With thanks to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust charity www.hmd.org.uk/ and John Hajdu. Read more about John Hajdu's story here - www.hmd.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/old-images/life_in_two_countries_-_john_hajdu.pdf

@HMD_UK

2 жыл бұрын

It was great working with you. Thank you for sharing John's experiences and helping to raise awareness.

@monab9080

2 жыл бұрын

He mentioned what's happening in China and so many people are still unaware that millions of Uyghur muslims in China are held in concentration camps. They are tortured every single day to let go of their faith and that is the only crime of theirs. They are different than the rest of the Chinese population. I see people commenting on how terrible they feel about the Holocaust incident yet the very same people could care less what's happening in China right now. The world was quiet when the so called peaceful monks of Myanmar did an ethnic cleanse on Rohingya muslims. So my question is what is the difference between what Hitler did vs. what's happening in current days? The answer is awareness. I would be grateful LADbible if you can interview people who can spread awareness about the current day Holocausts that are happening. Thank you!

@mattm2025

2 жыл бұрын

P0

@def6420

Жыл бұрын

Hitler was a Jew

This man is seen on the street as a regular elderly person, yet he has been through so much.

@pottsie_era

2 жыл бұрын

that's why people should respect each other because you don't know what other people have gone through.

@alison4316

2 жыл бұрын

@@pottsie_era bingo.

@jbdbean242

2 жыл бұрын

Chances are any "regular elderly person" has been through so much. Never in the history of the world has life been as easy as it is now.

@Goffy

2 жыл бұрын

@@jbdbean242 That is very true

@conservat1vepatr1ot

2 жыл бұрын

People seem to forget, life is fascinating and crazy. Those people who have lived nearly one-hundred years of it, deserve our respect and should be assumed to have amazing stories.

Video's like these are a constant reminder of how these atrocities were not too long ago and people are still here who have experienced them it's really amazing what ladbible is doing

@binyardyano7021

2 жыл бұрын

Hi

@harryholden795

2 жыл бұрын

absolutely, when my grandfather was born he wasn't even legally a person in my country (Australia).

@adonaiyah2196

2 жыл бұрын

Its better than what vice is doing by a long shot

@jacobthrym7552

2 жыл бұрын

@@harryholden795 If it's not to personal, When was he born and where were his parents from?

@thersandersm1363

2 жыл бұрын

it's also amazing to hear stories of human bravery like the man he was talking about in the beginning which took a high risk and helped him hide. It might seem like a small thing, but at those times, that was huge. He and all the people who helped hid Jews or helped them escape from Nazis are the unsung heroes of WW2.

I tell you what for an 84 yr old man he looks incredibly healthy What an unbelievable story from an amazing man

@3fammy

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, he speaks clearly and looks healthy. If i were him, i'd have severe ptsd or whatever you call it. I mean, who can forget the sight, the sound and the smell of fear.

@hman2912

2 жыл бұрын

@@3fammy he probably has mate

If you're interested in more stories from the war, here is my grandpa's tale: My grandpa was in Hungary during these same times in a town called Baja. He recalls being at school (stay away school), and being awakened at 5:30am by the sound of tanks rolling into the town. He was eventually kidnapped in essence along with a bunch of his schoolmates and sent to Germany to a boarding school on a train. They were packed into the hay filled train carts like sardines and began their journey to the German border. A German officer lost his wallet in one of the carts and my grandpa and his friends found it. It was full of German marks and when they arrived at the Pilsner Urquell factory stop in Plzen Czech they hopped off the train and went and bought a bunch of beer and shared it with their cart mates. He said that was the coldest night of the journey because everyone would be getting up and opening the train door to pee outside all through the night, but the alcohol kept them warm enough. Eventually they stopped at a station near the town of Chomutov. Having heard horror stories from other "passengers" on the train of what the German's were doing to people in the larger cities my grandpa and his school mates realized they needed to escape the train before it reached the border, and Chomutov was basically the last major stop before they started hitting small towns and eventually the German bordertown of Barenstein. At the time, the Czech people were still at odds with the Germans while Hungary was in slightly better standing. My grandpa and his school mates along with others from the train made a break for it but were captured by the German soldiers. They were lined up against a wall and one of the soldiers began executing people one by one, working their way down towards my grandpa. The youngest of the boys my grandpa went to school with started crying and pulled out a piece of paper, and dropped to his knees "like an alter boy", and showed the paper to a different soldier. The paper said that he was Hungarian non-jew. The German soldier took pity on him and allowed the boy along with my grandpa and the rest of his schoolmates out of the line and put them back onto a train heading south back to Hungary. A 12 year old boy saved the lives of the older boys with his quick thinking. They made it back to Hungary together, but by then it had become clear they were an occupied nation. Within a couple months my grandpa was taken again and put on to a train, this time with only one of his schoolmates. Broken by the fact that they weren't able to escape fully, they eventually took the train ride all the way to Germany where they were forced into a German boarding school. He was in that school with other Hungarians, Czechs/Slovaks, and even some Serbians. They were only there for about 8 months and then the Soviets began their offensive on Berlin. He eventually made it back to Hungary after the war and moved to Canada (He's Hungarian but his parents immigrated to Canada before his birth, so he was technically a Canadian citizen- but were forced to send him back to Hungary to live with his much older sister as a baby- they were too poor to care for him properly- he never met his parents). He landed in Saskatoon Saskatchewan and lived in a village named Viscount. He didn't know much English and pretended to be a carpenter. He'd "read" books on carpentry using mostly math and pictures to understand how it worked and his first job was building a shed. It wasn't the greatest build, but he said it survived the winter so it was good enough. He eventually saved enough money and moved to Burlington Ontario and became a secretary at an engineering firm. By this time he spoke fluent english. He had the gift of the gab and eventually cozied up with the municipal politicians and eventually became a councilman in Burlington. He met my grandma and had 2 kids, a house that backed onto a park, and 5 grandchildren. He is 95 years old in a month, but his health is deteriorating. This will likely be his last birthday, but he's happy about the life he made. He was in near perfect health until 93. At 92 we went to Budapest on family vacation and he'd walk all the hills in 35 degree weather, he was in excellent shape. He was so happy to share those 2 weeks with his whole family and to be the tour guide- I think it was the best time of his life.

@falcon9182

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing his story with us internet strangers.

@seanjosephhayes

Жыл бұрын

An amazing story and thank you for sharing it. Sorry to hear his health is deteriorating and he is unlikely to be with us much longer. I'm glad he survived and has lived a good long life.

@LR-hw4px

Жыл бұрын

Wow some life to live that puts things in perspective

@rad_y6315

Жыл бұрын

Amazing story, thank's for sharing. I have very few stories from my late grandparents (born 1911, 1918 and 1925; my other grandma died when I was a baby, i don't remember her) Both of my grandfathers were soldiers during the WWII, one was an officer and nearly got killed after the Soviet occupation. They didn't spoke about the war much. Almost nothing. All of them lived through the Soviet regime, but never got the courage to escape. Actually non of them spoke much about that time, I assume they were afraid.

Can you please do a full length interview with this gentleman? 15 mins is not enough time, and these stories need to be documented while it's still possible.

@MsEsquire83

2 жыл бұрын

@@davelewis6256 rewatch it. This started when he was 4, but got increasingly worse starting around 7, and then more struggles afterwards. He didn't repeat much at all.

@GenericRae

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent point! It's important to record history however and wherever we can

@chumchingwong1462

2 жыл бұрын

Ruben tubor has the same up bring as this man but won a medal of honor, the are longer interviews with him possibly help.you.

@1989Chrisc

2 жыл бұрын

Search usc shoah foundation on youtube, they have hundreds of interviews with survivors. Most videos are a few hours long

Seeing how many of the Holocaust survivors pass every day, I feel privileged to have met a few in my short life so far

I was lucky enough to meet a Holocaust survivor in middle school but didn’t care much at the time . Now that I’m older I realize how lucky I was.

@simon709

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisMcloviification Imagine, having your sense of humor

@simon709

2 жыл бұрын

@ChrisMcloviification Imagine, deleting your comments xD

@saturnisgay69

2 жыл бұрын

@@simon709 what did they say?

@ericl3931

Жыл бұрын

Give me money

I teared up when he said that all he took with him was food and his teddy bear. An incredible, inspirational interview ❤️

@Goproarchive7678

2 жыл бұрын

Uh question what inspiration did you get from a video about the holocaust (serious question)

@whatwhywhenthen

2 жыл бұрын

@@Goproarchive7678 are you purposely idiotic and rash, or just lack insight. Inspiration comes from the survival of human spirit

@jixuscrixus

2 жыл бұрын

He worked on the railways but took a teddy bear with him, wouldn’t that have drawn attention to him (a teenager on a train with a teddy bear)?

Every time i hear a holocaust story it kicks back a constant reminder of what humans were and are capable of doing.

@dougtarnovean

2 жыл бұрын

But you also have to look at the survivors and think how resilient humans can be too

@Kannot2023

2 жыл бұрын

Those who beat Nazis and resisted were humans also. Don't be so negative

@saurabhbannagare8822

2 жыл бұрын

Humans are still disgusting creatures, we just hear about it more often

@MakolaTL

2 жыл бұрын

Wait until you hear about what the Belgium did in Africa.

@dougtarnovean

2 жыл бұрын

@@MakolaTL Heart of Darkness stuff

He mentions so casually how lucky he was but he was LUCKY and so humble and grateful. This man's tenacity for life is lost on a whole generation.

Imagine escaping one regime only to be trapped with another one! This man is an inspiration. Imagine all the horror he has seen... It's sad that one day we won't have anymore of these incredible people left with us.

@ethanbohnen6183

2 жыл бұрын

But if you think about it, there's always survivors of genocide attempts, think of the Bosnian attempt of the Serbs, I think it was the Serbs or something to that affect and that was not even 40 years ago Edit: not trying to take away the strength of this incredible man, I just believe there's people more close to our generations that have similar strength

@hareal2617

2 жыл бұрын

@@ethanbohnen6183 Serbs and un peace keepers massacred Bosnians

@ethanbohnen6183

2 жыл бұрын

@@hareal2617 you do realise that if any of the UN Peacekeeping forces did that, they'd be tried on the Hague for War Crimes? I'm not saying they wouldn't but that's a huge allegation, have you got any sources I could read to firm up my knowledge?

@hareal2617

2 жыл бұрын

@@ethanbohnen6183 woah so wouldn’t that be insane that the un is committing war crimes and then ignoring other war crimes committed by the biggest powers in the world. The un doesn’t do shit it’s just for show

@ethanbohnen6183

2 жыл бұрын

@@hareal2617 I mean, you're not completely wrong, I understand it has it's huge flaws. Wasn't trying to start an ethical debate, I was just genuinely curious if you had any sources to confirm what you've said

John Hajdu is also my grandfather's name. That's crazy. My grandparents were Catholic and not Jewish, so they were able to avoid being sent to a death camp or having to live in the Ghetto. My grandma said that she lived in a neighborhood that was mostly Jewish, and most of the people who she grew up with and loved dearly never made it back home (my grandma dispised Germans her entire life after that). My family too escaped Hungary during that time in 1956 and made it to Austria. My grandparents and my mom had to run through the woods while being chased by soldiers with dogs and machine huns. My grandpa worked at the University of Budapest and because of this, he was in danger of being arrested or Killed by the Soviets. They made it to Austria and were sent to a camp in Italy before emigrating to the United States. My grandpa, being an engineer was able to get a job with Lockheed Martin less than 2 years after arriving in the US even though none of them spoke a word of English when they got here. My mom has pictures they took outside the court house when my family became legal citizens. They had an appreciation and love for this country that would be hard to find anywhere

@vision821k4

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you are here to share this with us. Very inspiring. I work retail so I'm used to getting treated like shit all day and every single day. At least I'm not dealing with major issues, just ignorant people, not violent ones. They try shoes on, kick off their feet and just walk away, even when I'm cleaning in front of them, they do this to me. My mother has stage 4 cancer and they whine about the smallest things. You guys would be great customers though.

@eurobubble7068

2 жыл бұрын

many hungarian jews converted to catholicism and/or changed their family names to traditional hungarian names even long before the nazis came, to avoid discrimination, there were also the danger of racist hungarian militas before that. didnt help many of them during ww2 as the nazis and collaborators would go through the archives and find your ancestors in most cases, although hungary managed to avoid deportation of jews longer than any other country occupied by or affiliated with germany.

As a Hungarian from Budapest this is incredibly interesting to learn, even though we learn about these events we don't get as much detail as in this video.

@binyardyano7021

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Daniel

One of my high school teachers, Lazlo Lescue, fought during the Hungarian uprising against the Soviets. After it failed, he crossed the border in the mountains, and eventually made it to the US.

@binyardyano7021

2 жыл бұрын

Hello @annaGillespie

@scoremxcom

2 жыл бұрын

Now he would hit a wall.

He looks like a Hungarian version of Sir Ian Mckellen

Truly a survivor in every sense of the word and a warrior to survive the aftermath

Ladbible has really upped their game with the amazing quality on these videos. Great work guys it’s so intriguing to watch.

@benl8177

2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant isnt it.

My grandpa could never ever discuss the horrid events that happened, I hope that other survivors, not many left but I hope there is some peace in their lives ❤️

What an inspiring chap. So glad he found the peace he deserved and glad it was on our little island.

What saddens me more than even his story , is that we as a species never learn...we keep making the same mistakes

@scoremxcom

2 жыл бұрын

Religion - the biggest reason to hate.

@jamalbaptiste5477

Жыл бұрын

As long as the mindsets of people stay the same, we will continue to reach the same conclusions, which will then breed more of the exact same mindset we are trying to move away from. (But I'm sure everyone who reads this already knows that)

What a captivating man... I was given Alexander technique lessons off a lady who survived the Holocaust...like this man she was just a child at the time. The answer he gave at the end about 'how could people treat eachother this way' is very similar to what she said. I asked her 'how do you feel that so many people knew this persecution was happening and did nothing?' she was stood very close to me aligning my posture and such, she said, looking me the eye 'you can see what is happening in Syria? In China? What are you doing? It's just the same' ...it's a chilling answer.

i have so much respect for old people. What a story and a hero without a cape.

Thank you LADBible for creating this powerful video - we really enjoyed working with you. John is an extremely special man. We hope people listen to and learn from his life story.

@tandiparent1906

2 жыл бұрын

His story was interesting and very well done. Thank you for sharing it with him.... like others, I wish it could have been longer...Peace n love to everyone from Oklahoma, US🦋

@NotSure109

2 жыл бұрын

You're lying demons.

For a generation that doesnt read books and magazines, it is videos like these that will be a testament of this horrific event and the dangers that humanity can fall into in the future.

Sometimes I'm amazed by the shift in unilad content - well done, keep it up!

Would love to have this gentleman speak at our school. Hearing kids genuinely ask whether the holocaust was 'real or not' makes me fear for the future. Forgotten mistakes can't inform the future and if it was easy for the German people to fall into it, it can happen elsewhere.

@honved1

2 жыл бұрын

@Undead Dude There’s always one

You guys are pushing some absolute top content with these sitdowns. Love his story, what a Lad!

Hearing the name of Andau, which is a town close next to mine still feals so surreal. The history of that bridge is still very famous in my area for the escape of many houngarians under the iron curtain.

I get chills whenever I come across such heartbreaking accounts... till date I fail to understand how could such devilish atrocious act was carried out.. the way this gentleman is narrating the story it says, how much he might have felt it to its core heart n mind.. to have a full memory of this event..

I could listen to you all day long. Thank you for sharing a part of your life.

I loved it, every another LADbible exploration of human life through 15 minutes or so on youtube (I watch) is amazing.

Respect to this man, they’ve lived through an unimaginable time

Courage, determination, resolve, perseverance and hope. This man exemplifies all these traits in spades. Ladies and gents, this is what those traits are all about. You sir, a living embodiment of what we all should strive to be, a hero.

Keep up these great interviews LADbible! They are so informative and bring a human face and experience to issues most only hear or read about.

It is so so important to keep hearing the stories of peoples lives like this. Puts everything into perspective. Such atrocities took place, yet we have not learned from them. So many people in the world right now are displaced by war, terror and political unrest. We must learn from this. If you're reading this im sending you love x

I could listen to this gentleman all day and be happy. I know I would learn so much. I’m sure his whole life story is part heartbreaking and part awe inspiring.

Thank you for sharing your life story and I hope human kind will not forget these unforgivable atrocities

Részvétem Hajdú úr. Elképzelhetetlen amint keresztülment. Kitartást.

Thank you for sharing this, respect to you sir 🙏🏻 💜

Thank you so much for this interview

Ladbible knocking it out the park with these videos!

So glad you came to us xxx you, Sir, are a Legend! Xxxxxx

Cool to see the insight of a man who was there and see the old videos !! Bravo 👏🏽

This hits very close to home for me. My grandma was raised Jewish and lived in Hungary, and only survived due to a priest hiding her, and her mother. They then converted to Christianity, because it was the only way to save their lives and I thank g-d for that priest even if I was Jewish, and she wasn't anymore because of the PTSD from the holocaust. My grandpa wasn't Jewish but also suffered during the war in Hungary too. They eventually met, and basically left Hungary in 56 too, and made it into Switzerland, where the Canadian embassy took them in. I assume they either went through Austria or Germany to get there. They basically survived the germans then the Soviets too. Feels very weird seeing this. It hits hard. I know my grandparents suffered so much, because they never talked about what happened. It took until my dad was in his 40s to find out he was Jewish because my grandma told him. (then he and my mom raised us Jewish) I even managed to found the travel transcript online too where the Canadian embassy took them. I am saddened that I do not know much because I love to know more, but it was kept so hidden. I manage they went through horrific things, and couldn't properly deal with it. There was a lot of generational trauma because of these events too.

What a lovely man and welcome to the UK 🇬🇧 I hope you prosper and forget your inherent woes

Hearing these stories are so important, a reminder that we cannot allow such horrible event to ever happen again, thank you John for telling your story and thank you LADbible for publishing it. Truly hatred is a disease to the soul.

Amazing life story. Amazingly brave. History always repeats but we always have two choices. Go towards love or go towards hate. Sadly we always seem to choose hate.

I lived in Budapest for almost 6 years, Know the areas spoken about very well. Knew all the history and even did some walking tours and told my guests the history of the city. This is the first time I am hearing it from somebody who lived through it. Incredible.

Australia just lost our last Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku, thankyou for sharing your stories

I think it was important he recognized the immense risk his neighbor took for them. I would like to assume that I would just act to save innocent children and provide them safety without question. But I forget the fact that safety wasn't a guarantee - indeed a lot depended on luck. That I could die as well as the children. As well as my own family. Those who helped and hid and assisted were heros. Their bravery cannot be understated. And those that decided not to take the same risk...well, they were human too. Him saying "It could have gone either way" was important to show the immensely difficult situation some of these good, everyday people who had no hate in their hearts had thrust upon them.

It gives you a small insight into the measure of this man that he reflects on these unbelievably awful, incredibly unfair events in his early life and feels lucky to have avoided worse.

Every time he said he was lucky I just kept thinking WOW. First it was compassion, then intuition and then just luck the tower wasn't manned. I wish this was longer, I'd happily listen to his story.

Bless his honourable courage & determination for life. The life I have been blessed to live up until now, 2022, I hear so many people complaining about trivial issues on a daily basis including myself until we are bought back to our reality & safety of the life we have grown up knowing, was paved with such unbelievable loss of life, pain & brutality. I say thank you Sir. My special life has been possible only because of yourself & the millions of war veterans & survivors like yourself. I thank you with all that I Am.

What a brave human being. He now tries to help others too, wow.

superb. love this channel. He spoke so well.

Watching this as a Hungarian, it's really hitting home.

It amazes me that I now associate LADbible with high quality and informative content, rather than roid munching hooligans fighting each other in Ibiza

Amazing story I'm so glad my country welcomed this brave man.

As a fellow Hungarian this means a lot to me thanks for sharing !

Found this very interesting and learned some history I didn't know about e.g the Uprising in parliament square. It is also interesting to hear from a male's experience as most of the videos and books iv read has been about a lady in that situation, also I think this is the first video iv found from a Hungarians side of the story/life's experience. It's insane how many times he avoided being killed and the risks he chanced. What a very nice gentleman, could totally listen to him for hours on end. Thanks for sharing your story.

This man had a purpose on this earth, I'm glad he survived and lived on to make his own family and tell his story 💗 such a brave soul!

@scoremxcom

2 жыл бұрын

After "Earth" where do you go? How much does the "soul" weigh?

Amazing thank you so much!

wonderful to listen to someone who survived all that...

May these tragedies never repeat again 🙏

@money6292

2 жыл бұрын

Good luck with that

@neoleo593

2 жыл бұрын

There's some currently happening

@alexthomas311

2 жыл бұрын

This is humanity we're talking about. Give it time and it'll happen again, just to someone else.

@gradientO

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately...

@thoraneh7365

2 жыл бұрын

Its happening now in China

People will be in awe of this guy and give him so much respect but vote in politicians on the basis of "cracking down on immigration" without seeing the dissonance.

@gnarthdarkanen7464

2 жыл бұрын

Psychology of scapegoating works... It's dubious about exactly how it works, but it's bloody effective... AND nobody likes admitting it, but a majority would've been Nazi's back in the day, too. It's more comfortable to blame and shame some other group than it is to admit "we" are part of the problem... AND that's how the politicians "get to you". Worth pointing out that nobody wants to grow up to be a felon, either... but Politicians scapegoat "criminals", too, because it's an even more vaguely defined group to scapegoat... and they usually act on criminality out of some sense of desperation. It's just not ever going to be popular to "help the poor criminals" who were marginalized by a society that couldn't care less about any individual's struggles until that individual "acts out". ;o)

@gido4524

2 жыл бұрын

Last time I checked its communism that uses forced labour and concentration camps these days

@haleyl.248

2 жыл бұрын

a bit different, you think? stop pretending that being concerned about immigration is just being a nazi.

@jsar5409

Жыл бұрын

Imagine comparing the holocaust to people wanting to better regulate immigration 🤣

Incredible to think this was only 75 years ago...and some still think that way in 2021...

Shows how lucky we are today this man is amazing and I hope he lives a beautifully long life 💜

Holocaust should be etched in our memories as a stark reminder of what humans are capable of if mislead. Everytime I hear a holocaust survivor story I feel immense respect towards them for showing resilience and dealing with the trauma.

@RowanWarren78

2 жыл бұрын

@@okymek I think a good idea might be to have a required college course (or highschool, part of world history classes) where there is focus and discussion of genocidal programs by different governments/political groups from all over the world that have occured in recorded history.

Thank you for sharing.

It's so hard to believe this wasn't even 100 years ago! Very sad. The more I hear about this time in history the more I find it unbearably sad.

All I can do is like these. Videos like these are invaluable.

Why has this video so few views and other videos about drugs has millions views??? Not to downplay the drug videos, but our grandparents of that generation are still around and people are already starting to forget the ww2... Love and hug each other more❤️ Love this channel

Amazing stories, great content

Thank you for the subtitles

God bless this man and his message

Courageous man. Can’t imagine a life like that but at least he got out to live a free life.

Man this type of content is what world need more than ever

Thank u for sharing

Bloody brilliant ladbible

I grew up and were very close friends with a Hungarian family who had escaped during the Soviet occupation and rule. They were wonderful friends and learned a lot about history from them. They always said “Never underestimate the Russians”.

Very eloquent this chap what a life

Wow….ladbible again and again….hats off.

This was a lot different then what I was expecting. Whenever I see holocaust survivor I automatically assume they went through a concentration camp. I never hear about the lives of the people who managed to stay out of them.

How does this have only 30k views!? This is pure gold!

You're an amazing person, sir.

these videos are soooooooooo entertaining and educational

More like this please, we need to learn as much as we can about historical events Ike this, so we won’t repeat them

wow! amazing to hear from him.

We could never know too much about the Holocaust. We could never hear too many stories of people who were affected by it. We always need to be watching and hearing and listening, we need to be making good relationships with friends everywhere and hear them. We must remain uncomfortable in this way in order to be sensitive to human suffering and endeavour to reduce it.

To have experienced such tyranny in your formative years… he is a wonderful human being despite.

nice to know when people come to your home country they feel safe to do so

My grandparents were also survivors. In camps, the whole deal. Pop never liked talking about it unless he had a little drink in him... Babcia ( polish for Grandmother ) never spoke about it.

@gnarthdarkanen7464

2 жыл бұрын

Understandably... To some people repeating old memories can revive the shock and horror of it all. Only some people (and not all) find retelling to be cathartic in any way. Usually it takes a few repetitions to get any therapeutic value, and until that it's just torturing them all over again. I've met a few survivors, and some would talk about it, and others would flat refuse beyond a cursory kind of "it happened" and that was that. As important as it might be to preserve every gritty and graphic detail of the history, it can't come from tormenting those who already lived it once... It's most important that WE actually listen when they want to talk. It's always worth the time invested. ;o)

And I am very lucky to be further educated by this man.

Amazing man

This man was meant to survive to give us a pure understanding of events that happened and that can happen

This man has such good memory 👏🏾

As a Hungarian I thank you for this interview and I hope he got to visit Budapest after the regime change!

This is really hard to watch / listen to. Love and prayers to you sir . These stories are a reminder of our history and these radical losers we have to listen to all the time now ,Crying about how awful their lives are and how oppressed they are it makes me sick . Sit down with someone ,like this man who truly went through something unimaginable !! This man just melts my heart ❤️

We should never allow this to happen again. I am happy to see you as a Hungarian, I hope you found your peace and that you live a happy and long life. Thank you for your story. Take care of yourself, best wishes from Hungary, Budapest. Vigyázzon magára.