Julie’s Story: A Family Secret

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Growing up, Julie Lindahl felt an indescribable guilt, a feeling she could never understand (Full story: wbur.fm/2jGhJzY). Once she discovered that her grandfather had been a brutal SS officer during World War II, she decided to devote her life to digging into the truth. Unlocking the secrets of her family showed Julie the worst, and then the best, of humankind.
This story is part of a collaboration between WBUR’s Cognoscenti (wbur.fm/2zmPZrr) and WBUR’s Kind World (wbur.fm/2Aiz4X0).
You can listen to Julie’s story on the Kind World podcast (wbur.fm/1JP8qUZ) and read her essay at Cognoscenti (wbur.fm/2b2Xk2d).

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@AndersGetherSoerensen 3 года назад

What a warm-hearted compassionate woman Julie Lindahl is.

@Orion227 4 года назад

Offspring are not responsible for the atrocities of there forebears. Never, ever. No you have no responsibility any more than any of us who aren’t the offspring.

@davidh6300 3 года назад

That's right

@christinalikoski4937 2 года назад

What a beautiful woman She was honest with her feelings and she also showed me another side of children with parents of horrible crimes It's true it isnt her fault if anything she seemed completely opposite of her past grandparent Thank you for your story it will help many and please continue with it Australia 💕 Christina

@douglasw9624 4 года назад

Have been a genealogist for 30+ years and virtually everyone is descended from good and bad, killers and victims, folks who gave up and others who endured. You are not responsible for the sins of your ancestors no more that you can take credit for their accomplishments.

@tamaramorton8812 4 года назад

Douglas W I've often thought these very things that you expressed.

@davidh6300 3 года назад

Good observation. It's our DNA we get from our parents, not their guilt.

@southernbelladonna78 3 года назад

Well said. Are you also a writer? :) ❤️

@ldutton6623 2 года назад

Wow! Well put

@nillyk5671 2 года назад

Yes and no. When it comes to crimes against humanity, you have a moral right to raise your children right and to make sure those mistakes are never repeated. As a nation the Germans paid reparations to the people their ancestors harmed and that is the right thing to do. If everyone would go around thinking that has nothing to do with them those reparations couldn't have been paid.

@piercehawke8021 4 года назад

Please remember that we DON'T pick your ancestors. You are responsible for your life heading onward. Learn from the past, but it's just that, the past.

@janicewashington4318 3 года назад

What we as humans do to each other is way beyond my comprehension...

@kathrynbrown6955 3 года назад

Ecclesiastes chapter 8 verse 9.

@annjohnson6193 4 года назад

She has way too much guilt for something she had no blame for.

@misscleo378 3 года назад

You blame yourself for loving a person who has harmed so many. You then begin to overthink all their actions and wonder how you can share dna with a person who is so inhumane and cruel. She’s just a very empathetic person, unfortunately her grandparents’ actions will forever haunt her.

@libbysevicke-jones3160 2 года назад

I know how she feels. I found out an ancestor of mine was a slave owner on plantations in Jamaica, one of his sons born to a slave is also my direct ancestor. The son Robert Wedderburn settled in England and in his own way fought against slave ownership through preaching and publishing anti salver books, based on his own experiences. He lived long enough to see slavery abolished under British rule. The good and bad of our lineage. For a long time l felt shame knowing a ancestor of mine owned slaves, and the suffering those slaves endured. However I’ve come to accept the past is the past and hopefully one day mankind will learn its lessons. Unfortunately not yet.

@anonymityforced4923 2 года назад

This is true! And yet if you are an American and your many past generations owned slaves you are made to feel and carry much shame and guilt. Who gets to decide this!?!

@simonecatherinefrancois2489 4 года назад

Life started with you. Your grandfather was a heartless man, this has nothing to do with you.

@sherinchush7889 6 лет назад

The kind world we live in needs to be protected by each one of us who are seeking a kind world deep in our heart.

@vivienmcnaul109 4 года назад

You were meant to meet that man. Take care look after yourself. Tomorrow is a new day for us all 💚

@diahannkanich1747 3 года назад

My grandmother was German and very abusive could not be more of a mean person and I've always been afraid to get my genealogy done because I'm afraid who's in my family tree. I know though that we are not responsible for what past Generations did. We can only try to make a difference in our world and you sound like a super nice lady so I'm sure you do and we can just pray for the people...

@RobertOrgRobert 3 года назад

Very moving story . We probably all have ancestors somewhere in the past we would be ashamed of today !

@lindaj171 4 года назад

Such a courageous sharing of a family story. Many people would have just held this as a family secret. Blessings to Julie and to the man who was injured as a child (in many more ways than just his eye I'm sure) and still had the grace to look her in the eye and tell her the truth, that it was not her guilt and shame to carry. We are only responsible for our own thoughts and actions yet by telling her story she is taking the additional responsibility of trying to mitigate the sins of the fathers. I salute you.

@maryannedelaney 4 года назад

Omgosh I was crying the whole time. I too would have felt that guilt if it had been me. God bless her.

@jabbermocky4520 6 лет назад

I am the granddaughter of a merchant sea captain from Boston who heroically shipped supplies to the UK and France, during wartime, until February 1942. His ship was eventually torpedoed by a Nazi U-Boat off the coast of North Carolina. The captain and crew froze to death in lifeboats after the U-Boat shelled what remained of the ship to the bottom. For sport, apparently. I never knew him because my father never knew his father. The captain was killed when my father was only 3 years old. These things do carry grief and weight for generations. Thanks to Julie for telling her own family story.

@reesemorgan2259 3 года назад

They died honourable men though. I would be so proud if I were you.

@karineb5980 2 года назад

Merci a vous

@angelaberni8873 3 года назад

I can tell that you are a good person by the way your face portrays the pain you feel because of this. THAT'S ALL THAT COUNTS !!!

@debandjackv 3 года назад

Thank you so much for sharing your story !!

@chichi6796 4 года назад

It hurts my heart to know the cruelty that we humans perpetuate on each other and on the animals that we are supposed to care for as well. About 45 years ago I remember once saying to God that I offered go to hell if He would just stop the cruelty to innocent and defenseless children and animals.

@kathrynbrown6955 3 года назад

God does promise that all these horrible things will be done away with very soon. Satan is the ruler of this world now, but God won’t let that carry on. See 1st John 5 verse 19. Also Ecclesiastes 8 verse 9 shows that man does dominate man to his injury at the moment. But soon the Earth will be cleansed of wickedness. There is so much in Gods bible that tells us this. It sounds crazy , but that’s what Satan wants everyone to believe. His biggest weapon is that very few believe in his existence. Good times are coming, but only by the power of Gods Kingdom, the one we all pray about in the Lords Prayer. May this lady Julie, find peace.

@joycestewart4893 3 года назад

God bless you. I too have felt shame for the actions of some of my ancestors.

@mgtowp.l.7756 6 лет назад

A Excellent Video.. Highly Recommended..Julie Is A Sweet Kind Lady..

@user-go1ut1gz4n 3 года назад

Constellation work is all about breaking the binds from that which we inherit.

@nataliemeenakshithegreat7780 3 года назад

As a jew I can understand her guilt my Jewish ancestors were from Poland all deported first podrums she was disgusted of belonging to such family at least she came clean on her past to free her from that guilt

@steveroutley9127 2 года назад

Very compassionate woman.

@Originella 3 года назад

I am the granddaughter of a member of the Nazi Youth Party. My paternal grandmother joined for protection, along with her brother, after the Nazi's executed her own father.

@lillianbest23 4 года назад

Awesome

@terrimabrey93 4 года назад

GOD Blesses you. Thank you. Sending 💚💚!

@edithnogueira7899 4 года назад

I dont understand why some people wants or feel responsible for acts done by somebody else in the past.

@patriciajrs46 2 года назад

Each and everyone of us has a responsibilty to be something- whether we choose to be slovenly, or ambitious and motivated, is up to us, each one on his/her own. A person's life worth depends on what he/she decides to do with that life. You are either part of the problem, or you are part of the solution. It's up to you.

@MH-tn3pp 2 года назад

All my Polish aristocratic family was killed by Germans, christian, like 60 millions of Slavic. The minimum is to be depressed and feel bad. We won’t harm you but we don’t except less. Nothing will bring our families back, we had to emigrate because they was no one left. We need more help than you but you also need help. Amen

@alexandrawhitelock6195 3 года назад

This is the foundation of Finding Your Roots...

@v8cool168 2 года назад

My old manager was German. Not talking German ancestory, but actually German, and in her 50's at the time, so her parents were possibly in WW2. She never talked of her family . I'd ask her if she ever goes back to see her family. She says no. I asked her about mother and father and she'd just change the subject. I always had a feeling she was hiding something about them.

@jondoormouse8612 4 года назад

Self humanization needs to be worked on by the descendents of victims and perpetrators.

@animallover4955 4 года назад

Crying

@elizabethblane201 3 года назад

I hope that people demanding reparations from people who were never slave owners to people who were never slaves can try and understand this.

@dibakarchakraborty8712 2 года назад

Wonderful. I belong to a displaced family of partition of India. I harbour no hate to anybody. The world is destined to be a paradise. It’s a matter of time only. There'll be a billion years of bliss for all creatures of God.

@mariebelle3493 3 года назад

In both side of my family we have ancestors masters and slaves! It's part of my heritage! 🙏🏼

@helendonohoe1575 3 года назад

You can not pay for the sins of your fathers

@jitaamesuluma9730 2 года назад

if you saw my ancestry and saw who they are , if i carried guilt for their doing , i could not live , i am not guilty of their actions only mine and that is true of all humans we are only guilty of our actions or inactions if we are there and do nothing , people love to hold such things against themselves , why ? we are captains of only one soul ours

@ret4350 2 года назад

Shame is real.

@q8gyj26s 4 года назад

How dramatic is this lady

@kristinebailey2804 4 года назад

yet we still have democrats saying we are responsible for slavery. And I agree "I didn't do anything." I never had a slave, nor my parents, nor their parents, nor theirs.

@joycestewart4893 3 года назад

But the bigotry is still there.

@toomanymarys7355 3 года назад

@@joycestewart4893 Why don't you tell the woman in this video that she is still a bigot? Your trash narrative is why she was so upset to begin with.

@pbezunartea 3 года назад

@@toomanymarys7355 _Why don't you tell the woman in this video that she is still a bigot?_ That's not what she said. Learn to read.

@elizabethblane201 3 года назад

Somehow the same illogical thinking this poor woman used for her own misplaced guilt is being applied to the BLM narrative and we are supposed to believe the ridiculous assertion that modern-day whites, who never owned slaves, are supposed to make reparation payments to modern-day blacks, who were never slaves?

@idontcarei 4 года назад

SO WHAT ???? U DIDNT DO ANYTHING WRONG .WHY U R DEPRESSED

@joycestewart4893 3 года назад

Be kinder in your words.

@hortensia849 2 года назад

You have no idea how it is to discover this about your grandfather. And special about what he did. Ecen when you didn't do anything this knowing is a weight on the soul and heart. It is good she talked about it. And took action to search more info. She is a courageous woman who want to break the chain with this past. To take action was the first step for healing. Very courageous. God bless her for a happy life now. Necer ever judge when you do not know.