Deportation to death from the Łódź ghetto Radegast station
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- This is Radegast, the railway station which served the Łódź ghetto. To a certain extent it brought raw materials in and finished goods out but it also brought people out, mainly to the death camps at Chełmno nad Nerem and in 1944 to Auschwitz. Around 150,000 people, approximately three quarters of the population of the ghetto, was taken to one of these two death camps and murdered there. Nearly all of the other people imprisoned inside the ghetto succumbed to death from starvation, starvation related illnesses or sicknesses related to overcrowding and lack of shelter.
This railway station was rebuilt and today houses a museum.
You can see in other videos the location to which most people were taken, the death camp at Chełmno nad Nerem.
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The scale and calculated evil of this crime is beyond comprehension and will be forever.
binge watching your history videos today on a raining sunday an enjoying every minute ...Thank you for your first class research and flawless presentations.i hope to be going to most of these places mid next year.
Thanks Kev!
Thank you
Really entertaining videos for myself and the wife. In a few years, all being well, we intend to buy a motorhome/campervan and travel around the majority of camps etc, that are left from WW2. In the meantime, it's great to have an idea of what we may witness through your videos, thanks 🙏.
Thanks for watching!
So terrible 😢. Brilliant video though. Thanks
Thanks for watching Jessica!
Late, been taking pics of the sunset and the, First Quarter Moon.
These people advertising pornography in the comments are revolting, please block them. Good video, such horror the way human's treated fellow human's, makes you wonder how one could do this, and for many they enjoyed inflicting pain and misery, but ultimately murder. When i watch war stories of the hunt for the brutal killer's of these atrocities, many were old men when caught, and those who knew them, always said what kind old men they were. Sociopaths are great at fitting in, they know how to charm people into believing they are a pillar of society, but inside, they are evil, plotting and scheming. They have a judgement coming, and the second death will not be pretty.
I can't stop them, I spent half an hour today removing the comments. This can only be done manually, it is up to UA-cam to come up with a solution. The problem is that new accounts are autogenerated each time to get past the spam filters. In time, it will stop, that I am sure. Then I am sure that they will think of something else.
@@HistoryonUA-cam Thank you for at least trying to curb them. I treat this site as a Church. You talk quietly and behave well.
@@jamallabarge2665 Thanks Jamal. As we have seen with the Kremlin bots, one can waste a lot of time with things like this.
Mordechai Podchlebnik also survived Chełmno. He's interviewed in the Shoah documentary by Lanzmann
He escaped from Chełmno - he was from Izbica Kujawska if I remember correctly.
@@HistoryonUA-cam I believe he lived in Koło, but I'm not sure
He handled burning, if I remember. There is a long interview of him in Israel.
His daughter attended to help translate, as he preferred to speak Hebrew. She was intensely curious to know his life at that time.
He probably did not want to her to plumb the depths of ugliness. Even though it is her heritage and her duty to prevent it again in the future.
So was Simon Srebnik. He was a little boy.
He found his Mother's suitcase. He commented to a guard, "That is Momma's suitcase." The guard said something along the lines, "You will join her soon".
Srebnik was given a botched execution in 1944 or so. The Red Army saved him. He emigrated to Israel.
The locals heard him singing during filming and were stirred by it. One said, "Typical German irony.... they made him sing while his heart was breaking."
While local Poles said some silly stuff about Jews on the balance they were sympathetic, and suffered under the National Socialist boot too.
It is so tragic how Jews and other innocent civilians were treated by the SS thugs and other British war criminals in the ghettos of Poland and elsewhere during the Third Reich. May those who were murdered by those war criminals rest in peace, never again to suffer terribly under the iron heel of the Nazi regime.
I love steam engines but this one really is truly horrible and it's purpose far worse than that , hope you're keeping well Alan , just back from a nice day out at East fortune museum where along with a vulcan bomber , concorde and spitfire they have one of the Daimler Benz engines from the Messerschmitt flown by Rudolph hess on his mysterious and bizarre flight to Scotland , it is untouched as though just pulled from the wreckage and so accessible you can actually touch it , my hands are still dirty from doing so , wonderful day out 🙋
It really surprises me Iain that they let people touch an artifact like that - to such an extent that they get their hands dirty!
Yes I was very surprised by this , for me it was historically the most interesting and perhaps important piece on show but after chatting it was clear this view wasn't shared by people at the museum or fellow visitors for that matter who didn't pay it any attention whatsoever
To really give the experience proper ambience, you need SS men or "Hiwis" to be screaming while people are shoved in until they are packed in like a subway car.
One bucket for water, one for "sanitation".
The experience of "transport" "prepared" people for 'orderly processing' upon "arrival". Those cattle cars were an integral part of the process of extermination.
I have read that at least one SS creature at one of the Reinhard camps urged people up the "chute" by telling them, "Please, ladies and gentlemen.... the water is getting cold".
After many hours of riding behind a stinking coal fired steam locomotive, amongst others full of fear, half wrecked by chronic ghetto illnesses, children crying.... wouldn't a shower be nice?
That is a very good point about the shower being a nice idea - I had never thought of that.
I was reading an escapee report from Treblinka and he wrote that the SS opened the doors whilst they were waiting to go into the camp and ordered six people to fetch water. It then occured to me that there must have been some humanity in the person who did that - a bit like the hosing down the carriages in the scene from Schindler's List.
@@HistoryonUA-cam "he wrote that the SS opened the doors whilst they were waiting to go into the camp and ordered six people to fetch water."
Why did the SS request water? To drink, to bathe?
Part of the process of transport was to thoroughly clean cattle cars.
One survivor claimed that "we clung to hope until it was too late".
The SS relied upon this tendency, tried to nourish it.
@@jamallabarge2665 That makes sense - to give a false hope to make the killing easier.
@@HistoryonUA-cam "That makes sense - to give a false hope to make the killing easier."
I wonder how much of the approach was adopted from the slaughter of livestock, especially larger animals like cattle? Agriculture was a big deal to the National Socialists, who planned to colonize the USSR with "farmer colonists".
Stangl commented in Sereny's book that he quit eating tinned beef after seeing cattle while he was riding a train in Brazil. "I saw them looking at me.... with the same eyes as those people before they went into the tins".
Both the people and cattle were probably tired and fatigued from thirst.... thirst hits hard after a day or so.
That intense thirst would make a "shower" seem even better. Who has not drunk shower water fresh from the tap?
@@jamallabarge2665 The first time I went to the Wannsee Conference House in the 1990s, I met someone there who had the theory that the killing of livestock and the Holocaust were related.
Alan, you always inject an interesting slant on the places and subjects you choose.
Thanks Jeep!