"I didn't want to become SATMAR" | In Conversation with Nelly Grussgott 

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Interesting story. My grandfather found his younger brother in the 1960 s in Israel. He thought he was the only survivor from the family

To sacrifice your own life to save your wife and child...May his memory be a blessing.

Finding this a yearish later. Thank you for this. I personally know Nelly she is a really amazing person.

It breaks my heart to hear these stories about the millions of lives lost and the horrible family tragedies.

What a lovely lady Nelly is. Such warmth.

GREAT VIDEO! Absolutely my favorite episode! I LOOOVVVEE TO HEAR FROM THE ELDERLY. They are like treasure troves of KNOWLEDGE!!! So 65 dollars was rent in the 50s for a nice spacious apartment with no rodents and roaches! Today almost 3000! These jewel’s help me to put together a clearer picture of the lunacy of inflation starting in the 60s. So knowing about the prices, and salaries before, is VERY IMPORTANT. I knew of 62 a month in rent in bushwick in the mid 50s. Yada yada. THANKS FOR SUCH A GREAT VIDEO. Keep up the great content Yafala!!!🙃👁💡🎁🎈🥰

I keep watching your videos. They are very calming. They remind me of my grandparents and my childhood.

I love your interview videos so much that I went back in your channel to find more. What a lovely mother & daughter, & so fascinating. Even though I’m not Jewish, I find WW II history & historical fiction of this time period. I also find history of religion, especially Jewish history, very interesting. Thank you, Freida, for all you do to bring all of the stories to a larger audience.

She was such a delight to listen to God bless her. I just ran across this video, I’m not sure why I wasn’t searching the older videos. Fantastic interview, thanks Frieda

I adore these types of conversations. What a refreshing way to interview people! Thank you ❤

She was delightful to listen to. Thank you.

Love your interviews. I find myself in smile mode for the whole hour or however long it might be. You are so interesting because you are so interested in your guest no matter what their story. You are wonderful with your questions.

I love this interview. Nelly is adorable, and very funny.

What a marvelous interview! Nelly is wonderful. 🥰

Wow - what a women More people need to watch and listen to people like her - amazing stories - so many survivor stories on RU-vid- every kid should have e to watch !!

I love this lady! She was born in the same year as my mom and my father-in-law, what a long life. And she sounds like Edith Bunker!!

Fascinating interview with a very smart, astute, interesting woman. I love the array of people you interview. I am always learning new things about life, my culture…Judaism, etc. Most amazing… you are always smiling and asking wonderful questions. While adding a tidbit of your own life. Thanks again

I also grew up on lower east side and went to sherrif st park all the time. It’s still there and my granddaughter plays there now. I lived on east broadway

I'm listening to this while I work. It made me smile so much when you were saying Gd from Avraham...:) Reminds me of havdallah and my son getting excited about the grape juice 😊.

As I have mentioned previous comments because I lived in the lower Eastside myself I am really fascinated by some of the history that is there. I hope you do more on the lower side including the incredible synagogue on Norfolk Street that I was a member of in the 1980s

Frieda, another fabulous interview and another beautiful person full of grace and intelligence !! I am learning so much. Thank you

Loved this interview!!

Wonderful interview They live not far from tzfat. Lovely to hear about the community

Thank you for these interviews. My father's grandmother was Nellie Tourtellotte Shields. Her mother was Phebe Vincent (maiden name) French Jews but idk exactly how it goes.

Fascinating. Nelly's wonderful. My grandmother was born the same year as her, and also started out in the Lower East Side (later, South Bronx). Funnily enough she was also a Friedman. I wonder if they crossed paths as children.

Yiddish is like German. I speak German and understand almost all the yiddish😊

Interesting name..."Gruessgott" (=greeting God") is a common greeting in Southern Germany and Austria when people, even strangers, meet during walks, hikes, or when you see an acquaintance in public. When we used to hike in the Alps (Austria and Northern Italy), everyone greeted each other with "Gruessgott" when encountering other hikers. It is not a common last name at all in Germany, at least I have never heard of it.

I’m trying to be more systematic in my viewing 😂! So going way back now!! I’ve seen bits of Nelly talking in other places, so it was so lovely to see this. LOVE this video so much. So interesting to hear so much history and so many other people’s stories through Nelly telling some of her own story. I loved all of the little anecdotes and how she captures some of the spirit and personality of others through her storytelling. Also enjoyed the dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship. Also, I’m now remembering all of my childhood jump rope (or skipping, as we call it this side of the pond 🙃) rhymes.

Such a strong story! Im from Slovakia,the country,where the great part of holocaust was happening. I have read a lot o books written by survivors. Im always so touched by it,the strengh of the survivors and the cruelty of the soldiers. And always keep asking: how did it come to this?

This is so interesting for me. I am a bit younger. I lived in Williamsburg in 1952-1964. First on Wallabout Street, then on Ross St between Bedford and Lee. We moved to Boro Park bec we were more "modern". Now, I am a "kofer" and made aliyah!!

I regret that I didn't ask my paternal grandparents about life before the holocaust

I,m listening to this 2 or more years later. What a lovely lady! Thank you for this interview. I heard her say that she couldn' t have her children from the U.S. visit her in Israël during that time of covid madness...how cruel was that!

Absolutely priceless, Frieda. ❤

love this !!!!!

Lovely chatty but really informative interview. Feel like you're listening in to a private conversation - excellent interviewer with gentle but probing style.

That man was moving in on that woman who didn't even know if her husband was dead? Wow, no shame. Proof no matter what they preach they are still human like the rest of us, sad, it's really all for show to control.

Thank you Frieda it was a privilege to listen to this testimony I also thought about Pearl who said she read every book on the Shoah she could get her hands on. There are things we can’t understand and The Torah says so. It is so profoundly sad but also remarkable how many souls like your guest went on to make a “normal life “ after the nightmare she survived and many others. We must not ever forget. May HaShem give her and the others the most special blessings. Thank you Frieda once again bringing us these precious testimonies. Thank You so much 🌹Bill. Uk

I love the interview but it is hard to follow because everyone is talking at the same time. God bless all the people who had to experience this terrible time.

Nelly - what a smile!

My heart breaks.

❤

My mother was born in a LES tenement, “cold water flat.”

I lived on Hooper and Lee Avenue. What was Nellys mothers name?

14:30 lee ave and hooper is viener shul, formerly lee ave. theatre. what's "model"?

The Rebbe was NOT Condescending to woman at all. He had tremendous RESPECT FOR THEM. !

I'd speak Yiddish with Nelly!

Wow! A year old? Holy Anatoly! The best.

We said same Gut fin Avruhom

Joe's candy store, on hooper st and lee ave

I sure wish we could oichhh machh HEAT!😋🙃❤️ Friedas middle name is Yafala…🥰

My 3rd time I can’t get enough of this episode! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE LEARNING! It’s better than going shopping for anything! If Frieda was my wife, NO SHEITELS! , I ONLY WANT MY WIFE KIDS OR PEOPLE I KNOW VERY WELL FOR A MINYAN! I prefer to daven alone. Plus I look more like a goyim the way i dress. I would literally HAVE to start my OWN sect. I respect, and love, but don’t agree with all consensus view. We’d go to limited movies, dinners, museums, art galleries, the poconos! They have a hot tub that is a giant champagne glass hot tub. Super cool. Can’t go alone, or with males, so if I ever see a movie its when I visit my kids(grown ups) in Maryland. I haven’t watched tv is 1997. I haven’t bought a newspaper in over a decade, about when I went from non religious to orthodoxish. No way can be ultra, but from ultra come THEE MOST PERFECT WOMEN ON EARTH TODAY!!! But if she’s religious obviously I’m a wrap, but if she’s more open to being with someone different but similar. Whatever. God bless ALLLLL and to alllllll a lecture Kodesh

They shaved their heads like what was done in the concentration camps?

Jump rope rhymes! From Queens, 1950’s, Miss Mary Mack, Teddy bear Teddy bear, A my name is Anna, my husband’s name is Al, We live in Allentown and we sell apples!, We played jacks, hopscotch, stoop ball, Chinese jump rope, My mother said,

It was disgusting what they did to the kids of New York and every other democrat run state - my governor didn’t shut down schools