Return to Auschwitz | DW Documentary
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Lea Roth, Peter Somogyi and Alex Spilberg were deported to Auschwitz when they were children. Their families were exterminated, but they survived. Together with their descendants, they return to the grounds of the infamous death camp.
All three of them attribute their survival to pure luck. Peter Somogyi, for example, had a twin brother, and was therefore interesting to the camp’s doctor, the infamous Josef Mengele, who conducted experiments on the twins. They all had to watch together as their families were sent to the gas chambers. It’s shocking to them that people still deny what transpired at Auschwitz. They want to encourage their children and grandchildren to take a stand when they encounter hate, exclusion and anti-Semitism. A report by Michaela Küfner.
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Two days ago I overheard an idiot telling his friend the Holocaust never really happened. I was infuriated and really wanted to hurt this man. I told him to look up videos like this one.
I admire these survivors and I can’t even imagine their losses, what they endured and how they managed to lived with all these horrible memories.
There have been so many other genocides that sadly the majority of the World are not aware of having occurred and the ones happening presently.
Documentaries like this one should be shown in classrooms around the world
Totally agree with you. These documentaries should be mandatory in every school in America. It did happen n that will never change. God watch over these precious ppl, Amen
Don't forget the Romanians and Slav's a lot of them went , ' puf '' up one of adolph's chimney's.
Absolutely!!
Romanians?
It’s because they are ignorant that’s the reason
Horrified, dark times, I admire these people for their courage to go back to that place. Lessons for us the younger generations. Just unbelievable how evil man kind can be...
Yes dark times in Europe but what of the dark times happening at the same time in America..
@Deslumbrado Far more than that. Civil servants, the political system, foreign countries that turned a blind eye to what was happening, companies that willingly used slave labor from the camps, as well as those companies that profited from the wider extermination effort (the companies that operated the trains, for example). Even the wider public that seemed to be indifferent to the persecution holds some blame.
@@tmariethatsme8170 The far-right is a problem in America, but it's not even comparable to what happened here in Europe.
@@hayleyxyz whew Chile.. You could never compare Slavery to ANYTHING..
@@tmariethatsme8170 Are you talking about South America then? I assumed you were talking about USA. I honestly don't know what's happening in Chile.
Everybody who came to watch this mini-documentary,
Have a great life
A rehab consultant once said to me “you need to return to work because WORK SETS YOU FREE” Her words made me nauseous and disgusted. For those sentiments haunt all of us who have been but vaguely familiar with these heinous crimes😢😢 Big hugs to the victims and their families💕
Lmao
When I saw the grandson crying I couldn’t help it but 😭 RIP all the victims 🙏🏾
If there is one bright spot it is that they never destroyed these buildings. Never forget.
This atrocity should never ever be forgotten. I for one will never forget. Huge credit and compassion for all survivors who returned to their hell.. I wish I could hug them all. I’m in tears as I write this.
I can't imagine how hard it was for them to go back and relive the memories from that horrible time in their lives.
Many, mostly men, have returned to have their Bar Mitzvah, they ‘came of age’ in a camp.
Others have said, ‘how can you have that ceremony there, where so much death happened?”
The reply, ‘this is the last place where my family was whole, i can feel them here.’
" I hear those cries till this day". Very chilling. I pray she finds healing. This should not happen again.
NEVER EVER FORGET !!!!
WE REMEMBER !!!!!
Omg. Respect for the souls who lost their lives here unnecessarily. RIP. Thank God for the witnesses. It takes courage to return to this hellish place.
I went to the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz as an independent visitor,I stood with others on the grounds of the former women's camp and watched the big screen which had been erected for us to watch the survivors etc in the tent over the Birkenau entrance...I cannot begin to tell you the overwhelming feelings of emotions that day and night we were there..we went there to honour the victims of the Holocaust and also the survivors...the entire experience of that day and the fact we met a survivor too was very emotionally overwhelming...you feel the heaviness of all the souls who were murdered and who perished there...when darkness fell and we made our way back over the Birkenau grounds after laying our candles at the memorial,you could only imagine what those poor souls went thru...it was fiercely bitterly cold that night,and we had many layers in,but those poor people had one layer of clothing if they were lucky..how any of them survived I will never know,they faced so much fear and terror everyday and night and on top suffered the effects of the freezing conditions....I feel honoured to have been allowed to b there that night of the 75th anniversary...I wanted to let the victims and the survivors know that I will NEVER FORGET and I will make sure the world NEVER FORGETS too what happened...soon there will b no survivors left to tell the world what happened in Auschwitz and throughout Europe during the Holocaust,so we will need to b their voices so that the world will NEVER FORGET
"Rest in Peace on those who accidentally captured, imprison, tortured, starved to death and perished at Auschwitz . . . Your names will not forgot in our memory forever . . . "
I remember when i watched Sclinder's list with my girlfriend, she's Jews Polish and i'm Germany, after the movie was over, we didn't speak single word at that time, we just kept silent and went to drink tea, but on the way, she looked at me and I saw her tears, she held my hands and hugs me and said "Whatever has happened in the past I still love you". my heart broken instantly, I felt the wind like a thousand knives stabbing my chest.
Idk but is ur gf kind of stupid. How she can forgive you on a mistake you didn't make or make hold responsablity on somethang your ancestors did and already apologized for it and payed the price of their mistakes
Why even watch the movie 🤷🏻♀️
It isnt for the children and ancestors to wear the guilt of the forefathers, it is for us to learn from there mistakes. We are not them and we were not alive when this happened, it is for us to build a better world than they left behind that is all ❤️🙏 as for the comment above, why wouldnt they watch it, it is the worlds history, it happened and why would the world sweep it under the carpet, the victims deserve to be remembered and deserve for the world to know there story, we watch movies and documentaries like these so we learn in the hope that it never happens again, we acknowledge the past and try to create a better future.
Because the world needs to see this evil so that we NEVER allow it happen ever again
oh my god thats such a deep moment.
I am in mental agony when I listen to the testimonials of those who experienced the evil brutality of the Holocaust. I can't comprehend how so many, survivors and others, can walk on those pieces of earth that held the crematoriums. I could not.
I believe I would collapse from the anger and hate that I would feel.
Everytime ive encountered a German I always wonder if he is a descendant of a Nazi and since I cant ask I hate them all..
@@radhasen.animalwelfare.5644 It is understandable. I was not a victim and had no relatives who were and I am not Jewish; but, I'm a victim of the human race. I've read enough to know that there were some of 'them' who risked their own and their families lives,and in some cases forfeited those lives, to hide Jewish people. Try wondering, when you meet one, if they are descendants of those individuals. It might help....a little. A little.
I feel as you do. But then I can understand wanting to return and see it without death, innocuous. Just bricks and mortar now. And maybe that will help heal some of the pain of the past. And it's the last place many of them saw their families. That I can understand.
I believe if I were to visit Auschwitz I would cry the entire time, such deep sadness would wash over me in behalf of the innocent victims of this horrible time in history,,, It is so very important to confront history and see it as it really was,, God bless the survivors and victims of the Shoah
AMEN 🙏❤
I’m sobbing watching this. I am a religious Jew and had relatives who went through the atrocities of the holocaust.
It is a surreal experience being there.
I was in stunned silence when I visited. And for days later.
I visited dachau 10 years ago, and could not feel anything ominous, looked like jail, Maybe because for me Its hard to comprehend the amount of evil that humans are capable of, We are all born innocent and the only explanation could be demon spirits take over
This brings me to tears.
I was there as a tourist 2 years ago. Very solemn experience. Everyone should experience this. It should never be forgotten. Simply unbelievable that there are those who deny this ever happened.
@White Man do you visit the locations where germans murdered millions of russians? i did not think so.
@@young1191 O Don't start something Outta that horrible time
What?! Are you serious?
Fascists murdered 27 millions of soviet people.
Fascists burned the whole villages and towns with soviet women, children and the elderly, while their husbands and fathers were dying in war, saving all of Europe from the fascist regime.
For instance, read about Khatyn massacre. And it is not the only one, oh no...
On the top of that there were millions of Jewish and Polish, and many other people who were tortuted and murdered in this war.
Soviet people (not only russians, but many other nationalities, for the record) tried to defend their families, their relatives and friends and their land...and not only the soviet lands, but also many other different countires.
They tried to defend themselves from the ruthless fascist regime , which was fed by capitalists corporations.
If you need one simple example, try to read at least Erich Maria Remarque's books such as "Spark of Life" or "The Black Obelisk".
And by the way, he was german.
Or try to watch at least "Schindler's list".
Or try to read about "Lebensraum im Osten".
And, maybe, just in case, you should read more history books and have critical thinking.
By the way, I don't blame germans, I blame fascists and capitalists corporations.
Try to read about overproduction crisises and why they always lead to wars.
So, think about it.
@@young1191 except Germany never did that, because they didn't invade Russia , stupid
@@ryan7187 Haha what? Germany did invade Russia. 1941. Did you skip history class? German army was responsible for many, many deaths in the Russian region alone.
As someone who studies history I think it's important not only to remember these events but to also understand what I've come to refer as the 'day after effect'. Whether it's the Holocaust, American slavery, or other atrocity ended by war, it's important to recognize that the day after the atrocities ended the perpetrators did not all at one time admit that what they were doing was wrong. Many will die still holding on to these evil ideals...
True 😢
I cannot imagine how it feels to revisit the horror that took place. God bless these people who survived.
Thank you for creating a content on this. It is sad to hear what has changed over the years and what has happened to that person. hope the best for those who have suffered and lost their loved ones.
Very painful past
Pray deeply for the peace
It's just terrifying that people still forget about how devastating this part of history was, it's so so so sad.
My visit to this place was one of the most shocking moments of my life, every person on earth should see this
I lost family in the Holocaust. It makes me sad that I never got to know who they were. Never forget!
I am sorry, my father was USA Army who helped liberate a camp and was so terrible what they saw he could never talk about it.
@@sandrahossman2089 Thank you! Thank you to your father who served our country and help to liberate the camps.
So sorry for your family’s loss. I went to Auschwitz a few years ago. I’ve always been interested in the 2nd WW. I hadn’t realised that Auschwitz and Birkenau were separated by a couple of miles. Of course I recognised the Arbeit Macht Frei sign immediately. But when I saw the gate house at Birkenau my stomach flipped and I was almost sick. Our guide was really good. Her English was excellent and her narration, although very sad was clear and to the point. If people can visit they should do, it’s totally different than seeing it on TV in films. I have visited Terezinstadt and Sachsenhausen and awful as they are, it was Auschwitz that affected me the most.
The sad part is, I look around the world today….and what have we learned. Since the two great wars there has been other conflicts, other genocides, and now the war in Europe. When will it end. (I try not to think about the ‘How it will end’)
Peace and 🫶🏻 to everyone.
@@TriciaSenior25557 Can I ask, was it relatively easy to navigate to the camps in Poland? I have always wanted to go but I've never been abroad on my own yet. Did you have any trouble with the public transport or is it fairly self-explanatory?
@@TriciaSenior25557 Is it possible to visit alone and not as part of a tourist group?
God bless you for making these...obvious slap on the faces of Holocaust deniers!
Eventhough It didn't happen to me, and will be forever grateful for it, as long as I am alive I will never forget the sufferings of these people and will continue to pray for them
I'm planning on going to Auschwitz this year as part of a 2 week tour of various places in Europe..I've wanted to visit this place ever since I can remember especially as I have been privileged enough to meet in person 3 Holocaust survivors in my life
I watch stories about the death camps because I never want to forget what the Jewish people suffered during WW2. It is a reality that reminds me of the extent to which people will go when they have absolute power. We must always stand for justice and speak for those who have no voice. We must protect those who cannot look after themselves.
Je suis allé à Auschwitz birkenau il y a 6 ans.
Un driver m'a emmené de cracovie à Auschwitz. La journée entière n'était pas suffisante tellement que c'est grand !!!!
J'ai pu marcher tout le long de la rame du train jusqu 'au crématoires et j' ai prié pendant 1 h ...
À cracovie j'ai vu en vente dans un magasin des rabbins en clowns !!!! Oui je confirme que j'ai bien vu ça en Pologne il n'y a pas si longtemps😔.
These survivors are so brave, we must never forget.
God bless all these beautiful and courageous people xx such admiration for them all x❤️❤️❤️❤️
Bless all that went to see after being a prisoner there in WW2 I admire you all
I don't think I could go back there knowing what happen what they seen what they went through. I have seen so many documented films from the arrival there to the medical experiments to the executions that I feel I been there, It's all been before my time by three years but I feel that I have been there. I feel so sad knowing the children went first, these people going back are strong going there again to relive there presents God Bless you all.
Whoever said that this Holocaust never really happened should experience the same situation like these people. How can someone spread stupidity like that, when the truth is shouting so loud by the survivors who lost their families, identities, and self dignity..
U don't know why they pull the greatest source of joy...the children..innocent and cannot even defend themselves. Horrible..I can feel the pain inside me...and it made me cry..a lot...may God blessed their soul .
Watching him try to tell his daughter what happened at 13 was hard, god bless 🙏
We will NEVER forget! We will be informing as many as possible and teach our children and grandchildren to forward these atrocities for all to see.
I went there when I was stationed in Germany. It was a very sad place the vibe was really off at that place.
"the vibe was off" biggest understatement ever
I wonder if someone was taken there and blindfolded so they didn't know where they were; would they feel the same vibe?
Make a Special World Documentary about Yemen.
Yes, because no gives one about them or the Igur people.
Sir I will never forget. My children will learn and never forget. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Lest we forget they also killed homosexuals, gypsies, mentally and physically challenged people, they are often forgotten in all of this.
The children were singing to their death chamber, could it be anymore horrifying to those that were near to hear? Then they screamed and cried as they were gassed, how could anyone forget what human beings did to other human beings out of greed and hate?
It just shocks me how one man can start such evil.
What is more shocking is that the world did nothing and with the state our world is in today and many still do nothing. Evil can only triumph when it's allowed to
Cult
It wasn't just one man. It was a political party with millions of members.
I'm not German... Not polish not jew.... I have no connection whatsoever to the Holocaust..... But I promise I'll tell my children about all this someday.....
Never again should this type of horror occur.
May they always be remembered
Nothing changed!!!! This is still happening today but those people are not given chance to write their history and build their museums.......
@Traveller wtf? How dare you to compare! Its against common sense.
@@sashagorohova6790 No, how dare you not compare???
What is stopping them?
to all of the people who have lived lot of love and support
One of the worst displays of human atrocities. The pure evil of the Third Reich. A historical event that will never be forgotten. Theses brave and courageous people, my heart aches for them. The unspeakable acts done to them will be forever in their heads. Unthinkable how humans can treat one another without respect and without dignity. Such a world did and does still exist. One can only question, why ?
The stuff of nightmares!!
They call these people "survivors", yet they fail to recognize, in there they were not living, not free, not eating what they could harvest, not choosing one moment of their day, not with loved ones and celebrating life. They were just not dying long enough to be freed.
@@beverlyanne5699 are you stupid? Surviving means to not die or am I the dumb one here
So sad...but so much to hope for that they lived and thrived. For my part, it's a big part of the reason why I could never be a fascist.
Amen.
Sad, very sad, never more 🙏🙏🙏
It still happens today in China, in Africa.
Can only imagine the PTSD some would have being there
I just feel this pain😢. Nazi’s never stay in peace after their death. Who lost their life in that horrible moment Rest in peace🙏 Next year i will definitely visit here
Thank you for sharing this. Headsets were a great idea. So 75 years, was this filmed in 2020?
Never to be forgotten
Thanks DW
Let's never forget
"Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." Please, never let the Holocaust go quietly into the night.
What that place must look like through those eyes is something i could never understand
Best channel ever !!
I have learned so much by watching your vids
This part of history I say is the worst lots of innocent lives gone but not forgotten I could of never imagine my family taken away from me but prayers and hugs for the victims and their families their spirt will always be in my heart💔💔💔
Please put the documentary "final account" online for us to see!!
I cant imagine how human beings can be capable of such things heart breaking 😢
The reason the sun hardly ever shines there is because nature is still sad and depressed at what it witnessed.
Jesus inagine being saved twice by the one man who murdered everyone around you. How much guikt that man has had to live with.
Same with other survivors. The guilt must of been so traumatic afterwards
I cant imagine the feeling of the allies coming across these camps im so sorry this happened the worst thing is people are going to grow up without people to teĺl them this was a real thing
if they closed down 75 years ago..these people must have just been children...
Read the description
so much time, thought and expense has gone into each camp,its unbelievable the arrogance of the germans that they thought they would never be brought to justice, the cost alone must have been extraordinary, i can't comprehend what sort of human would take the life of one child let a lone 100s of thousands, let's hope if there is an after life, these little one's found love and peace.
its just so so hard to believe this happened so recently... seems like such a different world. People in North Korea are still suffering similar fates, that's even harder to believe but its true
my father's family were all killed. he was freed by the british and immigrated to Australia
May their memories be a blessing.
EVERY TIME I FEEL UPSET AN ADVERT COMES ON YOU WOULD THINK THEY WOULD GET RID OF THE ADVERTS
Heartbreaking ! 😭
Never forget! 2021 no more
I feel bad and sad for “liking” this video.
Well, I hope you don't now. By liking it, you are promoting this video and helping spread this education.
I never knew how in depth until i read a book written by a survivor Eddie Jaku.
What book ?
I’m reading destined to witness. And this book open my eyes too a lot of thing’s
I couldn't ever return never the horrors that happened there at Auschwitz birkenau yet they felt they had to
I met some of these survivors when attending the 75th anniversary of the liberation here at Auschwitz.
I now support 1st generation holocaust survivors in North London as a Social Worker.
Never forget 😢
Yes Right, and New History is that their Generation now killing Palestines what a sin
Nice Doc..
can someone explain what that woman means happened? starts talking at 3:19
I still wanna go here, just to experience it.
Hollacast happened people suffered but Hilter and Nazis are dead. All the atrocities in India and Africa by the British Empire are still unaccounted when the crown lives on
Look at this,learn, be where. Because I believe this could happen again and it will! It happend in Bosina in the 90s
I can still remember the first time I ever heard about the holocaust. I was just a kid. And it was because of a tv miniseries called "The Holocaust" with Meryl Streep, amongst others. I cried. I didn't know people were so evil until then. I'm glad my mother had us watch it. She tried explaining to us what it was beforehand but we truly didn't understand until we watched. Because they didn't teach it in school. I don't think they do to this day. But they should. The only way we have a chance at preventing it happening again is by never forgetting that it happened already, and has again since. You can't prevent evil if you don't admit that evil exists, and it does. It really does.
She survived the gas that came down crazy
Jesus said love your enemies. Now what?
NEVER FORGET!
Something that should never have happened
I like DW documentry very much
Hi @Tony Munday,
We're glad to hear it. Thanks for watching.
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The DW Documentary Team
U can see the mans face as he entered
Charles if you don’t believe the movie then you need help it really happened all the suffering the Jewish people went through is heart breaking may God bless the people that lived through it and the kind people that hid them and tried to get them away from the Nazis God Bless them all I hope you look deep in your heart to see the truth Charles 🙏🙏🙏
Its very sad that someone could be so heartless to do this to another human but Racism and discrimination is still alive in Germany
Unfortunately, it's still alive everywhere 😪
@@tandiparent1949 Including this comment section it seems - stand up to them, they are just scared little boys.
Racism and discrimination are just a part of human nature and will always exist in the heart of every human beings.
@@Gigatony74 It is taught, it is not natural. Curiosity if someone looks different, my grandson was fascinated by a friend of my son, he noticed this, so he said to him, rub my face, it won't come off, my grandson immediately rubbed his face. A big smile came on his face, friends for life. He was only a toddler at the time. But I thought at the time, what a wonderful thing to do.
Yes it is,but hey it's a hole called europe!
Never ever forget 💜🔯
A disgrace that any advertiser should interrupt these testimonies. Shame on you !
I’m sharing the Primo Levi’s thoughts. Germans in a whole should be held responsables for what happened
I just cannot understand how people can deny this didn't happen.
There are so many dumb people out there.....
and USSR Genocide?
Never forget😢
In no way, whatsoever, am I a denier. But, a serious question as I'm confused: as a little girl she was inside the actual gas chamber, reached to the ceiling to unscrew shower heads, then survived the gassing process and was still alive and in the chamber the next morning?
The way I read into it, the gassing didn't happen to the adults because the children arrived and, as she said, they would only gas a certain amount of people a day. The children had to be gassed first. But with that said, why weren't the first group (adults) returned to the chamber after the children died?
She said that there was a quota to be gassed each day. Perhaps they only had so much zyklon B.
Its amazing how millions of people were killed because of the whim of so few people...and still people like to argue there is a God...
sadly the world let evil psychopath monsters live
Imagine been rescued by the devil himself , mengele