In the Blood: Michael Douglas Unravels His Family's Secret Past, From Russian Roots to Hidden Crimes
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- Опубликовано: 31 мар 2024
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I knew a man who was an old man in 1960's and heard from his niece that the old man's father came to America in 1870s from England escaping gallows he was a horse thief. The old man Seth Garrington lived in North Carolina Currituck County then probably born in US built boats by hand, all by hand tools and built a juniper skiff for my grandfather in early 60's all by hand tools using a kerosene lamp in a shed at night still working. Good story here and older Michael Douglas gets he looks more and more like his father Kirk Douglas. Fantastic work you do and show is outstanding
Yes, in the new “Franklin” series in Apple TV he looks EXACTLY like Kirk! And I remember when he was the hot new young guy on “Streets of San Francisco”!
It always amazes me how we can be just one degree of separation away from something that seems so very long ago.
Nice story about the rustler.
Michael Douglas ancestral history reads like a gangster's movie script. Maybe he should do a movie about it.
The life story of female scientist Lise Meitner should be made into a movie. That was harrowing, nerve wracking & cruel.
Ah perfect definitely great storytelling style.... Jewish godfather flick 🤑🤑🤑🤑🥂
Great idea! Michael could play his grandfather, who seemed to be the "godfather' of the gang.
My mother grew up in Amsterdam, NY where Kirk Douglas was from. My mother was about ten years younger than him and didn't personally remember him. But Mr. Demsky was well known to her. At that time the family seemed to be going by the name Demsky. The person we know as Kirk Douglas was known in school as Isador Demsky which I guess was an anglicized version of his given name Izzur.
My mom was also the child of Immigrants, her parents having come from the same town in County Down, Northern Ireland. Her mother came as a small child with her family and her father came as a grown man after serving with British forces in the Boer War. Amsterdam seemed to be a town loaded with immigrants. Lots of Irish, Poles and Italians. There were a couple of big mills in town which employed many of them.
Mr. Demsky worked as a ragman. He had a cart pulled by a horse or a mule. This was the Depression and so he made his living buying and selling bits of used clothing and other items.
The one story I remember my mother recalling about the Demsky family had to do with the law. One of her school classmates had a father who was a judge. Mr. Demsky had been prosecuted for animal cruelty for beating his mule and the case wound up in court. I think it resulted in a fine.
Other than that, I had never heard anything indicating any criminality. The Demsky family was certainly poor but the same could be said for my mom and her by then widowed mother.
I'm curious about the name Danielovitch referenced here. That sounds more like a patronymic than a last name. In the Russian system of naming, people don't have middle names. If your father is named Ivan, your patronymic is Ivanovich if you are a man or Ivanovna if you are a woman. Like Vladimir Putin is Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. It basically means "Vladimir, son of Vladimir."
If you are not close friends with someone or if they are older than you or are your boss or of a higher social station it is common to refer to them by first name and patronymic. It is the method of formal address as they don't use mister or missus. Sometimes older men as a familiar form of address may refer to friends just using the patronymic.
Anyway, I wonder if Danielovitch was actually the family name or if they just dropped the family name when they came to America. If you were running from the law that might be a logical thing to do. If your father's name was Daniil (Daniel in English) your patronymic would be Danilovich. And where did the name Demsky come from? So anyway, lots of interesting questions.
They are certainly an example of an immigrant family who prospered in America.
WOW...that was an amazing share. I am sure someone from "douglas" family will read it one day. I knew that they were Jewish.
The surname Danilovitch/Danielovitch is of Russianized-Jewish origin, which is not uncommon. I suspect Demsky was chosen as a more American-sounding surname that was easier to pronounce and spell, as the spelling of my own surname was changed by my immigrant great-grandfather in America. In Judaism, one was traditionally referred to as "ben" (son) of X, or "bat" (daughter) of X, with X being the father's Hebrew name (many men in the Pale of Settlement had a Hebrew first name and a secondary, Yiddish pet name that they went by).
For example, my great-great grandfather, who came to America in the 1880s with his son from the same region as Michael Douglas' family, would have been referred to as Menachem Mendel ben Hillel, as his father's Hebrew name was Hillel. Due to Jewish tradition, Menachem Mendel ben Hillel is engraved in his headstone in Hebrew in Ohio, despite having had a legal surname. However, we are from the tribe of Levi, so we have a Hebrew caste name for a surname vs. a patronymic surname. Other Ashkenazi Jewish surnames are ornamental in nature, refer to a profession, town or city, personal appearance, and so on, but patronymic surnames were indeed common in the Pale, with many ending in -vitz, -ovitch, etc.
As an aside, Jews were mandated to take surnames in Russia from the late-18th century to the mid-19th century, primarily for discriminatory taxation purposes. Some chose their surnames and others were given them, but I can't think of a single Ashkenazi Jew who has a Hebrew surname unless it is a caste name. With Sephardic and Mizrachi Jews, it was common practice to adopt the traditional Hebrew name, "ben" of X, just as the Arabs did, so you will hear many surnames in those groups that start with Ben, such as Benezra (son of Ezra), which is less confusing than translating the whole thing into the lingua franca at that time.
@@oceansdeserts4446 WOW amazing. Thanks for sharing!
Yes, that how it was and it is now. In the past any birth and marriage records were kept by church. My grandfather's records show his name as Ivan son of Sebastian. In the spoken language it would be a First Name son of Father's First Name. After the Revolution the son of or daughter off were dropped; just as a patronymic.
DEMBSKI its from dąb which means an oak tree
My parents families were both Germanic living next to Jewish colonies and Ukrainian colonies, among others. All were severely persecuted during different periods of Russian/Soviet history.
Very interesting roots. I can’t wait to hear more. Michael Douglas is one of my favorite actors. ❤️
Kirk Douglas Would Had Loved This, May He R.I.P.
My grandfather came from Russia (now Lithuania) via Liverpool, my grandmother came from Austria (now Poland) via Bremen; both entered through Philadelphia.
PHL was a pretty big port of immigrant entry. No surprise it gets overlooked being so close to NYC and Ellis Island.
It is lovely to know ones history.
Don't know if you know this but the Lithuanian language is one of oldest. It also similar to Sanskirt (India).
@@labas9817 Thanks, I did not know that!
Oh, really?!? @@labas9817
I remember when Michael Douglas was on the Streets of San Francisco. He was fine then and still is. Seems like he had a good sense of humor.
So funny in Romancing the Stone. Good actor.
Michael Keaton the Actors real name is Michael Douglas, he had to change it so it didn’t clash with this Michael Douglas whose real surname is Danilovitch.
Yeah, under Screen Actor Guild rules nobody can have the exact same name. Michael J. Fox had to add the J to distinguish himself from another Michael Fox(1921- 1996). Harrison Ford didn't have to do this, as his silent film name-alike was dead before Harrison entered the business in 1966.
I didn’t know that.
Funny, isn't it?
I think that's like Stewart Granger who's real name was James Stewart.....
First come, first serve. He could have used a middle initial like Michael J. Fox. there was a political news person named Michael Jackson . And others. ❤
Looking forward to seeing the whole episode, soon. Thank you, Dr. Gates.
Man when I watch these Finding Your Roots episodes, or in general any European history-related stuff, it always seems like Jewish people really couldn't catch a frickin break. Us Indians/South Asians are very removed from European history so everything seems distant.
India used to have a Jewish community which is very small now (due to migration to Israel and the West since the late 1940s, which saw end of WW2, Indian Independence and creation of the State of Israel). But will always be glad of the fact that India happens to be one of the few countries in the world that has no recorded history of Jewish persecution.
You're right. Both of my parents lived among Jewish neighbors in Eastern Europe/Russia where all my ancestors originated. Sadly, the worst Jewish persecutions in history were in Europe- not only Germany, but most of Europe.
When you hear some people, that degrading attitudes still exist, though they might not work. Why are they of such a make?!? Or of education?
Michael looks like his father, whose acting affected so many audiences, and in a good way.
Michael does not have his father's charisma, who was larger than life on the screen.
When I look at that face
I only see surgery ,
surgery , surgery . . . . . . .
@@ritahorvath8207 Michael still looks like himself and his Father despite probable facelifts. He doesn't look as plastic as many celebrities.
Absolute ringer for his dad, at first I thought it was Kirk ! - such acting ability Spartacus wow ❤️
You cannot say, his real name was XY, when all the names where brought to paper in a russified way back than. Gersh Danilovich might very likely be originally Hershel Danielssohn.
you know what you're talking about, thumbs up
Pretty interesting. I've tried to find my paternal side but because they came here in 1922, all those records are in "the old country". My grandma said the records in their little Hungarian town were destroyed by fire. She also said her grandmother had 12 babies and outlived them all. I can't find anything about any of that. ☹️☹️☹️
Would love to see the whole program.
I knew a very respectable person who was so hungry when pregnant that she confessed to me , that she ate an orange a greengrocer had given her for her children. She carried that guilt into her 70s . I guess what I’m trying to say here is that hunger can make people do things , they would never normally do. Like committing a crime .
Poverty can make anyone commit many crimes. You never know what you're capable of during when you're desperate.
@@mepulley7913 exactly this .
@@mepulley7913 case for Reparations. How is it a people been in America since before 1700 and have nothing?
@@AbenaMcKenzieSoapiphany I don't disagree with you.
That motive may be true of unavoidable hunger and grinding poverty but it's not true of flash mobs of people living on jobs or Public Welfare subsidies and seen raiding luxury goods stores or pharmacies. I mentioned this because in a world of food stamps on credit cards congresswoman AOC excuses break-ins and retail theft by suggesting the perpetrator may be hungry or needing to feed their family.
It's really tiring to hear 19th and 20th century ideological rationales used to excuse theft, break-ins and violence --AND organized efforts to overthrow the political, social, and economic order to get a better spot on a new hierarchy and subject the rest of the population to experiments as if they are Lab Rats
Cant wait for this episode.
He's looking more like his Dad the older he gets. Interesting story though.
Agreed!!! 😊
I've always said the same thing.
Michael Douglas grandmother side of the family originated from Ukraine there's two towns that are called Homel one town in Belarus and all information came from his father's book A Ragmans son .
I remember being in Kirk's and Anne's Palm Springs' pool with his 3 brothers, and as Peter's Palm Springs 'pal' ... and the similarities of my memories of his Dad ... Micheal is strikingly similar to Dad!!! ... Micheal in the pool was friendly, rambunctious but almost frightened Peter&I as we horse-played with Peter's older brother having P.S. weekend fun away from UCSB... very fond memories of his whole clan... my heart goes out a little for Eric - so this video of 'old family history' in my opinion ... is not as entertaining as "The Douglas Clan of The '60s" .. But I still loved watching this video!!
I seem to remember a book on Kirk Douglas called the rag man because when he came to America he had a suitcase of rags he sold to make a living.......
About Kirk Douglas' father.
It was called the Rag man son. Because that’s what his Farther was.
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My mother grew up in Amsterdam, NY where Kirk Douglas was from. My mother was about ten years younger than him and didn't personally remember him. But Mr. Demsky was well known to her. At that time the family seemed to be going by the name Demsky. The person we know as Kirk Douglas was known in school as Isador Demsky which I guess was an anglicized version of his given name Izzur.
My mom was also the child of Immigrants, her parents having come from the same town in County Down, Northern Ireland. Her mother came as a small child with her family and her father came as a grown man after serving with British forces in the Boer War. Amsterdam seemed to be a town loaded with immigrants. Lots of Irish, Poles and Italians. There were a couple of big mills in town which employed many of them.
Mr. Demsky worked as a ragman. He had a cart pulled by a horse or a mule. This was the Depression and so he made his living buying and selling bits of used clothing and other items.
The one story I remember my mother recalling about the Demsky family had to do with the law. One of her school classmates had a father who was a judge. Mr. Demsky had been prosecuted for animal cruelty for beating his mule and the case wound up in court. I think it resulted in a fine.
Other than that, I had never heard anything indicating any criminality. The Demsky family was certainly poor but the same could be said for my mom and her by then widowed mother.
I'm curious about the name Danielovitch referenced here. That sounds more like a patronymic than a last name. In the Russian system of naming, people don't have middle names. If your father is named Ivan, your patronymic is Ivanovich if you are a man or Ivanovna if you are a woman. Like Vladimir Putin is Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. It basically means "Vladimir, son of Vladimir."
If you are not close friends with someone or if they are older than you or are your boss or of a higher social station it is common to refer to them by first name and patronymic. It is the method of formal address as they don't use mister or missus. Sometimes older men as a familiar form of address may refer to friends just using the patronymic.
Anyway, I wonder if Danielovitch was actually the family name or if they just dropped the family name when they came to America. If you were running from the law that might be a logical thing to do. If your father's name was Daniil (Daniel in English) your patronymic would be Danilovich. And where did the name Demsky come from? So anyway, lots of interesting questions.
They are certainly an example of an immigrant family who prospered in America.
@@sugarkane4830 The Ragman's Son. I read the book and thought the title was interesting as a bit of psychology. With all the success Kirk had, he didn't forget that something else was still true: he was the son a a rag man.
If these guys survived Russian prison and being Jewish as well - they must have really been tough...
So fantastic…..
Fascinating
Such a hard time for everyone back then
for Jews....not everone....
@@makesomenoiseagency2815 all the people coming here back then worked very hard
My great grandfather's death certificate said he was born in Russia. He spoke German Russian French Polish. He told the family he was born in Prussia but considered himself Polish. Immigrated to USA late 1800s changed last name to Douglas.
Same with both my parents and their parents who, both born in the Russian Empire- also spoke German, Russian, some Ukrainian. They were born in the areas of Ukraine. Great-grandparents before that were from Prussia/Poland. But, passports identified them as Russian.
Well thats on Michaels fathers side! what about his mothers side, she was from Bermuda and from a family that went way back! Michael has Bermudian relatives too!
I'd like to hear more about that as well. They were, like most white Bermudans - of British/Irish descent. Considering Michael is married to Catherine Zeta Jones - you'd think he'd take an interest in a lineage that included plenty of Welsh ancestors.
Very interesting
Douglas's family was not of Russian Jews but of Lithuanian Jews. Russia took over these areas by force during the division of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. But that doesn't make them Russians. As far as I understand, the ancestor of the "gang" was also a Polish nobleman. It is possible that they stole from the Russian army and from transports, and at that time it was not theft but a resistance movement. On the Russian side it is theft but on the Lithuanian side it is a fight against the occupiers. Running away from being drafted into the army doesn't have to be a lie. During this period, the Tsars used the conquered Polish and Lithuanian lands as a living stable for forced military conscription. Imagine that during these years, about 150,000 soldiers died on both sides in the Russia - China war in Manchuria. Of these, over 30,000 people killed were Poles and Lithuanians! Such was the extent of Russia's exploitation of these regions as cannon fodder. So, to find out exactly what it was like, Michael Douglas if he wants to, has to dig more into it. In the photos of the town shown the inscriptions on the signs were in Polish and Belarusian who were then Lithuanian. These were nations conquered and enslaved by Russia.
WOW...thanks for sharing. This is an amazing angle and thanks for sharing it!
Interesting. My second great-grandfather came from a shtetl in the Pale of Settlement in what we believe is now modern-day Belarus, but we can't confirm that and suspect it may have been in Lithuania because his ship manifest says he's from Lito. (with a period). The rest of my father's side is from a shtetl called Lida (similar sounding), near Minsk. Much of this area was annexed from Poland, of course. Was Lito. an abbreviation for Lithuania? On a legal document in the US, he signed his name in Russian (Cyrillic), which we presume was required in the old country under Russian rule. I also noticed in the video that the stores had signs in the Roman alphabet, but the newspapers used Cyrillic. Thanks for any input.
@@oceansdeserts4446 Former areas of old Rus' (Ruthenia) (this is not today's Russia) such as the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (including today's Belarus), today's areas of Ukraine, most of which after the passing of the Golden Horde belonged to the Kingdom of Poland, and then the Princedom of Moscow (today's Russia) which was not In the lands of old Rus' they wrote in Cyrillic. The Cyrillic alphabet came from Bulgaria. Moreover, Lida and the regions are the indigenous lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, i.e. also today's Belarus, and were not Poland.
"Lito" most likely comes from the word Litowiec which means Lithuanian. This is not a correct word, but it is often used spontaneously and in jargon. And yes, the name was written in Cyrillic because it is the original alphabet for these lands. As you can see, the family comes from the lands of former Lithuania (also Belarus). As for spelling, only three Slavic countries use the Latin (Roman?) alphabet. These are the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland. (I'm not an expert in these topics, but that's what it looks like)
@darr473 Thank you for that info! We had suspected that the "Lito." in US gov't documents might have referred to Lithuania, as many Jews were fleeing Lithuania at the time due to the pogroms. After that, our family tree on that side ran cold. Interestingly enough, all of the ship manifests, censuses, and naturalization paperwork state my 2nd great-grandfather was from Russia, but he arrived in the US in the 1880s, so that would be accurate to my understanding via annexation. Much appreciation, again, and as a language major, the Roman alphabet is synonymous with the Latin alphabet. I just use the former.
This makes a lot of sense. “Armed robbery” in this context could have been simply defending YOUR own property that you inherited or even paid for yourself.
I'm to young to remember Mr. Demsky but I grew up around Kirk's sisters, nieces, nephews and still know a few. Terrific nice people, most especially Freddy who was in the liquor business with his dad. And my mom was friends with a niece and she met Michael I think when he was about 13.
1:01 Lots of Polish surnames including Danilowicz, but but that times Poland didn't existed as a state so metric contains countries like Germany, Austria, Russia
Sounds like Michael has gone beyond the pale.
My grandmother from mother's side was also from Mogilev. At least one of her brothers moved to USA around 1905 for the same reason - did not want to serve in the Russian army but ended up serving in the army in USA and was even decorated for that. I wish somebody would do the same research for me.
Micheal looks like his dad now that he is older he sounds old now to. He was a good actor as his dad was to.
Would Girsh not be pronounced “Hirsch”? Hence, Harry
I thought it was an abbreviated version of Gershon, which was my second great-grandfather's name. It's possible the name was misread when digitized, as Harry could easily be an Anglicized version of Hirsch. That occurred a couple times with my grandfather in census records as his name was similar to another.
Another factor is the lack of the h sound in the Russian language; there is no letter to represent this sound in the Cyrillic (Russian) alphabet. Foreign words (such as Jewish names) containing the h sound were spelled using either the hard g sound or gutteral kh sound instead.
Thus names like "Hirsh" and "Hinda" became "Girsh" and "Ginda", or "Khersh" and "Khinda". In some Lithuanian and Ukrainian regions, the initial h sound tended to be dropped entirely, so "Hirsh" became "Irsh", and "Hinda" might appear as "Inda".
Source: Jewishgen Website
@@stephenfisher3721
There is an "h" sound in Russian language and a letter for it "х" (kh). For example in Khrushchev (Хрущёв).
I like Michael.
Kirk was awesome
You look more like your Father everyday.
This is what I say. People just showed up just like the people today. They had nothing and wanted a better life
Amen!!
Except back then, people worked hard to make it in America.
Nowadays they come, live in hotels paid by US citizen's taxes, and don't work.
@KC-ni5gw I work in the tax field and I see south American people working hard , 40 hrs per week, while a certain group of American citizens work very little and purposely pay NO taxes. Knowledge over hate and negativity.
@@KC-ni5gw🦜🦜🦜🦜🦜
What a fairytale
Yo you so old your great grandpa was in the movie American Tail! Ohhhh! Snap!!
For the lack of a better word, greed is "good."
Rather accurate heritage for a wall street role 😅
@@stevencooper4422 Eh, wht "Christians" were just as bad or worse.
Wow
It was like Oak Park, Michigan. My Jewish ghetto in America.
I really like the background music at the beginning. Can someone tell me the name? 😅
This is so interesting. My family supposedly “walked away” from their inheritance. I call the B.S., and seeing this type of thing makes me very much more interested in possibly finding out the truth behind that fable.
Ellis was NOT the only point of entry into the US. New Orleans was one. Possibly they came in at another port. So does this nulify the Ragman's son -- he was a racketeer but posed as a ragman?
"your family was criminals. how do you feel about that?"
"greed is good"
If you have had need to survive in such circumstances, you would also become “ criminal “
You are talking nonsense. You have no idea what kind of life those people have had. They were very poor, without human rights. But for people like you, it doesn’t matter.
By writing what you wrote , only shows the level of your personality in some parameters., which doesn’t surprise me at all.
LOL
@@Susan-lf2hl 😂
Michael Douglas Romancing Stone. I used to like that film.
These stories make me wonder how my grandchildren and their grandchildren will be curious about me. I am someone who came from another country more than 30 years ago. Will they want to know? How will they react, because my own kids do not seem to be very curious about their father's roots...
Michael shame your dad didn’t get to know this recent revelation of your family’s history
Never once thought Micheal might be Jewish. Most of the Jewish people I seen on this show have a different look to them but to be fair he is mix. I guess Michael father must have changed his name to Douglas which is a Scottish surname. Now i'm trying to imagine his name being Micheal Danielovitch.
Scarlett Johanson, Natalie Portman. It takes all looks. Changing surname will always associate with trying to hide identity due to criminal deeds in my opinion.
You would be surprised at how many actors/entertainers are Jewish, there are many.
Ahhhhh Russian/Jewish. That was cool info.
Why they constatly pronauncing his last name as Danielovitz when it is in fact Danilovic!?
That's actually interesting that Hirsz Daniłowicz (Jew), Aleksander Perepeczko (Belarusian) and Aleksander Bieńkowski (Polish) from the Great Duchy of Lithuania (my ancestors homeland too), got along and worked together. What a lovely Jewish-Belarusian-Polish cooperation.
Gypsies stick together
Mother of Michael was English, her name was Diana Love Webster (née Dill). She was Episcopalian, Micheal became Reform Jew.
Girsh,very cool name.
Gersh or Girsh is just a yiddish diminutive of the biblical name Gershon
@@ABritInNYI think in this case it would have been pronounced like Hirsch, hence using Harry as an English name
@@ABritInNY Gershon or Gershom is from "Ger Sham" or "stranger there" as in the exodus story.
@@ABritInNY
No, Girsh is the Russian spelling of Hirsh meaning deer. The Hebrew equivalent is Zvi. Gershom is not related.
@@RebDanielB
Definitely. Many with the Yiddish Hirsh became Harry in America.
Some in the comments don't know the difference between USSR and Russia. Or deliberatly want to do as if USSR is the same as Russia. This bs is root of some problems and misused by third parties.
Yenkees are dumb… many of the horors in USSR was done by Ukrainans.
Same with Stalin, he was Armenian… All bad people was abroad.
What about Kirk Douglas and Natalie Wood? Comments?
May they both rest in peace.
Jewish roots and a very talented family.
Very cool...you read like it is written...not Danielovich...no E in there ... Danilocich
Check Kurt's book The Ragpickers Son?
The Ragman's Son is the name of the book, published in 1988 by Kirk Douglas.
So, no connection to Castle Douglas, Dumfries & Galloway then?
His mother Diana Dill Douglas has a very interesting background.
A Douglas
A Douglas
My Australian Douglass line are from a Convict from Dumfries in 1814.
Didn’t cover the whole family history though did you? Rip Natalie Wood
Robert Wagner was accused of being involved in his wife Natalie Wood's death not Kirk Douglas.
Danilovich is a Russian name. Also, Russia didn't occupy Lithuanian land because previously this territory was taken by force from Russia by the "rech pospolita" a Polish-Luthuanian commonwralth which grew power when Russia was at its weakest point due to political turmoil. Those territories were populated with Russians and Jews who were second grade citizens of that commonwealth without any privileges because they were not catholic.
I have a friend who is married to a Mexican woman and she signed up for an ancestral search...they went back to 5 Generations...that's all the way back to 1979!
You mean 1879?
Every Russian website about Chausy’s Jews mentions that Kirk Douglas is from Chausy. And only Michael Douglas has never heard that fact😂
And then there's Kirk Douglas and Natalie Wood. There will always be a reckoning.
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I read somewhere Kirk even described his crimes in his book, yet still beloved by so many just as Johnny f..cking Depp.
Is it too late to go to Belarus and claim the bounty?
Natalie Woods and his dad. That's a doozie.
He's starting to look more like his father.
😢😢😢😢ITS SAD THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE STILL FIGHTING OFF HATRED.DISCRIMINATION AND ALL THAT CRAP..I DONT WANT TO SEE ANOTHER HOLOCAUST...
Well respect other people and you won't
Explains his nose
Michael and Kirk had a lot of issues. Most of them unpleasant.
A lot or most people have issues. Thye also have incredible creativity and energy and gave enjoyment to people through their movies. I think it is important to first look on the positive side of a person or situation.
@@Karen-dk1ec so you know many people who sexually assaulted a teenager? You should report them.
I doubt that in Russian empire Jews were drafted into imperial army at all.
They sbdolutely were! You must be thinking that because Jews were kept separated & treated badly they would not have been wanted in the army. Not true! As far as the Russians were concerned, though they had no value & were treated badly they still could be used to fight in the wars
russians have always regarded soldiers as mere cannon fodder. That's why they recruited absolutely everyone into the army.
Yes, they sadly were. One of the reason for the early 20 century immigration to America to dodge the draft. Russia was in war with Japan and other countries. And let's not talk about kantons, which was basically genocide of Jews. Certain percentage of Jewish children (age 4-7) per city had to be given away to Russian peasant family and then sent to Russian army. 90% percent died before reaching puberty.
They were. They were talking from the families. Yonge boys. By force. There were times when russian army service was for the length of 25 years.
Bolshevik's were majority of what ethnicity/religion?
How about his dad's colorful history? Ancestry DNA probably doesn't catch sociopathic behavior.
Kirk Douglas came from a gang of criminals. That explains a lot about how he treated Natalie Wood
Though there is a relation between genetics and criminal behavior, the show business is the most corrupt business around. I will consider this business as a reason for the alleged abuse rather than the genetics. P.S. As long as effective legislation and executive function exists in a state, a criminal or even a person with criminal tendencies will avoid hard crime due to the consequences (gallows anyone?). Since in our days human life is cheap (i.e. crime is unpunished) the criminal behavior is allowed to exist and propagate.
Wasn’t that Robert Wagner that was with Natalie when she died?
@@paulk64 The LS-kg6my refers to the interview of Kirk Douglas with the N.Wood which was done in a hotel, while the mother and sister of N. Wood was in room with K. Douglas. Later the sister of N. Wood published the incident.
What?
@@christopherneufelt8971. ?
98th
Illegal 😂😂😂!!
Maybe his ancestors could teach him the value of honoring the medical privacy of others.
What?
He divulged another actor’s cancer, which the other actor did not want made public.
@@stephenfisher3721 he divided another actor’s cancer that the actor did not want made public.
Actually what Kilmer said was "I love Michael but he is misinformed" because, having consulted Douglas over his symptoms, Kilmer denied that he had the same cancer that Michael Douglas had had. In fact Michael Douglas was simply offering his support and eventually Kilmer admitted that he did indeed have cancer.
Kilmer later added: “He’s a loving and devoted friend ..."
Would a friend go on national television and talk about their @friend’s” medical condition?
Boundaries… mindfulness… discussing between themselves is one thing, but going public with that personal discussion is really not classy or good manners.
Truly a land of immigrants.
Uh. No. Unless through a female?
Hebrew Russians😂 dont even look middle eastern
yea you seem people mix after so many centuries. Do you know how many arab friends i have in Iraq and Syria that are totally white? Don't you see how many palestinian kids that the television is showing now in Gaza with the whole war thing, that are totally white? People change, even in one generation, much more in a thousand years.
This is how so many immigrants to America became white.
He is white. Americans are so weird about race. It's the British or Germans who are white. Everyone in Europe is considered white from Portugal to Russia. It just means your skin looks white. It's not about nationality or last names.
@@Grmario85 in one interview with Morgan Freeman a Jewish interviewer said he is not white, he is Jewish - Idk how many Jewish claim the same.
On m a korzenie Ukrainskie
"tia", wszyscy są dzisiaj "s upa"
His father changed his name why???? Why do "they" do that what are they hiding or hiding from.
They are hiding from people like you, which were not only in Russia but USA too.
Yeah. Like the actress Anne Bancroft and the song writer Harry Warren. Check out their real names.
Most of the Russian Jewish entertainers and movie stars changed their names and backgrounds to make themselves more acceptable to the American public. Was easy to do back then.
Most of actors who changed their last name regretted later.
Because there was a long history of anti-Semitism in America, where they couldn't get jobs if their names sounded Jewish. Duh. Learn some history.
Jews keep changing their names trough ages.
He looks like a corpse...
Sorry, what about your looks?!?
I wonder what you will look like at 79 (going on 80 soon) and fought cancer? I am sure you are so good looking and are 80 and look 30.
😳 It’s getting annoying when he keeps asking: “Did you know this?” Or “No family stories about this?” after every sentence. Bro… they’re clearly going on your show because they’re looking to *find their roots* … so NO they don’t know. Smh
Danilovich can also be a surname, the etymology is similar to e.g. Jonson or McKinley - son of Danilo. BTW Russians do have middle names, they are just not used so much.
Oh, really?!? Proves please!
Russian middle names are always patronymic---one's father's name with ovich added if one is male and ovna if one is female. Some Russian surnames are created originally from the patronymic with ov and ova endings.
The Douglas' always struck me as quite slavic looking. Not a typical Jewish look, but not uncommon.
Definitely Jewish, you have no idea what you are talking about. So many people are trying to erase our roots, even on responses of a program that explores our roots. We were put in the Pale of Settlement BECAUSE WE ARE NOT SLAVS! We are the Indigenous people of Judea (the reason we are called Jews) also known as Israel.