she had passed away.... But I know she is finally with her family....
What a wonderful woman. She had a beautiful soul. 🥀
The tremendous amount of spirit it takes to survive having your humanity stripped from you is nothing short of God’s hand on their hearts.
👍🏻☘big thanks and greetings from Krakow