Auschwitz Survivor and War Crimes Trial Witness | Linda Breder | USC Shoah Foundation

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  • @johnforeman634
    @johnforeman634 Рік тому +44

    I’m almost ashamed of ever complaining about anything in my life.

  • @Banner_Yet_Wave
    @Banner_Yet_Wave Рік тому +125

    Rest in peace Linda Breder. May the world never forget. As a German immigrant to America in 1995, I am mortified, and at the same time, so thankful to learn, from you, what the darkest sides of humanity are capable of. We should never let hate of any sort fester in our hearts.

  • @joanflint-mt5os
    @joanflint-mt5os Рік тому +52

    Special thanks to the interviewer for excellent listening skill.

    • @sibert1974
      @sibert1974 Рік тому +9

      I agree. So many interviewers constantly interrupt but this lady let Linda tell her tragic story.

  • @annemariestein7491
    @annemariestein7491 Рік тому +47

    After listening to around 25 testimonies I have to say that the interviewer was absolutely outstanding and she is one of the reasons why Mrs Breder testimony is so compelling.

  • @beatricesiher6516
    @beatricesiher6516 Рік тому +26

    What a brave woman..and so bright..I heard all...

  • @carolblair5514
    @carolblair5514 Рік тому +30

    I wish this wonderful woman had written a book. She is such a great historian.

  • @gonefishing167
    @gonefishing167 Рік тому +33

    Thank you Mrs Breder, these testimonies are so important. What I find a marvel is these people went on to have fulfilling lives. They worked so hard to make that life, earn and save money. Their children also seem to have good lives, study hard etc. no grizzles ( not in public anyway) and their attitudes are so admirable. Compare it to a lot of people these days, they have a melt down over a broken finger nail snd have to go on you tube to tell of their ‘trauma’ ( preferably with very little on) Thank you and blessings to you all 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

    • @eileenfredriksen1213
      @eileenfredriksen1213 2 місяці тому

      Thanks, fellow Anzac, for your down to earth comment. Spot on!

  • @MatMat-qi2rd
    @MatMat-qi2rd Рік тому +20

    I visited Mauthausen camp some days ago. It's unbearable. How can something so terrible take place? Never forget.

  • @laurap.5804
    @laurap.5804 Рік тому +16

    ...one of the most difficult interview...I cried with her...

  • @RamonaRayTodosSantosBCS
    @RamonaRayTodosSantosBCS Рік тому +46

    Incredible detailed testimony. I chuckled when she mentioned her memory of the past crystal clear. But don't ask what i had for breakfast yesterday.
    All those evil people may have escaped judgement in this world, but they won't escape in the next. They will suffer for eternity.

    • @susankoech2039
      @susankoech2039 11 місяців тому

      Most of the SS died in the 70s and 80s however I hope they repented and regretted their attrocities otherwise they suffer in eternal damnation for eternity....

  • @jiehuazhao8183
    @jiehuazhao8183 Рік тому +42

    “I cried the scars in my hearts” “I always live the bitterness of Auschwitz”… 😢 that is truly the scar in the hearts of entire human being. We are all with her. It could be any of us. Rest in peace, Mrs Breder, a true fighter, warrior. God Bless!❤

  • @gretchenzwicker338
    @gretchenzwicker338 Рік тому +8

    What a doll. I would have loved to have known her, spend time with her, listen to her stories. God Bless sweet Mrs. Breder.❤

  • @fransrabie6609
    @fransrabie6609 Рік тому +6

    Thank you Linda Breder for this testimony. To everyone who listen to you and take your suffering and message to heart, God bless and God bless your soul Linda. Never forget and never again.

  • @ericahalmai8490
    @ericahalmai8490 Рік тому +16

    one of the best testimony I have heard, rest in peace , sweet lady🇦🇺🙏🌻

  • @gailkearney998
    @gailkearney998 Рік тому +10

    May her memory be a blessing!

  • @citizen-v9x
    @citizen-v9x 9 місяців тому +4

    What a wonderful, strong lady. So many years of hardship and misery. Thank you for sharing your story.

    • @liesam1591
      @liesam1591 5 місяців тому

      I wonder if she knew Kitty Hart. Both sorting clothes same time

  • @dixiehowe852
    @dixiehowe852 Рік тому +4

    It is so very important that we hear these stories and NEVER FORGET what happened and the importance that we conquered this evil. Thank you.

  • @fuensantacampillogomez3288
    @fuensantacampillogomez3288 Рік тому +7

    Thank you for offering the testimony that, although the experiences were extremely painful, we are also comforted by the hope that your tenacity and courage transmits to us. Thanks a lot!!!

  • @jeangetty5841
    @jeangetty5841 Рік тому +18

    Makes you cry what those people went through by the hands of evil madmen that called thereselfs soldiers god rest them all 😢😢😢😢😢😢

  • @alwaysglamorous8941
    @alwaysglamorous8941 Рік тому +8

    I was bawling when she spoke about the hunger this is insane

  • @ginagina9720
    @ginagina9720 Рік тому +10

    R.I.P. Linda breder it was so sad listening to your story….
    R.I.P. to all the victims who sadly died at these camps just so sad…

  • @loricook6331
    @loricook6331 Рік тому +9

    This is so important. It should be required viewing before a person is allowed to vote. We must not comply

  • @bridgetttubbs9959
    @bridgetttubbs9959 7 місяців тому +5

    They say everybody has a twin. This lady looks just like my Mother. God bless !

    • @gilliamjf
      @gilliamjf 6 місяців тому +1

      She looks like my grandma, maybe it's the hairdo

    • @almaconnor9171
      @almaconnor9171 3 місяці тому

      May God have mercy on us all.

  • @jeangetty5841
    @jeangetty5841 Рік тому +18

    What a lovely lady rip 😢

  • @chantalsimpendingheartatta9355

    How do you ever trust another human being ever after this???!!! I am a total misanthrope just from listening to these testimonials

  • @tashyole149
    @tashyole149 Рік тому +6

    Such an amazing story ❤ love to her family, from Australia xx

  • @linmorell1813
    @linmorell1813 Місяць тому

    What a wonderful woman. A fantastic lady in every sense of the word.

  • @DianAND-5
    @DianAND-5 11 місяців тому +4

    God bless 🙏🏼 you Linda Breder. ❤May you rest in peace. Thank you for passing on to so many generations what happened in those times so we all do not repeat it. 🙏🏼

  • @dlynn0707
    @dlynn0707 8 місяців тому +5

    How people forget this and have us sending billions to Ukraine when they treated them worse than Germans. RIP Linda. Thank you for sharing your amazing life with us.

  • @beatricesiher6516
    @beatricesiher6516 Рік тому +12

    So evil..even death marchs...killings..children..evil on earth!!!! Every survivor is such a big mir
    acle...

  • @rameshsharma1952
    @rameshsharma1952 Рік тому +8

    I have listened to many Survivor testimonies on your channel. Now few Survivors are alive. I wish that someone of survivors give reason for brutal behaviour of Nazis toward them . If it was without reason out of sheer madness of Nazis they should tell that

  • @JamesDivirgilio-my8fx
    @JamesDivirgilio-my8fx Рік тому +2

    amazing they did these testimonials...

  • @aqeel3274
    @aqeel3274 Рік тому +10

    Linda breder is brave women .

  • @elaneradim6117
    @elaneradim6117 Рік тому +2

    THANK YOU

  • @stefansteigerwald417
    @stefansteigerwald417 Рік тому +3

    I don’t know anything about the Steigerwalts except a sweet letter

  • @angiemartinez6937
    @angiemartinez6937 5 місяців тому +2

    57:53 "What privilege you have...", after such atrocity + demeaning towards her she still knows her value.

  • @martinayari3529
    @martinayari3529 Рік тому +3

    No idea how she could survive it.. how anyone could survive it..how people could do this to other people.
    She mentioned people who escaped successfully Auschwitz who were from Slovakia... my homeland. She was from Slovakia too - Stropkov.

  • @alwaysglamorous8941
    @alwaysglamorous8941 Рік тому +3

    What a lovely lady ❤

  • @basialaufman6365
    @basialaufman6365 2 місяці тому +1

    what is the matter with the interviewer! She’s asking the surviver. “What was the name of the gentleman” when she’s talking about the sadist killer from Auschwitz! she called him a gentlemen! this is insanity!! Total insanity!!

  • @the-citadel
    @the-citadel Місяць тому

    2:50:00 This is the part of the story that stays with me the most. I want to see the emotion on their faces as they encountered that old woman. If I ever make a film about ww2 I will be damn sure to include that story

  • @alwaysglamorous8941
    @alwaysglamorous8941 Рік тому +1

    Soul crushing 😔

  • @NaticzkaKaminskaHenryDolphin
    @NaticzkaKaminskaHenryDolphin Рік тому +9

    Also, 'Żydówka' simply means female Jew, not 'dirty Jew', as she said.

    • @JoelGoldman-z4e
      @JoelGoldman-z4e 7 місяців тому +3

      Zyd or zydowka is a derogatory, nasty way of saying Jew in various parts of Eastern Europe. Akin to the n word in English. Including, quite possibly where she was living.

    • @foca7550
      @foca7550 4 місяці тому

      Pani, Czech is not Polish.

  • @marionmarcetic7287
    @marionmarcetic7287 Рік тому +5

    Rest In Peace Linda Breder! May GOD Richly Bless You And ALL Of Your Descendants. NEVER NEVER NEVER FORGET THESE ATROCITIES!!!✝️✝️✝️📛🕊️🕊️🕊️❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🤰🤱🧬🤰🤱🌺🌺🌺🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦🇮🇱♾️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🗽🦅‼️

  • @donpoldong
    @donpoldong 10 місяців тому +3

    wait i am from Poland and i dont really know about how anti-semitic the Polish inmates could be, but the word "żydówka" whitch the Lady said to mean "dirty jew" does not mean that, it is just the feminine of the word "żyd" whitch just means a jew

    • @terrieormonde2340
      @terrieormonde2340 6 місяців тому +1

      Maybe not back then, and yes their were Polish in the Natzi movement, but not all !!!

  •  9 місяців тому +3

    RIP lovely lady but we are witnessing another holocaust in this day human never learns 😢

  • @Gerardoxn92
    @Gerardoxn92 7 місяців тому

    Subtítulos en español 😢

  • @Aya33-xX
    @Aya33-xX 13 днів тому

    What we can learn from her? Having strong elbows and mindsets.

  • @laurap.5804
    @laurap.5804 Рік тому +6

    sorry but I must add: at the very ending the picture taken at Kanada with the girls laughing knowing they were sorting staff from people's belongings...well it is disturbing.

    • @zxy78267
      @zxy78267 Рік тому +14

      You would be surprised at how many people laugh at what seems like inappropriate times. You have to understand what they were going through. And they were just young girls. For context, I was in the military, and basic training was not pleasant. Sometimes we'd laugh from a sort of stress overload, especially if we were exhausted. We'd discuss how we felt like we were cracking up, as in almost crazy, but we'd still laugh. Laughter can also be a way to avoid the horror that they were dealing with every minute of every day. They probably were on the edge of complete hysteria or a nervous breakdown. None of us will (hopefully) ever be in that position, so there's no way we can understand, but criticizing her for laughing isn't particularly fair.

    • @laurap.5804
      @laurap.5804 Рік тому +1

      @@zxy78267 I get your point, I only said it disturb me, that was not a critic at all, I like her interview very very much.I have a strange relation with that period, always had. If I was to believe in resurrection I was there....something I have to deal with myself since I was very young. This is why I reacted like that....

    • @hadassadeijkers823
      @hadassadeijkers823 Рік тому +4

      I think when you in the same situation....you won't have a clue how your reaction can be .... yeah I get your point to be disturb....but you must know even in the dark periods off life you have those moments off laughing I think and believe those moments are hard to see for a outsider but crucial for strength off survival ... if you know what I try to say

    • @laurap.5804
      @laurap.5804 Рік тому

      @@hadassadeijkers823 yes of course...

    • @liesam1591
      @liesam1591 5 місяців тому

      @@zxy78267Ty well said

  • @pattynellis7347
    @pattynellis7347 6 місяців тому +1

    Awful, the gypsies didn't even have a chance , may it never happen again 😞 😢

    • @Aya33-xX
      @Aya33-xX 14 днів тому

      On Balkans gypsies were killed by Tito s communists

  • @russelconor8704
    @russelconor8704 Рік тому +8

    there were way more successful escapes from Auschwitz - it's also documented. the most famous one of Witold Pilecki, a Polish captain and the one who actually created the resistance in Auschwitz. Read about him becasue this man is a true hero, who actually volunteered to be in Auschwitz, to create the resistance. and there were in fact many Poles in Auschwitz like this, which proves some of the things she said here are biased and wrong. Quite simply, all types of people are in all nations, depending on the individual.

    • @sassyt1545
      @sassyt1545 Рік тому +5

      Sounds like you are the one with the bias. How dare you make disparaging remarks about this brave lady. Shame on you.

    • @tomsparks6099
      @tomsparks6099 7 місяців тому

      From what I read about Pilecki, he had ulterior motives which were not necessarily for the resistance to free the prisoners of Auschwitz

    • @Sad_Bumper_Sticker
      @Sad_Bumper_Sticker 6 місяців тому

  • @margaretmaged2584
    @margaretmaged2584 Рік тому +2

    The interviewer is not listening she is asking over and over the same thing

    • @heidijohnes7400
      @heidijohnes7400 Рік тому

      Sounds like she keeps lighting a lighter and smoking!

  • @michaelshortell1482
    @michaelshortell1482 8 днів тому

    NEVER AGAIN!

  • @basialaufman6365
    @basialaufman6365 2 місяці тому +1

    well, the lady surviver had two things wrong in her testimony, she said only Jewish women were tattooed, that’s not true, my family - my mom, her sister and parents were political prisoners of Auschwitz & were all tattooed. Mom just passed away three years ago, otherwise they were political prisoners, the parents were killed, and the two daughter survived, but the second thing this lady survivor says that is wrong is that the Polish political prisoners in Auschwitz were antisemites, and she gives example that they called a Jewish woman “Zydowka”which she says means dirty Jew, & that’s not true at all, “Zydowka” means Jewish Woman, nothing else, I know Polish language fluently I was born there and left when I was 20 so I can testify

  • @s.l-b8t
    @s.l-b8t Рік тому +3

    During all the video i steal thinking about that the father and her brothers was singing Shabbat song and so she is but her father keep hashing her "be silence" becaose in the orthofocs community males not sopouse to hear female singing becaose it stimulate them to fill forbidden erotic Fillings toard her. It makes me creizy, why the females punished like covering her heir, covering her body, not leading the males, not studing, not studing the law/ be rabbi, the females punished all their life to spend all their life at close at home poosh away from the pablic acts & life Only becaose the males easyly stimulated to erotic sins and the males have permition to do everything in pablic.
    Those desidions done by the males.
    The gender all over the world all over the history with the same DNA that cos the horrible crimes/things during the history.
    That what i thought all the time during this video

    • @theannaconklin5836
      @theannaconklin5836 Рік тому

      TLHSCisME
      So very sad this story of this lovely lady! Her story makes me miss my wonderful Jewish
      KAHAL of many years ago: beautiful people of the most beautiful Book! So sad for a one who above doesn't understand that hiding my
      hair, covering my body, my arms & legs is my
      PROTECTION, NOT PUNISHMENT! The lovely
      haus, schul, & kheder this dear lady grows up
      in, has me homesick for my "Jewish Family" of years back: WE WERE ENCOURAGED TO
      STUDY TANAKH just as the men were. NOW
      she is describing the horrors of BIRKENAU &
      AUSHWITZ: "We were fighting for our lives...
      for a place to lie down; how to save our lives
      & our friends' lives...HOW HORRID that the Monster NAZIS "liquidated" Gypsies, "their" own "Family Camp",etc.! Hungarians, Latvi-
      ans, Austrians...etc.,
      So very sad, this story of this lovely lady! Her story makes me miss my wonderful Jewish
      KAHAL of many years ago: lovely, beautiful people of the beautiful Book! So sad for a 1 who above doesn't understand that hiding my
      hair, covering my body, my arms, & legs is my
      PROTECTION, NOT PUNISHMENT! The lovely
      HAUS,SCHUL,& KHEDER,this dear lady grows
      up in,has me homesick for my"JewishFamily" of long years ago. WE WOMEN were always ENCOURAGED to STUDY TANAKH just as the MEN were.NOW she is describing the horrors
      of BIRKENAU & AUSHWITZ:"We were fighting
      for our lives...a place to lie down...to save our lives, & our friends' lives... "HOW HORRID that
      the Monster Nazis "liquidated" Gypsies, their
      "Family Camp",etc.,Austrians,Latvians, & last of all,Hungarians. She says lots of prisoners
      prayed to die! She knows of prisoners who'd
      their letters secretly delivered to many heads
      of states: Britain, Austria, England, even USA, but theyWEREN'T BELIEVED OR ANSWERED.
      Mrs.Brader tells of uprisings of the SONDER-
      COMMANDOS,who were th'ones who herded
      victims to the gassing & cremation ovens, &
      took out what was left of bodies from ovens.
      She is A VERY COURAGEOUS LADY, who has
      endured more than we can imagine! who has
      survived what many more gave up & couldn't
      endure...even their journey to freedom was a
      nightmare--a MIRACLE ANY ONE SURVIVED!

    • @theannaconklin5836
      @theannaconklin5836 Рік тому

      & last of all, more Hungarians.She says many
      prisoners prayed to die. She knows of many prisoners who'd their letters secretly sent & delivered to many heads of states: Austria, Britain,even USA, but they were not believed
      or answered. Mrs.Brader tells of an uprising
      of Sondercomandos, who herded victims to
      the gassing\cremation ovens,& took remains
      out of what was left of bodies. She is a VERY
      COURAGEOUS LADY who has endured more
      than l can imagine!Who's survived what many
      more gave up,couldn't endure: even their trip
      to freedom was a long nightmare: it's a MIR-
      ACLE ANYONE SURVIVED!! What joy: a half- sister,cousin,an aunt! WHAT A BRAVE LADY!
      1966 they FINALLY made it to U.S. freedom!
      SHE SHOULD WRITE A BOOK ABOUT THIS!

    • @rosiegirl2485
      @rosiegirl2485 Рік тому

      Only Holy things are veiled...which is why women are veiled.

  • @soniaxxx7262
    @soniaxxx7262 5 місяців тому +1

    "Żydówka" means "Jewish woman" in Polish. It doesn't mean "dirty" or "inferior". This lady may not like Poles, but she shouldn't talk nonsense.

  • @Дорогаяумрао
    @Дорогаяумрао 7 місяців тому

    Остался только пепел.

  • @vivannet231
    @vivannet231 Рік тому

    2:27:26

  • @terrieormonde2340
    @terrieormonde2340 6 місяців тому

    True Christians should have known better, shameful!!!

  • @lillianmcgrew217
    @lillianmcgrew217 Рік тому

  • @Aya33-xX
    @Aya33-xX 14 днів тому

    Justice for Palestinians

  • @candicandicandimorgon7007
    @candicandicandimorgon7007 11 місяців тому +3

    Shame on you all

  • @patrickhardman2568
    @patrickhardman2568 Рік тому +4

    Are these the only people in the world who have ever suffered at the hands of their fellow man? And then turn around and profit enormously from it.

    • @loricook6331
      @loricook6331 Рік тому +5

      What the hell is wrong with you?

    • @NessaBear90
      @NessaBear90 Рік тому +2

      ​@loricook6331 They're a troll and a propaganda spreader. They obviously have nothing better to do than be brave behind a keyboard.

    • @tatonemio6388
      @tatonemio6388 Рік тому +7

      How dead people can "profit enormously" from been killed?

    • @NewEngland721
      @NewEngland721 Рік тому +1

      ?! The atrocities they lived with (not knowing if they were the lucky ones to be living) for years .. unimaginable! Yes others have also, but to this extent?

    •  9 місяців тому

      @@NewEngland721Palestinian experiencing since 75 years

  • @EYEBALLKLOTT
    @EYEBALLKLOTT Рік тому

    Love gives 1 good thing and simultaneously outside my window, steals one away for her future. I hate it. Throw it out. It's saboteurs and uneccessary. Keep all of the sound effects.

    • @tinasmith770
      @tinasmith770 Рік тому +8

      huh???!!!!

    • @johnforeman634
      @johnforeman634 Рік тому +4

      Do you ever actually read what you write and verify if it is in any possible way understandable to another human being?? Why do you waste peoples time writing gibberish?