Miss Dior: Resistance Fighter, Ravensbruck Survivor

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  • @Biographics
    @Biographics  4 года назад +2

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  • @shawnnewell4541
    @shawnnewell4541 4 года назад +125

    I never knew about his sister. Thank you for bringing her to my attention. What a brave woman.

    • @jcalder52
      @jcalder52 4 года назад +1

      Shawn Newell got

  • @shaunmattice6413
    @shaunmattice6413 4 года назад +117

    Residence fighters were arguably the bravest in the war. It's easy to take advantage of our freedoms, but in dark times, this is how we truly get know ourselves.

    • @mihajlovucinic011
      @mihajlovucinic011 4 года назад +12

      Yes but for some reason French ressistance is most celebrated while it was one of least effective ones. Some parts of eastern Europe like Yugoslavia and Poland had much worse conditions and much more effect with more casualties. Partizans in Yugoslavia had few large chunks of land that was never occupied even after formal capitulation. Warsaw resistance as well.

  • @niac9568
    @niac9568 4 года назад +22

    No more Chanel, only Dior . It makes sense for Dior to have a purse made for Princess Diana. Both Miss Dior and Princess Diana worked to make earth a better place for marginalized peoples

  • @TheRosesalome
    @TheRosesalome 4 года назад +74

    Miss Dior (the original) is my favorite perfume. I have been wearing it for over 40 years now. Thank you for the back story on its creation.

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 4 года назад +10

      Yes I used to wear it and never even knew it was about a real person let alone one who lived through that kind of hell and survived it

    • @barbaravick5634
      @barbaravick5634 4 года назад +6

      Rose Marie Théard
      While I would love to have seen Miss Dior kick the crap out of the traitor Coco, I do prefer #5 to any other scent but Infinity or Joy.

    • @AllezVous222
      @AllezVous222 3 года назад

      @@barbaravick5634 I enjoy "Joy," too! It was amazing (sadly discontinued earlier this year) and beat No. 5 in FiFi's Perfume of the Century Award.

  • @curiousworld7912
    @curiousworld7912 4 года назад +89

    What an amazing story. That she survived is miraculous. It worries me, very much, that this horrendous ideology is having something of a rebirth in the West. It only takes a couple of generations for history to be forgotten, it seems. Thank you, for posting this. These stories need to keep being told.

    • @dbojangles1597
      @dbojangles1597 4 года назад +1

      You will likely never truly understand the irony that comes from worrying about a minority of whites who just want to avoid becoming a hated minority in their homelands while at the same time practically treating the most well organized and remorseless of racial supremacists on the planet as if they were innocent victims.

    • @lornakim5008
      @lornakim5008 4 года назад

      That's right exactly

  • @lorettashum9984
    @lorettashum9984 2 года назад +8

    the term "Hero" has been misused on a slew of people such as athletes. Miss Dior deserved every single letter of it. What an amazing woman.

  • @annettefournier9655
    @annettefournier9655 4 года назад +64

    She lived to 90 or 91. Incredible person.

  • @mrmike2119
    @mrmike2119 4 года назад +14

    It always amazes me how many "common" people stood and defeated an uncommon foe during WWII. I sadly doubt there would be that kind of unity, sacrifice and fortitude today.

  • @gardensofthegods
    @gardensofthegods 4 года назад +35

    If there has never been a proper movie made about Miss Catherine Dior , she certainly deserves to be memorialized by a great actress and great film maker . She's been in hell and survived it .

    • @carbine090909
      @carbine090909 4 года назад +2

      What, Titanic wasn't fulfilling enough for you? She stood on her TIP TOES! And was freezing cold for a whole day!

    • @deemariedubois4916
      @deemariedubois4916 4 года назад +5

      gardensofthegods And they didn’t break her. Think of what that means.

    • @virginagobetz4756
      @virginagobetz4756 4 года назад

      @@carbine090909 OH puhleez!! That was a friggin' MOVIE--Not REAL!

    • @carbine090909
      @carbine090909 4 года назад +1

      @@virginagobetz4756 sarcasm, dear. Sarcasm.

  • @virginagobetz4756
    @virginagobetz4756 4 года назад +6

    Thank you so very much for this video,Simon.I loved the fragrance but was completely unaware of the courageous personage behind the name.Her life would make a fabulous movie or book.What a hero she was!

  • @hazmania
    @hazmania 3 года назад +8

    That was awesome. What an amazing, & unbelievably brave, lady. Thank you for telling her story. Such bravery and determination should be more widely known about. The memory of such an indomitable spirit should be kept alive. The perfume bearing her name is still just as lovely & it is as deserving of its fame as it ever was.

  • @GensSancta
    @GensSancta 4 года назад +31

    Not sure why but of the many tragic-story videos you upload, (each one suitably solemn in their own right of course), this one is especially heart-rending. Happy ending of sorts, yes, still... it resonates in an unforgettable way.
    Do, keep them coming kind Sir.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 3 года назад +5

    1:35 - Chapter 1 - A garden of peace before the horrors of war
    4:15 - Chapter 2 - French resistance ,a chance meeting and a married man
    9:10 - Mid roll ads
    10:45 - Chapter 3 - From haute couture to concentration camps
    13:10 - Chapter 4 - The waking nightmare of Ravenstruck
    17:55 - Chapter 5 - Homecoming...and immortalization

  • @Howelton2020
    @Howelton2020 4 года назад +50

    She was Amazing, Extraordinary even, there needs to be a biopic made about her.

  • @LizzyMarieTina
    @LizzyMarieTina 4 года назад +5

    This video was not just interesting but inspiring. I think this is the first informative video that has made me both happy and sad cry. What a woman. Wow.

  • @earlenewallace8445
    @earlenewallace8445 4 года назад +36

    She was just remarkable; brave and strong. I want to find out more about her.

  • @coldwarsarge7592
    @coldwarsarge7592 4 года назад +7

    What a bio! You really outdid yourself producing this video, Simon. So much more is now coming to light now about Ravensbrück and the terrifying atrocities committed there where it served as a training base for some 3,500 female SS (Nazi paramilitary corps) supervisors who staffed it and other camps.Thanks for making so many viewers smarter every day!

  • @GreenMonkeyToaster
    @GreenMonkeyToaster 4 года назад +9

    It always sort of unsettles me whenever I find out someone great died fairly recently and I never knew. Like damn Miss Dior, I wish I knew to spare you a thought when you passed.

    • @virginagobetz4756
      @virginagobetz4756 4 года назад +2

      Thoughts and prayers can still be raised to heaven for someone.

  • @jayreject5602
    @jayreject5602 4 года назад +6

    For anyone wanting more information on the Ravensbruck concentration camp I would highly recommend the book 'If this is a woman' by Sarah Helm. It's a brutal but essential read about the terrible conditions the 1000's of women went through in this little known camp.

  • @balesjo
    @balesjo 4 года назад +4

    An inspiring life. And after hearing of "Miss Dior" fragrances for years, it was so interesting to hear the backstory.

  • @danielcuevas5899
    @danielcuevas5899 4 года назад +24

    She is the exact opposite of Coco Chanel.....

  • @anafindlay1696
    @anafindlay1696 4 года назад +8

    What an amazing woman I've had never heard about her extraordinary life!!
    Thank you Simon ❤️❤️

  • @margaret-marywhite299
    @margaret-marywhite299 4 года назад +17

    A story I'd never heard. Now interested in finding out more. Thanks, Simon!

  • @archstanton6102
    @archstanton6102 4 года назад +6

    I didn't know about Coco Channel. What a fascinating comparison to Miss Dior

  • @franceswitham8214
    @franceswitham8214 4 года назад +2

    One of your best. I had no idea she had endured such torment.

  • @TonyDeCoste
    @TonyDeCoste 4 года назад +3

    Excellent job by D. Kelly on this script. I love the episodes like this one, focused on the heros and not the heinous.

  • @pickingwilddaisies945
    @pickingwilddaisies945 4 года назад +3

    I am not sure why but hearing she lived until 2008 made me cry 😭 what a great woman 👏🏻

  • @Karens-Zen
    @Karens-Zen 4 года назад +53

    So bleak, and yet she was granted peace and love after horror.

  • @mindakahn9964
    @mindakahn9964 5 месяцев назад +1

    A brave strong woman a woman of valor. She lived until 90. Her gardens are beautiful and you can visit them. May her memory be a blessing.

  • @lindseymarie7923
    @lindseymarie7923 4 года назад +5

    Please do Irena Sendler she saved 2500 children or Geertruida Wijsmuller she saved 10,000 children before ww2

  • @RichMitch
    @RichMitch 4 года назад +8

    Big fan of you doing different but eminently worthy biographies

  • @ladymopar2024
    @ladymopar2024 4 года назад +38

    I just finished a book on her thinks she is really interesting and one tough cookie or should we say badass

    • @LizzyMarieTina
      @LizzyMarieTina 4 года назад +3

      What is the book called? It sounds interesting.

    • @ladymopar2024
      @ladymopar2024 4 года назад +3

      @@LizzyMarieTina the incredible Miss Dior, there's also all kinds of Articles and websites dedicated to her as well

    • @ladymopar2024
      @ladymopar2024 4 года назад +1

      @@LizzyMarieTina there is a book also by her brother that describes her life in a couple of chapters in his book printed in 2019

    • @ladymopar2024
      @ladymopar2024 4 года назад +2

      @@LizzyMarieTina the incredible Miss Dior

  • @sexysergioscotland6133
    @sexysergioscotland6133 4 года назад +3

    Another fanatic video, definitely a unsung hero 😊 I really admire men and women or anyone that has such bravery and determination against the evils of this world.

  • @_Abjuranax_
    @_Abjuranax_ 4 года назад +6

    The firestorm in Dresden was so great, that it would actually suck people up like a tornado into the conflagration. One of the reasons that Dresden was targeted was because it was a previously untouched German city, and they wanted to see just how big of a firestorm they could actually create. Later, the firestorm in Tokyo would claim more lives than both Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 4 года назад +1

      Very interesting , my friend . I never knew this... other than that dressed and had become a hell .

    • @_Abjuranax_
      @_Abjuranax_ 4 года назад +1

      @@gardensofthegods Time-Life Series of WWII.

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 4 года назад +1

      @@_Abjuranax_ but I do remember they had excellent books.... they had really good ones on the wild west also that I had meant to buy for my ex who loved everything about the Wild West but I never did get him that set of books .

    • @ECloudDog
      @ECloudDog 4 года назад +4

      Complete incorrect.
      Dresden was a major industrial city. It was a major railway station and many German troops were being transported through Dresden to the Eastern Front. It was a very important strategic target. What you are saying is no less than Goebbels's propaganda to rally his evermore disloyal population against the Allies.

    • @honda-akari
      @honda-akari 4 года назад

      And the Americans never apologized to Japan. Such shameful people.

  • @estossala1
    @estossala1 4 года назад +2

    A movie should be made about this amazing story!

  • @stephaniewhite5644
    @stephaniewhite5644 4 года назад +11

    Thank you for this wonderful video. I have always been a fan of Christian Diors cosmetics and perfumes. When I first met my husband, I was wearing Poison, one of my most favorites,and I also worn Jadore. I am so glad you have posted this video, I learned alot that I didn't know about my favorite designer and sister! She passed in 2008. She had a very full life. God bless her, and everyone. Thank you so much 🥰👍🙏👄

  • @parfner666
    @parfner666 4 года назад +3

    Wow I got a little choked up hearing this story. So brave and strong. Incredible story and woman

  • @BrainsApplied
    @BrainsApplied 4 года назад +12

    *These war stories are my favorite*

  • @crazytrain7114
    @crazytrain7114 4 года назад +4

    Such incredible hardships those women faced. Knowing what their consequences would be, they were undetered

  • @TheWolfsnack
    @TheWolfsnack 4 года назад +9

    A good reason to never ever buy Chanel products....

  • @barbaravick5634
    @barbaravick5634 4 года назад +2

    I'm so grateful to women like her and so angry of yet another example of the U.S. allowing the "bad guys" to come work here, protecting them from what they deserved.

  • @sherrismith8874
    @sherrismith8874 4 года назад +5

    What a great woman.

  • @angrygopnik7784
    @angrygopnik7784 4 года назад +4

    Fascinating video as always. Thank you Simon and crew!

  • @bwolper
    @bwolper 4 года назад +4

    A very moving biograph. Thank you.

  • @pyromania1018
    @pyromania1018 4 года назад +4

    What's that piano tune played over "a garden of peace before the horrors of war"?

  • @BothHands1
    @BothHands1 4 года назад +11

    please do more stories on women. this was amazing. i love hearing about the influencial men who have changed the world, and especially liked your recent one on wittgenstein, but i've noticed that all the other biographics episodes that pop up in my recommendations are men. they did great things, and i do want to hear their stories. but it feels a bit one sided when you have amazing women like Cathorine Dior to also cover.

  • @claraelizabeth
    @claraelizabeth 4 года назад +5

    This hisstory deserves to be told in a movie😢

    • @AllezVous222
      @AllezVous222 3 года назад +1

      Agreed. An incredible human being who deserves to have her name known by more people.

  • @mackdog3270
    @mackdog3270 4 года назад +20

    WW2 was huge, one of the biggest drama's in humanities history. In my opinion anyway and women's roles in it, like many other times seem to slip between the cracks. I'm not a femanist, I'm more of an equalist and not to take away from the heroics of d day or iwa Jima (my great uncle was there) but I find the deeds of these ladies to be more inspiring and moving. So good job Simon, give them another voice and keep up the good work. :)

  • @kristinradams7109
    @kristinradams7109 4 года назад +7

    Yay! You are the breath of fresh air I needed! Thanks, Simon! I am desperately trying to finish up a craft project due on Sunday for a family event, and your voice and stellar content are helping me get through this enormous venture relatively unscathed. At least mentally :) Cheers! Much love to Shell and Daven, too!

  • @michaelemonds
    @michaelemonds 4 года назад +2

    What a brave and extraordinary woman!

  • @musiclover01ization
    @musiclover01ization 4 года назад +1

    Lovely story. Miss Dior went through quite a lot.

  • @stellaercolani3810
    @stellaercolani3810 4 года назад +13

    Freedom fighters.💔🙏💕

    • @dbojangles1597
      @dbojangles1597 4 года назад

      One mans freedom fighter is another mans terrorist. That's just the nature of war.

  • @MELODYofDREAM
    @MELODYofDREAM 4 года назад +3

    this video make me feel so sad. even sadder to realize that in parts of the world, people are still living lives like this.

  • @samiam2088
    @samiam2088 4 года назад +4

    As opposed to Coco Chanel who was a Nazi collaborator. If I decide to buy designer, I know which franchise I’ll buy from.

  • @Vonteeski
    @Vonteeski 4 года назад +2

    I love the heroine videos! Keep these coming, PLEASE!

  • @ImCarolB
    @ImCarolB 4 года назад +2

    I'm going right out to buy a bottle of this perfume and wear it shamelessly!

  • @prettyfar33
    @prettyfar33 4 года назад +2

    She lived to be 91!!!

  • @mammuchan8923
    @mammuchan8923 4 года назад +2

    What an intriguing lady - worthy of being honored by a beautiful perfume. How I wish there was a perfume in this world that could wipe out the horrors inflicted by the Nazis... May your brave soul RIP Miss Dior

  • @rosyclaire
    @rosyclaire 4 года назад +3

    Wow! What a lady!

  • @LauraVogel731
    @LauraVogel731 4 года назад +4

    One of my favorites. Thank you. More women, please!

  • @rslocum17
    @rslocum17 4 года назад +2

    Love these fashion icons could you do something about the House or Worth and Charles Worth

  • @sabrinagrant8003
    @sabrinagrant8003 4 года назад +3

    Wow, I never knew any of this. Of course, I know who Christian Dior is but I didn’t know about his sister, what a story?

  • @sara-bo6cg
    @sara-bo6cg 4 года назад +3

    J’adore! 💕

  • @Tara-sf7uu
    @Tara-sf7uu 4 года назад +2

    Thank you, I had no idea any of the history behind the name

  • @paulettemaximun2505
    @paulettemaximun2505 4 года назад +1

    All you do is important. Thank you and all around you.

  • @hannahskipper2764
    @hannahskipper2764 4 года назад +1

    Wow! It's fun to find out what famous people did during wartime.

  • @pamelaarescurrinaga8201
    @pamelaarescurrinaga8201 4 года назад +1

    Thank you for this one in particular.

  • @kennethmcdonald2987
    @kennethmcdonald2987 4 года назад +12

    please do an episode on the life of Christopher Tolkien who sadly passed today what a truly amazing individual in his own right and what a gift he gave us fans of Middle Earth in taking up the great work of his father and bringing even more of these masterpieces to us and he lived an amazing life well beyond the works of his late father thanks

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 4 года назад +2

      I've seen one or two rather long pieces of him talking about his dad's work .

  • @iandavis1144
    @iandavis1144 4 года назад +2

    As always Simon your videos are the echoes of people who's stories are as interesting as they are entertaining and I really enjoy all of them. I can honestly say I haven't seen anything from you that I haven't liked! Thank you for passion of history and knowledge. I'd love to see an episode of biographics on the life of Bill Willson the co founder of alcoholics anonymous. He and Dr. Bob Smith created something that has pulled me and millions of other people from the depths of addiction and disparity. Their work has done something that modern medicine cannot come close competing with. Thanks again Simon😁 (side note: can we be friends?) 🤣

  • @Cujo2447
    @Cujo2447 4 года назад +6

    This one was a rough one to watch. I hope she found peace. Have you considered, with one of your channels, a history on the French Resistance?

  • @briandoss9232
    @briandoss9232 2 года назад +1

    Another important person they never covered in public school.

  • @kwangjinchai2859
    @kwangjinchai2859 4 года назад +2

    Respect Madam

  • @archstanton6102
    @archstanton6102 4 года назад +1

    Can you please cover Joe Louis. Heavy weight boxing world champion and WW2 hero

  • @ehrldawg
    @ehrldawg 4 года назад +1

    I wonder if she met Coorie ten Boom at Ravensbrook.

  • @jimmyryan5880
    @jimmyryan5880 4 года назад +4

    Countess Markavitz

    • @waverider8549
      @waverider8549 4 года назад

      Please. I have been asking for her for some time.

  • @todddougherty9492
    @todddougherty9492 4 года назад +4

    She’s tougher than I am....

    • @virginagobetz4756
      @virginagobetz4756 4 года назад +3

      She was tougher then most of us are nowadays. They broke the mold when they made her!

  • @lornakim5008
    @lornakim5008 4 года назад +2

    She is immortalized^^ Xoxo🌅🗽🌉💝💝💝💝🎆🎈🎁🎄🎇🌅🎐

  • @LaurenLace
    @LaurenLace 4 года назад +3

    Great job on this video! I think a video about the women of the Nazi party and a separate video about the founders of other luxury brands would be very interesting..... 🧐

  • @obsoletetortoise4785
    @obsoletetortoise4785 4 года назад +1

    Another amazing video, I was wondering if you all over at Biographics would be interested in doing a video on Carlos Castaneda the author of the Teaching of Don Juan.

  • @thesouthernhistorian4153
    @thesouthernhistorian4153 4 года назад +3

    Keep up the amazing vids!

  • @jacoblitsinberger37
    @jacoblitsinberger37 4 года назад +5

    Could you please do a video on Robert E Howard the creator of Conan the Cimmerian please?

  • @amandaramsey7105
    @amandaramsey7105 4 года назад +2

    Very interesting!

  • @waverider8549
    @waverider8549 4 года назад +2

    Would you please consider Siegfried Sassoon, Countess Marciewicz or Nestor Makhno.

  • @registeelix
    @registeelix 4 года назад +10

    Can you do a biography on Simon Whistler?

  • @jessicaenglish4696
    @jessicaenglish4696 4 года назад +1

    Please do an episode on another great fashion icon Beau Brummell

  • @claudiotaulois6700
    @claudiotaulois6700 3 месяца назад

    A very touching story!

  • @jacobmckinley4232
    @jacobmckinley4232 3 года назад +1

    I wish you had have made it clearer that Ravensbruck was a womens only camp. It should be more well known and spoken of just as much as others.

  • @mathdemigod8162
    @mathdemigod8162 4 года назад +1

    "Everyone's heard of Miss Dior perfume"
    Bold of you to assume. XD

  • @asf1062
    @asf1062 4 года назад +2

    Please do Ludwig van Beethoven

  • @rockgod6180
    @rockgod6180 4 года назад +1

    Simon, could you one on Desmond Doss? From Hacksaw Ridge

  • @hakuisnotaguy
    @hakuisnotaguy 4 года назад +1

    Thank you.

  • @Kyra_Skye
    @Kyra_Skye 5 месяцев назад

    I'm a bit confused about the part where it says "Catherine, now 29 but looking a decade younger". If this was July of 1943, Catherine was 25. She was born in August of 1917, and was in fact still only 27 when the war in Europe officially ended in May of 1945.

  • @lisabeamer5349
    @lisabeamer5349 4 года назад +1

    I've been watching this on repeat!! Love this so much! Please do Georgianna Cavendish and General Patton!!❤❤❤🤗🤗🤗

    • @ECloudDog
      @ECloudDog 4 года назад +1

      They already did Patton.

  • @MrCaptainA
    @MrCaptainA 4 года назад +1

    Could you do a video about Christian Dior next?

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 4 года назад +1

      Wow after this he almost doesn't sound Worthy

  • @patmullarkey7659
    @patmullarkey7659 3 года назад

    Amazing story.

  • @thefangsofcerberus4715
    @thefangsofcerberus4715 4 года назад +9

    Sun Tzu..... Not nearly enough about him, considering what he created.

    • @dairaguy2304
      @dairaguy2304 4 года назад +4

      They've already done one on Sun Tzu

    • @kevinpreston5590
      @kevinpreston5590 4 года назад +3

      There is some contention if he existed.

  • @aq5426
    @aq5426 3 года назад +2

    These are good people--the same can't be said for Coco Chanel.

  • @CuteDwarf11
    @CuteDwarf11 4 года назад +1

    Thank you for another amazing video about another amazing person who proved the strength of the human soul.
    Can you please do videos on the following people:
    Basil Rathbone
    Audrey Hepburn
    Tyrone Power
    Tchaikovsky
    Thank you.

  • @joniroxanne96
    @joniroxanne96 4 года назад +1

    I hope I'm not the only one who thinks that she kinda looks like *Tilda Swinton* @ the thumbnail? 😕