When a former Nazi meets a Holocaust survivor (YouTube)

Jewish Journal ^ | August 10, 2017

[Ciaphas Cain]

What happens when a Holocaust survivor and former Hitler Youth Leader meet for the first time? Erika Jacoby, 89, and Ursula Martens, 88, find out.

[Ciaphas Cain]

This came up on my YouTube main page and I am very glad that I watched it.

[dhs12345]

All I can say is wow! I don’t know I would respond.

[laplata]

Thanks for posting. Well worth watching.

[Beowulf9]

Watched and glad I did. It’s good for these women they could do this, I’m sure that it’s good for the soul, a little bit of healing.

I met a woman who had been in Auschwitz, back in the 90s. She was Jewish, was in the population. I asked her did she pray. She told me ‘we prayed all the time’. I asked her if she was afraid (then). Ok, dumb question but I wanted to hear her answer. She said ‘we were numb with fear’. I could feel her remembering, as she spoke. She began with telling me she did not want to talk about it. We were in her kitchen. I was sitting on a little stool next to a kitchen counter. She went and got me coffee and when she came to me with the coffee these were the only things she said to me about it. They were said, slowly and with a great deal of heaviness in her face, I could tell the memories she thought of were not spoken to me. She then became quiet and no more was said.

Terrible for her. I know she lost many loved ones there, I could feel that, and she still grieved for even the strangers she had shared that experience with, the people who never left Auschwitz.

[vladimir998]

There was a former Hitler Youth and a Holocaust survivor who together used to speak to college students in the 1980s and 90s.

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There were these two. Maybe others.

He died a few years back, but she is still around at over 100 (according to the Internet).

[laplata]

That’s a powerful story. Thanks for sharing.

She was still numb.

[vladimir998]

Those were the two I was trying to think of. I saw them more than 30 years ago.