# George Soros on Surviving the Holocaust and Witnessing Property Confiscation

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2069608740391633247
- Source account: [@jammles9](https://x.com/jammles9)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 2:33
- Published: 2026-06-24
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hHHvIfCjU7E2/en/george-soros-on-surviving-the-holocaust-and-witnessing-property-confiscation

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hHHvIfCjU7E2/en/george-soros-on-surviving-the-holocaust-and-witnessing-property-confiscation) These are pictures from 1944 of what happened to George Soros' friends and neighbors.

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hHHvIfCjU7E2/en/george-soros-on-surviving-the-holocaust-and-witnessing-property-confiscation?t=6) You're a Hungarian Jew who escaped the Holocaust by posing as a Christian.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hHHvIfCjU7E2/en/george-soros-on-surviving-the-holocaust-and-witnessing-property-confiscation?t=17) And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hHHvIfCjU7E2/en/george-soros-on-surviving-the-holocaust-and-witnessing-property-confiscation?t=22) Right. I was 14 years old, and I would say that that's when my character was made.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hHHvIfCjU7E2/en/george-soros-on-surviving-the-holocaust-and-witnessing-property-confiscation?t=28) In what way? That one should think ahead, one should understand and anticipate events, and one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil.

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hHHvIfCjU7E2/en/george-soros-on-surviving-the-holocaust-and-witnessing-property-confiscation?t=41) I mean, it was a very personal experience of evil.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hHHvIfCjU7E2/en/george-soros-on-surviving-the-holocaust-and-witnessing-property-confiscation?t=44) My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours, who swore that you were his adopted godson.

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hHHvIfCjU7E2/en/george-soros-on-surviving-the-holocaust-and-witnessing-property-confiscation?t=53) Yes. Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hHHvIfCjU7E2/en/george-soros-on-surviving-the-holocaust-and-witnessing-property-confiscation?t=57) That side. Yes. I mean, that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years.

[1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hHHvIfCjU7E2/en/george-soros-on-surviving-the-holocaust-and-witnessing-property-confiscation?t=69) Was it difficult? Not at all. Not at all.

[1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hHHvIfCjU7E2/en/george-soros-on-surviving-the-holocaust-and-witnessing-property-confiscation?t=76) Maybe as a child you don't see the connection, but it created no problem at all.

[1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hHHvIfCjU7E2/en/george-soros-on-surviving-the-holocaust-and-witnessing-property-confiscation?t=86) No feeling of guilt? No. For example, that I'm Jewish, and here I am watching these people go, I could just as easily be there, I should be there, none of that.

[1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hHHvIfCjU7E2/en/george-soros-on-surviving-the-holocaust-and-witnessing-property-confiscation?t=98) Well, of course, I could be on the other side, or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away.

[1:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hHHvIfCjU7E2/en/george-soros-on-surviving-the-holocaust-and-witnessing-property-confiscation?t=111) But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was, well, actually, a funny way, it's just like in markets, that if I weren't there, of course I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would be taking it away anyhow.

[2:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hHHvIfCjU7E2/en/george-soros-on-surviving-the-holocaust-and-witnessing-property-confiscation?t=133) Whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away.

[2:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hHHvIfCjU7E2/en/george-soros-on-surviving-the-holocaust-and-witnessing-property-confiscation?t=140) So I had no role in taking away that property.

[2:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hHHvIfCjU7E2/en/george-soros-on-surviving-the-holocaust-and-witnessing-property-confiscation?t=145) So I had no sense of guilt. Are you religious?

[2:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hHHvIfCjU7E2/en/george-soros-on-surviving-the-holocaust-and-witnessing-property-confiscation?t=148) No. Do you believe in God? No.