Jerry Springer discovers how his grandmothers were killed in the Holocaust
Jerry Springer, the American chat show host, breaks down in tears tonight (wed) as he discovers how both his Jewish grandmothers were killed in the Holocaust.
Jerry Springer was born in a London tube station during an air raid in 1944 Photo: BBC
The way they met their deaths at the hands of
the Nazis was unearthed in an edition of the BBC1 genealogy series Who
Do You Think You Are?, in which Springer travels to Germany and Poland
to trace his family tree.
The talk
show host, the son of Jewish refugees, was born in a London tube station
during an air raid in 1944 after his parents fled to Britain to escape
persecution.
Springer knew that his grandmothers had died in the Holocaust but had always assumed that they were murdered in Auschwitz.
She was then sent in
a cattle wagon to the Chelmno extermination camp in Poland where she
was gassed to death alongside her sister and brother-in-law.
Looking
at the pictures of the victims being loaded on to trains, Springer
says: "What were these soldiers thinking? It's one thing to say Hitler
was the devil, and a few of the people around him, but what about the
regular soldiers? When they were watching the group of human beings, who
had obviously never done anything to them, it's not like the craziness
that sometimes happens when people shoot at each other during wars.
These are clearly innocent civilians."
Springer also discovered that his paternal grandmother, Selma Springer, died in the ghetto of Theresienstadt outside Prague.
"I wish I could says it was 800 years ago and it was a barbaric era, but of course it wasn't," he tells the programme.
"It was 60 years ago. It was my culture, a Western civilised national. It still boggles the mind to think that it could happen."
Springer also discovered that his paternal grandmother, Selma Springer, died in the ghetto of Theresienstadt outside Prague.
"I wish I could says it was 800 years ago and it was a barbaric era, but of course it wasn't," he tells the programme.
"It was 60 years ago. It was my culture, a Western civilised national. It still boggles the mind to think that it could happen."
Springer says;
"I wish I could says it was 800 years ago and it was a barbaric era, but of course it wasn't," he tells the programme.
"It was 60 years ago. It was my culture, a Western civilised national. It still boggles the mind to think that it could happen."
Yes Jerry, it COULD happen in both the microcosm and the macrocosm.
I have been living it, fighting the Warren County Criminal Justice System because 4 people wanted the assets I had built over a long time. Then when my mother passes, after wanting to financially bring me back from the fires of sociopaths, more sociopaths take what she left me. Jerry, you got very lucky!
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