A Warning to Those Visiting Auschwitz
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this place should be treated like a memorial or a place of mourning - you wouldn’t go to a funeral and go and kiss romantically
Some people would, sadly. During my grandpa-in-law's funeral ceremony, two of his grandchildren were full on french kissing their partners. May I add they were grown adults and sat in the front rows of church.
off topic but the last vid I came from was Scotland v Wales highlights and I just saw one of your comments
Some people don’t know how to process emotions, especially kids. Also, you don’t know the context of the kissing couple. They could have been Jewish and kissed because they were thankful they didn’t live in that era. People are too complex to get mad at them right away.
True it's a place of mass murder not a romantic place
@@Lisa-el7zo eh, that could be their way of comforting each other. Can't blame them if we can't understand how they are feeling or how they cope with it
when my mother went, someone there asked if there was any wifi "in case i get bored" ... its disgusting
It's to ask for the wifi but that phrasing is terrible
@@Jurassic_Park_II_Enjoyer didn't know its forbidden by law to install Internet infrastructure on structures that exceed the age of 82 years
@@Jurassic_Park_II_Enjoyer my house is older than that and it has good wifi. I don't see how age effects the quality of wifi.
I would’ve responded “no there’s no wifi, but in the early 1940s, millions of people were lumped together here, and senselessly beaten, starved, forced to live out in the cold with barely any clothes, and then murdered and when Adolf Hitler told them they were taking a shower.”
if something like that bores you, you should leave. And see a therapist.
My great grandparents were killed in Auschwitz’s and the fact that people treat it like it’s a playground is just horrifying to hear
Sorry for your loss, RIP
Sorry for your loss but who are you to dictate how people behave, there are other places where women and children died, should we also walk around St petersbur, Volgograd, Dresden, Cologne etc, because you made up the "generational trauma"
@@fed5179 I never said they had to walk around Auschwitz’s. Some of those who chose to visit Auschwitz’s do not treat it with the respect it deserves which I find to be rather disgusting. So all I was doing was referring back to when he stated that people take selfies and videos of the place or just don’t treat it the way it should be treated, with respect. So please, pick up a history book or just simply watch the video before saying things like this.
@lizgoesinsane8465 You haven't seemed to answer why are you behaving like a nazi yourself, who are you to dictate how people behave?
@lizgoesinsane8465 I'm sure as a person of slavic heritage my ancestors went through some oppression at the hand of germany, except I don't cry about it and dont force people to behave to accommodate my made up "generational trauma" if they are in front of perhaps some ww2 memorial.
I’m german and here it’s pretty much mandatory I believe to have a trip to see the camps in 10th grade. I saw peole joking and laughing about the furnaces and taking silly selfies and together with the overwhelming aura filled with grief and sadness that this place gave me I actually got physically sick. I do have to say that I was proud that all of us spoke out against people we saw fooling around a place that is so horrible but to think that adults have no respect for it and treat it like it’s a set of some series is beyond disgusting to me
To be honest I think it is unfair to judge young people too harshly in that regard. Most of the time they just aren't mentally mature enough to completly understand that their actions there are wrong and they don't even want to be there in the first place. I'm a german too and we visited concentration camps three different times from age 12 to age 18. There was a huge difference in behaviour. At age 18 everyone was absolutely silent and respectful the whole time, while people around me at age 12 just didn't listen, laughed and talked to each other. Not everyone of course.
@@aestmacalis in my experience it wasn't kids tho it was full grown adults which I still find absolutely disrespectful. Okay yes that is true kids are kids but still there are boundaries and I think even the loudest and most mischievous kids should be able to behave at least for the time that they are in such a histroically important place. Might just be bcs I was raised with strict parents but even now as an adult I hold strongly to the beliefe that 12 or 13 years olds are old enough to understand the importance of such a place and when enough is enough
@@saphireanabeth6678 it is wrong indeed but as I've grown older now I can also see how some kids still need time to grow. Some just don't understand. Humans grow differently. I remember a classmate who laid flowers down for the fallen at Buchenwald at 12 and then there were the ones who just couldn't hold their attention span in check.
But I also will never ever understand how adults can behave like that. That's just vile.
@@aestmacalis truly, I guess as long as they are aware of the importance of the place they'll eventually maybe grow to regret their behavior. If they weren't taught that's definitely on the parents as well. And yes I know right from whole grown adults you'd expect them to at least keep quiet if they don't know of the importance
Maybe you feel worse because you are German, Germans seem to feel personal responsibility.
I won't forget my tour guide telling us at the beginning, 'A million people died here. You're standing in a graveyard'. it really set the agenda for our trip there. I'm glad everybody took it seriously.
Million?
Gràveyard?
@@omega0195are you asking me to explain?
@dhouse I can’t even imagine how difficult their job is let alone dealing with people who don’t take it seriously enough! Absolute respect to them.
@@lily.pollard.01 🎶 What do you mean?🎶
Making out in a place where people used to burn, it's disgusting.
A lot of people thought I was talking about a single kiss.
"But our love burns just as bright as the victims did. That is our form of paying respect you know."
-These people probably
why?
@@brokkoli3245 Cause that's a place of death, not a place of love. The entire camp is a place of death.
@@sofiachelli26 so is kissing in the supermarket also not ok? because its a place of trade and not of love? why is it bad to kiss where people died (or died in masses, because otherwise you couldnt kiss anywhere).
@@brokkoli3245 you're comparing a supermarket with a torture camp, it's enough to understand
Just visited Auschwitz on Friday.
Harrowing is an understatement and as much as you get taught about the Holocaust in school absolutely nothing prepares you for how much of an impact standing on the grounds of Auschwitz I & II has. For those who have been the barrack with the photos hits hard, when you see so many lives which were taken in unspeakable ways. That’s before you’re taken to the many other parts of the camps.
That said, everybody must go to Auschwitz at one point in your life. Because once you go and leave, it will humble you to the point your life will never be the same as it was before you went.
Very well said, I am going to visit the tour in a couple of weeks and I can’t lie visiting the gas chambers terrifies me. I cannot begin to imagine the desperation and suffering of those poor innocents lives just gasping for air! I get teary eyed at times just thinking about it.
While I get the sentiment that everyone must go, not everyone in reality should. We'd ideally believe otherwise, but there are those that are simply not capable of feeling empathy or understanding the reality of what happened so many decades ago. I feel like the only way to put an end to such outlandish behavior is to be stringent on who is allowed to visit the camp.
@@nahor88 true, I guess there will always be exceptions.
Respect to every single word you say. It’s not a holiday, it’s the most horrible (of many such) place in the world where horror happened in an unimaginable dimension … May all those innocent victims rest in peace!
Don’t make a museum. 🙄
@@nightslasher9384 There's a difference between going there to learn about the atrocities caused by racial and religious hatred and disrespecting the victims who suffered unfathomable horrors and cruelty there by treating it as just another tourist attraction (taking selfies, laughing and joking, etc..). The purpose of visiting a place like this is for education, not mere entertainment. Do you go to a funeral and laugh and tell jokes there and take selfies? Its the same principle.
Okay, and sometime people need a cope.@@hawkeyepierce7035
People can behave how they like. If they want to take pictures, kiss or behave jovially, that's entirely up to them. This is also how concentration camp victims behaved, you can see footage immediately after liberation. Many were laughing and joking. You don't get to dictate how other FREE human beings behave. Not everyone is a morbid wanker like you.
Maybe some didn't appreciate what they were seeing. But maybe they will learn more later in life and appreciate it. It's beneficial for people to see it regardless of how they act.
In mid 90s I was visiting Poland and my aunt took us to Krakow region. My brother and I were teenagers and asked my aunt if she would take us to Auschwitz. She said : "You are not ready." I am a middle aged father now... and I am still not sure I am ready.
You seem to have a wise aunt.
If you can be quit, if you can be compassionate and thoughtfull of what happened at that place, you can go there.
I went to Theresienstadt as a Teenager with my class when we visited Praque. It was a cloud free, warm summerday but the mood was diferent, hard to explain. The feeling is kinda like when you walk into a really really big church, you feel small and insignificant compared to what the place you are at has to tell. Maybe Auschwitz is on another level than the camp i visited, sadly i cant compare them yet.
I can only recommend visiting at least one of the camps, if you want to go there not for Instagram or Facebook, but for yourself. Its strange to call it a "great memory". Because it wasnt fun or its not something i am proud of but its definetly an important memory for me.
I went when I was 17, I wasn’t ready then and I’m not now. It is a place you are never ready to go, but everyone should so long as they are respectful.
I was 16 when I was in Dachau. Didn't scar me, didn't kill me, didn't scare me, didn't hurt me in any way. Doesn't mean I can't comprehend what happened and be respectful or trying to prevent it ever happening again.
It just means I don't think or act as if I could change the past or as if the past would care...
@@ExtremeDeathman
i like your take on it.
really have nothing else to say rather than i understand and appreciate your way of thinking.
If the dead could speak, they would probably thank you. Peace
Paul Schneider They may not care, I would probably be happy that they are able to jump around and be idiots care free rather than being shoved into a death pit, but yes... it is still disrespectful
@Abraham Shekelbergstien Go troll somewhere else!
I think they'd be sick that people wanted to visit such a place.
It's absolutely horrible.
It isn't "honoring" people to visit a place where people were tortured.
It's honoring to make sure NOBODY GOES THROUGH IT AGAIN.
We all know the story.
Not many people KNOW that WE (through operation Paperclip) brought a lot of those Nazi monsters over here and cleared their backgrounds in exchange for their work.
WE DID THAT.
THE UNITED STATES.
W.
T.
F!
Fluoride is bad for the brain.
educate-yourself.org/cn/genociderockefellernazis2apr03.shtml
That Gall my point was that the couple, kissing, were acting inappropriate and disrespectful. My comment had nothing to do with taking pictures of human remains. In fact, I agree with you, pictures or photos document and show the atrocity, and are not exploitative
If the dead could speak, most of them would probably be saying, "Help! Somebody get me out of this box! I can't breathe in here!"
As a Jewish individual with a holocaust survivor grandpa, I thank you for this video.
Sorry for what your grandpa went through
Unfortunately the Jewish visitors of Auschwitz were the ones who had the worst behaviour of all. I was really shocked about that.
😢💔 I want to help you somehow 🩷
sorry for what your grandpa went through horrible. As a half-Pole, I can attest to that pain. I hope the Jewish population stays safe from now on.
Im sorry for your grandpa but who are you to dictate how people behave, oooh im sorry it must be that "generational trauma thing".
Thank you for this. My husband and I visited the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle in the early 90's. Everyone was very quiet and respectful. Then two women walked in laughing loudly. The docents were on them in seconds and told them to leave, which they did. If disrespectful people would be escorted out of these places, I think everyone would benefit.
We went there on a school trip in 10th grade, and everyone was respectful. Even the loudest kids were quiet.
i feel as if kids, even though unruly and young, do have an inner sense of when to stop messing around, that way for example kids older than 8 will be quiet at funerals and in places where they know horrible things happened
We did the same except some of the guys thought it was funny to draw the swastika symbol into the dirt when the guide and teachers weren't looking... It's hard to put into words how deeply disturbed and appalled I am at their behaviour
And that is how it's meant to be.
@@knappedennis please tell me they got sanctioned for their disrespectful actions.
@@caincawkwell8092 did u mention the wrong person?
Imagine being surrounded by monuments of death and the absolute worst of humanity and being like "time to smooch".
Humanity is a pretty long time, it's a bold statement to say it was the worst. It definitely the worst thing to happen within recorded history, but to say it's the worst thing to happen to humans is a baseless statement.
@@watson1381 Fine, if you really want to play the semantics game.
Imagine being surrounded by monuments of death and some of the worst things humanity has done and being like "time to smooch".
Happy now?
Sadly this is not surprising. I've seen similar behavior at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, and while there were far less victims than the Holocaust and those that died were primarily military personnel, each one of those people that died was still a father, or a son, or a husband, or a brother, or a friend whose life was cut violently short. That event would also expand the war and lead to even greater suffering and grief.
Memorials to tragic events should be treated with some solemnity and reflection by those that visit, but to some it is unfortunately just another tourist attraction.
Methinks some of the ignorant dipshits who visit there and display such behaviour are of the "holocaust denier" variety.
@Trey Stephens Some people never change
I went there last weekend, unfortunately I saw the same things. I never even touched my phone, I was in awe with pure disgust and sorrow and completely choked up. It took me a couple of days before I even cried. It will leave a long lasting impact on me for sure. When I hug my children and put them to bed, I will remember the sacrifice of our ancestors. WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
I'm so sorry you had to see that. There are those of us who REALLY understand what happened. We of course never believed it could but it did. Thank you for coming forward now and letting people know.
Jesus Christ, that's like going to someone's funeral and laughing the whole time..
I agree
Except people dont go to funerals to be entertained
It is sad, I think I'd be to scared to go to Auschwitz even if I had the money.
@@detonatingpunch381 You need to pay for the Vistit, really?! That's naughty
@@curtisjackson40 not really. The money they make from the tickets probably goes towards upkeep of the buildings and such. They need to take care of them or they'll crumble eventually, instead of being a stark reminder of one of the worst tragedies to ever occur
In 7th grade, we had a field trip to a local cemetery and before leaving, our teacher told us “there are people’s mothers, fathers, grandparents, and children buried here. Respect the deceased” and we all did. Those tourists need to be told the same
people are old enough they shouldnt have to be told that. Its like a known thing,( like when u go into a library and automaticaly speak quieter than you usually do) The people that act this way are going to do that were ever they go. Theyve heard about it, seen the movie, got dragged there by someone and dont really care.
Why the hell did you have a field trip to the cemetery. I feel bad for your school.
@@samtdl8639 I don’t remember, but I think it had to do with a book we were reading at the time.
Why the hell was your field trip to a cemetery
@@iliketurtles2187 as I mention to tie in with a book we were reading I think, but I don’t remember honestly and it was in middle school so we were old enough to handle it
I went there in the 80s when I was in the US Army, stationed in Germany. I agree with this video 1000% . Such a tragedy for all humankind.
Thank you, Patrick. You said exactly what needed to be said, and I pray people understand the importance of showing respect and empathy. If visitors can't show the appropriate respect, then DON"T GO. If people can't control their personal behavior is a place of so much pain and suffering, then DON"T GO.
People acting disrespectfully should be kicked out of the place immediately!!
I agree
I fully agree. There should be personnel on the lookout so that this distasteful behavior is not allowed.
Fck yeah.
Aren't they
@Registeel on UA-cam The comment you replied to has unfortunately been deleted but what I’m guessing he meant was that the mongols were way more brutal than the Nazis and that Genghis Khan killed 6 times more people.
I went a few years ago, group of teenagers were laughing and taking pictures of each other in the crematoria etc., the tour guide handled it amazingly:
"When you die, I think I will come to your gravesite and laugh."
They were quiet from that point.
It’s so sad to see what a lack of respect people have. Props to the tour guide.
Give that man a raise
I think I would have said the same to them I think it’s important to call people out on disrespectful behaviour
He probably wont be alive then
@@silverzombo3915 well there is a little tip that you can do to shorten someones life
Auschwitz isn't a bucket list item, it's something you have to see and let yourself succumb with the memory that this should never happen again
Auschwits is a place to feel sorrow, respect, loss and horror. Sorrow for all the people that died there, respect to those that were forced to try to survive and die there, loss for so many human beings, and horror for that such a place exists at all.
If its on your bucket list, take it off because it doesnt belong. If you go there you do it to learn and to humble yourself while facing a place where hell was allowed to exist.
It isn’t a park, a theater or a playground. It is a graveyard, a place where the worst things were committed. Respect the people, the families who lost someone there. It’s not a place for selfies, it’s a place for respect.
Then why pay for admittance?
@@Garl_Vinland to learn about the horrific things committed there, it's not a place for jokes and laughs, if you think that way then your dense
@@vBlinz aw please shut the fuck up this stupid guy is saying it’s bad to take photos and tbh no it’s not it’s the memory “take a picture it will last longer” for a couple to kiss maybe they were kissing to comfort each other maybe they knew sum1 who was killed there and got sad and kissed to cheer each other up? People can also make jokes and laugh because some ppl like to laugh instead of cry snd some ppl makes jokes to cope with certain terrible events nun of that is disrespectful..if they were laughing AT the ppl who died or making fun of The people who died yes it’s disrespectful it’s not disrespectful to kiss or laugh or joke if u don’t intend to offend or be disrespectful it’s how people are so shut up and this guy can get off his fucking high horse THE GUY LITERALLY HAS DRONE FOOTAGE OF THE FUCKING CAMP AND HES GIVING OUT ABOUT PEOPLE TAKING PHOTOS FUCKING HYPOCRITE OF THE CENTURY
@@halol229 I also took a few pictures there but not from the hair and clothes. The guide literally says that you shouldn’t take pictures from it then why still do it. He calls out these people not people who take normal pictures.
@@halol229 your Irish you wouldn't know anything about this. Its highly disrespectful for someone who knows relatives who have suffered in these places. And if you think its acceptable to laugh/make jokes, make out in there and just being disrespectful then you might wanna get yourself checked. Also the guy was filming for a documentary and they allow that except for the things like the hair and clothes which he specifies. Get a grip would ya.
i went to the Death Camp Bergen-Belsen with my class in middle school. Even the greatest bully did not bring a single word out.. it was so silent there.. there was just trees, a huge path and thick fog. I will certainly never forget this day in my life and i am incredibly thankful that my teacher did this with us.
We had a german class over for an exchange for a week when I was in high school (I'm from Belgium). Their teacher insisted on visiting the former German camp of Breendonk, were prisoners of war were held and often executed. They all came out pale as corpses. You can say a lot about Germany, but it is one of the few countries on the planet that truly accepts and deals with the horrible stuff they did in the past. Can't say the same about Belgium to be fair. We were just as horrible in Congo.
I experienced the same. I went there too with my class in high school and everyone was so respectful and quiet, even the class-clowns and the douchebags who usually don’t care about other people’s feelings. The bus ride home was way quieter than the bus ride in the morning.
You guys are being dramatic and exaggerating
@@omega0195 No they are not that's just called respect my guy. Something you clearly know nothing of.
@@omega0195 no you just dont have any respect for the victims of the holocaust, there is no exaggeration here
I went to Dachau years ago when I was 17 and witnessed the same shocking behavior. A couple asked me to take their photo in front of the windows of suitcases, eye glasses and false limbs, and I said no way that's so disrespectful and walked away. There was graffiti on some of the ovens. It made me cry.
My overwhelming memories of that visit is the behavior of some people treating the experience like a theme park. A much better job needs to be done in teaching kids about respect for human life.
I confess to feeling the same level of revulsion when a few years back my wife and I visited the site of 911 in New York. I remember feeling incensed at the sight of some young Japanese tourists taking selfies (of themselves of course) whilst giving the victory v-sign or the peace sign depending on your point of view. I had to remind myself that I was a visitor in a foreign land and that it would have been inappropriate to say anything. However, this was the site of one of the worst crimes against humanity in the modern age. These people had no insight and no empathy. I hope they will become more circumspect about their conduct as they themselves grow older and more mature with the passage of time; a privilege denied to the 2996 souls who perished there.
Celso Portiolli
I’m American , & I don’t think it would’ve been inappropriate at all for you to say something .
I feel the same about ppl running on top of the "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe" in Berlin.
When we were little like 5 or something me and my brother climed the Berlin holocaust Memorial, a police man pulled us down took us too our parents and my dad told us what it stood for and showed us some pictures, we never even touched the stones again.
And then I see teens or even adults playing around, jumping from block to block it pisses me off because me and my brother didn’t know what it stood for and did it with out any knowledge of nazi crimes. This is not the case with these people. They know but just don’t care
I constantly see people being photographed in them...
I ran ontop of them with my sister when I was younger and my parents dragged us off because we didn’t know it was a memorial
i actually was on a class trip to berlin, we were there too, and the lazy girls just used these cement blocks as something to sit on
@@bsmith483 Most Muslims are not racist.
I have visited before and I think this should be played for all visitors before they enter.
i always wonder if they give free soup samples, but i guess this guy will not like that...
@Blades I second that ...
100%
That’s honestly a great idea
@John Who No! Not stupid! Solid! Who are other people to tell how to behave? If you do not want other people to do what they do you are a Nazi as well! Idiot! Being free and to do what you want is where lots of people died for against Hitler!
Powerful words, said with passion. The disrespect that we, as a society, have today towards those that suffered in this Hell hole, is appalling.
I couldn't go because i wouldn't be able to stop crying.
That, too, is my fear though I think I must conquer it.
From personal experience, the perfect time to go is in the middle of winter. Not only does the cold just about kill any humor that may exist, but standing in your winterclothes and STILL freezing while knowing how little the inmates had makes it much easier to understand just how horrible it must have been.
Thank you for the advice! I actually want to visit a concentration camp out of respect for my grandmother, who passed in 2019 and was able to share her stories with me and her experience in the war a few months before it happened. Maybe once COVID is over and we're free to travel again, I'll be able to finally do something and pay respects to both my grandmother and the thousands of others who were murdered.
Your words are very appreciated, and the insight was very helpful ^-^
Although I do agree some of these POS people that are out chasing likes and comments on social media will do anything for it. And it's disgusting
Love that advice
Honestly... there are three th8ngs I generally think about when it’s really cold, and really hot... ppl in the concentration camps going without next to nothing, soldiers during the wars, and the homeless population. I never... ever, complain on Remembrance Day because I know there’s an end to my discomfort after the parade and there’s food and drink. How can I bitch and complain when I know I’ll have a roof, and a warm place to sleep with lots of food at the end of it all? I can’t. So, I might let myself make a passing comment but then remember it’s not forever.
I did it, and you know what, my mood went down after the visit. Thankfully, I was able to recover quickly; I don’t think I can go there again.
I went to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (we can’t fly a bunch of 13 year olds out of the country), and everyone- even the loudest and most obnoxious kids that giggled during bullying assemblies- were silent. We didn’t take any photos. No selfies or jokes. We just sat in awe and absorbed the sadness and horror of what happened.
If a bunch of kids can respect and understand the impact of the Holocaust, then there is no reason for an adult to not be able to.
Wait in the uk schools we send 13 year olds out the country to Spain and Poland for school trips like once or twice a year
@@GunkedUpGoober then you should be happy that you live in a rich country that can afford this, also if someone is from the us its harder from him to visit other countries as usa itself is big and its far from the "tourist" countries
@@Your_nearest_toyota_dealer Honestly tru it’s just odd seeing that us country don’t have as much out of country stuff as Europe does
@@GunkedUpGoober well usa is a big country which simply allows it to have many interesting things in it
@@Your_nearest_toyota_dealer Europe is the same-ish size of america and is so much more historical
On tour of Dachau I was luck to have a wonderful tour guide who controlled the attention of our group and infused us with his empathy and outrage so that we all felt it. I always felt that he really made that tour a memory I always carry with me. You follow in his steps.
Having visited Bergen-Belsen many years ago, I totally agree with you. Those places are sacred ground and deserve to be treated as such. Thank you for this message.
I can't understand this. I visited with my school when we were all 14-15 and I honestly expected a bunch of teenagers to be messing around not taking it seriously. Every single one of us was absolutely silent the entire way around. Even the class clowns didn't say a single word since stepping through the gates. We all felt it.
Read an Anthropology theory article from my last class in Uni, but it revolves around the idea of "affect" in that a place's meaning/historical context give off a certain feeling depending on the person and their relationship to it. Auschwitz has a collective humanity-level affect on us all, more so if you had family/friends who died in it or were religious/Jewish.
@@jeremyjackson7429 wow, that person deserves to be smacked.
Just saying, if a bunch of teenagers with hormones flowing through them like the Nile River, can act with more respect than adults if they needed to, that’s saying something about our adults.
I may be biased here, but that doesn't surprise me. At least in my school, our teachers helped us understand the weight of atrocities like this. I think because we're exposed to more, and the media is more (keyword more, it's comparative) sensitive, we're able to be more empathetic. I can 100% see my dad just completely dismissing this and not even listening.
@@KingLimeIX that's a great point. We as human race go through downfall or ascent, collectively; even, if remotely something bad or good is happening, respectively on this Earth (which is like a collective human consciousness).
Who tf starts kissing in a place where people got murdered and tortured... "ahh yea babe finally a good place to kiss, oh look some dead mans shoes and a pic of him thats sick!"
Jews and Polish Jews and, more to be honest.
vakio manki menee 45 stop crying
@ParaBellum go fuck yourself
@ParaBellum you are beyond horrible. Im so disgusted
ParaBellum go fuck yourself
Honestly, what you said I 100% agree with.
Definitely, this video of yours should be shown to the people visiting before they enter. And please forgive yourself for saying nothing at the time. I have no doubt your video has reached more people and impacted us all profoundly.
Well said, Sir 👏
Thank you for the respectful way you've brought this to attention ♥ RIP TO ALL THE VICTIMS!!!
IT WAS A HORRIBLE ERA!!
BRUTAL!!
This is definitely a modern behavior. I went 30 years ago when I was stationed in Germany, in the US Army. EVERYONE was absolutely silent, respectful and contemplative. There was a very heavy emotion in the air.... A sense of great evil and loss.
I have a feeling social media has something to do with it.
@@DevineInnovations Yeah, I think that anybody taking selfies at this place should have the cellphone smacked out of thier hands then stomped on. I personally belive that taking a selfie here or anywhere else that has ties to the holocaust should be punished with a hefty jail sentance, like maybe 7 years of jail time, but no, 90% of the world's population is Jake Paul and I hate it...
@@redzgaming6880 Jail is a bit too harsh but yeah they should be kicked out immediately
Same thing I experienced at Pearl Harbor, unfortunately it was an older generation than I continuously being noisy. Sad to see teenagers being more respectful than 30 year olds
@@redzgaming6880 I don't know about jail, or even forbidding pictures..... I know people who took photos. It can be done tastefully and with respect. Maybe have an area where people can take that, "I was here" photo? Idk.... But the Instagram turbothots getting "sexy" pics ain't the right way to do it.
It's amazing how a group of teenagers in a school group are more respectful than adults
Yeah teachers do not us let have fun (just kiding) my class back then tried to behave as good as 13 year olds can behave
Yeah it went unspoken really. Also when I went it was mostly Jews that went. The two that wernt were me and an Asian guy
@@johnnysalami27 bro where u from? “Mostly Jews”, haha here in Sweden I have never meet a Jew, never even heard about Jews (in my city)
@@felixbb1445 you would be surprised but there are jews that still live to this day that visit auschwitz, it has nothing to de with one's heritage
Adults are way More ignorant
Thank you for making this video.
Well said such a place where so much despair and suffering, and death happened should not be taken lightly we must remember the suffering of everyone who perished there with great respect.
This should just be played before anyone walks into the camp
yea
Definitely I’ve never been to the camp but I know what happened to the victims that were sent there
Edit: I shouldn’t be calling it “the camp” because it makes it sound like a pleasant place to go to when it’s not
They should also have them pay a fine if they do something disrespectful. It’s fair
I agree
@Queue Kumber Well said
I’m really confused on why this video has 26k dislikes
Disrespect and self entitlement are rampant.
1:13 Even tough apathy is bad I don't think its the worst thing that has happened there. Exaggeration and overreactions can make people dislike things even if they agree completely.
Holocaust deniers and Instagram "influencers" probably.
@@urhop1999 hey, he wasn't saying that was greater than the original tragedy. he was pointing out how angry he was in the moment and how he didn't even do anything
Anti-Semites? Far right extremists? Who knows, there are some sick people out there.
This reminds me of when I visited the 9/11 memorial site, people were taking "fun" smiley group selfies like they were at Disneyland or something, not on the place where thousands of people died horrifically less than 25 years ago.
I was too disgusted to say anything at the time but I will never forget it...
I went there with my class like 15 years ago and I remember everyone being very quiet and reserved and just taking in the horrible things that happened there. I honestly don't remember which concentration camp it was, but I remember it being a terrible sensation walking through the left overs of the camp. And entering the museum part of the camp with some belongings portrayed as you mentioned, it got even more real. Shocking experience. Luckily, I can't say that people misbehaved there. We were a whole class (like ~30 kids) at the age of 13/14. (I'm german btw)
They should make every person who visits there watch this before entering.
There are signs everywhere telling you that you should not take photos of certain things.
@@bennuballbags2 Yes, but selfies are more important these days.
they should make every person who enters turn off their cell phone and then remove the visitor from the site if they use their cell phone. I know when I visited the National Archives, the guard there made it very clear if he sees anyone lifting their phone and taking a picture or a flash going off, that would be IT.
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Great call.....
Imagine how different it would be if the tour guides were the children or grandchildren of prisoners, like “by the way, you’re kissing five feet from where my grandpa was shot”
oh my god that would be very sad and I bet it has happened too :(
Most if not all of the tour guides are local Polish people, so there is a very high likelihood that they are the descendants of those people.
@@jprodell the fact that I may be accidentally right just makes these tourists all the more disgusting IMO. No respect for the dead, no respect for the living, just no respect
Not even "just" grandchildren, there could be children and siblings of prisoners or even survivors themselves. People often forget WW2 ended only 75 years ago, thats not actually that long.
I would have been mortified
Our class and the other classes in the same grade from our school went to Mauthausen yesterday. It was very depressing, which I mean is what you expect. But just to hear the numbers and walk through The Room of Names with 80 000 + names engraved in the stone is another thing. The only thing keeping us from breaking down and sobbing was probably the deep, sad weight you feel in your stomach and being deep in thought after hearing all that. I was so ashamed that some girls from another class were grinning and even laughing sometimes in between our guide speaking, about other things but still. I was so close to just telling them to shut their damn mouths and stop fooling around. If we can be serious and think, they can too, and adults even more. In our school, all students in our grade visit Mauthausen, and in their final year, everyone visits Auschwitz together to truly have a grasp on what atrocities humans are capable of committing.
thank you Patrick. 1000% right on your observation and analysis of the situation. people should be ashamed of themselves.
People are so not self-aware.
These are the same people who call themselves "woke"
@@marcosmacedo9801 I mean, just don't act like an ass when standing in a mass graveyard. Not hard lol
You're correct.
That place is heavily distorted
@@marcosmacedo9801 I'm not sure about that statement. Seems like a blind generalization.
Lack or does not have common sense or may i say rare sense.
This is what’s wrong with the world. People who lack empathy.
@Jurg Schupbach huh ?
Try making sense before talking sis'
It’s sympathy genius. People lack sympathy
yep and selfies is not for nothing sounding the same as selfish ,they do not care for others at all
And it's only going to get worse, as the young people only know about the past from history books. Millennials just don't get it anymore, as it is too far removed from their reality. No wonder to them it becomes a tourist attraction on their bucket list.
I dread the time, when millennials take over the system. They don't have those alarm bells anymore, that start ringing for all of us older people, when things start going wrong. Millennials are all to willing to sacrifice the most important democratic principles (like freedom of speech) in order to push through with their supposed truths.
Imagine some people actually demanding, that those with a different opinion on climate change should be silenced by the law. Millennials demand just that, because they haven't understood that this is the first step into totalitarianism. Us older people are still somehow in shock after the 3rd Reich (my parents experienced it first hand, we their kids experienced the aftermath, so it's in our bones as well. When I was born, the Holocaust was just 20 years ago, that was the spirit in which we were raised)
We should all think about the famous Voltaire quote more often: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
@Zenbun Katatakala You are a wonderful example of why abortion should be legal.
I’ve experienced the same, thank you for your video! ❤️
Thank you for this video ❤️
Dislikes must be from the ignorant people who took selfies when visiting this murder site.
exactly
Or redpilled Kings
ParaBellum based af
Zachary Durocher Waahhhhhhhh boooo hooooo people have a different opinion because research and statistics are coming out nowadays saying that not as many people in the holocaust.
@ParaBellum natsocs are considered neonazis 🤦♂️ and yes i got a problem with that
I had an uncle who removed the remains from the gas chambers and ovens. I never saw him sober. Only once in a drunken stoup per did he speak of it. This was 35-40 years later. He wept, no he baled like I have never seen a man cry. He died within a year. He was in his mid 50's.
People fail to realize that not all of the victims of these atrocities were the ones having the pain inflicted upon them, but those who inflicted the pain. I refuse to believe that every person who committed such horrible things were all believers of it. I am so sorry for not only you and your uncle, but also every other man forced into such horrible, dehumanizing things.
@@somerandombetafish7866 that's a stupid thing to say because the only times things change for the better is when the inderviduals stand up for what they believe in So either they are evil or cowards.
@@morrobarry sure, because one man standing up against the atrocities can have an impact, especially when there's thousands of troops willing and able to execute them for treason, on the spot. If you were running the furnaces and decided enough was enough, the guards would simply detain you or kill you then send in a new person in your place, one who didn't rebel. An individual has no power in these situations, aside from the ability to choose whether to obey or die
@@turbomega3907 You´re correct. Liberty Lovers Uncle was a prisoner most likely inducted immediately upon arrival at the camp and forced into the position under death threat. The first task was usually to dispose of their predecessors. This group of prisoners was called Sonderkommando. Their job was to clean out the gas chambers and the crematoriums and dispose of the corpses. Just imagine their horror of finding their own family members amid the bodies. They had no way of refusing or resigning other than suicide and even though the Sonderkommandos were kept isolated from the rest of the prisoners, the Sonderkommando were considered Geheimnisträger - bearers of secrets by the Nazis so according to SS policy every third month the Sonderkommando was gassed themselves and replaced with new arrivals to ensure the Nazi mass extermination remained a secret from the rest of the prisoners in the death camps.
@@morrobarry the sonderkommandos had to inflict pain and they didn't want to
Appalling unbelievable behavior.. but very well said! Thank you for your respectful and heartfelt point of view!
Good for you sir. This needed to be said. Well done!
The same thing happened when I went to Paris catacombs only this couple actually picked up a human skull for selfie. It was disgusting.
I went to the ossuary at Kutna Hora near Prague. My friend who I love dearly walked out of there crying because she heard me say these alleged skulls from hundreds of years ago showed signs of gunshot wounds. But I never picked them up that's just disgusting.
I mean that's fucking metal as hell
forget illegal that is unsanitary
that should literally be illegal
@@guywelsh9589 Oh boy would you hate forensics
I don’t think I would emotionally be able to handle going on a tour of a concentration camp. The thought of all the people who suffered and died brings tears to my eyes.
That’s fine than, don’t go
@@mr.channel6467 thank you for your priceless input. Where would we be without you stating the blatantly obvious
@@SlamDunkPyro no need to be rude.
@@_s-p-e-c-t-r-a_music_ i don’t think it was him being the rude one
@@kaiservonpanzer213 hmm, maybe I read the convo wrong but I thought that the original reply that Caledon made was replying too was just a simple reply telling the op to not visit the camp. What they said did seem condescending to me, but I'd just rather forget that I made this comment in the first place.
I went with school when I was 16. Very impressive, depressive, shocking, awful, hopeless, tearfull trip. Very little hope. It was immediately palpable: the energy hanging there. Words cannot describe how that energy felt.
My mother was in a slave labor camp called Dinslagen. She was liberated by my fathers infantry, the 29th division. She always reminded us to never forget the past or we may have to relive it! Rest in peace my Mom and Dad! May I see you again!
Fascinating! How old are you now (if you don’t mind me asking) and when did your parents meet / get married? Apologies if this is too personal.
I cannot imagine what your parents seen and gone through. She's right about to remember your past and to share with her heirs. I'm sure they're in heaven and looking out for you as their angels did.
What a shame your mother survived the camp. To be in a camp, indicates filthy blood, and that you are a Jew. As such, you should be shot and tossed into a ditch with haste. Filth
No shit
We are reliving it. The media and academics are doing everything they did in 20s germany to grow a hardcore reaction.
Problem is we arent told the truth of how the NSDAP came about so we now just relive it
The same thing happened when I went to Anne Frank's House in Amsterdam. Signs everywhere, asking you not to take photos, but people ignored it. It was shameful.
@amanita333 fuck off
@amanita333 fuck you
@amanita333 Stubborn twelve year old kid.
@amanita333 You want to know why photo is not taken in some museums? Because banning photographs is believed to boost security by preventing thieves or terrorists from visually capturing and pinpointing weaknesses in alarm systems and surveillance cameras and taking photographs often violates copyright protections.
@amanita333 Yes. I did.
Thank you for reminding us all although it shouldn’t be necessary. Best regards.
This place should provide a lecture BEFORE entering. This will filter out the perverts.
Those people were told not to take photos. There’s nothing we can really do to stop them.
@@EperogiLimousine Trust me, if I had been there, they’d have stopped.
Cap bro@@wordscapes5690
My guide told me: "It's not a museum. It's a cementary"
Cemetery
@@mark_dyl bruh
@@mark_dyl bruh
@@mark_dyl bruh
@@mark_dyl bruh
It's the selfies that really offend.
"Six million people were murdered here....Anyway, here's another picture of me!"
6 million was the number of all people who were murdered. Ausschwitz alone accounted for about 1 million. Still, I wouldnt make a selfie were people were these atrocoties happened. I cant understand the mindset of the people who do this. I hope their viewers comment on their picture in these ways that are seen here and not complement it.
You'd think these idiots see enough of them selves in the damn mirror every morning!
@@geneticallymodified7775 They’re probably the same people who think everything they read on a Facebook ad is true
exactly the people who do that and post it on socials want some sort of appraisal for their "good deed" it's sickening
God, the world started going to shit about the time the word "Selfie" started to become popular...
Say what you want about correlation and causation blah blah blah. Holy fuck, how many pictures of yourself you really need??
Finally! Thank you for the words at the beginning...needed to be said!😢
No further words necessary. Thank you for this video. Respect. 🤝
I have a massive amount of respect for this gentleman. Well done sir.
Quite
I agree
well said, sir
Alfred Leicher "no restaurants" yeah just like how they starved the Jews. I can't tell if you're a troll or not if you aren't a troll I don't know what to say to you.
Alfred Leicher yes, no restaurants, days of starvation, months, mental and physical pain. Those people didnt deserve the torture, and yet you don’t take it seriously
When I visited I was 13, and the first this i saw was this woman about 18-21 in a pink dress taking a damn selfie in front of the railroad car. And when I went into the barracks I saw people’s initials like A+C.....People died here in the worst possible way and thats how people act, it’s disgusting
Fr it's like they dont gaf
@Palepride Worldwide Railroad cars in these camps were typically used to deport Jewish prisoners to different camps. Auschwitz has a railroad system that’s remnants still survive to this day.
They put initials in the damn barracks!? Disgusting behavior,in a place where such horrible things happened.
Well said. Thank you for this video.
Thanks for this. So important.
People are so disrespectful....this hurts my soul.
I’d rather die than associate with those types of assholes.
You know, I'm in India. We have people taking pictures and videos of dying road accident victims. Here the police is not so good, ut takes very long to arrive. That's the ultimate shameless.
Arjun...I'm so sorry behave so horrible.
Chan Roobi Why would a Jew be offended if a pic was taken of there shoes? Stop getting so offended. If anything the people ruthlessly made as slaves and killed would want people to see and know the horrors that they had to endure.
And People that can’t make it to Auschwitch Need to see the truth and how bad it really was. How are ppl supposed to see the reality of it all if there’s no visual evidence it’s DEFINITELY not for amusement it’s for the history behind the pictures.
@@thatgall900 Sir, she means taking pictures for amusement. In a light hearted way.
This should be required viewing prior to entry.
Trevor Gale
That’s an excellent idea
Amanda Adrienne
I agree wholeheartedly.
Why don’t they?
I guess once upon a time people understood what horror this place stood for and why it is there and had empathy for the victims. These days we have generation X-Y-ME. So maybe some pre-education is now required.
Ban cell phones and cameras instead.
I agree, thank you for sharing
Never a truer word spoken. It’s a memorial to human suffering and cruelty beyond measure. Cameras and phones should not be allowed and visitors should be solemn and quiet or they should be forced to leave.
It isn’t the Eiffel tower
nah it's like London eye or something, where some guys were murdered by like truck u get me
If this is a joke, then wow. Just wow.
Hahan't
@@cemeteryb4by
It's not a joke, the person is saying that it's not the Eiffel Tower, so people shouldn't be acting like it's your everyday public attraction
@@chrisarts__ , okay. Thank you for the clear-up. I apologize if I came off rude. 🙂
As a Polish person, this really hits home. Thank you for this. Everyone needs to see this.
I’m part polish too, it’s so sad to me that some of my relatives probably died there, or relatives friends, etc. etc. having family from Poland or being Polish means that whether you want to be or not, you are connected to the Holocaust, I would like to go sometime, to pay respects.
I’m polish German and Italian and my bf is Jewish so same.
Same part polish here to
As a german i agree with you
My great grandparents moved to the US because of the horrible history of WW2. If they never moved to the US, I wouldn't be here today...They were Polish and I couldn't imagine what they had to go through.
Thank you for this video.
Thank you for your dignity and respect . Thank you for your outstanding work , and being a man of integrity .
Here's a good rule of thumb: Act as you would if those people who died in Auschwitz were watching you. Be respectful. It doesn't matter if they're in heaven or if they were watching you down here on earth. Treat the dead with respect.
But how do you respect someone who is not alive anymore?
@@mcirishmen2558 that's very easy. Just respect them. Think of them as your superior because of what they have gone through, what kinds of pain they've felt. You most likely have never felt that pain, so you can ad should respect them for being able to endure it longer than you or me probably ever could.
@@mcirishmen2558 just act like if you were at a funeral
@@mcirishmen2558 do you respect dead relatives?
@@AidenPerera i wish
mate even as a tourist, tourists piss me off.
Damn tourists! They ruined tourism!
Eddy Belteu. they're a bag of dicks. we went to casa batlló and there were so many rude people.
@@hedleypeters7299 It's a serious problem, since the tourists do not know the burden of carrying such a dark event of Mankind's History. Like it was said in the video, this is not to be considered like a normal tourist destination, its a lesson about how cruel we have been, as humans.
Asian Tourists
Ha 97 Entitled people come from all over the world. T
What a respectful person you are, not one of us could ever imagine the horror so many went through, unless we had actually been there, people who visit should show respect for all those who perished there, innocent men, women and children, if by some time machine they could go back and see the horror, brutality, suffering, hunger, the dying, perhaps they wouldn't be standing there kissing today, (I believe recently a young girl posed for a photo on the railway lines, as if she was on a beach on holiday) A time and place for everything, and this isn't the place. This is a mass murder site and grave yard of so many who should never have died.
my dad once punched a tourist for picknicking in a concentration camp
Good for your Dad!
Massive respect for your dad
Picknicing in a place like this is probably the worst "innocuous" thing you could do.
Who the fuck would have a picnic in a fucking concentration camp?
Picknik in a concentration camp??? Wtf!!! I went to one and felt sick of my stomach the whole time🤢
I went to holocaust denkmal in Berlin some days ago, with my school. Everyone took happy pictures and laughed. I didn’t feel like it was the place for laughter and taking happy pictures of one another, and students from my class came up to me and asked if i was sad..
I’m speechless..
johanna torang sometimes, its good to laugh at bad things. yes, its awful, very awful. though thats why people listen to upbeat music when they feel down, to help take their minds off of what they are thinking about and raise their spirits. my grandpa fought in a war, and sometimes i laugh about it and joke around. i do this to take my mind off it whenever i start to think about how i could have lost him and wouldnt be able to talk to him like i did just yesterday. it helps me, and i havent thought about that in a while.
Wooden doors
Wenigstens warst du vernünftig genug und hast dich da benommen. Scheiss auf diese Menschen. Die machen das nur um ''cool'' zu wirken bei seinen Klassenkameraden. Ich glaube du weisst worauf ich hinaus will. Ich bin stolz dass du genug Empathie hast um nicht so ekelhaft zu sein wie deine Klassenkameraden. Ich hoffe du konntest deine Zeit da trotzdem sinnvoll benutzen um vieles zu Lernen und zu fühlen.
@Robert William Rosswhy do you think that ? how old are you and how educated are you, wanna know what kind of person is so gullible? Have you read real history or do you only read historical revisionism and far right blogs.
@Robert William Ross If I had been Indian you would have broken your own rule. I'm not Indian.
And one day my spirit will rise from the grave and the whole world will know I was right.
I don't think people realise that murders happened there.... They think it's just a museum
ioana Maria classic Americans.
@@oliverstvchannel6442 not just Americans but tons of other people
Yeah the thing with WW2 was that a lot of people were murdered everywhere. By your logic people should never kiss in the streets of london
@@BurningWidow that is a very irrelevant thing to say. The streets of London are not a museum dedicated to those who died. There is no hairs or shoes of the dead. If u go to a ww 2 or 1 or whatever war museum in London that is dadicated to always remembering how people sacrificed, you should pay your respects. A lot of people always die, and your grandparents are just one of them. That doesn't mean people are allowed to kiss at their funeral or take photos of their hair and shoes and post them on social media. It shows respect. That my dude is the difference.
@@ioanamaria7178 Auschwitz is designated as a tourist location. It is not a grave yard but a museum. People take pictures and kiss and everything else in other places with those same designations.
People can kiss at my grandparents funeral or grave site if they want to. Kissing is a wonderful thing. It's beautiful. I don't see how that is disrespectful, Karen.
My niece went there for the first time when she was 14 years old for a tour. When asked about it, and if she found it difficult. She said the most difficult part of the tour she found was walking out of the gas chamber. When asked why was that she said, “because they didn’t get to.” Right there we knew she understood.
Same here, when I was there first time years back I was terrified by all this but the most horrible things was seeing all this names and pictures - I hope that nobody ever will be forced to be in the position of these prisoners, I cannot even imagine what was going through their heads...
Amen to what you said, "If you don't have the empty to understand what happened at these places, you don't deserve to go there".
you are so correct... thank you for this...
I was fortunate that the tour I was on was extremely reverential and somber throughout. No one smiled; no one took pictures when asked not to; no one took selfies. Everyone was quiet and totally respectful. We had a tour guide who was firm and no-nonsense and I cannot vaguely imagine her permitting any unruly behavior. I'm grateful to have experienced the camp with the sorrow and respect it deserves.
It was very much the same when I visited about 3 years ago, at least in our tour group. But there were others there whom I saw taking selfies and taking smiley group photos. I don't understand why they thought that was accetable.
You are lucky.
no pictures?
It's common (or used to be at least) for tenth graders (15-16 year olds) in parts of my country to spend an entire school year collecting funds for a trip to Poland and the camps. My trip was just about half my lifetime ago now and nothing I've experienced since has made such a powerful impression on me. I was crying and I was trying not to make a scene, but the weight of what had happened hit me very hard and very suddenly after walking around and listening to our guide. I wasn't the only one. It was sickening and sad. The thought of people treating it as a fun day out, kissing and taking photos of human remains, makes me feel ill. If 60+ teenagers can behave and treat these places with respect you'd think anyone could...
I didn't visit Auschwitz, but my class went to Dachau once. We all behaved and were respectful. I think a big reason why people are disrespectful is that many people never really learned about what was going on and when they go there they also don't listen to the guide.
I am actually going on the same trip, to Poland and Auchwitz with my school at the same age (15-16). I am glad that I got to see this video before im going off. I will be much more cauceous when visiting now.
Btw, sorry that my typing is bad, Im norwegian not english
This is sickening I highly recommend all of you to watch a*dolf h*tler the greatest story never told on internet archive and find out the truth
@@ArrowMaster_ Er norsk jeg og! 👍 Fantastisk at det fortsatt er en greie, det er så, så viktig. Håper du og klassen får en fin tur og at dere kommer hjem med masse inntrykk!
@@skauing Tusen takk! Jeg gleder meg masse, jeg tror det kommer til å bli en fantastisk opplevelse🤩
Well said. I hope that anyone planning a trip there should see your video first.
Behaviour is important. There are so many fucked up people out there.
they should just ban phones all together
Like, imagine getting murdered, tortured, then people taking selfies where that happened.
Bob I mean selfies are awful like wtf but I understand taking pics there I would probs take pics there but not of the human hair but if it was for like a class or a memory then that’s understandable but kissing and just taking selfies is like awful
I couldn't agree more. I shall be visiting this site once the pandemic has ceased and if I see this sort of behaviour, I will bring it to the attention of the tour guide. Utterly disrespectful.
I absolutely agree. If it’s come down to collecting phones of adults, then so be it. You’re there to pay your respect, not to be on a vacation.
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@@jamie25288 You mean lies and propaganda that you like to bathe in without doubt and with blind belief
People should be made to watch this before going in.
Agree!
@Легкий заработок от 1500 в день Fuck off.
@Quieen Boniro fuck off you twat, you put that shit on a video about Auschwitz? Really?
@Quieen Boniro Yeah what the fuck man
Hi
I agree with you 100%, much respect to you for making this video & as someone commented they should show this video just before entering or they're not allowed inside.