Brutal Killer of Nazi Criminals - Yehuda Lerner & his Escape from Sobibor - Warsaw Ghetto & WW2
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- Brutal Killer of Nazi Criminals - Yehuda Lerner & his Escape from Sobibor - Warsaw Ghetto & WW2.
Yehuda Lerner, one of 4 children of Jewish parents, was born on the 22 July 1926 in Warsaw, Poland. Yehuda Lerner was a 13 year old student when the Second World War began on the 1st of September 1939 with the invasion of Poland. Warsaw suffered heavy air attacks and artillery bombardment and German troops entered the capital on the 29th of September shortly after its surrender. The campaign in Poland ended on the 6th of October the same year with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of the country.
On the 23rd of November 1939, German civilian occupation authorities required Warsaw's Jews to identify themselves by wearing white armbands with a blue Star of David. The German authorities closed Jewish schools, confiscated Jewish-owned property, and conscripted Jewish men into forced labor and dissolved prewar Jewish organizations.
On the 12th of October 1940 German authorities had decreed the establishment of a ghetto in Warsaw. The decree required all Jewish residents of Warsaw to move into a designated area, which German authorities sealed off from the rest of the city in November 1940.
One of the Jews imprisoned in the ghetto was Yehuda Lerner and his family.
Between 1940 and mid-1942, 83,000 Jews died of starvation and disease.
When a resident from the Warsaw Ghetto passed away, their families would place the body in the street and it would be picked up in the morning by a funeral cart that made its rounds every day.
From the 22nd of July until the 12th of September 1942, German SS and police units, assisted by auxiliaries, carried out mass deportations from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center, 52 miles away from Warsaw.
Yehuda and his family were rounded up on the first day of the mass deportation on July 22, 1942. Whilst Yehuda was deported to work in Smolensk working at a military airport, his family was deported to the Treblinka death camp. Yehuda never saw them again.
After two months of watching people starve to death or be shot by the Germans as a type of sport, Yehuda decided that he had to escape.
He fled with a friend, sneaking out of the barbed wire fence and running through the adjacent fields and forests for two days before encountering anyone. Only then was he recaptured and taken to a different labor camp.
As he said, he simply had nothing to lose and did not want to die of starvation. Yehuda was beaten often, and bedridden for long periods, yet managed to appear at roll calls so that he would escape the execution that the sick were subject to.
One of the camps in which Yehuda was imprisoned was the Minsk ghetto. He was far too frail to work, and thus was put, by his Jewish comrades, into the Russian prisoners of war camp nearby. All of these Russian prisoners happened to be Jewish. Yehuda contracted typhus and was bedridden for several weeks. Once healed, he was taken back to Minsk. One night in September 1943, everyone in the camp was taken by train to Lublin, at what would be the Majdanek concentration camp. However, after waiting for a day at the camp gates, they were told that there was no room and they would be taken to Sobibor.
When Yehuda’s transport arrived in Sobibor in September 1943, everyone was herded off the train. The Germans demanded sixty strong people, and reasoning that food would be needed to do hard labor, Lerner volunteered. He was given good clothes and blankets, obviously from the previous convoy, and allowed to eat all he wanted. They would do hard work digging underground munitions warehouses. In talking with other prisoners, he learned that there was no escape from Sobibor and during the year and a half that Sobibor was operational, several attempts were made by the prisoners to escape. On one such occasion when 72 Dutch Jews were organizing an escape and were betrayed by the kapo, they were executed on the order of Johann Niemann, the camp’s deputy commander. On another occasion, a group of fifty conspirators were burned alive...
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Hitler and his lackeys died in 1945, but Mr. Lerner had a full life and passed away in 2007. I'm calling that a win. May G-d bless him.
Why did you not just spell out “God” like why are you censoring a word that is 3 letters long? Why even type out “may God bless him” if you’re gonna censor yourself. Goofy
It's always heartening to hear about inmates who got the opportunity to kill some of their tormentors.
It’s still sad because they didn’t wanna kill anybody but we’re forced into circumstances that changed everything about life before ww2. I’m glad a few were strong enough after all they been through to kill a few nazis and get revenge on the rest in court….
are you suggesting Palestinians should break the law?
Agreed. It always cheers me up.
@@programmabilities Palestinians are a warring nation that can't win a war.
Make the peace, then come back to discuss your grievances.
Everyone around the planet know about the nature as some one day we are going to go to, but in the sence of bullshits Germans are going to punish by the way of great person's of universe , they're not going to finish those who are not faithful to anyone who respects.
Thanks for keeping the horrors of the holocaust alive.yehuda Lerner may your memory be a blessing. NEVER FORGET..
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I shed no tears for the Nazi scumbags that died, but shed many tears for Yehuda Lerner.
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Me to
Germany should be a big black hole
Those Nazi scumbags got what they deserve
And all the other Jews who were slaughtered.
Yehuda Lerner . A name I will never forget. A name I will shed many tears for.. thank you for another moving and educational video sir. God bless.
I am Austrian and therefore the Holocaust is part of my history. I admire the accuracy and the educational strength of this channel. Thank you so much!
You are not responsible for the evil of your grandparents.
@@mirquellasantos2716 Nobody is. I know that. But every society has a past and a responsibility I think. Besides that, for any adult here it was our great- grandparents' generation or even before that.
@@elninodelosalpes Then your great-grandparents were evil and you (younger generation) are okay.
I keep hearing about the Russian invasion of the Ukraine 🇺🇦 last year that Russian mercenaries were on the hunt for Active Ukrainian Neo-Fascists that were associated with Austrian Nazi organizations. In this generation it’s easier to identify who’s who affiliated with the Nazi ideology.
You're one of the people who wouldn't let it happen again.
This is beyond inspiring and honourable. Despite the death of his family, he never gave up and lived to see the end of the Holocaust. This really had me tensed, wondering if we would survive or die. Especially when you mentioned that of the hole in the cart they could have escaped from. Thank you for creating this video
Thank You for giving The Courageous, Innocent People a Voice! We Must Never Forget! 🥀🥀🥀🥀💔💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
Thank you for watching our videos. You are great :)
A brave man
Amazing man!
Thanks for keeping history alive!! If not for brave individuals like Lerner the truth may had never come out nobody would've been punished for these horrible crimes, They did take revenge!
So true. We are happy you liked the video. Thank you for watching us and your nice words. Greetings
Revenge brings revenge
@@philipkozely3768 The German judication after 1949 failed nearly entirely to hold even the worst torturers to account and the "de-nazification" conducted by the allied forces after 1945 did not step in deep enough. 😞
@@LarsPW Yes. For sure. Agree.
@@philipkozely3768 actually it’s justice in it’s purest form!
13:22 Indeed there were. And still today, we remember his heroicism. Thank you for these docs!
Thank you for this very well presented documentary. Such bravery in the midst of cruelity, misery and hopelessness.
So glad Yehuda and his family made it to Israel and lived a fulfilled life there.
God bless the Jewish nation and give them peace! Shalom!
Like they said on Inglorious Bastards, he was an Austrian Jew who got the hell up out of Nazi Germany while the getting was good but then came back to give you Nazis what for.
Mr. Lerner was A Hero! I'm happy he was able to live a full life, and had a Family.🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🙏🙏🙏🙏
A murderer..in hell now hahaha
It’s thanks to individuals such as Lerner the first eye witness accounts of the concentration camps were given to eventually find and capture those responsible!
Exactly. Imagine they did not survive ... the world would never get to know what happened there ...
Great video with unique footages and pictures. I have never seen these pictures anywhere. And additional colorized pictures are amazing bonus! Thanks for great job and keep work going!
My father was nineteen in the US army. He always told us how terrible things were. I cannot believe the people who deny that it ever happened.
Thx for the video. What a great man. Unfortunately virtually all Nazi criminals were not prosecuted after the war. Apart of some death sentences, most were out of prison after a couple of years
The truth, unfortunately!
Both America and Germany protected the vast majority of them.
They’re sentences were reduced by German judges who instituted hate crimes against news as law. Another example of racist America who embraced nazis
So much suffering I will never understand how people can do this sort of thing to others it's heart breaking yet again another very informative video thankyou
Yet a million Tutsis were murdered in Rwanda with machetes (the murderers had to get up close and personal) and the world did nothing. Worse, we Jews did nothing.
@@Strongboy1770 The Gernans were afraid. Even the citzens all lived in fear of not following the rules. They are very rules based people. The Jews were not aware and were deceived. Nothing like this had happened. Look how the US treated the Japanese. They did nothing as well. Neither the Jews or Japanese were aware of the outcome at the time. Both had very different outcomes. The Germans were either be killed or do the killing. Human nature not ethnicity at play here.
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What would you like us to have done?
@@solvingpolitics3172 Get up a coalition of neighboring countries to invade Rwanda and stop the genocide, or at least try to.
@@solvingpolitics3172 and you call yourself Solving Politics?
Much respect for Yehuda Lerner, a real hero.
We must never forget! Thank you Yehuda Lerner and all the Comrades who bravely fought that day for your Freedom! ♥️🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🌷🌷🌷👍👍♥️
The Struggle just to Survive was Incredibly Brave! Unimaginable Suffering!
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To escape Sobibor was Amazing, and killing the Nazis was Very Brave! Rest In Peace to All of The Innocent Victims, and Those That Fought for Them. Prayers Survivors were able to find Peace.🥀🥀🥀🥀🙏🙏🙏🙏💔💔💔💔🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
Yehuda Lerner a literal hero, brave beyond belief.
My heart cries for The Innocent Victims.🥀🥀🥀🥀
One of the best story I've heard in ages on WW2 prison escapes.
Brave and spirited men who struck a blow for all against evil tyranny. We must never forget. 🌹
Educational story. Thanks.
Wonderful ending, in the company of so much violence and suffering. Thank You!
Thank you for sharing this amazing story. may his memory be blessed
Nice video, such information!
Edit: i shed many tears for him.
You watch all our videos, so glad to have you here :)
We wanted to portray his story since a long time ago. Glad you like it, Yehuda was a special man and his story deserves to be told and remembered.
This story deserves to make a movie from it.
great video!
Good stuff!
Thank you. Have you seen our video about Francesca Mann? Amazing story!
great hero !
Amazing man!
Great video with much to learn
Thank you :)
I really enjoyed this video. I had previously learned of the rebellion some months ago on this channel but not the detail and subsequent success of this hero. I’m glad his remarkable life has been preserved and celebrated. My heart goes out to his family and the Jewish nation for the unspeakable crimes that were perpetrated against them. Truly a story of an unprecedented survivor who went on to live out his life in the service of his country.
David, thank you. We also like the story and feel obliged to bring the heroic act of those who took part in the revolt to as many people as we can ... Glad you liked tha story. Thank u
Not a word was divulge history like this. Thanks for info.
It’s lovely to hear, there were many tears shed, instead of there were no tears she’d.
Next week we will bring you another " many tears shed " so stay with us. Thank you
Very respectable man who did fight bravely the nazis and even killed some of them. May he rest in peace, respect and honor to him.
Love learning about unsung heroes...
Fought against fascism in its most brutal presentation. No wonder the Israelis are so intense. Not letting this happen again
That's right. Arabs actually tried something similar in 1948. Today it's different. 2 million Palestinian Arabs living as Israeli citizens, living amongst Jews.
Now the billionaires and their American lackeys are working hard to make America a fascist state.
Outstanding
Thank you
That Story was Exceptionally interesting to Learn about & Hear ,Thank You for Sharing it.
Good morning, and as ALWAYS, Thank You for these Very Important, and Informative videos.
Hi and thanks for being with us :)
Pechersky almost died on the same month and day of his birthday 🎈🎂🎉 he was born February 22 1909 and died on January 19th 1990 one heck of a life. He died one month and 3 days from his birth Wow.
A real hero for freedom, may his Soul Rest in Peace 🙏🙏
Thanks for share this history.
We shall not forget in order to avoid the same again.
Very informative
God bless his soul!
My thanks and congratulations to this man that would not yield nor even escape to freedom and safety ....but, TO RETURN IN THE RESISTANCE to avenge those assailed by butchers !
Excellent!
Thank you
Amazing story, real human heroism.
Great post!
Paul, thank you. Let us know if you liked the video. It's a very special one!
Great work to help keep history relevant and alive!!
@@paulmcadam6825 Thank you
Funny how many Ukrainian guards appear in these stories
Ukrainians had no love for the Soviet Union being victims of a famine imposed by Stalin to stop them breaking away and declaring their own state. This does not excuse the few Ukrainians who collaborated in the Holocaust but does give some indication of how brutal those days were.
As usual with these videos, if you already know basic general info about ww2 then skip to the last 3 mins of the 14 min video for the actual story pertaining to the title.
I watched the movie of the escape when i was young..what people are capable of doing to other humans are unfathomable
What an inspiration to us all ❤❤😊
My heroes
The spirits of the victims must now speak .
I saw the films of the horror that took place.
My elders showed us kids at the age of 9 .
We saw the faces of the starved out victims lying in the streets and sidewalks . The sadness on their faces .
The children crying in agony .Shame on you for blurring out the images. The victims speak through me now.
I saw their skeletol figures and very thin faces . The two little girls sitting on the sidewalk starving to death . I'll never forget their faces . The bodies being bulldozed into trenches. The people lined up to be shot and dropped into trenches .
Make a video about soviet terror and deportation of people in Siberia and Kazakstan .
Oleg, next week we post a video about the Soviet Union. Keep watching us
and please honestly and frankly discuss the ethnic composition of the bolsheviks and senior ranks of the nkvd. sadly there was an inordinately high ratio of jewish members of both. don’t sugarcoat history.
A true man. Great.
how they could shame almost dehumanizing people is awful makes you wonder how the germans could be that heartless and cruel not all where this horrific yet it’s a part of history where we well never forget all the victims
Germans? Did you see some of the rabidity in western nations during Covid? Most nations weren't too far away from concentration camps for the unvaccinated.
It is a great story to make it a movie
I was born in the Santa Clara Valley of California in 1943. At that time Yehuda was becoming one of the greatest heroes I was to learn of in my lifetime.
Steven, what a nice comment! Thank you
Great indeed
May his memory be a blessing.
This guy is like the real life version of The Bear from " Inglorious Basterds " ..I remember Ivan Demamjuk being arrested in the 80's in the USA...he came here under operation paperclip
May God grant these victims Eternal peace
Don't it break your heart watching
never never forget this !!
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This man is a total Gangster. He is a hero to all mankind. 😎
He endured all of those hardships and still lived to 80. Tough old bird! I'll be lucky if I make it to 80 and I have never had typhus, etc, etc. Genetics
Brave men!
Very brave!
There were many tears 💧 shed 🥲🥺🥺🙌🙌🙌
Wow! What about Arkady Vaispapir?
We will portray also his story :) Be sure about it! :)
TodaYehuda!😅❤
Bokertov Yehuda.
Lerner “The Legend”!👊🏼
Strange modulation in acceent first / second half of sentence
Yehudah Lerner your memory is a blessing.
two wrongs don’t make a right. my maternal uncle was murdered in a nazi labor camp in 4/1945. my dear grandmother, his widowed mother, attended morning mass almost every day. i never heard her utter an unkind about any nationality, let alone seek revenge.
so evil and juvenile to harrass Jewish men like that
My respects for Yehuda Lerner.
Sometimes when I feel sad, I look at aerial pictures of any German city April 1945.
Especially Berlin
A fascinating story, but I could not cope with the metal mickey narration.
RIP 💐 🙏 Yehuda Lerner ❤ 🕊 🇵🇭
Good video on the whole. I did consider making a donation to your channel but after seeing some parts blurred out I have changed my mind. I consider such censorship a desecration of the memory of Yehuda Lerner and all the brave Jews and others who acted to fight the evil of cruel Nazism. It is an attempt to sanitise Nazi bestiality. Who is the narrator, he did a good job!
Its more important to the creator to keep it monetized.
Hello, if we want to share our content with more people, we have to follow UA-cam's rules. Finally, we have to blur some images because UA-cam has flagged them as too sensitive. We would love to show more, but we have to follow the instructions.
Hello Kristopher, you can work with us for free for 8 hours every working day and maybe try to find another 10 people to work for free under the same conditions and they are specialists with more than 10 years of experience. Then turn to all the data archives and make a deal with free photos and footage in the same quality that we have. And we will be more than happy to stop all monetization. Are you okay with this deal?
I accept you have to pay for your content but be more transparent about monetisation in order to justify your position as a content provider. His comment is not unjustified considering history is written by the winners. You are accusing him of prejudice because of an innocuous throw away statement. You are better than that. Don’t stoop to his level and respond with legalistic rhetoric. Your videos are great but are only a sound bite in the universe of academic research.
It only takes a few to start resisting.
My first wife was jewish, I met many survivors and saw their tattoos
Thank You mr.Yehuda !!! Good school for all normal peoples..you can not talk to nazists.
May he rest in even more peace.
really this is so hard to listen to & watch 😕
I am glad to hear stories of survivors of the holocaust.
Chief of Ramle's Police Force, not Ramallah's. Ramallah the was under Jordanian occupation (min 13:02)
Never Forget. Never Again
These are the stories I love.
May Yehuda's name forever be blessed. But when mentioning the uprising you shouldn't forget Leon Feldhendler, who was the main head of the Resistance and organizer of the Uprising until Pechersky arrived. He spent months in that camp, escaped during the revolt, went back to his home in Lublin, and was killed by anti-Semitic Poles just months after the Russians liberated the country.
Hmm
...it would be difficult coming to terms and the reality to know you were related to one of these cold-blooded hate driven murders with no regard for human life...