Thank God You Are Here: The Story of Gita (Giselle) Cycowicz
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Gita (Giselle) Cycowicz (née Friedman) was born in 1927 in Chust, Czechoslovakia (today Khust, Ukraine), to Wolf and Hannah Friedman. The family was observant and Zionist. Her father was a businessman and her mother a homemaker who also assisted her father in his work. She was the youngest of three daughters. After the Hungarian army occupied Khust in March, 1939, the family, together with the rest of the town's Jews, were subjected to anti-Jewish measures and actions. Following the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944, the Jews of Khust, including Gita, her sister Alti (Helen) and their parents, were rounded up and incarcerated in the ghetto established in the town. Around five weeks later, they were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. After five months of internment in the camp, she and her sister were sent to forced labor in two subcamps of Gross-Rosen. They were liberated on May 8, 1945. Gita and Alti returned to Khust where they were reunited with their mother and sister Etu (Edith), who had also survived Auschwitz. In 1948 they immigrated to the United States where Gita married Itzchak Cycowitz. She began her college education in her early forties and became a psychologist. She moved to Israel in the early 1990s, and worked at the non-profit organization Amcha, providing both individual and group psychological therapy to Holocaust survivors for over 25 years. Today she lives in Jerusalem and has three children, 21 grandchildren and a growing number of great-grandchildren.
She tells a story which is sad and she tells her story as positive as she can be. Thank you
Sad to know that many of these survivors were just young kids at the time,
What a lovely woman. I hope she's known peace and love her whole life after such horror. Thank you for sharing your story. These accounts must never stop getting told.
God bless you one and all!! My love is with you all
What a beautiful human being.
can you imagine one day you are taken away from your normal life stripped from everything, your soul would break. what a horrendous act to humanity. god bless all the survivors. im so happy for Gita what an amazing woman.
I’m always stunned hearing these stories. The strength to survive psychologically is something I think about often. To see this bright light go on to thrive, and help others live on is touching beyond words…
I know. It is amazing to think how they went on with their lives without really much help. I don't think I would have been strong enough.
@@lavedasutton4267 I don’t feel I’d have the strength to survive this horrific atrocity
Gita,thank you so much for sharing your miraculous story.
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Every story from these people should be streamed over the internet at least once a year. Television should be shown nothing else. Schools should teach childten All The Time just what happened and what human beings are capable of. God bless all those victims...I have no words. With love and prayers from England.
I agree. We don't hear about all those other's, like handicapped, and any Hitler just didn't seem to like.
Why not tell others stories as well. The Jewish Holocaust was an outrage but it's hardly the only outrage of the 20th century.
@@lgparker4726 Hitler had a goal to wipe out jewa completely from this planet. His disgusting ideology grabbed gypsies and gay people along with them. Hitler collaborated with Muslims before the holocaust. He felt he was superior to every one. But there were way more Jews than anyone.
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Yes it will be a sad day when there. Are no survivors left
Tears just watching and listening to this story of survival, against all odds. Man’s inhumanity to man is incalculable. Her legacy is her children and their children and on and on.
No historical story freezes me and shocks me more than this topic.
@@amylee8969So it is to me!
Very well done. Amazing woman with an amazing story. My favorite part was hearing how she got her doctorate and helped others . And that helping others is a great part of healing for yourself as well as the other person. We’ll said!!
In helping others she helped herself in the process. I am sure you are loved. Many thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing your story with the world so people will never forget❤️
Thank HaShem you’re here with us today.
I agree. It’s your country, teach what you like. As long as it’s not hate against them, why are they bothered. If they don’t like it, leave! Getting the same here - we don’t like Easter, we don’t like Christmas. Some countries they say about flying the flag! Wrong. If they don’t like the rules of the country they are free to leave, if they wish to assimilate , they are very welcome. And one of my Muslim families friends told me this. 🙏🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
Such a lovely, intelligent woman. Wishing her and the family a world of happiness and peace.
Giselle's talk is most moving and powerful. I am forever amazed at how people who were Holocaust victims can speak about the horrors they endured and had to remember for the rest of their lives. As the keeper of my family's history and the remaining memorabilia I am fortunate to have, I am most interested in hearing about life in Giselle's Carpathian area homeland. My mom, who was from a little nearby village, Bilke, was fortunate enough come to the US before her town was invaded. Her sister married a man whose Kohn family was from Huszt where they had a good life. My uncle was a successful attorney who went to the Charles University Law School in Prague. My aunt was a teacher in Huszt. They had a son who was 9 years old. In May, 1944 all of my Carpathian family went to the camps as Giselle's family did. My aunt and uncle survived but their son did not. I grew up with the gut wrenching stories my survivor family members would tell us. They were painfully similar to what Giselle described. Her work is crucial to making sure that we do not forget the horrors that people experienced. Most importantly - we must never allow that kind of history to repeat itself. Thank you Giselle Cycowicz for sharing your amazing story.
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What a lovely lady! So glad she made it and is still here. ❤️
This woman is incredible. Her spirit is so beautiful and just determined to survive and do good in the world.
You are a gift to humanity. Your life shines.
What a beautiful lady. We must never forget!!!!
You are such a wonderful soul ❤️
What a beautiful Lady. Thank you for your story and for your inspiration.
Thank you so much for sharing you story. This was amazing. God bless you and your family 🙏🙏🙏
Giselle is a lovely lady! Her story was riveting. I was frozen during the entire video.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience….I feel very touched..also deeply sorry for your father…and for all people who lost their relatives ….
So very moving, and a great attitude of gratitude. God bless Gita and her family.
Merci pour votre témoignage. 🕯
What a lovely lady and what an incredible story.
What a wonderful woman. I've listened to so many of Shoah survivors, accounts of their personal hell. For some reason I found this extremely profound. Eternal hope saves..
God Bless you such a touching story
What an amazing triumph of the human spirit and will.. so glad it ended well for her and her mom and sisters.. I do hope her father was watching from above. What a wonderful career for someone who had been through all that.
Touched me deeply. All elementary school children should see one of these stories each week for their entire grade school years. Well, maybe from fifth grade on. It’s truly hard to see man’s inhumanity to man, but they need to know.
Here in Copenhagen, Danish teachers risk angry Arab/Pakistani or Turkish parents, when they teach about the Holocaust! I am so tired of these parents.🤦♂️😡
I agree and it needs to be done *now* because in a few years, even the youngest of Survivors are aging out and there won't be anyone left
Yes
@@johanneabelsen1644 Isn't it crazy the hate that still exists today? History is fact, you would think no matter the race, people would want it taught. Sad to hear. Keep on fighting the good fight for truth💪❤️
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The soft and unhinged school system won’t allow kids to learn it. They’re too scared of being cussed out by delusional and possibly racist parents. But you’re right! We learned about WW2 in middle school.
Gita you are AMAZING!! Your story will never be forgotten!! Thank you for sharing it.
Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful!
Thank you Gita what a heartrending story of courage may God bless you all always.may your dear father r I p never forget what those evil people did.
Thank you Gita for sharing your story. Your beautiful face and the way you tell your story with grace and strength and kindness. I send you hugs from Leicester Uk x
Amazing story. Very moving.
Mrs. Cycowicz’s story is moving. We need to get these stories to as many people as possible, if we’re unable to get them to everyone.
Gita is inspiring to me because after the war, she was able to live a happy productive life. So impactful to see her elementary school and hear how the teacher kicked out the Jewish children. We take so much for granted now-a-days.
I love that Gita became a psychologist to help others. She was calm, genuine and sincere. I am grateful her story is on UA-cam for all to hear.
An amazing story of resilience - God bless you x
Just wow...I am speechless. Thank you for telling the world your story.
This is such a powerful testimony. What a wise and powerful story, and with so much heart. Thank you. God bless you and yours.
God Bless you and your beautiful family. I have no words.
Thank you!
What incredible courage, faith & resilience... God bless you all, and may our world learn & grow in His peace & wisdom. Shalom. Love from the USA...
What a great survival story. What a great woman! She is remarkable!❤
Thank you for sharing this.
I'm so happy Gita survived. This story made me cry so much. That teacher was horrible to treat children like that. I love that Gita was able to get an education and prove that teacher wrong. Gita, thank you for sharing your story of survival. Let's always remember.
But you know she got ptsd. Mind you this was during a time when mental health wasn’t seriously dealt with and taken into consideration.
I absolutely am in love with Gita! What a wonderful, wonderful human being. And so beautiful 💙
Love and best wishes from an Indian. I can feel the pain. I wish all my brothers and sisters of Israel live in peace with joy and happiness for ever. from NARAYANAN.
The way Gita describes while they were waiting because they didn't know what would happen next is really heartfelt. Appreciating every second with your family and loved ones.
What an extraordinary woman. I think we can learn alot through her testimony. ❤️🙏
What a beautiful soul… an incredible story. Thank you, Gita for sharing with the world and for helping so many after the holocaust. Bless you and your family.
Bless you for sharing your incredibly poignant story. We shall never forget.
A wonderful Document.
Thank you for sharing your life story with us..
I am so glad you survived that dreadful part of your life. ❤
Thank you for sharing your story Gita! I can't imagine what you went through, it's just tragic what happened to you. There are no words to say what I feel.
I’m 67 years old from Romania and even now I fill in the stomach the pain of that horrors!
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Thank you so very much for sharing your incredible journey , my heart is heavy for your suffering , your story and so many many others needs to be told throughout the world in every classroom for generations to come , how proud your dear father would be of you all today ....God Bless Mrs Giselle you are indeed a very strong woman respect to you always 🇨🇦
This beautiful lady surely has the holy spirit through Jesus Christ Amen and Amen 🙏🙏✨🌠🎑
Baruch HaShem. Beautiful, Gita Cycowicz!
I feel such an immense love for you all. You also make me proud of my Father. He was an American in that fight against those Nazis. God Bless you all ❤️🙏🏼
I thank God that you survived, Giselle. And thank you for sharing your amazing story. ❤️🇮🇱❤️
How wonderful linguistically! How lucky for the opportunity to learn these different languages! With regard to the rest of the "heinous history," I cry. Completely undeserved. Evil. My heartfelt thanks to Gita for having the courage to re-tell her story
Hearing such testimony from Holocaust survivors is a huge help in ensuring that such a horror never happens again. Human memory is short, and just 20 years after WW I ended ('the war to end all wars' !!! ) we went at it again into WWII. We need to regularly remind people of the horrors that happened (and could happen again) when a sick group of people gained control of a powerful country (Germany) in the 1930s. 50 million people died as a result of it, and most of Europe was destroyed, including countless art, cultural, and architectural treasures, gone forever.
Such a beautiful lady . ❤
What a wonderful, remarkable woman. Gita, God Bless You and your family. Thank you for sharing your remarkable story.
Gita is the definition of LOVE and Forgiveness. and a LIGHT that shone in the darkness of humanity. There are no words to describe the beauty of your family.....Amazing! Thank you forever!!
Wonderful lady. How brave they are to give these so important testimonies. Bless you and your family dear lady 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
She is an amazing and strong woman who gives from all the horrors she experienced.
Lovely woman. You can see how important her family was to her. Her friends..Real friends..
This touched me very deeply into my soul what a people go through only because of their race God have mercy.I have no words to express but through out your testimony my heart was broken but so relieved that your sisters and mom and you survived the ordeal .
thank you so very much God bless you and shine upon you and keep you safe AMEN!!
Isn't she wonderful...I went to Yad vashem years ago...I was a volunteer nurse at the Hadassah...I now teach in a Montessori school!!I'd have liked to have met Gita?
Thanks HaShem for the story'. Thanks Maam for the sharing of your story'. I love Israel and people of Israel 🇮🇱❤️🇮🇱❤️🌹
May God Bless her.
Wonder life & great legacy for🎉your family. & mine!!
And today we have these idiots tearing down statues, our history....what a shame! We have to admire women like this lady to keep history alive so that it will NOT be repeated again.
The story of Giselle was incredible and very humane as with all holocaust survivors it touched me deeply..
Giselle was a wonderful person who still displayed a lot of Love to people ❤ despite her sufferings.
Thank you for sharing your story and your wisdom and kindness
Great story.
Thank you so much for the insights in the ending.
What a beautiful woman, what a beautiful soul.
Just a wonderful recollection, terrifying, my father was born in 1927. We are scottish, love to you all. X
I love the beautiful and old town houses, the charming old style benches and lights in the streets. I hope Khust will cherish and preserve them well ! Modernity isn't always an improvement...
Gita - You are a beautiful and amazing Neshamah /Soul. Thank you for telling us your survival story - your wonderful pre-war family life and those joys as well as how you managed to survive so many atrocities- With all our love and blessings!
I truly enjoyed Gita telling her story of life . Thank goodness her mother, sisters and herself survived. ❤❤
her father looked so darling in his hat
How lucky that you survived with your mother and sisters. So sorry that your father did not. Thank you for sharing your story.
I am not Jewish but I greatly admire the Jewish people and pray for them and Israel regularly. Shalom!🥰
G-d bless you!❤
'Thank God, You are here',
What a touching story of survival narrated by Gita ( Gyselle)Cycoviz.
Its a miracle, that after going through terrible hardships and life threatening situations, the whole family survived and was united !!
If Geeta is still alive, she must be 96 years old.
My Special Thanks to Yad Vashem, for making this lovely video with Gita, showing beautiful locations of Khust, the town in Ukrane, where Gita lived during her early years.
Vad Vashem, I salute you for your wonderful videos, which will live for posterity, keeping the memories of world war 2 alive !!
It is strong women like you that will make sure THE WORLD NEVER FORGETS. God bless you
God Bless all these people 💞🙏🏻
My goodness me, what an amazing woman you are. I am simply humbled
This should be taught in all schools forever.
Excellent commentary. Very best wishes.
What an inspiring story , about human endurance, and hope.
I feel blessed to have watch this I feel for you and your family and all the people who went through the Holocaust I had tears you and your family are so strong I can just imagine if I would have been that strong thank you for sharing we all need to hear this thank you you have a beautiful family
The loveliest soul and smile. Thank God you are here!
Dr Cycowicz, I read, in Haaretz, about your speaking with President Biden,
The photos of you, along with Rena Quint, speaking with the POTUS were seen around the world.
I have heard your speaking before and your story of trauma, pain, suffering, loss, survival, and triumph is awe inspiring.
I’ll never forget.
Thank you for speaking out.
What strikes me about these stories is how everyday people, even teachers of children, had so much hate in their hearts that they would actually humiliate the very children they dedicated their lives to and would even act like children themselves. People always say that most of the everyday people were not complicit in what Hitler was doing and that they were forced into it, but the fact they they played such a huge role in it in the beginning angers me. If more people stood up in the beginning and didn't let their fear and hate get in the way things could have maybe been different. Let's just hope that people never forget, that history doesn't keep repeating itself and all people finally learn from the past!
Im so sorry that this happened to Gita ,God bless you
Heart touching 🙏. When will humanity finally become wise? I look forward to the wonderful day when everyone will think about one another and there won't be any war drums on the planet-only peace.
Never ever...😥 😟☹
Imagine that kindness in human beings is still there when you went through such cruel and beyond imagination ordeals! Watching and experience horrible things that are beyond believe .... What a brave and kind woman she is. We need more people like this to save the world from cruelty and genocide. Every time as a psychologist she had to listen to the stories of her jewish sisters and brothers that had these experiences too. Her heart must be as big as the world. Thank you brave one to have the courage to listen to these stories over and over again!
Such bravery , such compassion
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איזה סרט מצוין
תודה יד ושם
תודה גיטה וכל המשפחה
עם ישראל חי🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 בבקשה תמשיכו בעשיה החשובה שלכם
Palestine not Israel....
The holocaust shld not have happened.....
its a total inhumanity
as what is happening in Palestine today.....a holocaust by the Israelis....