How My Grandma Survived The Holocaust
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- Опубліковано 20 січ 2018
- Kara shares the incredible story of her grandmother's survival during the holocaust.
Special thank you to Special Collections, College of Charleston Libraries for the archival photos. Footage of Guta provided by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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Just imagine, this woman wouldnt be here if her grandma didnt survive.
There are more of us than people realize. My Maternal Grandmother was a Holocaust Survivor and we are a Christian family
@leon
@@dianestafford6968 wowww! Bless you and your family ❤
@@hopeslover6778 thank you! I have a saying "Even a bad day is a good day because I am just happy to be alive "
L
*Nazi* : Haha, you are so helpless and you still think you can defeat me when I have a gun-
*Grandma* :
*jumps up, bites and chokes guy*
*GERMANS
@@watsy5849 Prove it.
@@theguntburglar2159 go watch buzzfeeds video on the old lady who survived it
And then gets shot
@@pxearly4563 yep
respect for your grandmother, you and your family
Mira Hoxa
lol no replies ‘part from mine
Hah no I'm here too 😏
What about me?
Don’t forget me!
I'm your 3000th like(bad English)
Your grandma was badass.
Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
hi im from poland
my friend is polish
@@lincoln5575 Aye uspokój się
Titor Thor you ain’t have to call the person that. Out here doing the most.
Me too lol me too
I just watched “the boy in the striped pajamas” and it really opened my eyes 😭 I can’t imagine...
you’re grandmas an amazing person ❤️
That movie is sad I watched it with my class
Read the book^^
Ik it’s so sad
Vee Vee // i know its such a sad movie, and knowing that these things happend plenty of times back then is just horrifing 😭
The book was so sad 😭
Kara, your grandmother epitomizes the best of immigration America and you are a diamond for telling her story.
Water Drinking Beach Boy stop
@The Law he is jew
@@user-ci7vu7eo9w
???
@@multifandomaf6500 ??
Whats up Jew
my great grandma and my grandma survived.. my grandma is still alive! but my great grandma passed away before i was born :(
usuku meme you and me we’re all living proof of resilient people we are..my father’s parents are survivors and father never told me about it, I ended up learning about it via tv documentaries and later placing the pieces of the puzzle along with vague info about their travels during the timeline of events
@@JuukezeBarbie why do you think your parents never told you about this?
Leslia Ortez I’m guessing my father never brought it up as it was a dark time of their era. After the whole migration fiasco and settling in a foreign country starting with nothing, then dealing with the Great Depression. All I have is a photo of grandma and I was only told that she came from Odessa (formerly Russian territory but now Ukraine) and grandpa came from Poland. Father was born in Boston in 1919. I still wish to have more info
JuukezeBarbie or maybe because it was a scaring and traumatic event so he didn’t want to share it
Rip
It's quite interesting how she spells "Poland" when telling stories about III Reich or Generelgovernment.
Wykopki już przyszły walczyć o Polskę
@@ladespedida123 a dlaczego Ty nie walczysz?
@@lk.2049 bo takie działanie jest żenujące a nie pouczajace dla drugiej strony. Z resztą tutaj nie ma o co walczyć.
@@ladespedida123 jak to nie ma, przecież staraja się zrzucic odpowiedzialnośc na Polskę. A jakie metody sa dobre?
We are not in Poland so we can say this: the Poles were complicit. You know it, we know it, and it will never be forgotten.
Go lit grandma
Katie Ma yea
Dubai was litttttttt
Dam that’s lit
I find you everywhere
Ikr xD
When I was 7, my grandma used to tell me stories about the WW2. When Japan invaded the Philippines. She saved a lot of peoples life, especially her mother when they were running from the soldiers & her mom slipped at a bridge. So my grandma was able to hold her moms hand & saved her. & she was very young back then. Their family all went to a mountain to hide & then suddenly my Grandma saw a soldier, so she run & told her uncle, they escaped. Stories like this is something that we should cherish and share to others. ❤
I’m Filipino too!❤️
Same but my great grandfather was of the generals that brought the soilders from Leyte to Davao in world war 2
DesignbyChesa ur story is fake
I'm In A Vegetative State Gaming yes while everything was happening in Europe with Hitler etc. Japan was also invading Asia during that time. That's also why there's a lot of Jews who went to the Philippines because of Hitler.
DesignbyChesa I'm a Filipino too our teacher always story about the WW2.....
(Sorry for the wrong grammar im a Filipino I'm not foreigner..)
Your grandmother was a really brave woman i admire her
Edit:oh wow thy for the likes this is the most i ever got 😂
I
You do realise that this is a fake sorry LOL.
Titir Thor please consider looking it up (Im half snd half with this)
oof I haven't been here for 7 months sorry for the late respond but we don't know if this is true or isn't but I don't think it's bad for anyone to actually believe in this story?
BigBrain Spaghetti what why
My mother lived during same war. Born 1932. Married a US soldier my sister born in Berlin. I was born US. Its sad what they went thru. Your grandmom was an inspiring and strong just like mine were. God Bless
Im German but my grandmother was born in 32.. Classy women
*UR GRANDMOTHER IS SO COOL* *AND LEON TOO*
ikr
Yup
kkaepjjang suga What?
Yeeeet
Ya
This is so amazing. Your grandmother is an amazing, strong, clever women. Thank you for sharing this story
your grandmother is amazing. thank you for sharing
Your*
It’s a fake story
Katie Chambers
She made it all up.
Its fake. Duh.
As a native german I can't undo what our country did to all this people but our generation is now responsible for this to never happen again.
Read a book.
WHAT A BADASS GOD-
Ur grandma was a *baddie*
The baddest baddie of the century 😂😂😂
@@ML-ub7oy lol
This is just... It makes you think of how easy your own life really is.
Cool Mariam they’re referring to the vast majority of people who don’t have to worry about terrorizing and painful experiences such as captivity and forced labor.
Clrc Rojas says the 12 year old
Clrc Rojas lol
For those saying this is fake, *you've* not been educated properly like wyd?
Think about how many lives were lost during this horrific time. Imagine you were telling the truth and no one believed your story on what happened during a time where life was depressing. Why would people or even
BuzzFeed LIE about this when they know it's disrespectful? Please think before you say and literally sit tf down, no offense.
S & Hearts if the Jews (being generic) ever knew what suffer and loss is why’d they pass this terrible experience on another country (Palestine) . it really bugs me that people don’t talk about it while it’s still going.
@@hahawtfisthat61 that is true ngl, but like what can we do? smfh.
@@yuu9048 People aren't doubting the holocaust, they're doubting this woman's story.
Agreed
S & Hearts were you not educated properly if so you would no this story makes absolute 0 sense a powerless Jewish prisoner against an SS officer who could shoot her if he or she liked
It was German Work Camp on occupited territory of Poland. Be precisly.
@@philcerda645 You also little buddy.
He don't Say that what would you feel if your grammar wasn't precise!!
Ask yourself
@@Noam_.Menashe She didn't get any grammar wrong.
@@callum9378 Wrong capitalization on the "you". I know it was to show more emphasis, but it is still wrong.
“She knew high German”
Me:“Okay I see”
This is a certain type of dialect from a region.
@@charitytanel8107 No, it`s kind of "offical" german language.
There are two kinds of German that are most widely spoken: High German and Low German, High German was and is the official language of Germany.
Man, if her grandma died, she wouldn't be alive. Weird to think about.
Midori Gurin hey midori
iiKawaiiWeirdo1234 woah
The Godless That's cool.
iiKawaiiWeirdo1234 Yes, but not only her, 6 other FAMILYS wouldn’t exist
iiKawaiiWeirdo1234 that would have been badass
Damn this needs to be a novel
BootGamer 7GrandDad how bout a movie
GENIUS!!!!
BootGamer 7GrandDad about to write a story based off this
Night by elie Wiesel is a novel written by a teenager who also went through auschwitz and buna work camp. I suggest it.
BootGamer 7GrandDad there is a book similar to it called the plum tree
How was she wearing that locket, they took everything away from them when they got to the camps??
Brinkley Whiteman It was after they were marched to Ravensbrück. The Nazis marched prisoners when the Allies were getting close to the camp. By that point quite possibly they were already liberated
She didn’t say she took the locket, she took the lock of hair and saved it. Probably got the locket later.
Her grandma with sharks so she would have assumed that they would have took it away from her so she probably would have hid it somewhere
iraje hall I have read some of your previous comments and you are definitely an anti Semite. Too bad for you that you have hate in your heart.
In some camps, they were aloud to let their hair grow back to normal and Guta might have found a locket at the camp.
so happy your grandmother and Leon reunited and married and had a nice big family! An amazing ending for such a terrible beginning.
never accept your death. fight till your last breath. this was a great true story.
sum freebies yes fight until your last breath
If only it actually happened
Ahhhhhh this is such a beautiful story
Olive.Leila 👍🏼
Olive.Leila yeah
Her grandma was a legend
Olive.Leila yeyeyeyege 👍👍👍👍👍👍✊✊✊✊✊
Broker coot really?
this is so amazing to hear, I’m so happy for your grandma ! I know this is probably irrelevant, but my moms grandpa was actually one of the soldiers who had helped save the Jewish from the camps, in one of the documentaries on Netflix he’s actually seen in one of the scenes! I love telling the story about that cause it makes me so so proud. I’m so happy to know that one of my relatives had helped people.
my great grandmother married her American liberator
Her voice is clear and soothing
its also kinda weird to listen to. the pauses and things are strange
So true
badass grandma!
ღ grace ღ sorry but
Oh plz give me a time
Here goes nothin...
Ur breath stinks 😷😿😪😥😓😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Chicken Nuggets armyyy
And this ladies is why we have long nails
just for the boomers that disrespect them lol
*STABY STABY STAB*
Yes mam
Yass gurl
You must’ve stayed till 2AM listening to ur grandma’s stories
That grandmother is slay
She is badass
GO LIT GRANDMOTHER!!!
How did she not end up being mowed down by other guards when she was choking the guard? I am confusion.
Is that last part a reference to the Arkansas vine-
Hello confusion, how are ya?
that one fvngirl Yes
ASPhynx Dad jokes are my kink. Don't tempt me.
C18
There was often only one guard...
Her Grandma’s love story is heart touching.
“It was real in my mind”
1:12 I know this is serious but... the way she said Majówka... im crying
I KNOW RIGHT IT'S NOT MA-JOW-KA IT'S MA-YOOF-KA (that was a terrible pronounciation guide lol)
Is that hetalia i see right there?😂❤️❤️
Ikr 😂 MaJaWkA. Mayufka. Not majawka.
Shiro Artist
Yes, yes it is hetalia
YOU CAN NEVER ESCAPE
Polish Loli Nazi German: Georgenburg
This woman’s hair is beautiful, and the story is as well.
I thought the evil nazis shaved all of their hair?
adolf hitler Well you’re rude
speak the truth. it was Nazi Germany occupied Poland, not Poland itself. Polish people never did anything wrong to your grandmother. During WW2 there was no Poland at all.
Exactly I'm polish and my mom told me about it 😄
Exactly
@@user-vi4ms4nq2j where are you from
@@user-vi4ms4nq2j it's actually so disgusting this happened to Jews. Jewish people did nothing bad to nobody and everyone hates them for no reason. They always turn the truth into something that would make them look bad. Like fr pple complaining about people of color being oppressed (which is wrong) but when they talk bout Jews being enslaved in Egypt and oppressed for thousand of years "oh well". Actually disguted.
@Micheal M I wouldn't say that 0.1% of the Poles were Nazis but more like 5% or 10% because of say the Polish in Danzig, Poznan, Polish Silesia where many considered themselves Germans as well as Polish officials who supported Fascism.
The violin music made me tear up a tiny bit.
Edgar Allan Foe If it’s lies and propaganda then why are you on this site? Oh that’s right. It’s because you’re a loser who has no life
Boi who asked youuuuuu!
Linda Costa Stop taking anger on others.
That's called love! What Leon did to save her...
It is
please make more of these! i love learning about history and these are very interesting :)
kimchi namjoon ;-; agreed!
agreed! Btw, hello fellow Armyy 😄
kimchi namjoon ;-; right
I love both the brave woman and Namjoon with dimples.
kimchi namjoon ;-;
Yeah!! Btw hey armyyyyy
Me just listening not really paying attention
“In Poland”
Wait what! Now listening
*i am polish*
@@zoekaplan7809 agreed, I mean, after all you are "from Poland"... Just saying.
@@zoekaplan7809 everybody in Poland knows that
Zoe Kaplan agreed
r u guys all polish?
I’m also polish 😏😏😏
My great grandparents on my grandpas side are polish
Your grandma is an inspiration! She is so brave and strong.
For me my great-grandmother is my hero. My family is from Germany and near the end of the war the nazi officer from my town came to her and demanded that her sons (my grandpa and his brother) had to go to war (they were teenagers back then) but she wouldn't have it and screamed at him, in the middle of the street "You started this war on your own, so finish it on your own, without my children." To her luck the war ended a week later. As a german you had to pay the "Entnazifizierungsgebühr" (give money to the Americans so you weren't seen as a Nazi anymore). She went to pay it but they told her she didn't have to pay because she was on the list of people who were meant to be sent to a concentration camp.
That's cool. Part of my family was from Sudetenland so they didn't have problems with that either. My other great grandfather did not return from the war until years later as he was imprisoned in france, I do not know about my great grandmother having to pay anything.
Eliezer Greenspan I'm pretty sure even Jews wouldnt agree with israel.
WOW!! So very lucky!
(X) Doubt.
Yogi Bear doubt it as much, as you want, I know it's true. I don't get a kick out of spreading lies on the Internet, especially not for this topic
#GrandmasRule
Saamiya mohamed yas
Mais MSP Why are you everywhere? Lmao
Saamiya mohamed lmao whaddya mean
HELL YEAH
Saamiya mohamed omg ya
I got the chills hearing your story. What a woman your grandmother was. What a legacy she's left you and your family.
Not nazis, germans. Not in Poland, in Germany (at that time)
This story kinda fishy
Bruh
No Poland too
So you are saying all Germans are Nazis? Not true, in fact, the German citizens were forced to keep quiet or they would be killed. Anything to help the Jewish people, they would be killed. Not all Germans were Nazis.
Kamil Kwiatkowski dude Nazis ARE German for one and The place where all the camps were located WAS in Germany go back to school
I may have gotten teary😭
Alan Sarmiento who's cutting onions in my room
She so badass, and such a heroic women, god bless😇
i feel so so SO bad her grandmother had to go through this, but the history and this story her grandmother had to tell, is amazing.
almost 75 years later, people are still healing from this traumatic period of time, but people like your grandmother show us how even in those times. we can still be badass.
This was really interesting.
family histories can be so interesting.
Peeps I know right
Amazing, Nazi propaganda still works in 2018. I just feel bad for you guys.
Peeps I agree
It’s fake buddy
Imagine witnessing your family member get shot and you had to return to the barracks but later on she enters and is like, “Suprise, modafoka I’m still alive.”
Something I would say
Is it bad that I think this is funny? It’s such a depressing subject...
@@maggiecorley3 the way he put it... yeah
The ending gave me chills. She is truly a badass woman.
Thank you for sharing your Grandmothers stories. They always make me cry. They must continue to be told in hopes this horrible genocide never happens again. The courage of these people never cease to amaze me.
I would LOVE to meet your grandmother oh my gosh
My great grandfather (also from Poland) also survived, sadly I never got to meet him because my family now lives in Austria and I don’t know any of my polish family. My grandma used to tell me stories about him and about what a brave man he was. I wish could’ve met him.
adolf hitler please leave! Why is the worst person in History your role model?!
Go to Poland it’s the most wonderful place on earth very worth it
Your grandmother is inspiring. Fierce . And relentless
We learned about her in class
For real??
God bless your grandmother 💕
My great grandma was in auchtwitz and survived
no only the ones that survived say it you idiot
Melanie Bafia mine as well.
My grandma, grandpa and great aunt survived auswitz
liz c True, it is estimated that 1 million people died in Auschwitz.
Melanie Bafia that’s awesome
Respect and love for your grandmother. Thank you for sharing her story!
Your Grandmother was a brilliant woman such resilience in horrific circumstances she is much to be proud if thank you for telling us her story.
This is such a bitter sweet story and your grandmother was a blessing to this world for her strong and independent thinking and fast action. She has seen challenges so many people should never experiance. Shes a beautiful person and my heart goes out to her so much!!! And thank you for telling her story!! I wish more people could tell those stories of the million people that died in this unspeakable tragity
That's amazing to have someone related to you that has have done something so inspirational.
Oh my gosh. There’s a book called tattooist of auschwitz, it’s about a guy named lale sokolov. He fell in love with guta/Gita. He was the tattooist and brought her extra bread and chocolate from the people outside. He payed them with diamonds that Gita gave him.
There are photos of them both in the back of the book. Gita looks EXACTLY like this woman’s grandmother, who survived the holocaust. I think they’re the same person. Oh my gosh.
I don’t think they are the same person, I feel like my cousin (the woman narrating this) would’ve mentioned it. My great grandmother also would’ve mentioned it in her stories.
You're grandmother is a Badass Woman. So much respect for her!!
How brave is your grandma!!! Im so glad she survived❤️ God bless you❤️
this sounds like a movie...which i would watch
Correction, a *badass* movie *everyone* would watch
YUP!
I don't understand this map of Poland in the 1:11 and 4:00 film. Poland did not exist then. This area belonged to Germany. It was not Polish but German land. After World War II, Poland returned to the map.
No the Germans removed Poland of the map but this is why there’s a. Special day in Poland were we celebrate having Poland back on the map btw you should know thins
You have one powerful grandma ❤️❤️
So inspirational
True ...never give up.
My great grandmother escaped a concentration camp and hid in a farm house barn under the hay. She told me she had a dream and she heard a voice saying you must get out. My great gran tried to escape with her sister but since her sister was sick she was slow and she was caught running away and was shot :(
Mia Rose wait. Do you know what kind of sickness? Because in another vid, if you had a twin you
Had to take a shot that made you very sick (at the time they probably didn’t know what it did) and
It was very hard to walk.
your grandma is the most badass grannie anyone could ever asked for
God bless that women who was not afraid to take a stand
that's amazing she lost her whole family mom, dad and brother :( what a strong woman
your grandmother is a hero
Eliezer Greenspan stup bean anti semite
What an incredible and awesome story! My father fought in WW2 and the WW2 generation is the greatest of all time! There will never be another generation like theirs! God bless your grandma!
Lucid Dreams the story’s fake
That priest you hear about on the News Like you were there
This grandma is just- awesome.
*Your grandmother is amazing*
your grandma is amazing
An amazing story teller, yes.
Great story. I am so glad that your grandmother survived because otherwise there would be no Beautiful You. I'm glad that there were many who survived and I pray that this will never happen again.
Wow, you did such a wonderful job telling your grandmothers story, I’m in tears 👏👏👏
You can tell from the comments here that the era of “It’s true because a Holocaust survivor said it” is over.
Beau Littzen pictures don't always show the truth, it is really easy to fake one or misinterprete
Stay woke
Sof BX You can not even prove millions disappeared, you realize that right..? Numbers can be made up and so can history when it’s written by the people who won.
@Beau Littzen Nazis also used pictures for propaganda. Is that TRUTH as well?
@@Royaltybrand woke to the racial question, yes
When your grandma is a savage
adolf hitler Correct version: When your grandma is a badass
Edgar Allan Foe You’re half assed?
adolf hitler That’s why you White nationalists got their asses kicked. Lol:)😂😂😂
My grandmother was in the holocaust to and she survived! She is still alive(thanks god).Your grandmother is so cool.
Your grandmother is a remarkable lady. Ian so happy she survived.
this story is hard to believe
My story of how my badass great great grandpa survived the Armenian Genocide:
My great great grandpa survived the Armenian genocide of 1915. He was from Artvin which used to be part of Armenia but now part of Turkey. When Kurdish and Turkish soldiers attacked his village he killed one of the soldiers with his hands and took his gun then went on to protect others and take them to Georgia for protection (Javakh region). He later joined the Armenian and Turkish war of lake Van. Tsar Nicholas of Russia then captured him and put him in jail for being in a group that wanted independence for Armenia. He then got out of jail. My great great grandpa also knew excellent Turkish and used it for his advantage.
Im from turkey but i feel extreemly sorry for your story dear sister.
You and ur family are always welcome to visit your home in anatolia
We will always welcome our armenian borthers and sisters with open hearts and honor.
🇦🇲 ❤ 🇹🇷 .
Ellen Chik hello fellow Armenian
Ellen Ch
Ellen Chik cool but no one is talking about that so it’s pretty irrelevant
Rosa and Aimee's Vlogs! Actually it’s not irrelevant I found it very interesting... :)
That story just brought tears to my eyes your grandma was a very brave woman
this is the quality content i signed up for!
TheDollyG Animations you signed up for the holocaust? Lmao.
Your grandma is such a queen
I respect your grandmother with all my soul.
Thank you for posting this. What a remarkable woman your grandmother must have been.
Bless her grandma
good content, Buzzfeed
I see u everywhere!
For once
Clorox Bleach I need you in my life
Clorox Bleach oh wow
Everyone always says they see me everywhere. There are other profiles lol.
She is the strongest person I have ever heard about.. ever! You’re amazing!
WOW!! I hope your proud of your grandparents. Your grandma definitely was bad ass. A true fighter x
Badass grandma!
xxjamielee herexx 😂yeah
Naomi Pierre 😂😂