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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Auschwitz Survivor Rose Schindler: Never Give Up Hope! (#070)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Physics, Natural Sciences, Science

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Rose Schindler survived Auschwitz and has shared her remarkable story with thousands of people over the course of 50 years. Her memories of the Holocaust have remained clear over the decades, but so has her mantra to never give up hope. Rose joins me on this special episode of the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE podcast to talk about the book “Two Who Survived: Keeping Hope Alive While Surviving the Holocaust.” This memoir includes both her and her husband’s story. Subscribe to my mailing list to receive show notes for this episode: https://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 06:34 The world changed in 1938. 12:16 Being a tomboy saved Rose’s life. 17:00 “If you give up hope, you’re lost.” 23:03 Lessons from the Holocaust need to be remembered. 27:06 A school project prompted Rose and Max to share their story. 34:16 Building a life in America. 42:35 Rose is still working on projects at age 90. Rose Schindler was born in Czechoslovakia in 1929 and survived Auschwitz. She met her husband Max shortly after the war and they were married in 1950. They moved to San Diego in 1956. Rose first told her story of survival to her son’s junior high class and hasn’t stopped speaking publicly about the horrors of the Holocaust since. She has received multiple awards as well as an honorary high school diploma and MBA. Learn more about “Two Who Survived” and buy your copy here: https://twowhosurvived.com Watch Rose on the Jocko Podcast https://youtu.be/Th1t1UvnYP4 Brian Keating’s most popular Youtube Videos: Eric Weinstein: https://youtu.be/YjsPb3kBGnk?sub_confirmation=1 Jim Simons: https://youtu.be/6fr8XOtbPqM?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk?sub_confirmation=1 Sarah Scoles: https://youtu.be/apVKobWigMw Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM Brian Keating’s most popular Youtube Videos: Eric Weinstein: https://youtu.be/YjsPb3kBGnk?sub_confirmation=1 Jim Simons: https://youtu.be/6fr8XOtbPqM?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk?sub_c Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

0:07.0

But first I want to introduce you to my audience who might not be familiar with you, and your name is Rose Schindler.

0:18.0

And I'm convinced we are related because my grandfather's side of my family came from

0:25.0

from Hungary.

0:27.2

20 kilometers from Serenia.

0:29.2

Yeah, it's right near Serenia.

0:30.8

Between Serenia was between M Mumkach and Bungvar right.

0:35.4

Selle means Middle.

0:37.6

Yes, and then and we have close ties with you.

0:41.2

I met you six years ago with Max, your beloved

0:44.7

husband of blessed memory and the two of you have been such deep

0:49.5

inspiration to me, to my family, to my friends. I could not resist wanting to, you know, interview you and

0:56.7

share your wisdom.

0:58.2

And today is an appropriate day.

0:59.7

Today is actually recording this on Thursday, July 30th, which is the Jew in the Hebrew

1:07.2

calendar it's the ninth of the month of Av which is known as Tishabav and it's a

1:12.2

fast day so I've been fasting. I want to talk about that and talk about how people like me can relate to to Tishabov through the experiences of someone like you and Max having been through a literal hell.

1:26.7

And I want to first I want to take a step back and just introduce who you are, where you are, where you grew up.

1:36.0

I've known you for long enough to be so impressed with you that you're you're perhaps you know the most the most courageous

1:44.4

individual I've ever met and I have tremendous respect for you and and I hope

1:49.7

that when I am even you know a little bit older that I can have 1% of the energy that you have for a mission that if you like, God puts you on earth to do, which is to tell the world as your father implored you again and again. you

2:04.3

again and again in your book that you wrote with Max called Tooeher Survived.

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