BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 5 Episode #3: Jerry Springer

[imstillstanding]

Have just been told this a real weepie 
Julie x

[Dancing Master]

I won't say what this is about, I do not watch the progamme but there is a person who is on ITV every morning and gives away all what is going to happen on the evenings soap or programme.

I cannot believe for one minute that Jerry Springer did not have this information prior to this programme.

I'll comment further once the programme has been shown.

[BettyofKent]

One of the TV listings mags says what this is about, but, like Dancing Master, I won't spoil it. It's going to be very sad, but as it concerns close ancestors, I'm also surprised he didn't know.

Betty

[IgorStrav]

I think it was a very moving programme.

Whilst it's right the relatives were very close ones, I think Jerry made it clear that his parents had never spoken about much of their history.

And his cousin told him, clearly, that although both their mothers knew what had happened to their own mothers - though not perhaps in detail - they had never spoken of it.

The research that was done in finally pinning down all the horrific Nazi documentation was evidently something which was greatly facilitated by the programme.

And his final commentary, about the strength of the family, and the part of each of us in a long chain, speaks very much to me about how I feel about the research I do in my family history. 

[shanew147]

Interesting episode - even though it was easy to guess the kind of story that was going to unfold.

Make me appreciate more the fact that I met & knew all my grandparents and most cases got to hear their stories and details first hand.  


Shane

[lesleyhannah]

I found Jerry's emotion very believable. As his parents had left Germany before his grandparents were killed, they could probably only guess what had happened to them. In the circumstances it doesn't surprise me that they never spoke of their fears to their children. I could only guess what it must have been like to imagine your elderly mother being left to die in a concentration camp.

It was all very moving. So far all three episodes in this series have been gripping - and all very different. I was looking at the rest of the programmes, and I think they should cover a wide range of backgrounds. If they're all this good I'll be well satisfied!

[silvery]

I can understand that he didn't have information about his grandparents, that it was too painful to talk about, but he knew very little about the holocaust.   I find that odd.

[JLo]

I agree it was very moving and had me 'removing dust from my eyes'.

I can completely understand why this was never talked about by Jerry's parents.  Even if he knew roughly what had happened, to be faced with such clear evidence and to stand in the places where it happened must have been incredibly emotional for him.  He may have known vague details about the Holocaust, but when you're put in that situation it becomes incredibly real.

What a fantastic series so far  

[sucram]

i can understand that jerry knew very little about his family. my dad asked me to do the familytree for him and i said yes. I had to go back to him a few days later, i felt really guilty having to ask him this question. "dad, what were your mum and dads names as i don`t know?", Both his parents died well before i was born and they were never mentioned, and i never asked. He died six months later and never got to see the tree i have now compiled.