Scarlett Johansson Remembers Her Family Pre-Holocaust

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  • Опубліковано 17 лис 2020
  • In this clip from the November 17 episode, Scarlett Johansson discovers the tragic fate of her family that stayed behind in Poland during the Holocaust. She reflects on the decision her great-grandfather made to flee to America and the immense impact it had on her entire family line.
    #FindingYourRoots airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on PBS. In this episode, Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the ancestries of Lidia Bastianich, Scarlett Johansson, and Lupita Nyong’o, three women whose families traveled the globe in search of new opportunities.
    Watch the full episode at: www.pbs.org/video/flight-nfqs6l/

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  • @trilllllllian4468
    @trilllllllian4468 3 роки тому +9444

    This makes her role in JoJo Rabbit infinitely more depressing.

    • @mione134
      @mione134 3 роки тому +50

      True

    • @renabe2823
      @renabe2823 3 роки тому +510

      I disagree with With the term depressing.this makes her role way more stronger and powerful.A character who fights for her principles for a better future....

    • @Jennyfisch
      @Jennyfisch 3 роки тому +17

      @@renabe2823 That is true, too, but as she is wiped out by the system she is fighting against it is still depressing.

    • @YoureRightIThink
      @YoureRightIThink 3 роки тому +10

      I wonder if Taika knew about this or what

    • @gaminglegend
      @gaminglegend 3 роки тому +6

      Why did you spell JoJo like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?

  • @kingali1606
    @kingali1606 3 роки тому +4391

    For all the people who said 2020 was the worst year ever, no it wasn't

    • @Niki91-HR
      @Niki91-HR 3 роки тому +136

      objectively I agree... most of us didnt live during these times though... so subjectively 2020 is for a lot of us in our liftime one of the worst years so far.
      Also I would say it is the worst year in this century, in the 21st century.
      Every century had their worst years I would say.

    • @Saturnia2014
      @Saturnia2014 3 роки тому +50

      @@Niki91-HR So far it's the worst year in the 21st century. Plenty more decades in the this century to make 2020 look like a Disney movie. Down the line, something worse is always around the corner.

    • @lancewalker2595
      @lancewalker2595 3 роки тому +23

      No one is saying 2020 is the worst year ever, perhaps the worst in recent decades.... but certainly not ever.

    • @danballe
      @danballe 3 роки тому +14

      @@lancewalker2595 The worst of the decade, yes. The worst YEAR EVER was 536

    • @Niki91-HR
      @Niki91-HR 3 роки тому

      @@Saturnia2014 I guess it is...but hopefully not right away. I would like to live in the next years in peace...like most people I think.

  • @ClaireThe1
    @ClaireThe1 3 роки тому +6184

    It is so scary that human beings did that to other human beings.

    • @brandonsturlingon1259
      @brandonsturlingon1259 3 роки тому +180

      They still do! What rock are you under???

    • @ClaireThe1
      @ClaireThe1 3 роки тому +80

      @@brandonsturlingon1259 Im specifically talking about the Holocaust and WWII. Obviously nowaydays there are terrible things happening to people as well and prior to that terrible things were happening. Dont label me.

    • @giorjett13
      @giorjett13 3 роки тому +21

      I know, but then again look at America during the 2016 and 2020 elections.

    • @Whooshta
      @Whooshta 3 роки тому +66

      We're literally doing this to kids at the border...

    • @mongdc
      @mongdc 3 роки тому +51

      Still going on in Middle East, innocent women and children die and suffer every single day in horrible ways. They carry the consequences of others beliefs like they don’t deserve to be treated like humans.

  • @marwingillett1452
    @marwingillett1452 3 роки тому +10476

    I had no clue she was Jewish.

    • @indomie7
      @indomie7 3 роки тому +940

      yes from her mums side, her dad is Scandinavian hence her name

    • @lasenoritacometa1977
      @lasenoritacometa1977 3 роки тому +725

      I believe the Jewish always comes from the mums side

    • @anyib.3150
      @anyib.3150 3 роки тому +74

      @@lasenoritacometa1977 mines is from my grandfather

    • @Aritul
      @Aritul 3 роки тому +24

      Me neither.

    • @nicolesmith5240
      @nicolesmith5240 3 роки тому +42

      @@lasenoritacometa1977 your correct.

  • @scottryan6279
    @scottryan6279 3 роки тому +4025

    Bless Scarlett Johansson and her family she lost and those who survived.

    • @scottryan6279
      @scottryan6279 3 роки тому +5

      Thank you for the like on my comment.

    • @OneManCanStopTheMotorOfWorld
      @OneManCanStopTheMotorOfWorld 3 роки тому +8

      @@PersisP I wouldn’t go that far. Germany still has a shitload of making up to do. Lmao

    • @spiritofalaska
      @spiritofalaska 3 роки тому +1

      virtue signaling at it´s finest

    • @ernestofelix6734
      @ernestofelix6734 3 роки тому

      seems you dont know she is not a WOMAN...he is a man... a Transgender..............

    • @leenna2460
      @leenna2460 3 роки тому +7

      @@ernestofelix6734 Where did you get the info? She has a daughter name Rose Dauriac. Please, you can ask Uncle Google btw.

  • @amandabailey7409
    @amandabailey7409 3 роки тому +2506

    We all should be crying.
    They were Mothers, Fathers, Sisters, Brothers, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and they were inhumanely stolen from the World.

    • @nf5218
      @nf5218 3 роки тому +23

      The same thing is happening to Uygurs in China💔💔

    • @shreyaprince6999
      @shreyaprince6999 3 роки тому +25

      This is now happening in China and Myanmar. And nobody's paying attention.

    • @doniarahhal6960
      @doniarahhal6960 3 роки тому +10

      Same thing is happening everyday in many places, so we should learn from the past instead of crying over it and help people that are suffering now

    • @danib712
      @danib712 3 роки тому +2

      “We all should be crying” 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

    • @DeadPiixxel
      @DeadPiixxel 3 роки тому +1

      eh i dont care

  • @phantasystar88
    @phantasystar88 3 роки тому +220

    It wasn't clear in this clip, but the people she is talking about were her great uncle and his children. Her great grandfather came to the USA before the start of WW2 while his brother stayed in Poland. If her great grandfather hadn't made that choice to move, he would have suffered the same fate as his brother.

  • @dorothybrown1824
    @dorothybrown1824 3 роки тому +1326

    No need for apologizing sweetie that's your ancestors those are your people. And unfortunately the ones that were living in Warsaw ghetto did not make it and that's sad

    • @jeffwisener1378
      @jeffwisener1378 3 роки тому +11

      Correction, they are all our people. We are the human race. I am tired of nationalism and patriotism turning us into tribes of us and them. We have enough resources on this planet to feed and care for everyone if we just stop the hate and selfishness.

    • @BigBri550
      @BigBri550 3 роки тому +13

      @@jeffwisener1378 I agree that nationalism, patriotism, and exceptionalism divides people and justifies cruelty & oppression, But I think people need to hang onto their uniqueness as well. I am descended from a tribe that is tiny but still recognized as a nation in treaty with the US government. I don't laud this identity over others, but I do try to preserve and perpetuate what is left of my tribe's identity, culture, and resources.

    • @bryant475
      @bryant475 3 роки тому +4

      @@jeffwisener1378 It's the left that's dividing with race/gender based identity poltiics. Nationalism/Patriotism is love for one's country, nothing wrong with that. I love America, and Americans regardless of race, gender, etc. I also love all people around the world, I just don't want my country to go to hell in a handbasket.

    • @yojo7870
      @yojo7870 3 роки тому +9

      @@bryant475, just couldn't help yourself... could you

    • @user-st5ny7kz7q
      @user-st5ny7kz7q 3 роки тому

      Everyone Historically owned everyone.
      White owned black and white
      Native Indians owned black, white
      Black owned black .

  • @gretchenisasquirrel
    @gretchenisasquirrel 3 роки тому +2123

    Zlata, the name means golden, Scarlet herself is blonde. Our ancestors live on through us.

    • @ottoroberts5163
      @ottoroberts5163 3 роки тому +15

      @Jo Angela not really true her and her mother are quite similar

    • @AnaB012
      @AnaB012 3 роки тому +57

      Zlata means golden in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian/Montenegro also, and probably in others slavic languages...

    • @EchoBravo370
      @EchoBravo370 3 роки тому +10

      You think she is really a blonde? That's funny.

    • @vegandolls
      @vegandolls 3 роки тому +14

      Newsflash: Ethnic Jews are not blonde. Ever.

    • @newone5198
      @newone5198 3 роки тому +5

      @@ottoroberts5163 It is true though. Her mother looks a lot like an Arab.

  • @greatlakesproductions
    @greatlakesproductions 3 роки тому +3866

    As a German I have to say that with more and more people passing who have lived in those times, it is our job to make sure that this will never ever happen again. It scares the hell out of me seeing nationalist party’s grow in these times. Let’s show them we’re better than that

    • @catalinamendoza2783
      @catalinamendoza2783 3 роки тому +75

      Bravo! I hope there are more people like you outside... But I'm not sure. Danke. Viele Grüße.

    • @lillyhorse6048
      @lillyhorse6048 3 роки тому +53

      @@catalinamendoza2783 nationalist party’s have nothing to do with forgetting. The left always portraits them as N*zis but thats just not right.

    • @catalinamendoza2783
      @catalinamendoza2783 3 роки тому +10

      @@lillyhorse6048 did I said something about them?

    • @alypayne1647
      @alypayne1647 3 роки тому +9

      TaRa0350 Nationalism is when a country (or leader of a country) want dominance over ones country. In contrast imperialism is a sort of strategy that encompasses another countries authority and influence amongst mediation or by using military influence. The end results may be a little similar, but I disagree that they are the same in comparison.

    • @richardlevy1459
      @richardlevy1459 3 роки тому +21

      It’s true but people forget that the Holocaust happened to Germans too :)

  • @ley_la9554
    @ley_la9554 3 роки тому +7182

    This is now happening in China. And nobody's paying attention.

    • @EroticOnion23
      @EroticOnion23 3 роки тому +90

      And USA with George Floyd's race... :/

    • @floralbeautyful
      @floralbeautyful 3 роки тому +518

      EroticOnion23 why not just say black people lol

    • @EroticOnion23
      @EroticOnion23 3 роки тому +40

      @@floralbeautyful Because that is racist, duh 🤣

    • @TheBelinda
      @TheBelinda 3 роки тому +277

      @@EroticOnion23 what ?

    • @mooshamarie8791
      @mooshamarie8791 3 роки тому +136

      whats happening in China? Obviously word is not getting out.

  • @ciupenhauer
    @ciupenhauer 3 роки тому +240

    Scarlett honestly feels a lot like Johnny Depp, They much rather give away their emotions through a different character, than themselves. I felt how hard it was for her to cry in front of the camera as herself, for once

  • @soraya1132
    @soraya1132 3 роки тому +810

    The strength of your ancestors comes through in your craft Scarlett. You honour them in this way. A beautiful soul I believe you to be 🤍

    • @aylazelanagrebiel3210
      @aylazelanagrebiel3210 3 роки тому +9

      That’s really beautiful! I’ve wondered the same thing if ancestral strength can come thru to descendants, I’d like to think so.

    • @awesomelifeoftwins7021
      @awesomelifeoftwins7021 3 роки тому

      @@oykubozkurt6164 oh have a seat

    • @jegeriufanen4415
      @jegeriufanen4415 3 роки тому +2

      She's an actress, not a great scientist or something, relax people

    • @willnate5664
      @willnate5664 3 роки тому

      @@jegeriufanen4415 Exactly

    • @danielpartida8224
      @danielpartida8224 3 роки тому +3

      Regardless, if I were one of her ancestors, I'd be happy to know that she made a great life for herself. I'm sure they're smiling down on her from heaven right now.

  • @ashleyk3602
    @ashleyk3602 3 роки тому +378

    Just like my ancestors. It’s strange to feel heartbreak for people you never got to know.

    • @mcsadness9349
      @mcsadness9349 3 роки тому

      Thank you prison mike

    • @SoOverBored
      @SoOverBored 3 роки тому

      My great great great grandparents left Germany and Hungary right when things were starting to get tense. If they didn’t I likely wouldn’t exist.

    • @ebogar42
      @ebogar42 3 роки тому

      Never felt that shit, but I do feel rage. I hate religion and maybe it's just genetic from the shit they did to my ancestors in the past.

    • @ebogar42
      @ebogar42 3 роки тому

      @@ares6953 I bet you don't cry when they're stealing land and murdering Palestinians. They've done it for a hundred years, and nobody bats an eye.

    • @ares6953
      @ares6953 3 роки тому

      @@ebogar42 Don´t assume or bet on things you know nothing about and you don´t know me nor what i think ! i hate what they have and they ´re still doing to the Palestinians too ! I totally condemn it !

  • @MMAJE5
    @MMAJE5 3 роки тому +227

    Is it stupid that I cry when people are shown their tragic ancestors' lives?

    • @possumwilliams2940
      @possumwilliams2940 3 роки тому +32

      Not at Maricruz...it shows that you are human and you have a good heart.✝️🙏

    • @humanearthling1484
      @humanearthling1484 3 роки тому +28

      no, you're empathetic--and we need more of that

    • @AvecPoesie
      @AvecPoesie 3 роки тому +21

      @@humanearthling1484 Yes, empathy ♥ seems to be in short supply in the world these days. 😔

    • @lindabb7064
      @lindabb7064 3 роки тому +14

      @@possumwilliams2940 Only psychopaths don't feel anything. Good on you on being mentally healthy. :-)

    • @juliemounts7794
      @juliemounts7794 3 роки тому +17

      No it isn't. It's called empathy. The world needs that, the world needs you.

  • @medusagorgon8432
    @medusagorgon8432 3 роки тому +250

    The absolute horror so many suffered during WW2.

    • @Pe-S
      @Pe-S 3 роки тому +11

      Literally unimaginable. :(

    • @ampolcyn1
      @ampolcyn1 3 роки тому +2

      What really gets me is that you had two horrible events only separated by 20 years and the first one is basically forgotten about

    • @crystalrockcasescrystalroc424
      @crystalrockcasescrystalroc424 3 роки тому +1

      @@ampolcyn1 WW1 is just as worse but somehow it slips people's mind.

    • @ToDDHeaDD
      @ToDDHeaDD 3 роки тому +1

      @@crystalrockcasescrystalroc424 WW1 was not nearly as bad as WW2. Sure, by military casualties they're not that far off, but in WW2 an additional 50 million civillians were killed.

    • @veritasabsoluta4285
      @veritasabsoluta4285 3 роки тому

      @@ToDDHeaDD WW1 was worse in terms of brutality, but WW2 was far worse in terms of scale.

  • @JonathonWoodgate
    @JonathonWoodgate 3 роки тому +180

    WWII was such a deeply horrific time in history... so many survivors were scarred for life as a result of the horrors they witnessed...

    • @JonathonWoodgate
      @JonathonWoodgate 3 роки тому

      @George Mackay yes, thank you

    • @miodragilic2361
      @miodragilic2361 3 роки тому

      One of her cousins was obviously Serbian woman, perhaps grandmother`s sister, Zlata. Captured by Croats somewhere in ex Yugoslavia. About that event and others also - ua-cam.com/video/TR9UxwO7QlQ/v-deo.html Let me explain. A 15-year-old girl - Zlata ( which mean golden girl) can only be a Serb by name. Croatian autochthonous Nazism during the Second World War was many times worse than the German one. This is not well known on a global scale. This young girl somehow escaped the Croats and fell into the hands of the German Nazis. It is terrible that she was killed, but it is still better than staying in Croatia.

  • @rachelcarter2443
    @rachelcarter2443 3 роки тому +500

    The very last Nuremberg prosecutor is 100 years old. The people who remember are almost all gone. We need to know our history so we don't repeat it and fight genocide wherever and wherever it happens.

    • @pistolpete667
      @pistolpete667 3 роки тому +15

      You mean like Israel?

    • @rachelcarter2443
      @rachelcarter2443 3 роки тому +8

      @@pistolpete667 yes everyone needs to be held to account.

    • @tulesg2008
      @tulesg2008 3 роки тому +1

      Exactly..

    • @Larindarr
      @Larindarr 3 роки тому +28

      It is happening now. Children are being held in Cages at the border reminiscent of the ghettos. China has "camps targeting a specific Muslim ethnic group and doing atrocities. And I say this, as someone, whose step-grandma but no less my gran, who survived and was able to get it of the ghettos due to her parents. They did not make it. She later survived the London air raids... she is one tough lady, and this is something I have had very present.

    • @albertacristie99
      @albertacristie99 3 роки тому +2

      I believe you got the math wrong. Nuremberg trials were from 1945 to 1946 so 75 years ago. There are still people who can remember

  • @justiceblue.fenris5790
    @justiceblue.fenris5790 3 роки тому +130

    I am Polish , and this mine history is so sad. so many people died . We have tragic history

    • @sergiofernandez6817
      @sergiofernandez6817 3 роки тому

      Yes

    • @julia-mz9zv
      @julia-mz9zv 3 роки тому

      yes it’s really really sad :(

    • @tv1canada
      @tv1canada 3 роки тому +2

      I'm Polish , that's why we are special . We all had things to overcome.

    • @echase416
      @echase416 3 роки тому +3

      And they are still doing persecution in Poland. This time it’s the gays. Sometimes I wonder if hatred and oppression will ever stop.

    • @Mr12ob
      @Mr12ob 3 роки тому +1

      My great grandfather was a Polish Jew who escaped. What you Poles did after the war is disgusting.

  • @SJ-tb2wq
    @SJ-tb2wq 3 роки тому +20

    This is why I believe we need to honor our ancestors with how we live. Respect your body. Love life. Someone before you struggled abs fought to keep life. Honor their sacrifice.

  • @ea1684
    @ea1684 3 роки тому +83

    How could you not cry?

    • @helenpruzan6970
      @helenpruzan6970 3 роки тому +10

      I did!Everytime its the Holocaust and Slavery ,I am blubbering.

    • @user-sl3ti1wq1u
      @user-sl3ti1wq1u 3 роки тому

      I was laughing all way long

    • @charlenemoore4301
      @charlenemoore4301 3 роки тому

      @@user-sl3ti1wq1u your sick

    • @molivson
      @molivson 3 роки тому +1

      @@user-sl3ti1wq1u And someday, someone will laugh at your death. And then you will be forgotten.

    • @antitiktokunion3894
      @antitiktokunion3894 3 роки тому +1

      @@user-sl3ti1wq1u sick man, don’t have children you’ll be a terrible father.

  • @NancyinNYC
    @NancyinNYC 3 роки тому +18

    Right there with you, Scarlett. My great-grandfather made the same decision when he fled Belarus.

  • @timothymoore6341
    @timothymoore6341 3 роки тому +86

    Happy birthday, Scarlet, today Nov 22nd, we both share the same birthday! Wishing you many more!

    • @Noname1234nc
      @Noname1234nc 3 роки тому +9

      Me too. Happy birthday to us.

    • @Lily2.
      @Lily2. 3 роки тому +2

      Mine is 24 nov. happy birthday.

    • @Bibblesupremacy1992
      @Bibblesupremacy1992 3 роки тому

      @Felicita Rodriguez Baby girl you need to put the year doesn’t matter if it was JFK’s assassination the year is what matters

    • @g.t2231
      @g.t2231 3 роки тому

      Lucky

  • @MFM230
    @MFM230 3 роки тому +2

    Thank you, Mr. Gates, for sharing this.

  • @kpag3030
    @kpag3030 3 роки тому +20

    That photo at the end was heartbreaking with the little kid crying in the other one’s lap

  • @user-ff8ck5bf8o
    @user-ff8ck5bf8o 3 роки тому +8

    As a Jewish person and a fourth generation of holocaust survivors, I know how she feels. Recently I had an assignment in history class to write about my great grandmother's story from the holocaust, it was very difficult.

  • @orlandopascal1
    @orlandopascal1 3 роки тому +17

    Girl, please! I cried when I saw a picture of my great grandfather.

  • @krisartfox83
    @krisartfox83 3 роки тому +2

    great video! thanks for that!

  • @sherrimacdonald2157
    @sherrimacdonald2157 3 роки тому +102

    if she is ever in Warsaw, I could give her a tour of the former ghetto and the parts that are still there.

    • @yerusalemabreha4578
      @yerusalemabreha4578 3 роки тому +5

      Are you from there or are you a descendant of Scotland?

    • @sherrimacdonald2157
      @sherrimacdonald2157 3 роки тому +33

      @@yerusalemabreha4578 I am Canadian and have been living in Warsaw for 17 years. Married a Polish guy.

    • @NikkiGloom
      @NikkiGloom 3 роки тому +1

      if you can try to contact her publicist surely.

    • @szymonmaraszewski1514
      @szymonmaraszewski1514 3 роки тому +5

      and I'm a polish guy, full time tour guide. Tourism is dying because of epidemy, hire profesionals :)

    • @sherrimacdonald2157
      @sherrimacdonald2157 3 роки тому +1

      @@szymonmaraszewski1514 or maybe people can do what they want to do. It was only a joke anyway.

  • @thenationaltimelyactionhou9328
    @thenationaltimelyactionhou9328 3 роки тому +26

    I always liked Scarlett; she is a talented and beautiful woman who seems like a good person. And to hear the tragedy that her family endured was heartbreaking.

  • @juliewilliams9441
    @juliewilliams9441 3 роки тому

    I love the reactions from all of your guests when they are told what information that you have for them about their relatives.

  • @yaarashachar8098
    @yaarashachar8098 3 роки тому +7

    May their memory be a blessing

  • @lucyk2371
    @lucyk2371 3 роки тому +13

    I'm so sorry that happened to your ancestors. It's so much worse to imagine now that I have children.

  • @sagala30
    @sagala30 3 роки тому +8

    Many reasons why she's my favorite actress. Blessed be xoxo

  • @MsBhappy
    @MsBhappy 3 роки тому +4

    Thank you for posting these. I watch the episodes when they come on WNED at like 2am when I'm at my parents house lol but otherwise I don't have access

  • @riverbanzachamploo9725
    @riverbanzachamploo9725 3 роки тому +50

    I remember watching this on T.V a few years back and I wanted to cry, but then my brother said: "Wait, so she's not Russian?"

    • @jguinto101
      @jguinto101 3 роки тому +4

      So Charlie Cox is not blind:-P

  • @jizzncookies
    @jizzncookies 3 роки тому +4

    This is so heartbreaking

  • @mencken8
    @mencken8 3 роки тому +14

    After World War I, Siegfried Sassoon wrote “Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?'”
    But it did, and worse, 20 years later. When General Eisenhower inspected a liberated concentration camp in 1945, he said “Take lots of photos, some people will say this never happened.”

  • @MatthewWakeland
    @MatthewWakeland 3 роки тому

    what joy to those family members it must be to be remembered with love and compassion for their life and plight.

  • @GR-ji9fw
    @GR-ji9fw 3 роки тому +5

    I love this show. So many touching things they find out about their families.

  • @PacificPier
    @PacificPier 3 роки тому +49

    She has definitely been blessed to carry forth living.
    Great vid clip HLGJ 🍂

    • @AuntieSenSen
      @AuntieSenSen 3 роки тому +8

      Yes imagine how they would feel if they could see her success today

    • @acer4237
      @acer4237 3 роки тому +3

      @@AuntieSenSen That’s the best revenge of tragic history is to not be a victim but a victor in honor of her ancestors...by being better not bitter. ❤️

    • @AuntieSenSen
      @AuntieSenSen 3 роки тому +1

      @@acer4237 the unfortunate thing is that the aftermath of these tragedies is far reaching. It can take generations for people to recover

  • @soupistasty5
    @soupistasty5 3 роки тому +10

    I love Scarlette, for all the 'uncommon' reasons... highlighted so very well by this video.

  • @zoraidacastro5403
    @zoraidacastro5403 3 роки тому +2

    These stories touch the soul!!!! WOW

  • @Sirianstar10
    @Sirianstar10 3 роки тому +56

    I'm crying and it's not my family!

  • @acer4237
    @acer4237 3 роки тому +25

    Inter generational trauma is real, acknowledging it happened and letting go of the pain is part of healing. Every time I see a story of the holocaust my heart breaks for the victims and so amazed at how they have walked with such grace not letting it conquer their spirits!

  • @wenchology
    @wenchology 3 роки тому +6

    What an interesting and incredible channel.

  • @robertk2007
    @robertk2007 3 роки тому +5

    Henry Gates is a beautiful soul

  • @JeffreyGillespie
    @JeffreyGillespie 3 роки тому +37

    i just can't believe that human beings were capable of this.

    • @loyevangelists
      @loyevangelists 3 роки тому +4

      sad to say it wasnt just and isnt just hitler. these kinds of things have been happening throughout the entire recorded history of the world. all because one dictator is not happy with what he already has but wants more. the persians the babylonians the romans all throughout history. it is truly sad

    • @miodragilic2361
      @miodragilic2361 3 роки тому

      One of her cousins was obviously Serbian woman, perhaps grandmother`s sister, Zlata. Captured by Croats somewhere in ex Yugoslavia. About that event and others also - ua-cam.com/video/TR9UxwO7QlQ/v-deo.html Let me explain. A 15-year-old girl - Zlata ( which mean golden girl) can only be a Serb by name. Croatian autochthonous Nazism during the Second World War was many times worse than the German one. This is not well known on a global scale. This young girl somehow escaped the Croats and fell into the hands of the German Nazis. It is terrible that she was killed, but it is still better than staying in Croatia.

    • @nayaadrel4286
      @nayaadrel4286 3 роки тому

      Watch movie Qué Vadis Aida nominated for the Oscar this year

  • @helenpruzan6970
    @helenpruzan6970 3 роки тому +18

    Had a similar situation. My grandfather left Austria in 1920.As Hitler was rising to power he got the majority of his family out.His one brother thought it was ridiculous ,
    nothing is going to happen.So, he and his wife and 2 children had to dig their graves and were shot in them.Probably better than being in the Warsaw Ghetto .Just horrible.

    • @MsBhappy
      @MsBhappy 3 роки тому +7

      mappingthelives.org might help give you answers. I was able to get answers in some horrible gaps in my tree too. The closure and recognition to the horrors they endured is powerful. I took some time to grieve their lives and pay some respect. Lives senselessly and brutally murdered :(

    • @kristine8338
      @kristine8338 3 роки тому +4

      helen pruzan, ❤️

    • @helenpruzan6970
      @helenpruzan6970 3 роки тому +6

      @@MsBhappy Thank you for the info.My grandfather and his siblings actually went back to Austria after the war.They went to their home town and found out what had happened to their brother and his family.Hope that the human race evolves one day!!!

  • @lilyluney6015
    @lilyluney6015 3 роки тому +15

    Crying over relatives she’s never met shows the love this woman holds in her heart!

  • @downhilltwofour0082
    @downhilltwofour0082 3 роки тому

    Sir, I love your work. I think everybody should try to learn something of our past family. It helps put things into perspective and it helps give us a sense of historical significance.

  • @davidtennien2806
    @davidtennien2806 3 роки тому +4

    Always remember Scarlett and where you come from.

  • @forthelove77
    @forthelove77 3 роки тому +18

    It's amazing to find out what our ancestors went through the hardships the war and poverty, my family worked in the coal mines my great grandmother put her two sons in to an orphanage so they didn't end up in the mines. My grandad said it was like Oliver Twist his brother never got over it, affectived him his whole life, their mother died in her thirties from TB. My grandad is 94 and still with us.

    • @kristine8338
      @kristine8338 3 роки тому +3

      forthelove77, 🙌🏼💔🙌🏼

  • @Littlebit31
    @Littlebit31 3 роки тому +19

    Think about that, 15 and 17... so many young lives, all the lives lost in the Holocaust, and any war, are awful but if feels profoundly tragic when it’s the young 💔

  • @MrPickledede
    @MrPickledede 3 роки тому

    My great grandfather and his brother both had the forsight to leave poland in 1920....thank god they did

  • @toakasi6425
    @toakasi6425 8 місяців тому

    😢❤ This made me choke up a bit very sad but what fierce and brave ancestors you had.

  • @mellisapollom2241
    @mellisapollom2241 3 роки тому +7

    Watching Scarlett Johansson moving reaction reminds of Rashida Jones, on Finding Your Roots, when she found out about her Mom's family in Latvia during the Holocaust.

    • @odessafile75
      @odessafile75 3 роки тому

      I remember Peggy Lipton from " the Mod Squad "

    • @mellisapollom2241
      @mellisapollom2241 3 роки тому

      @@odessafile75 yep Peggy Lipton from the Mod Squad! It was very emotional I crued.

  • @Soluchi-InfiniteCoCreatorGod
    @Soluchi-InfiniteCoCreatorGod 3 роки тому +446

    awww. ❤️

  • @MobiusBandwidth
    @MobiusBandwidth 3 роки тому

    are ALL of these clips going to make me cry? XD so moving.

  • @gunterwinnig5355
    @gunterwinnig5355 3 роки тому

    My family and I r incredibly proud of her

  • @launadavis6392
    @launadavis6392 3 роки тому +13

    At first I thought she was going to remember what happened before she was even born

  • @katie4623
    @katie4623 3 роки тому +6

    That guy does NOT look like he feels bad for her at all.

  • @JK-jm6kd
    @JK-jm6kd 3 роки тому +1

    It's tough looking back at history

  • @rj-hg1kq
    @rj-hg1kq 3 роки тому +1

    oh my god, this hurts my heart

  • @KCNwokoye
    @KCNwokoye 3 роки тому +465

    Racists and bigots disliked this video. And they will show up under this comment to show themselves so watch out for them and send prayers

    • @isotropisch82
      @isotropisch82 3 роки тому +3

      Very few of them to be fair... you can hit by accident on your phone.

    • @djeio
      @djeio 3 роки тому +8

      @Mariamne DaMotta no they are you...obsessed and sickening

    • @janelledavis5340
      @janelledavis5340 3 роки тому +2

      @Mariamne DaMotta
      What? What is wrong with you? Shame on you.

    • @nielnielsen4822
      @nielnielsen4822 3 роки тому +2

      to be far with 2k likes there bond to be some that miss clicked and hit down or people that think it say this make them sad.

    • @koshersalaami
      @koshersalaami 3 роки тому +5

      You do realize that if you accidentally hit the thumbs down and hit it again, your vote is erased, right?

  • @toolrocks10
    @toolrocks10 3 роки тому +9

    Scarlett is one of few actresses that I believe are genuine. Never mind how talented. But appears caring and down to earth.

  • @sweettoothmarie7304
    @sweettoothmarie7304 3 роки тому +2

    When you have no words!
    💞💜

  • @Charity9999
    @Charity9999 2 роки тому +1

    Wow, I have a similar story. My great great grandparents were Jewish and immigrated to the U.S. before the holocaust, but they were the only ones who were able too from both their families.

  • @fuldagermany
    @fuldagermany 3 роки тому +6

    This is just a short video regarding Scarlett Johansson's family but it's still was very impactful on me because my parents were in Europe during the Holocaust. Being Polish and Lithuanian, the Nazis killed the Slavic people as well although lithuanians are considered Balkan. I lost quite a few family members and just found out I have some living Lithuanian cousins and didn't know that they were alive until a month or two ago. In fact I was born in a refugee camp in Germany after the war. When I saw her tear up I totally felt the feelings that she was experiencing. My father was a partisan which is what they call people fighting against the enemy like some people now call them gorilla fighters. My oldest and dearest friend's mother was an Auschwitz. So this little clip really touched my emotions and brought out mixed memories. Pain because of all the suffering and death and happiness for those who manage to survive and thrive.

  • @yumo8576
    @yumo8576 3 роки тому +5

    in Israel, when you reach senior year, there is a sort of program that allows you to fly to Poland and see for yourself the horrors that occurred there. you fly out with your teachers and friends, a sort of school trip but more.. somber. everything is seen through a lens of neutrality that the guides are maintaining throughout this thing, so that you could form your own thoughts and feelings without outside intervention which really contributed to the whole experience. I remember being 17 and standing over a mountain of ash in majdanek, seeing the ghetto walls in warsaw, auschwitz.... changed my life. it changed all of our lives. you'd think that with all of those teenagers, there would be a so much chaos and disrespect, but.. I think we all *really* grew up in that week in poland. there was something that connected us in there, since that day. I think, that only once we came back home, slept in our beds and woke up new people, did we understand why our teachers called this a journey - "the journey to poland". to this day, that week in poland remains my most fond memory of all times. it shaped who I am today, as a person. solidified ties that were beginning to form at the core of my personality. it is clear to me, today - when I stood over that mountain of ash and read the words "our fate, your warning"...
    never again. even if I have to die for this. never again.
    edit: and if someone was wondering- would I go back? despite the pain, the anger, and the heartbreak of my people being slaughtered and humiliated, would I still go back?
    the answer is yes. in a heartbeat. yes. do you know why? there was this quote that I read, a few years before my trip to poland, that read, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". during the entire trip, this quote was on a loop in my mind. and on the last day, the day we visited auschwitz, I stepped through the entrance to the crematorium, and suddenly I couldn't breath. there was a slab of stone there. on it the words, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". there was a lump in my throat.
    we cannot forget the past. so yes. I would *always* go back.

    • @winstonwolf5706
      @winstonwolf5706 3 роки тому

      Is gay marriage legal in Israel?

    • @yumo8576
      @yumo8576 3 роки тому

      @@winstonwolf5706 well, that is a complicated question, one that could not be answered with a definite yes or no - and that is because in Israel, marriages are to be conducted by the ministry of religious services, who do not recognize same-sex couples and therefore have prohibited it. however, in 2006 a case was presented in front of the supreme court of Israel regarding this subject, one whom eventually won and made it so that the state and it's registration services are to recognize couples and from that marriage between two people of the same sex - essentially making it legal, since in Israel, it is not required by law to marry via the ministry of religious services (although it is the ruling court when it comes to marriage, we actually call a non religious-services-conducted wedding a civilian wedding). so yes, because you could find a qualified person to marry you two, but also no - if you want the ministry of religious services to do it since they will flat out refuse. you can also get married in other countries and the state of Israel will recognize you as a married couple, and will allow you to add your spouse to any identification card/information. so technically? I'd say yeah, gay marriage is definitely legal here. so is abortion.
      edit: typo.

    • @milominderbinder6209
      @milominderbinder6209 3 роки тому +1

      I see a lot of young Israeli tourists wherever I have visited. Turkey, Prague, India, Nepal, etc. Please tell more about this, why so much traveling? and how does it affect you guys?

    • @yumo8576
      @yumo8576 3 роки тому +2

      @@milominderbinder6209 that too is a bit of a hard question, but I guess if I'd have to answer that then I would say that this is for a lot of reasons -
      1. we have a very small country, with not much to do in, so we like to see the world, travel and experience new cultures.
      2. in Israel, it is mandatory by law to enlist in the military when you are 18. when you get discharged when you are 21, it is almost traditional to go on an "after-military trip". sometimes, before the enlistment, there is a "pre-military trip", a trip that many do to enjoy the freedom they have while they have it. when you get discharged you celebrate it with a trip, so that is why you may see many young Israelis between the ages of 16-21 traveling in the world.
      3. families like to vacation together a lot. over summer break, many will take their kids abroad and make up for all of the time they spent working, which connects to the 4th reason -
      4. Israel is expensive as hell. like *really* expensive. living here, much less vacationing here, could make you bankrupt, which is why it is much preferred to vacation outside of the country where prices are much lower. and this connects to the 3rd reason because many people work a lot to be able to afford to live and so wish to spend time with their children when they can.
      I do believe that these are main reasons. and as to how it effects us... well, when we see how things run in other countries, we try to make ours better. some of us decide to simply move away - there's actually been a surge of young people doing a relocation and leaving Israel, which is understandable as our country is not a particularly easy place to live in. as for tourism, well, just because many of us fly abroad, doesn't mean that we don't sometimes spend some of our free time here, too. but there are many people who come to Israel - our tourist economy is going strong (well not now with covid but you get my point). many people want to come to the holy land, to pray here, to have a "roots" trip, and all of that. there's also a lot of trade in here - diamonds. we get a lot of tourists from China actually that come here for some precious gems. we invent a lot of stuff - we're actually called "the start-up nation", second only to the Silicon Valley. so I'd say we're doing good with the whole traveling thing. if only you'd see how things are going now - people going crazy over not being able to fly.
      OH! I forgot lol. another thing we like to do - shopping, and especially: the duty free. damn, do we Israelis love that. some of us fly out just for that. I shit you not.

    • @milominderbinder6209
      @milominderbinder6209 3 роки тому +1

      I am very thankful to you for taking your precious time to answer my questions so thoroughly. Which kind of brings me to the next question I noticed two things in your reply. Firstly you didn't answer in simplistic yes or no and secondly you gave a very clear and comprehensive answer. Are you an exception or lots of israelis are like this? I have noticed this in other israelis. I have also noticed that there is a childlike openness and curiosity among Israelis.

  • @Flyingbackslapp
    @Flyingbackslapp 3 роки тому +1

    Where can we watching whole episodes?

  • @theresaschuebel5151
    @theresaschuebel5151 2 роки тому

    Jane Seymour had an aunt lived in the ghetto before it was a ghetto. Her uncle was one of the ghettos doctors. I learned that by watching her episode of Who do you think you are and to find out that Charlotte had family there, as well as Mandy Patinkin too. Its amazing how this effects people

  • @harshitsharma8131
    @harshitsharma8131 3 роки тому +4

    She is the most beautiful

  • @squamish4244
    @squamish4244 3 роки тому +5

    I used Canada's complete online WW1 records to find out which battle my great-grandfather was at in the war. Now I try to imagine what it was like for him in the trenches of the Somme. It's just beyond imagination.

  • @WickYTcodm
    @WickYTcodm 3 роки тому

    “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” - Dalai Lama

  • @summertea545
    @summertea545 3 роки тому

    She should consider making a movie based on her great grandfathers family back then. It would be interesting to see her part in that movie.

  • @azmehq8703
    @azmehq8703 3 роки тому +17

    May ALLAH Subhan o Taalah protect us all and our families always AMEEN ya RABB UL ALIMEEN

  • @fairalways
    @fairalways 3 роки тому +3

    As usual, reading the comments and had an aneurism.

  • @colerainfan1143
    @colerainfan1143 3 роки тому

    You really couldn’t imagine the horror. True.

  • @youtubewatchers
    @youtubewatchers 3 роки тому

    Where can we find videos that are full? To short video, we want to see more.

  • @cristinabuffington9659
    @cristinabuffington9659 3 роки тому +3

    One occasion, I was visiting Prague, Czech Republic, and I just had this urge to visit the old Jewish quarter there. Though I am gentle, I had this calming feeling when I was there, almost like I was going through a kind of spiritual mikvah

    • @idek7438
      @idek7438 3 роки тому +3

      The Jewish quarter in Prague is one of the most beautiful parts of the city imo

    • @winstonwolf5706
      @winstonwolf5706 3 роки тому

      Cringe comment.

  • @clash5j
    @clash5j 3 роки тому +1

    I'm pleasantly surprised that the comment section (for the most part) is being civil.

  • @igorpodemski9596
    @igorpodemski9596 3 роки тому +2

    I'm Polish so that video is something for me. I haven't been alive during the holocaust but i've heard many stories.

  • @ziconghuang7139
    @ziconghuang7139 3 роки тому +19

    Wow, this gives more depth to JoJo Rabbits.

  • @pkillatwill4292
    @pkillatwill4292 3 роки тому +4

    She promised we would cry 😢 for her trying not to..

  • @francoisebadin1298
    @francoisebadin1298 3 роки тому

    What a great actress.

  • @ekatarinavi9761
    @ekatarinavi9761 3 роки тому +2

    When someone says oh i think i was born in wrong time,or i wish i live earlier in past....shuut up,im so gratefull i live now,every era has good and bad,but bad from past was horrific

    • @duha4906
      @duha4906 3 роки тому +1

      believe it or not there is an even larger holocaust happening right now against Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, China. The death numbers have much exceeded the numbers in the jewish holocaust yet this Muslim holocaust is being dismissed just like the world did to the jewish holocaust. So much for "never again"

  • @wowwow5725
    @wowwow5725 3 роки тому +4

    I wish I knew what happened to my extended family there

  • @KJ7JHN
    @KJ7JHN 3 роки тому +3

    Thank you Johansson, keep it straight.

  • @amrishna
    @amrishna 3 роки тому

    Actress of high level. Respect.

  • @cosmoevents21st56
    @cosmoevents21st56 3 роки тому +1

    Both parents survived in Southeastern Europe under Nazi occupation. These were dire times indeed yet we still see wars all over the world. Young children are dying in Yemen and nothing is being done about it.

  • @405Marlena
    @405Marlena 3 роки тому +28

    Zlata would be be pronounced Zwota in Polish, which means Gold. Also a term of endearment for a girl.

    • @monika8890
      @monika8890 3 роки тому +4

      Złota in Polish :)

    • @miodragilic2361
      @miodragilic2361 3 роки тому

      One of her cousins was obviously Serbian woman, perhaps grandmother`s sister, Zlata. Captured by Croats somewhere in ex Yugoslavia. About that event and others also - ua-cam.com/video/TR9UxwO7QlQ/v-deo.html Let me explain. A 15-year-old girl - Zlata ( which mean golden girl) can only be a Serb by name. Croatian autochthonous Nazism during the Second World War was many times worse than the German one. This is not well known on a global scale. This young girl somehow escaped the Croats and fell into the hands of the German Nazis. It is terrible that she was killed, but it is still better than staying in Croatia.

  • @swayampattnaik4858
    @swayampattnaik4858 3 роки тому +12

    There are people disliking a vdo like this. Unbelievable!

    • @rodolfoflores5432
      @rodolfoflores5432 3 роки тому +4

      Not everyone gets the concept of thumbs up and down. Scarlett is crying so some people thinks thats sucks and press thumbs down.

  • @JuicyJ.
    @JuicyJ. 3 роки тому +1

    Anyone else just started saying I’m in the getto when she was reading the death places or is it just me...

  • @liliththeoriginallie
    @liliththeoriginallie 3 роки тому

    Hello! If possible, could you add Spanish subtitles? Thank You!

  • @nutcracker2916
    @nutcracker2916 3 роки тому +3

    Sad for her poor ancestors. Does anyone know if Michelle Pfieffer has done an ancestry episode ? As I have that surname in my family tree and read that she is of some German ancestry like I have.

  • @PursuingCompatibilityCo
    @PursuingCompatibilityCo 3 роки тому +3

    That's so amazing this type of thing at the same time awful... I mean its amazing to look at historical roots.

  • @juancatfish1
    @juancatfish1 2 роки тому +1

    Your past will forever be your present and future.

  • @bonhoa2236
    @bonhoa2236 3 роки тому

    I love this movie.

  • @therealgodessisis5004
    @therealgodessisis5004 3 роки тому +155

    For all those who ask why black people cry when they read of their ancestors' pain.

    • @toppilanjeesus5958
      @toppilanjeesus5958 3 роки тому +23

      cringe...

    • @walexander000
      @walexander000 3 роки тому +35

      this isn't about you. we know... we KNOW how you love to make it about you.

    • @Ntsmith4
      @Ntsmith4 3 роки тому +71

      @@walexander000 this is a disgusting comment to make. It just shows your lack of maturity and empathy for other individuals. You should have saved your time watching the video if you were going to respond to others pain with disregard.

    • @yippee8570
      @yippee8570 3 роки тому +20

      Agreed. The slave trade was a kind of holocaust.

    • @f.h.4552
      @f.h.4552 3 роки тому +5

      @@walexander000 The guilt is deafening