Out of the Shadows: Stories of Sexual Violence in the Holocaust
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- Опубликовано: 31 мар 2024
- It's a story you may not know. During the Holocaust, sexual violence was used to terrorize, control, and dehumanize Jewish people. In the decades after, brave survivors and witnesses recorded their traumas.
They often described brutality at the hands of the Germans and their collaborators. Some shared stories of assaults by fellow prisoners, and even by rescuers who sheltered them. As we commemorate #SexualAssaultAwarenessMonth, join us to lift these voices once silenced by stigma or shame
Learn more about the experiences of victims of sexual violence during World War II and the Holocaust: perspectives.ushmm.org/tag/se...
The Nazis relied on ordinary men and women to perpetrate mass murder during the Holocaust. Watch a previous episode to learn more about how Nazi ideology enticed them to commit violence, including sexual assault: • Power, Intoxication, a...
Sexual humiliation was only one of the ways that the Nazis and their collaborators publicly demeaned Jewish people. Read more about public humiliation during the Holocaust:
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I had a paper route when I was a teenager. It was my first job, there was a lady on my route that was a holocaust survivor. Her name was Stella, she was the nicest person on my route. I often visited with her as I delivered my papers. I found out from my Dad that she was from Poland and was sent to a concentration camp when she was young. I was studying about WW2 in school at the time and couldn’t imagine what she must have went through. Thank you for keeping these stories alive. I can’t imagine how blind people who deny the holocaust must be. I personally met a survivor of this atrocity. I pray that the world never forgets. If we do forget, it will happen again… RIP Stella, I’ve never forgotten her. I met her in 1992 in Havre Montana. I will remember her for the rest of my life!
I also met a survivor while I was in counseling. I was honored. Her name was Christina and I will never forget her words and how incredibly brave she was. She was sent to Auschwitz and escaped by stabbing a guard. She then joined the French Resistance to help fight against the Nazis by spying on them. She said she was smaller than the others and could got into smaller spaces. She's gone to heaven now but I will never forget her.
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It's happening again -if you have not noticed - and of all places in Gaza by the Israelis, of all people to know better, and demanding the same thing the NAZIS did of them! Times sure don't seem to change and its abomination !
It can happen again no matter how much we learn and teach, think of Rwanda, Serbia, Apartheid etc. The problem, from what I see, is that some people remember in order to learn and others remember to celebrate 😧
My mother-in-law and her two sisters were thrown into a truck abused and made slave laborers in a Nazi uniform factory. These young girls survived the war because the Jewish women imprisoned with them each gave these children a little bit of their own insufficient food ration. These women died a bit earlier so that the children lived. A prayer of thanks with every meal is given in memory of the gift of humanity and love those many Jewish women gave to my family. This prayer is now given in our fourth generation.
"Bread is Life". The girls struggle to walk almost 2000km back home took months. They arrived home 42 months after their disapearance. Their family had mourned all of that time. The girls had such shame they couldn't talk about most of their experiences, and they tried to hide their numbers, but fresh bread was broken with every meal with a prayer of thanks...
"Bread is Life".
Beautiful writing of such a horrific event. Thank you for sharing this story of courage and compassion. God’s peace be with you all. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
This happened horrifically o n Oct 7 and yet the world is in silence about this horrendous crimes against women in Israel
There are the reports and documentaries on that!
The world is Hypocritical
Shame on you! That lie has been debunked more times than I can count. Out of Israel own mouth they can't find any EVIDENCE. The FAMILY OF THE VICTIM DENIES THERE LOVED ONE WAS RAPED. WHAT YOU ARE LISTENING TO IS WHAT IS BEING DONE TO PALASTINION WOMEN AND GIRLS IN THE SAME DAM WAY AND WAIT... OH THERE IS EVIDENCE.
Do you think Israel is been always sooo innocent?
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Israel has never started a war….
I now believe sadism is innately human. A few cats with mice, but only humans do this to each other AND other animals. We are despicable.
I agree. Almost every day you see the petty vindictiveness of human beings. It just takes a few steps more to become monsters.
Don't know how God stands us.
Sin is the normal state of the human heart!!
This wasnt even 100 years ago. This is recent event. It shows us how truly evil humans are. It is horrible. We must never forget.
Yes you are right it was not so long ago.
Yep, like hideous mob mentality, especially in these pogroms
Humans must be brought to justice. They become more evil if not caught.
The sharing is greatly appreciated . I grew up around holocaust survivors who visited my grandparents home. After I got sober ,it was 20 years before I could talk about being gang raped while a teenager . It has taken me a lifetime to heal . Praying for all victims of rape and their abusers. May this horrific behavior stop.
May there be peace. Good job on getting sober and speaking of your experience. Freedom comes in removing of guilt and shame and sharing because this is your truth.
May you continue to teach others to have more compassion and empathy while always keeping your honor and integrity.
@@hereitis.2587 thank you 🙏🏼
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I could not talk about my rape for many many years. Almost a decade, kudos to you love on your sobriety.
I’ve seen a video where a Sonderkommando prisoner mentions that women being led to the gas chambers were touched inappropriately by SS men on their way inside. How cruel to abuse someone on their last walk
Wouldn’t be surprised if some were raped before being executed because they wanted to use the good in them before they died. This probably happened throughout history in Europe to female, even male, prisoners before execution; not just during the Holocaust.
Was that man's name Philip Mueller by any chance?! I believe that video is here on RUclips.
I read about a really notorious SS officer who made a gypsy girl be his girlfriend for awhile. After he got bored he sent her to the gas chamber. After that he fell in love with a Jewish prisoner he finally got his karma because the relationship was discovered and he was sent to the front and killed in battle.
Yes I also heard this case where the virgins were abuse this way.
Those weren't men they were inhuman monsters!
Serafina’s story shook me. Him asking her for forgiveness (likely he was catholic and feared punishment in the afterlife) but Him emotionally blackmailing Serafina to forgive him was revolting on his part.
"Revolving"?! Don't you mean: "revolting"?!
@@user-dj7wv5ok2xFixed the single letter typo, typos in YT comments are commonplace since many of us type YT comments on mobile devices.
my perpetrators do similarities to me
@@user-dj7wv5ok2xYou know what was meant, quit criticizing!
Historically speaking, Ukraine and all of Russia was under Stalin during WW2 and Marxist , Catholicism , Christianity was prohibited and all Religious were to assimilate into Russian Orthodox Faith . Does not matter the man’s religious views , the audacity to ask for forgiveness in such a glib way is astounding
Wars amongst nations too often are fought not on some distant front, but instead on the bodies of women. Despicable.
Absolutely agree . We must not forget about these women and about the poor Jewish victims of Hamas in the latest atrocities.
Et les victimes actuelles a Gaza .genocide@@gabrielleandrew542
Profound
What courage it took for these survivors to share these experiences! 😢
It's really important to fully understand what happened to all of those human beings, including the sexual crimes that were perpetrated. Thanks for giving them a voice
Yes I think we should know exactly what suffering they went through. Hopefully it will give us more understanding.
Thank you for taking on this topic that isnt often discussed.
The Idea that you are not alone as survivor is very empowering.
I also choose to believe that while my rapists choose that for me and thus made me his victim. I believe if you continue to think of yourself as a victim: you consider to allow them to hold that power over you. I was a rape victim but I choose to be a rape SURVIVOR! It's about a mindset which is a conscious decision - not something that happened
I've been studying the Holocaust my entire life. This is one subject one which I know almost nothing. There's not a lot out there about this topic. It's so important and wish it was a more talked about subject.
There’s so much more shame around this because it’s so personal .
These stories recounted by the survivors truly shocked my very soul. The man who recognized Serafina and begged for her forgiveness is something I don’t think I will ever forget. He recognized, even in his old age, that what he did was wrong and to humble himself and ask for forgiveness I think goes a long way in the healing process. Thank you for shedding light on this issue so we never forget.
it was clearly not because he truly felt sorry but because he KNEW he was wrong for what he did , and because he's toward the end of his life he feels guilt and is scared he will go to hell unless he gets her forgivness .
LISTENING TO THIS MAKES MY SOUL CRY??? WHAT KIND OF MONSTERS DO THIS?
💔 agree
Humans
@@evansmith2766 agree. Humans can be monsters
Hamas did this again on 7.10
Men. Only men.
Speaking in the third person is a survival instinct. I suffer from PTSD and only recently able to say 'I' and 'me', but until a person is ready, they can only speak of it as if it is a story they heard.
I pushed the rape part down deep for years. My memory was door locking, hand grazing breast then out of van held against a wall threatened death. I just thank God I was at a place where so many people couldn't see me in the dark but made him afraid to hurt me more. I survived. I always had intmency problems. I felt dirty. My daughter figured it out even when I didn't really say anything. After dreams many years later I saw a doctor who brought it all out to light. The man I'm with now is first person I told. Remember you really know what a person holds deep down. Be kind
@@cherylhart5955 I agree, never assume to know someone, don't make judgements, we all have a story to tell but soome are more harrowing than others. I hope you're okay now and feel safe.
@@MossChopsMan yes thank you.
My grandmother was one of those that were "used" by the perpetrators during the holocaust and my grandmother was in a section called Birkenau. I don't know much about my grandmothers ordeal except from what my older brother spoke with me about. My grandmother was one of the lucky ones of the hundreds that lived long enough to be about when Auschwitz was liberated. My grandmother was in a section that was called "Birkenau" and as we all are aware that Birkenau was just one of the 5 or 6 sections of the camp. Once the camp had been liberated, and the liberators got under way with sending prisoners all over the world, my grandmother was offered either Australia or America to be sent to in order to live out their lives. My grandmother and grandfather stayed in Germany until around 1947 which was when my grandmother gave birth to my father in Germany before my grandparents and my father were sent to Australia. I did try and ask my grandmother what it was that she endured while being held in camp but she didn't really want to speak on the topic which is understandable. All that I was told by my grandmother was the fact that the prisoners were fed a grey watery liquid which was meant to be a kind of soup which had rats within the soup which the prisoners did eat because the rats were the prisoners "protein". My grandmother passed away in 2003 and I wish I was able to understand more of what she went through. Nana, I think of you day after day, and just know that I am not too far away until we meet again in Heaven.😢
Thank you for sharing what you know about your grandmother's experience. I believe that telling her life story keeps her alive and is a good reminder of what racism and hate can produce. I can imagine how proud she is of you for giving her the voice in death that she didn't have in life.
@@amyrivers4093 thank you Amy
@@adsiekuta5708 you're welcome.
How many times are you going to tell us about her being at birkenau? You don't need to repeat the information, especially when we can read just fine.
@@missnataliedavis who's fucking talking to you?
Edit: Oh and one last thing..... I'll tell my family's history as much as I like. I don't see any rules where it states that I can't do so. You will just have to scroll on by 😂
Words absolutely fail me! There must be a very special place in heaven for those who suffered the Holocaust.
God bless and comfort them.
Thank you for sharing these stories. Dr. Lindsay was right in that the Holocaust is usually referred to in a broader sense, with these personal stories of humiliation not being focused on.
I’ve heard so many testimonies, but Serafina’s was absolutely shattering to hear. The courage it took for her to go back was so admirable. God bless her.
There is an infamous photo of a young woman being chased by some boys with clubs. Its truly horrific I think about that lady a lot. The terrified look on her face. I often wonder what happened to her 😢
I've seen similar images from American history, pertaining to the miseries of Blacks and indegenous peoples....
That's the picture that Gina Carano got in trouble for. But that picture has nothing to do with the German Nazis. That picture and the picture that these video creators use to illustrate their point are from Bandera's L'viv Jewish pogrom. But of course THAT never happened!
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Aren’t you too old for the, “I know you are but who am I?” This behavior is not acceptable wherever it occurred and I’m sure the same atrocities happened in your home country! No nation is entirely clean…
@@VickieV1333 "....and I'm sure the same atrocities happened in your home country!"....
Note "Blacks and indegenous peoples"; I COULD be indicating the United States; or it COULD be Brazil, or any other nations occupying the lands in this western hemisphere, btw....
And what's this "too old for...." bullshit?! Aren't you human?! If so, why ask such non-human questions?!
@VickieV1333 as a fellow Vickie, thank you for correcting this person as i was going to leave a comment for them.
The pure hate people have is sickening. Why that comment about a totally separate topic was even posted is way beyond my scope.
I am a woman in my 60s. I was in high school in the 70s. We read Diary of Anne Frank. To my recollection, that’s the first and only time I was exposed to the Holocaust until much later, I began to learn more as my children went to school. I began to go to the library and study for myself. I was astounded that this horrific time in WWII was not taught more. I now have teenage grandchildren who know so much more than I ever did.
I am a little pleased with ‘education’ but still is so lacking.
Do you find in your position that education is too slow in its progression thus far?
Thank you for talking about this. These survivors are so brave and amazing!
Thank you so so much for sharing such a ‘thrown under a mat’ subject and discussion. May they rest in peace finally. 😓
Understandably, after the war, many didn't mention the sexual assaults. It is only been coming out in the last decade or so, as many reach the end of their lives. Quite terrible and sadly, many perpetrators escaped any form of justice.
My father reached adolescence during the Holocaust. Ar one point, his mother dressed him as a girl to avoid the camps. The whole experience really disturbed his sense of masculinity.
What? Dressing as a girl to avoid the camps? So now you are saying only males were in the camps? I thought the 'work' camp stories involved male and female of all ages. Now you are saying only males were in the camps? The narrative falls apart day and daily.
This is a subject I’ve read about over the years. These victims not only were subjected to SV by the Male Germans, and collaborators, female guards, and some imprisoned women who were not Jewish perpetrated these acts of violence too.
Then Russian soldiers were also SA Jewish survivors. Theres a quote from a recent book I read, which I, unfortunately cannot remember word for word. The gist of this quote by a Russian soldier was that Germans R.& SA as a way of punishment. We are doing it as a a celebration of your freedom.
It sickens me!!!
SV is a tactic in wars since the beginning of time. Males and Females have had to endure, and even die from these abhorrent actions.
The United States committed HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of acts of SV against Blacks and indegenous natives for several decades; there were no wars except those instigated by the Europeanoids squatters. Blacks suffering in slavery which killed far more people under far more brutal conditions than the Nazi holocaust have been victimized by SV at far more frequent rates than holocaust victims.
If THAT'S not bad enough, the state of California is re-starting the holocaust, craftily concealing it behind the sex offender laws it created just for this purpose!
Thank You so much for shedding light in this subject
Grazie per questo video. Sentire queste storie e' terribile. Povera gente. Spero solo che ci sia una giustizia divina.
Sexual violence was not only against Jewish people, it existed for all women.
And has throughout human history and continues to this day as well as other atrocities against men and women.
These two historians are excellent. Watching these shows describing Nazis always leads to the same question and same conclusion, the question being: How can human beings be so cruel? - the conclusion being, based on my personal experience and observation, Jews could could never as a group act as these Germans and others have acted against Jews.
There is a book named "Ordinary Men" about how decent men were turned into monsters.
@@user-ol7wo2rz8tThanks for the book recommendation. It looks super good.
Another good book, entitled "White Racism" in which it is mentioned: "Americans are like Germans...."
A very detailed study of world history clearly indicates that Hitler and his Nazis learned their evil from careful study of American history, especially pertaining to how the United States treated Blacks and indegenous peoples....
@@user-ol7wo2rz8t Yep. We don't realize how easily it is for us to fall into being evil.
Say what???? Are these the April, 2024, Jews we are talking about? You say they are not hurting others because they just couldn’t as a people? Those Jews? Say what???
That’s not the word on Peace Radio heard all around the world in every language.
Luxury condominiums coming to Gaza is what Jared Kushner says.
Greetings from Poland.
Unfortunately, our ancestors were often the direct witnesses of horrors done to Jewish people.
Ancestors. Try parents and grandparents 😂 sheesh 🤦🏼♀️ there was nothing to be done really, to save rhem😢, but the Jews were unpopular
Those “ancestors” gleefully took part in the persecution of the Jews. Denouncing them, extorting them, stealing from them. Imagine if they had stood up for the Jews.
That is a very cold response Jews were unpopular!!!??? Give it up that would have been better left unposted!!! Very uncompassionate, I am thankful I do not know you. A laughing emoji had no place in that statement. Very disturbing!!!
@@msdecleir6389 Not all Polish people were antisemitic. But ...yes. There was nothing to be done in order to save them. At least not officially. Everybody was in terror of nazi occupation
Gli orrori vengono arrecati a tutti i popoli soggiogati e vinti, in tutte le guerre del mondo!!!!!
My mum had neighbors growing up, the dad of the family survived Auschwitz… she remembers his tattooed arm but she will never forget his story about an SS guard who wore a hip bag that he made out of the breast of Jewish prisoner… that monster was so proud of it. He hated talking about his experiences during the genocide and that story was just too big for him to hold.
Thank you for telling their stories. from California USA❤
thank you for your thoughtful presentation of this especially difficult subject
Thank you for this
Still going on today. We’ll never learn. Heartbreaking 💔
A very thought provoking video.
I have taken several courses over the years on the Holocaust and never once was sexual abuse mentioned.Why is that?
Sexual assault has been considered taboo and an unspeakable topic
Credo fosse sottinteso, bottini di guerra li chiamano!!!!
Shame
Thank you so much for this 🙏
There is true evil still working today heartbreaking
Thank you for sharing these horrific, and very painful stories of the brave survivors. My heart goes out to them, may God bless and keep them all.
Thank you for sharing your lives, tragedies with the world. A profound courage to awaken the world. Crimes of wars are being experienced as we speak and we need to stand up for all humanity being traumatized in so many ways . ❤
We must never forget
Whenever we discuss the case of mass sexual assaults we somehow along the way tend to generalise it by saying it has happened and can happen elsewhere in the world too.For example Rape of Tutsi women by Houthis, Rape of Hindu and Sikh Women during partition of India and much before by Muslim armies against Hindu women for 800 years, Japanese atrocities on conform women of Korea , Rape of half a million Bangladeshi Women by pakisthani army etc.Well all of them are despicable and bad to say the least.
But when we discuss a particular topic like Nazi sexual atrocities on Jewish women better to confine ourselves to this topic alone so no side references or talk can dilute the intensity of this particular crime.
Every crime of this nature can be discussed seperately in its context so no room for solace can be given to perpetrators by telling you are not the only one who has committed such crimes.
E in Serbia, non dimentichiamo che gli orrori di quel conflitto sono inimmaginabili!!!!!
He stole her innocence at direst time, he stole the home because his betrayal is multiplied because it means he did not do what he had been very well paid for...protect a child.
I don’t mean to be rude but thank you for sharing this these women need a voice and to never be forgotten so thanks to you both
This makes me look suspiciously at those around me everyday at work or in the grocery store and wonder whom among us would be capable of these behaviors given the chance.
I wonder if there are children that were products of this shameful acts of SS men
She doesn’t have to forgive him.
All wars do the same😢
Thank you for the courage to expose the continual abuses of women on so many levels, not just war ..some men still hate women
The testimonies were hard to hear but a necessary part of this discussion that is often not discussed. It is something I had wondered about given the common experience of the very similar arrangement in the United States during slavery and Jim Crow era.
Thank you
Are any of your videos dedicated to the Roma victims ?
Same by the Turks against Armenians and Greeks during the Christian Holocaust which left between 1912 and 1923 5.000.000 Christians dead, same on October 7th against Israelis and now as you read this against the hostages day in day out...
It happened again on October 7.
Hi,how can i found Dora's interview. Thanks
Hello , do you know how to find Dora’s interview?
So powerful to hear these stories. God bless them.z
Thank you for telling these stories. I know that this is a tough topic for some to hear, but these victims did not just hear it they lived it, it is up to us to keep their history alive. It is amazing to me we have so much technology available, but propaganda lives on, and people still believe it without having all the facts. It is important to remember that what you are shown is what the Arthur wants you to see. You are never getting the full picture. Also people interrupt things through the filter of their raising and stories they are told, which are not always told with all the facts. I am sure the victim has a different feeling and interruption of the events that happened. If you had been through the things that the Jewish people have been through, you do not know what you would do. People need to stop judging and try to support peace.
Never again
Atrocities have taken place throughout human history ,No land or people on earth have gone untouched.
So sad. I love Jewish people.
Glad I found you
When an armed civilization is disarmed, evil will always surface. Very unfortunate.
Thank you both.
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thank you for the truth!
Hell is real and these perpetrators are in it.
Sharing love and thankfulness from Israel🙏♥️
😔💔💔💔please continue to share 🙏
Thankyou for sharing this video. It was very moving.
Such evil is unbelievable
I actually understand not speaking but always knew things happened no one wants to remember and could be a terrifying experience that would be great pain. I have had my own trauma humans are evil, it doesn’t matter who you are.
Bradenton Beach, 🏖️ Fla. here. Prayers for Israel 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Our young need somewhere to turn to share what they suffer at the hand of those who seek to dehumanize them today as the Canadian student body. A crime which does not exist only in one school or a few schools nut which had taken root within the entire Canadian education system. These our young are our Canadian Stolen Children.
Huh!?
That is horrifying and he was still there, but that is what they do , they make it small.
Saluti dall' Italia Venezia
Survivors always felt so guilty if and when put into a position to measure their experience and how they survived vs. Thos who didn't. Not that they should have, of course, but it was inevitable. Sadly.
So much respect and admiration for brave survivors to tell those horrific stories! Heartbreaking 💔 I hope telling those stories will help them heal and it’s important to hear them and support survivors!
Great job raising awareness on this. You've done a great job getting this out. I'm sharing with my audiences.
Puerto Rico
Best breathings, for empowering smile. Thank you, ☺🌈
Out of the shadows the true stories of what we did to the indians
And different tribes/nations oftentimes committed those same atrocities against other groups.
No land or people have gone untouched by atrocities.
Not only the indegenous peoples of this land, but Blacks have also had their share of sexual and other abuses for a helluva lot longer than the entire duration of the holocaust.
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So? And what of it? The inter-tribal warfare that occured between Indigenous people paled compared to the genocide they endured at the hands of European Colonial invaders. Stop your ridiculous whataboutism.
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Nobody said that black people didn't suffer historical injustices but that's got nothing to do with the Holocaust. Stop gaslighting
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I have heard that the Nazis also have performed a cursifiction in some of these prison camps
Murder is much more horrible than this…
Thank you for this. This is an aspect of the Holocaust that I've never learned much about.
L'uomo quando vuole sa essere abominevole, senza vergogna, senza coscienza, senza pietà, lasciamo in pace chi non c'è più, lasciamo andare il loro e il nostro dolore di fronte a tutto ciò!
Serafina is a perfect example of the strength of the human heart and soul. Thanks for sharing your story. You are so beautiful serafina.
Hello from new albany indiana
What a bizarre world we have
Sadly, the world is falling in this horror again.
I wonder what God thinks of all these things and how he handles it
Cilka"s journey by Heather Morris
Thank You But I'm A Man❤❤❤❤
5:58 uncomfortable? And the rest of the Holocaust is supposed to be comfortable? All of it is extremely uncomfortable, but nevertheless it's crucial for us to know, to hear these things, no matter how uncomfortable it makes us.
Bu insanlar icin siir yazdım icimden geldi çok üzgünüm
God bless Stella and you and your beautiful friendship.
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It's still what they do in OHIO.
You guys really need to think about your own youtube like platform everyone else censors video pictures language and having seen both the censored ones dilute the significance so much and you would control any narrative other than the truth. something to think about