Jewish Survivor Gerda Kahan Testimony | USC Shoah Foundation

The horrors endured by survivors, we cannot even comprehend today. They used every ounce of will, strength, intelligence, ingenuity, friendship & love of family, to pull through. It surpasses human understanding. The greatest generation is almost gone. We must pass their histories & testimonies on. Blessed to hear their stories.

Almost all the survivors are gone now. I just want to say thank you to all of those brave enough to share their stories of survival.

My aunt spent her life looking for her husband. She asked other people all the time to help her until she died.

Thank you for taking the time to explain about your horrendous time that you survived through. No one can ever know the true horrors that you endured, only those who were there and survived can truly understand what you went through. "Sentenced to go on living ", such a powerful statement, very very upsetting, that hits home. Thank you once again.

What a fantastic, wonderful woman. "They didn't speak up for us." So true. My view of Roosevelt and other governments has been quite shaken by these testimonies.

What a brilliant well spoken strong woman. God bless her.

Another wonderful testimony from a very sweet, lovely woman, who went through so much horror during the Holocaust. Thank you so much.

Stand up to bullies! Start at home. Stand up!

Absolutely remarkable person. Brilliant is an understatement!

I have listened to many of the survivor interviews and your interview touched me deeply. I believe I felt what is possible to feel not having ever experienced the misery you did. You should know your expressing of the feelings you endured, the torture and total loss of family and all that mattered was made as imaginable as possible through your story. Those that cannot feel the devastation after listening to your testimony are simply inhuman. God bless you for all your suffering and you are more clean than ever- your sharing was absolutely riveting. Not the gory details and visual of suffering but Your cries and reaching for understanding what this insanity impacted in the life of one x millions..... I will listen to this again and again and It will remind me how blessed I am to have heard it from you.

Thank you for your testimony.I will never forget

I hope you live to see many many great grandchildren. You are obviously such a wonderful mother. How lucky your children are. How wonderful that after all the horror you endured you are able to love other people so much. I hope you find peace and somehow the nightmares will stop.

Such an articulate, intelligent woman. Yes, she would have made an excellent doctor. Such a wonderful daughter to take care of her mother....... they changed places and she was the caretaker and her mother the one to be cared for. She speaks her mind and her words are so compelling.

I love this woman so much and I wish she was my close family, in my heart she is

This woman has a way with words and she is very in touch with herself.

Thank-you Gerda for speaking out. My mind cannot even comprehend what she endured. So many things she shared has resonated with me.

A truly remarkable lady. She had me in tears. Obviously she will never get over what happened to her, how could you? She is in pain, but still has managed to live a life and have a beautiful family. I hope there is a terrible place in hell for the Nazis.

very well spoken - quite the testimony we pray for a better world

Thank God she now has a wonderful family to call her own. People who abuse and neglect their children today - because of 'life's everyday stresses/alcoholism, drugs etc etc' should listen to this woman's story and learn to appreciate 'who' they have today, not 'what' they have today.

Remarkable testimony