"I Am Here" - A Holocaust Survivor Tells Her Story
Mar 12, 2022 15:04:09 GMT -5
Post by shalom on Mar 12, 2022 15:04:09 GMT -5
I haven't seen this yet, but it looks like it's worthwhile. The Lord has brought this woman out of the Holocaust, and she'll still alive at 100 years old, so He's not through with her yet! Please pray for her salvation.
100-year-old Holocaust Survivor tells her story
I Am Here is a documentary that is a portrait of Ella Blumenthal's life.
By HANNAH BROWN Published: MARCH 10, 2022 21:47
I Am Here, a life-affirming documentary that is a portrait of an extraordinarily charismatic and brave 100-year-old Holocaust survivor, Ella Blumenthal, was released in US theaters on March 11.
Blumenthal is a doting and active mother and grandmother, who loves to walk along the beach in Cape Town, South Africa, where she lives. But, she has a Yiddish accent that she embraces rather than trying to hide and there is a scar on her arm where her inmate number tattoo from Auschwitz used to be.
Although when she was raising her children, she did not speak to them about what she experienced, at a certain point she decided to share her story and she speaks about her life, the tragic and triumphant moments. The movie was filmed a couple of years ago and shows her celebrating her 98th birthday.
Born in Warsaw in 1921, she was the youngest in a family of seven children and grew up in a loving and religiously observant environment. But when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, her life suddenly changed. She and her family were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto and eventually more than 20 members of her family were murdered in concentration camps. She managed to survive in hiding until the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and afterwards, she and her niece, Roma, were sent to the concentration camps at Majdanek, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.
While Blumenthal seems to have been strong and to have had an incredibly well-tuned sense of how to survive, her explanation of how she came through the Holocaust is simple: “If you think that good luck or good fortune has saved me, it’s wrong. It’s somebody up there is looking after me and giving me strength to fight and pushing me up. So don’t think it was just luck.”
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100-year-old Holocaust Survivor tells her story
I Am Here is a documentary that is a portrait of Ella Blumenthal's life.
By HANNAH BROWN Published: MARCH 10, 2022 21:47
I Am Here, a life-affirming documentary that is a portrait of an extraordinarily charismatic and brave 100-year-old Holocaust survivor, Ella Blumenthal, was released in US theaters on March 11.
Blumenthal is a doting and active mother and grandmother, who loves to walk along the beach in Cape Town, South Africa, where she lives. But, she has a Yiddish accent that she embraces rather than trying to hide and there is a scar on her arm where her inmate number tattoo from Auschwitz used to be.
Although when she was raising her children, she did not speak to them about what she experienced, at a certain point she decided to share her story and she speaks about her life, the tragic and triumphant moments. The movie was filmed a couple of years ago and shows her celebrating her 98th birthday.
Born in Warsaw in 1921, she was the youngest in a family of seven children and grew up in a loving and religiously observant environment. But when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, her life suddenly changed. She and her family were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto and eventually more than 20 members of her family were murdered in concentration camps. She managed to survive in hiding until the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and afterwards, she and her niece, Roma, were sent to the concentration camps at Majdanek, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.
While Blumenthal seems to have been strong and to have had an incredibly well-tuned sense of how to survive, her explanation of how she came through the Holocaust is simple: “If you think that good luck or good fortune has saved me, it’s wrong. It’s somebody up there is looking after me and giving me strength to fight and pushing me up. So don’t think it was just luck.”
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