I believe that it is important that every traveller recognises the history of the country they visit - especially those of us who make content in these places. The disaster of Auschwitz is heartbreaking, so if this video is hard to watch, that's fine, I understand. I'll see you in the next video. If you're new here and like my channel, consider subscribing! Check out behind the scenes on Instagram: instagram.com/ashleesplanet/ I’m also on TikTok! www.tiktok.com/@ashleesplanet
The Word HOLOCAUST means BLOOD SACRIFICE, & there have been MANY. How would the "Jewish" people know what it means? The Babylonian Pharisee's NEVER gave the Khazars the correct Hebrew alphabet when they converted them into their Satanic sex cult of Orthodox Judaism. The Ashkenazim don't speak Hebrew, they speak Cock-a- doodle. New York Times Headline: 6 MILLION Jews are under threat of extinction...What year did they print that? 1912.....How could 6 MILLION Have been killed, when there were Not 6 MILLION Ashkenazim in Poland & Germany put together?....The New York Supreme Court ruled that the ANNE FRANK DIARY was and is a FRAUD. Ghost written after the war by MEYER LEVIN of Sweden . WHEN IS THE ZIONIST STATE GOING TO ACKNOWELEDGE THE ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST...OR THE CHRISTIAN HOLOCAUST OF OVER 66 MILLION AT THE HANDS OF THE ASHKENAZI'S.. always looking for sympathy aren't you. It's sickening! from the Tribe of my Fathers before mee, Napthali
I was in the 8th grade, back in '78. We were learning about the Holocaust... One of the students grand father was a prisoner at Auschwitz. He came in and told us first hand of some of what he experienced. He rolled up his sleeves and showed us the numbers tattooed on his fore arms. That is something I will never forget..
I would probably freak if I saw one of those numbers. It's an evil reminder of how the prisoners were stripped of their dignity and everything else. I'm not Jewish, but one of my great-uncles in the former Czechoslovakia was in one of those camps. He had been working against the Nazis and got arrested at a train station. He survived, thankfully, but had trouble with his legs years later.
I remember seeing an older lady at the local corner store as a boy in the early 80's with the tattoo on her arm.I knew what it was but not the full horror
@@1neAdam12 No I forgot what they do that to the prisoners but yes the Nazis did tattoo their prisoners on their wrist there are many sources that say why.
The crazy thing is, I was born in 1975. I'm thus 47, as I type this. Crazy to think that I've been alive much longer than the number of years between the end of the war and my birth. This happened only 30 years before! As of 2023, 30 years ago is 1993. It's literally yesterday! Unreal.
We visited the camp today. It is nothing like seeing movies or reading books about the Holocaust. Being there was a totally different experience. It is tragic, inhumane, but unfortunately all true. We could even feel the pain from the voice of our Polish tour guide, Peter.
Ok so I'm on the fence about visiting a concentration camp. The bombing of the building is kind of hard for me to take in to be honest. How did you feel after the concentration camp visit?
@@CaseyPomeroy-u3v It was the most valuable experience I've had in Krakow. I'll not visit a concentration camp again because it is heavy and very emotional but I firmly believe that every human being should visit one in his/her lifetime. Just to grasp the idea that a human being can do this to another human being is a knowledge that we should all understand. Just my two cents.
@@ztay5405 You should have visit the Soviet Union extermination camps ran by the Jewish NKVD officers. Oh, wait… they don’t want that history exposed so you’re better off going to Auswitchz or some other death camp that the Soviet Union NKVD used during their occupation of southern Poland that the history experts claim Germany operated…
What Nazis did to Jews , Israel is doing to Palestinians but as always people who are feeling sad / emotional watching genocide of Jews are the same people who are closing their eyes when a genocide is happening in front us or may be surrounded by propaganda/hate that is not letting them speak Years later they'll feel sad what happened Just a fake and Hypocrites people
My mother was a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. She obviously survived (I was born in 1949), and as to how, can only be described as a miracle. The more young people like you who continue to bring these atrocities up is perhaps the best thing you can do. It makes us all not to forget.
your mother was very lucky because typhus ravaged BB due to the allied bombing anything that moved and food and med production causing a lack of supplies to the camps....when liberated the camp had been without water for a week because of the bombing of the pumping station
I am so sorry this happened to your mother. I'm sure it affected your family if she had nightmares and flashbacks. I hope she didn't suffer from physical problems bc of the horrible conditions.
I was living in Germany from 2007-2010 and visited Auschwitz. It was all such a somber experience, but when I saw the room full of children’s dolls, my heart just sank 😞 I will never understand such inhumanity.
Humanity is cruel, even today we still see stuff like this happening, on a small scale but its still there, we just havent had an actual world war in our time to see the harsh reality of how cruel humans can be.
It didn’t start at that either, it started small and worked its way up. Small things to discriminate, segregate, and deny Jews certain aspects of public society. Kind of like how the “unvaccinated” were discriminated against and segregated from participating in full public life because they exercised their fundamental human right to informed consent, as dictated by the Nuremberg Code, which was written in Nuremberg after the trials and the public realization of the medical horrors performed by the Nazis. And yet here we were, 75 years later, making the same mistakes that the German people let their society and government do in the 1930’s and 40’s. And when people who are politically and historically literate like myself pointed this out and were warning against it, even predicting the vax passports well over a year before they happened (it was all a crazy conspiracy theory that would never happen until it did, at which point not only is it completely normal but actually at good thing 🤡🤡🤡), we were called crazy conspiracy nuts and dismissed as such. Our accuracy and consistency is so good that “conspiracy theory” should just be replaced by “spoilers/sneak preview of reality in the next 6-18 months”. It pays to pay attention.
In 2018 I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau. With a class full of 16-17 year-olds, laughing beforehand having a great day. I have NEVER seen a mood change so suddenly and quickly. As you said in the video, you just feel drained, and empty, with no way to fully comprehend the horrors experienced in that death camp. It was a harrowing experience and I urge people that if they get the chance to go and experience it for themselves. The feeling you get is like no other and I cannot find the words to properly do the experience justice. It is one thing to learn about it in a classroom but going there and standing where 1.5 million were murdered because of the delusions of one man is an APPALING experience. Do not bring flash photography, and don't worry about speaking too loudly. You will inadvertently be silent throughout the tour.
We saw Schindlers List at the movie back then in 94-95 with school,there were about a handfull of Arabs amongst the students and they laughed and were very amused of all the worst scenes. The hate some of these people have against Jews are worst than someone who claims to be a National Socialist
You know what's sick? I heard stories of teenagers actually browsing on their phones WHILE THE TOUR IS GOING ON. They're surrounded by the remains of where thousands upon thousands of innocent people died, and they're browsing on social media. It's good that they left the camp intact, as physical proof that such horrors were committed by actual human beings on others. No one talks about the fact that these horrors were not isolated to the Nazis. The Japanese committed similar atrocities to Chinese prisoners, for the same reason that they were taught from a young age that they were racially superior.
Thats how I felt when I went to dachua. I wouldn't go in but my dad made me. It was a feeling of evil there I have chicken skin right now just talking about it.
Thank you from presenting this in such a honorable way! I was able to show my 8 year old son, & it brought him to tears. We are in the middle of reading The Hiding Place, so it helped him understand a little better.
I visited these two camps as a freshman in high school. It is truly difficult to describe the depth of morose sadness that comes across your heart and mind as you see things like the prisoners' belongings. There was a moment which I experienced at the camp that I will remember for the rest of my life. As we entered the room that prohibited photography of any kind, the room with the display of human hair, about half of our group broke down in tears. The other half (including myself) simply stood in stunned silence. The sheer weight of the experience of visiting this place is hard to quantify. It is a mere glimpse of the depths of evil that all humanity should avoid. Thank you for this video. Much needed.
@@ateebali7371 its not modern germans fault, it was their ancestors. This is what happened in the past. Thats why alot of modern germans get hate because of their country past crimes.
I was there in September and took pictures of the hair room. I didn't see any postings saying not to. Were you on a tour? My wife and I visited 7 different camps on our trip. I'm not sure why, but Daucha and Buchenwald were worse to us. I have to say Block 11 was tough as well as visiting the 4 crematories in Camp II.
My best friend’s grandma was in a concentration camp and she had the tattoo on her arm and everything she was from Poland and afterwards she migrated to the United States and ended up in Philadelphia. I never asked her about it, but I could tell she was the strongest person I’ve met in my lifetime. She passed away this year and will be greatly missed.
A extremely sad part of the worst of humanity that everyone should visit. You described the experience extremely well and we share so many of your feelings.
The images alone break my heart, my father was present at a camps liberation, although he never spoke the name, he never described what he saw or experienced, the horror in his eyes, tremble of his voice, at just the mere memories were enough. There are times I wished he could have told me, I realized as I grew older, that some things are too horrific to describe to a child.
I have a relative who helped liberate one of the camps and he said there was a dead horse outside the gate, when the prisoners got out they started eating it. Such an awful thing. It really put it into perspective for me hearing that. Can’t fathom how people could become so evil to want to do this to another human.
Observation 👀...human history going back 3.2 million yrs ago, Lucy "book don Johansson,1999 or years2020 to 2023 to see how cruel a small group of humans can wreak havoc☮️
Imagine being a prisoner in that camp and then coming back 70 years later to see it again. Still horrifying. I don’t know if I can visit again, especially if my entire family was killed there.
@Ho lee Fuk , basically there were many concentration and extermination camps in Nazi controlled areas which had huge numbers of people in them. With the allies advancing quickly the Nazis didn't have time to kill everyone. They therefore left those who couldn't walk in the camps (7,500 survivors in all Auschwitz camps), and took the remainder on so-called death marches further into Nazi controlled areas away from the front lines (58,000 from Auschwitz - with three quarters surviving). All up it is believed about 250,000 to 300,000 survived both the concentration camps and death marches (although many died soon afterwards). Essentially you are talking about huge numbers of prisoners, huge numbers of deaths, but still many survivors, just based upon the huge numbers of people involved.
@Ho lee Fuk Because there were millions of people in them. The majority-probably about 90%-of the victims of Auschwitz Concentration Camp died in Birkenau. This means approximately a million people.
One of my teachers in high school was a survivor of one of these camps. He never spoke about it much other than to say it was horrible. He showed us the tattooed number on his arm. He was a good guy. Also, I watched a video of this place made by a visitor. He said it’s eerily quiet. He wandered off by himself because he heard that if you can be alone, it’s very quiet. He mentioned that even in the trees around the area no birds were singing. He noticed there was no wildlife anywhere around there. It makes me wonder if animals can somehow sense death even from such a long time ago.
Doug this Is very true.. no birds are supposed too fly over Auschwitz.. been too Auschwitz and recently Terazin in Prague, both deeply harrowing visits
I've visited here around 3 years ago.. It was a clear, warm day, no clouds in the sky & nothing but blue sky's.. I can 100% confirm not a single bird flew over the camp. Not a single sign of wildlife all day. Creepy
It must have been a life changing moment for you and all who have visited Auschwitz. History has lot to teach, but we learn little, hence it has to repeat itself. A humble salute to all who survived this ordeal
It does teach us a lot I do not like Germans I don’t care if everything has changed they know what they did and for that that is unforgivable so I would not want to step on German land not in this life time if Germans could rewrite history they’d kill every Jew possible again I mean Jesus Christ died for the Jewish people and people who weren’t Jewish he died for the Germans but look at what they did. he was one judge me if you will if I went to Auschwitzs it would be for the Jewish people who were killed they’re all because of their race and it’s still happening today people whom are Jewish are still getting slandered and beaten because of their race why can’t we one and just not care about race I feel really bad for the person who has a nazi for a grandparent
i know right? but can you imagine the anger towards god, that person was feeling? seeing this short little video on the camps, i can see why someone would be angry at god for allowing the nazis to exist and do those horrible things. :(
There is and always be evil in this world which is not our ultimate home. The demons who did this and are burning in hell. No, God will not beg for your forgiveness don't count on that!
Thanks for the video. I am over 60 and not Jewish. However, I have spent a lot of time investigating the Holocaust and what happened there. I understand your feelings of being overwhelmed. When I try to imagine what they went through, I remember what it was like when I was personally homeless and starving for months. I use this experience as a starting point. But when I start imagining the daily torture, the dehumanizing, the hopelessness, the disparity, the filth, the constant death & dying, the depression, the weather and living conditions... I feel sick to my stomach, weak in body, numbed in my spirit as my emotions run crazy between empathy and pure rage against the monsters who did this. But, perhaps, the sickest people of all are those who deny this ever happened.
Sickest are one's that can not see that today "our" governments are doing same thing as NazionalSocialists in 1930s. They declare you "sick" and majority will follow.
@@ryejordantv1112 There are other groups of people that (weren't) killed by Germans in the camps. Only the Jews are talked about, that's what is funny.
I had 8 uncles who served from 1942 to 1945. Each one made it home. And then there was my dad who served as a navy seabee in the islands of the south pacific. The stories of their experiences were very hard to extract.they didn't want to say much. They flew flags and gave me books that explained things. What's really sad is I don't think the human race has learned anything.
Same with my family. My dad was second to the youngest of fourteen, between his and my mom's family they were sent to all fronts. I'm a generation behind most of my first cousins but my peer group of uncle's and close friends growing up on the ranch was a B-24 nose gunner, Navy Sea Bees and sailors, beach stormers and a couple Bataan survivors. I feel so fortunate to have spent my growing up years working side by side with so many of the greatest generation. I will be forever grateful for their sacrifices and will continue to relate their stories to any and all that will listen. God bless America.
@@jaredclawson1813 growing up amongst them on every side and maybe that's why I'm so angry now at this woke generation.. I think it's them that in 30 or 40 years will be suffering.. we will be gone..
@@frankcompagnone8550 I agree Frank. I live about an hour from where I grew up and it's hard to go home because so many of the people are gone now. Hard to relate to a lot of the younger generation. My daughter and I were visiting the airport in Kingman, AZ this morning looking at pictures of the miles of B-17s that were flown and stored here after the war to be chopped up and scrapped. Her big fascination wad the pay phone next to the pilots lounge. She's never used a pay phone, it's a complete novelty item. But, back him in N.M. she gets to fly in a '46 Ercoupe, so there's hope.
I was there last week. One thing that I really couldn't comprehend was the scale of it all. films, documentaries and history books didn't give me anywhere near that kind of perspective of how big it is. Seeing row after row of chimneys at birkenau knowing that they were buildings once used for such an atrocity is so hard, but I am glad I went, if only to tell others they should go if they ever get the chance. We must never forget what happened during those years, and the only way to prevent anything like it happening again is to keep people understandingg and remembering.
It's so easy to disassociate yourself from history. I often find myself reminding myself that this is real. It doesn't feel it. It gueineinly feels like something that belongs in a horror movie. I can't even begin imagine the pain and suffering both families and the people themselves went through. It's terrifying how recent WW2 really was.
Your commentary is vitally informative, raw, yet sensitively respectful. You took on an immense subject and were able to create a topical and poignant film that conveyed a harrowing piece of history, bringing the horror to life while honoring the millions who suffered and perished. Very very well done. This needs to be shown everywhere. You deserve an award.
That you feel shame for the Holocaust - a genocide of unimaginable cruelty, committed a couple of decades before you were born in Germany - says much about your good character.
Can you imagine being one of the allied soldiers and having to clean up the aftermath.... I cannot even imagine what it must have been like to have been given such a burden without fully even knowing what was truly go on. My condolences to those who have lost loved ones and those who are still haunted. Lest We Forget. Never again....
the german people didnt look much better/ losing a war for 2 years leaves you the choice of feeding the front line or feeding your pows..... war is hell.
You mean the Russian soldiers that found it? They did what they could for the people still alive, looked around for Germans to hang, drank vodka and moved on.
It makes me so infuriated how all those people died alone not knowing that they would be recognized for the terrible things that happened to them in the future. They died thinking the world was gonna stay like that. They died thinking that they would never be remembered. And that's terrible to think about.
This is a trip I never thought I could do but I am glad I suffered my fears of visiting such a place but there was worse to come where the trains came into the much bigger camp and it’s recorded some were killed within two hours of arriving. I am grateful that Poland have kept the camps for people to visit.
My mother told me a story about our family history when I was first getting into researching this kind of thing. She told me that two of her aunties (I believe), both elderly, were sent to auschwitz and gassed immediately. As despicable and twisted as it was, my mother was somewhat grateful that they were spared from the horrors that would've unfolded were they young, and forced to work until death. Such a dark and disturbing part of history. Yet nonetheless important to remember for the souls of so many, including my relatives.
For me, the part that hits me the hardest is probably how they slept. Obviously it’s disturbing how many were killed there, but the conditions they slept in really shows that the ones who got too live were seen and treated as literal animals. It’s just so difficult to comprehend
The humans there to be killed had little to no worth to their oppressors as they were going to die anyway so no comfort or thought was ever given to them. Unfortunately humans are still capable of evil and it's also how animals are still treated by us, kept in horrendous confines to be gas chambered. We're a shitty species that unfortunately has a higher brain function than our unevolved selves can handle.
the guards werent doing much better than the prisoners. this is what happens when you lose a war for 2 years and are being invaded. you cant feed the troops, how would you feed your pows? A typical ration for one adult per week was: one fresh egg; 50g (2oz) butter; 100g (4oz)margarine; 50g (2oz) tea; 25g (1 oz) cheese; 225g (8oz) sugar; 100g (4oz or 4 rashers) bacon; 3 pints (1800ml) milk, occasionally dropping to 2 pints (1200ml). Meat to the value of 1s 2d (around 6p today) was also included. thats per week!!!!
Unfortunately, we are still living in a world with pretty much the same type of concentration camps, that existed almost seventy years ago. Russia has those types of camps, hidden away in the cold wilderness of Siberia. And, North Korea has labor camps for any citizen, who breaks the most trivial of laws. So, unfortunately, we are still experiencing the horrors of the nazi camps...
I grew up in the military and we were stationed in Germany. I was young, maybe 7 and we took a military tour of Poland and on the tour we visited Auschwitz. Even at a young age you could understand the gravity and seriousness of this place. There was bones and skulls in a room that were only a small scale of the death that occurred there. I am in my thirties now and I had not thought of that tour in a long time until watching this video.
Visited the camps on the 14th December 22, so upsetting, we were cold but knew we were returning to somewhere warm,we could only imagine what those poor souls went through, the guide we had was really passionate about what he was talking about,if you visit Poland you must go here just so we never forget.
@garygreen I went to Auschwitz 3 years ago with my friend . we cried all the way through it a totally harrowing experience.. to my mind one of if not the worst atrocity of mankind ever.. we planted a metallic poppy under a tree in respect..what those innocents were put through is totally beyond comprehension 😓both my friend and I could smell burning when we went past the gas chamber it was truly horrific
My wife & I in the 90s stay for a holiday in Argen-sur ?? France and was introduced to a German, I asked him what his occupation was in Germany he told me he was a Dr and he told me at Auswich? So he never went to Argentina he hid away in France and the Bxxxdy Frogies knew it
I knew of how awful the Holocaust was, but actually seeing where the horrific events took place is on a completely different level. I think more people need to see and realize how terrible it really was
I was privileged to visit Auschwitz/Birkenau about 5 years ago and your video caused me to re visit these memories. I felt, for me, that it would be disrespectful for me to take photos. But taking photos was not necessary. What I saw is forever etched in my memory. To add to the experience for me was the weather: it was cold, misty, and perfectly still.
Richard I agree with all you say. we visited in September 2021 and the horrors will live with me forever.. it too was a bleak day on our visit and its told that even birds don't fly over Auschwitz.. very harrowing indded
Can't we just put this behind us? Revisiting these memories only causes more heartache. The future is much brighter and this was just a blimp on the radar.
As someone who has been there, I can tell you that when you first walk past security and see inside for the very first time, it hits you in a way that you can't really describe. It's like getting smacked in the chest with a baseball bat of emotion. All those images in history books, all those stories you heard growing up smack you in the face and it makes you want to fall backwards on your back.
@@lisah4898 With the right lighting, sound and music, you can make a film about a young child picking wildflowers in a field frightening. You only see what they want you to see. I've seen the other side and heard testimony of their truths, and it's completely different. Don't be so easily tricked by the masters of manipulation.
Thank you for helping to contribute to the awareness of what occurred. The reading of the words in a textbook offers little to illuminate the absolute horrors those souls endured, whilst sensitively crafted videos such as this one, go a long way to ensure as a species, we never stop reminding ourselves of what happens when we stop loving one another.
An outstanding video here. The choice of words and tone of voice in the narrating is perfect. You can almost feel what is being said. I have seen many videos on Auschwitz and read a few books. but none has grasp my emotions as this one. A sheer place of horror and death. I will never, ever understand how one human being can inflict so much pain, suffering, horror and death on another living human being. I thought the mafia did some horrible torture to their victims until I learned of Auschwitz. I can't stand the site or knowing of animal abuse, and this horrifies me every time I watch it or any other videos. I 100% get what you mean by what comes over you by standing that place..
@ben hunt who gives a f*ck about the Nazis' side? No excuse for that type of senseless evil. Please by all means go ahead and try to justify the intentional killing of innocent children. Good luck.
@@Ashleysplanet I have been there. It is stunningly mind numbing. I don't recall a prohibition on photography of the hair hall... but I and no one in my family took pictures in the building with hair, baggage, pots and pans, zyklonB canisters... we felt it would be like taking pictures at a funeral. The thing that struck me as very hard to reconcile were the lines of tour buses and the commissary where people eating and laughing... I could not eat a thing.
Those clay models really take your breath away. I saw a production once and they used close up shots with voice over, to give it more of a presentation I guess. It was really......it was powerful to say the least. Made me feel something. Alot of somethings. Sadness. Horror. Shame. Hopelessness. Emotions really flood when you see stuff like this, and those belongings. Thats on a whole other level. I will commend the people who saved these things. Looking at the condition of em all......our ancestors really knew how to make things that last. You don't see that alot anymore. Not as many people take pride in their work these days.....well compared to back then. The quality of these suitcases and handbags......the shoes....the boots. Some of those boots are in better shape than mine. To think all those qualities, trade techniques that might have been lost forever in the minds of those who were slaughtered. We lost that future with those people. They lost their opportunity to pass on their knowledge & trade skills to their kids.......on an individual level. They lost so much along with their lives. Their talents and their light snuffed out forever........cause of something so small as to jealousy & hate. It lit that fire and started a chain reaction to madness
Well done on the video tour and narrative..I’ve been to Auschwitz and was called “sick” and a “ghoul” for going but people don’t really understand unless they’ve been..we cannot forget what happened within the walls and fences of this place..it is a sombre experience but also in a strange way it educates in a interesting way of how humanity treated itself..people really do need to see and learn of the atrocity’s that befell millions of innocent lives
It very much is both a sombre and educational experience. I visited Dauchau way back in 1980 when I was but 21. I met an old man and woman at the bus stop outside the camp, both had tattoos, we had a conversation and I`ve never forgot that meeting with those survivors.
@@stevegreenhorn934 I remember going to Dauchau in 1981 and what an eye opener that was.Certainly had an effect on us and I know we all went quite silent for a long time after.Don't think I would want to visit another camp for a long time.Just disgusting what the Nazi's were all about.
Grew up in Skokie IL...neighbors cousin was survivor. A young girl at Auschwitz...was aging..poor health..but Alive.!...I cannot imagine how or why the whole world let this happen.
my great uncle max is a survivor of auschwitz’s 2 camp, he wrote a big long essay about getting separated from the rest of his family and watching them get sent to their death besides himself and his father. it’s amazing reading what he went through and how he survived
@@sheepheard483the SS guards would sometimes keep around good workers. I even read recently that an SS guard protected a Jewish girl because he thought she was beautiful and he would even take pictures of her. I saw one of the pictures he took of her in a book and she looked clean and curvy. Nothing like a concentration camp victim
@@sassycat6487 how many times have you heard this story it goes like this I was three years old when me and my family got to the camp. My whole family died I was the only one that survived How many times have you heard that story? Here's the problem with that how does a three-year-old survive a death camp did the Nazis have daycare
@@sheepheard483 if you read some autobiographies of survivors you will have every question answered. I've read 5 or 6 just the past few weeks and couldn't stop reading. I finished every book in under 24 hours. One of my favorites was 'a gypsy in Auschwitz' about a Germany gypsy guy. His whole family even all of his cousins ends up dead in one way or the other. It's incredible he survived but he was a great worker and the guards and kapos took a shine to him.
Thank you for this. My mom and dad visited Auschwitz-Birkenau for the first time only a few months ago; dad told us that mom, who has a kind and gentle heart, began crying upon seeing the display of hair. They are both seventy years old, and told us that it was easily one of the most somber and profound experiences of their lives. Both of my beloved grandparents on my moms side served in the war; my brave grandpa for the entire duration, and I have always been fascinated by it and exceptionally proud of that. With Remembrance Day only a few weeks away, videos like this impact me differently than they usually do.
Thank you so, so very much for this video. It's chilling, disturbing, and absolutely essential; there are those who argue endlessly that the Holocaust never happened, and postings like this are the challenge to that falsehood. I am 61, and we learned very little of the horrors of the Holocaust in school. These days I don't think it's even mentioned in schools, or in a text book. That it is disappearing from taught material is a dishonor to those who perished, and we should all make sure that we pass this work on to our friends and families. We must NEVER forget.
This nor anything else will change the mind of deniers. That will never happen and is not the purpose of this video or any other such videos. The purpose is to preserve the horrible truth forever, and to warn future generations.
I am 62 and heard about the Holocaust from adults and other kids. I couldn't believe something like this could happen. When I was in 12th grade my Isms class did the Nuremberg trials.
I’ve been to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C., USA. Seeing these things in person is a totally shocking experience unlike anything you’ve ever experienced through reading or film. I remember seeing the human hair. It’s such an ominous and personal thing to lose, and seeing it in person is hard and totally understandable why photography is off limits. Thanks for sharing this video never letting us forget what happened
“…never letting us forget what happened”…. blah blah… it’s happening today, in china, in north korea…. apparently all that “never let is forget song” isn’t changing anything.
Greetings from New Brunswick, Canada! Great job on putting this together, more people need to be educated or reminded about the atrocities that occurred in the past! I pray to God history doesn’t repeat itself!
history is already being repeated, don’t you see? look at the muslim prisoners in china; the recent genocides in africa; Look at Lebanon, for god’s sake
Family on my moms side is from Poland. My grandfather was a teenager at the time and him, his siblings and his mother were able to escape the country and settled in Canada. He didn’t talk much about it, and when asked about his father he would essentially shrug. At one point he told my dad that his dad was captured when they fled. Wether he ended up in a camp or not is something that often crosses my mind.
@@victorgonzalezgonzalez7744 Because my friend I am still trying to understand how a human being can inflict such cruelty to another human being. Surely you must understand.
This is devastating. I still cannot believe that people actually let this happen. I want to visit this place someday to pay my respects and learn things about those that were there.
Well it is hard to fight back when your own government has weapons. Germans that did not follow through with the orders of the Nazi Regime were also executed. There was also Germans that were helping the Jews but those Germans were executed by the Nazi SS. The police force in Germany during Nazi Germany Era were ordered to carry out executions as well.
@@childskites6346 not speaking on the people that didn’t fight back but the people that actually were evil enough to concoct this plan and see it through. Maybe I should have worded it different.
Thank you for sharing this. I was there on Saturday, and I still feel completely numb and very overwhelmed by what I saw. It's something we learn about at shool and see on TV.. but it's COMPLETELY different being there and seeing it. I could feel the sadness around me. 💔
People who say that this never happened need to be dragged here and forced to look upon it, and see the horrors that happened here. If after that they still say it never happened, then they are truly lost to the darkness that made this terrible place possible.
I was there 2X. My grandfather Marcin taught me: "Never forget what the German Nazis did to the Jews and Poland, a country that welcomed them more than all countries in Europe."
@@FortniteBlaster2 Damn man... come on! Just type "History of Jews in Poland" and there You go. It is no coincidence that Poland had the largest number of Jews in all of Europe.
People are shocked how Germans could have done so, but even now they act superior to the other countries. It's the nuances, it's the comments, it's when they go on vacation when they act like they own the place, it's when they demand money from countries like Greece but yet take more than a century to pay for their destruction (see Namibian genocide). It's not shocking at all.
I learned things from this docuseries that one does't always retrieve from books. As an African-American who desperately wants to know all there is to realize about our history an especially the "Holocaust" thank you for your contributions on this era in our history and please keep them coming!
I’m glad you liked the video Andre! The subtle details in the video are only a fraction of what I was told by the wonderful guide at Auschwitz. The tours are incredibly detailed and thorough.
If you really want to learn about what it was like visit the UA-cam Channel USC Shoah Foundation where 50k videos were made starting in the early 1990's of survivors. They go into great detail about their lives before during and after the Holocaust. Wasn't until I started watching those that I came to understand everything.
Watch Kitty Hart's video on UA-cam. Filmed in the 80s/90s. She takes her son through Auschwitz, filmed by a documentary crew. It's an hour and a half of her describing what exactly happened to her and other people. She survived there for 5 years. Absolutely horrifying the things she says.
I want to teach my children what happened there during the Nazi invasion. Most importantly, about the holocaust. I find it quite difficult to do so because so many educators are no longer talking about it. We must let our children know what happened. It is something that needs to be taught in school as well. Stop censoring them.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana. Taking them on a tour of this place would definitely be insightful for them.
You could call it the GERMAN invasion.! Calling it only the Nazi invasion, let's the Germans off the hook a bit...We're all damned from the actions our forefathers did....!
They are no longer teaching it because they want people to forget the nazi tactics. They are trying to implement those same tactics today. That’s the globalist agenda. They want to take total control. And they will if we don’t stop them.
Thank-you for your moving description of the place and for sharing your own reactions to it. Your voice lends gravitas to a specatacle that truly demands it.
'If there is a god he'll have to beg my forgiveness'.....what a powerful statement in so few words. Coming from that time and situation it has a colossal impact......amazing film
There is a God but you Jews rejected him and cried let his blood and be upon us and our children! They cried we have no other King but Caesar. The Divine protection ceased and Israel house was left desolate. God begged and pleaded and in the prophecy of Daniel 490 years were given to Israel to repent. From the command to rebuild The temple by Artaxerxes Israel was given a time of probation to repent which ended in 31AD and right before the time expired Jesus was asked how many times shall I forgive my brethren? Jesus now referring to this Prophecy said 70 times 7 which is 490 years. This is why after the Jews rejected him and chanted for his crucifixion Jesus still would give them time to repent and so he commanded his disciples to preach only to The House of Israel why??? Because 3 1/2 years would remain as probation to repent but in 34 AD they stoned Stephen as the last messenger of God therefore sealing their fate. The 490 year Prophecy ended and the Jewish nation choose their fate in refusing to turn to God. This is why when Jesus on the crest of Olivet looked upon the city of Jerusalem and wept…. “ “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!” Jesus looked at the future and saw the the fate of this Nation and how as a Nation it will now have to contend on its own without God as their protector. But thank God that all was not doom according to the book of Acts Salvation was still possible. Although the Natikn reject Jesus as the Messiah any one who would repent and accept Jesus as their Savior would still be a child of the Heavenly King. So yes it was Jesus that begged and even died for you in the hope that you would be saved … Love is written in blood!
I visited this place today and like you felt numb. How man kind could inflict such cruelty on other innocent human beings, whose only crime was being different to them. A wonderful video and you really captured the moment. God bless their souls
I was there two weeks ago. When you're there it's almost impossible to comprehend the horror that went on. Only now looking at photos and seeing people being separated from their families to go to their deaths, then realising "I was stood on that very spot" does it all sink in. I was disappointed in myself for not being traumatised after my visit, but I think delayed shock is beginning to set in.
I was like you too. I had heard stories from survivors and historians, yet I had trouble truly connecting the stories and people to the camp as I was going through both sites. It took time and discussion to process it. I would like to go back again to pay the site greater respect than I did before now that I processed the site for what it was.
I read the book: “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” VERY powerful book of survival! Thank you for sharing this with us; a awful reminder of the cruelties perpetuated on these poor souls!
Well done video. Thank you. Toured a concentration camp in the Czech Republic, which was a “transition” camp. People from there were then transferred to Auschwitz. Seeing the thousands of unmarked graves was surreal. I’ll never forget the entrance gate that in big letters in German read *“Arbeit macht frei”* …which translates in English to “Work sets you free” or “Work makes one free”… When visitors came that we’re not prisoners, the Germans would pretend like everybody was having a good time and doing fine… Meanwhile people were dying left right and center, and shot/thrown into the pool they were building/digging callfor… All of the sod to the outside I to make it look like things on the inside were different than reality. That deception will always stick and me. Pure evil.
Natalie was it Terrain you are talking about? I went too Auschwitz/Birkenau in 2021 and visited Terrain in Prague in September this year.. both harrowing :(
Very difficult to watch but I think its a piece of our history that needs to be shown and to make sure that this never happens again. Thank you for the post.
It is hard to imagine why this was allowed to happen. I don't see how a person could even possibly describe how horrible it would have been. It's good that people will see this video and see what went on there!
@@jesterzcourt1522 You're comment is shadowbanned. @Jesterz Court I'm not sure "I'm not scared" is the correct phasing. You should definitely be concerned at the very least; concerned that you parroted the party line--and was still censored.
@@coolboy5428 I said it was the rusty colored chicken that pecked a hole in my garden boots. But, thanks for the sack of taters and green beans you gave us the other night.
Also, only 10-15 years prior, Stalin was doing this to his own people in numbers far greater than the NAZIs. The atrocities of the 20th century must never be forgotten.
gorgeous virtue signaling adn your ability speak the completely obvious is simply amazing. You bring such new insight and information there John what would anyone do without you?
@@slowery43 80+ million dead at the hands of communist governments is not as widely known. That’s why we have idiots today thinking socialism is a good thing. Either ignorant, malevolent or both. You seem upset someone would dare cast light on the subject.
i was there in 2019.. i remember when i entered the gates i was instantly smacked in the face by a pressuring energy.. i could literally feel a dark vibe.. i didn't say a word the whole tour because i was so fascinated and disgusted at the same time. it made me realize how good my childhood was, and how good of a life i have and yet i complain about so many things. i think everybody should visit auschwitz/birkenau once in their life if they have the opportunity. it is the best history lesson you can get, and yet the saddest one.
Well done! Information with intelligent narration. No dramatic music, no hype or fluff. None needed describing this horrendous atrocity the world ignored until it was too late. I pray good people never let this happen again.
I see this and I truly understand what my great grandfather left his home to serve nearly 6 years for and what my 2 great uncles gave their lives to stop. May the world never forget the horrors or the memory of those who perished
your reply sums up why it is so important that this bunch of nonsense persists..Russia USA UK France need to have a reason why so many people and so much money were wasted over a war that was in truth fought for political reasons and not for liberation of camps and supposed evil in them....and as u have stated your uncles died for the cause that wasnt.. i suggest u 5minreedthis TheLiberation0fTheCamps:Facts.vs.Liesby TheodoreJ.O'Keefe
Not very brave of the Allies bombing Germany's civilian cities and bombing the "death camps" or gunning down trains carrying refugees and prisoners from the other camps as the Soviet Union advanced towards Berlin and blaming the Germans for the bodies of dead innocents in the train carts...
Thank you for this video. When you visit the camps a sense of dread slowly starts creeping in along with emptiness/numbness, and once the realization of the unbelievable horrors that took place there sets in, it may be quite difficult to translate your feelings into words from this point on. As the world moves on and the past is left behind more and more every year, it becomes especially important to remind people not to forget at least some of the horrible events that took place throughout the course of history. Otherwise studpidity takes over and then it's basically a one-way ticket to a repetition of what once everyone thought wouldn't have the slightest chance of happening again. Something like "holocaust denial" may sound about as insanse to us all as the flat earth society, but it is, indeed, real. The world is a scary place.
Great video. I've been there and I agree, the place, especially Birkenau leaves a mark on you. The hair room was intense, followed by the display showing the Nazi's attempt to use the hair to make fabric. There is a sign at the Killing wall that says "Please keep your voice down out of respect for those that died here" I didn't think it was necessary as even if I could have thought of something to say, I doubt I could have said it. Went back to Krakow after the visit and it took several shots of spiritus to bring me out of the trance I was in. But I am glad I visited. Sometimes we all need to be reminded of our humanity in the face of those who have lost it.
I met a lady years ago in a group home I was in and she was the housemother. She still had her tattoo numbers and asked why she still had them. She was from Germany by the way to explain that even they weren't immune. She said she kept her numbers so she'd never forget. But the most amazing was that she had no hatred about it. I asked why. I'd be broiling in it. She said keeping hatred makes you no better.
My grandma and great grandparents were in a Japanese concentration camp during WW2. Some of the stories she doesn't want to talk about (understandably) because they're so horrendous. They were given little to nothing to eat, and once went hungry for 2 days as someone had decided to complain about the bread being stale! They had to even bury their silver underneath their house to stop the Japanese getting hold of it!!
I barely breathed as I watched this. I saw Schindler’s List, and remember not being able to get up at the end of the movie. The inhumanity of this is something I struggle with. I’m sorry for what these innocent people went through….. Everyone should watch this. Thank you for your compassion in sharing this.
Thank you for posting this very detailed, and thorough piece of history 👍🏻❤️🎥. You are very fortunate to visit such a place, and to tell us about your experience at the camp sites.
I went to Auschwitz-Birkenau in April this year and part of me stayed there... when I went there was this awkward smell lingering in the air, and walking down to the main gas chambers hit me even harder. Its an emotional day and yes I agree it's at the end of the day that your able to process what you've seen and heard. I cried myself to sleep that night...
May I politely ask why did you go there for ? Whats the purpose ? And has the experience effected you than any parts of your experience as from birth to date ? I am grateful for your reply.
@@TheJackyessir I went for my own personal reasons, but in general I think everyone should go, we hear about the holocaust but to actually be there it's another thing...
My Great Grandad was SAS and was part of the team that liberated Bergen-Belsen. Words can't do justice to what that experience actually did to him. He was a hard man, made of marble from head to toe, mentally as much as physically Completely changed him.
Then i would like this opportunity to thank your great granddad for (probably) liberating my Grandma from Bergen-Belsen. She has passed peaceful for 18 years now, but knowing her, she would like to say the same.
This is just overwhelming, how much suffering those poor innocent people went through. They all were people with consciousness and personalities like us all today.
It tears me apart just to walk through the Holocaust museum in DC, which I’ve been to many times. I can’t imagine the feeling of actually being where these atrocities happened… I’m sure that changes you.
In the end, I struggled with you asking to comment on what we thought "about this amazing place". At first, I felt amazing was a poor choice of words. But, when I think of how many survived to tell the tale, I do think that is amazing. I feel like you covered a lot of important ground - morally and physically. I think your video was very respectful and well done, but I don't know if I can comment on Auschwitz until I experience it myself. Thank you for sharing your experience.
My mother who knew an old boss who lived in the US was a Holocaust survivor and told her stories about her life in the concentration camps as a child. She lived in horror as her family were murdered by the Nazis. After liberating from the camps, she moved to the US for permanent residence in New York before moving to Los Angeles. Something my mom will never forget is that she saw her boss’s arms had tattoos of the ID numbers of the victims. Her boss worked with my mom until her passing in December 2021 at the age of 96. Her boss’s daughter still works with my mom but I will never forget how she told me her story of survival. Thank you mom for this heartbreaking story and Rest In Peace Mrs Miller (her boss). 😢
Back in the late ‘80’s, my college had a chair in the humanities. For the first year, it focused on the Holocaust. I took a course on the Holocaust and attended many events, including the Keynote by Elie Wiesel. The one that hit me hardest though, was a talk by an elderly man named Curtis Whiteway. He was an American soldier who was one of the first to enter the camps and helped liberate them. If I remember correctly, Israel had planted a tree in his honor, and called him a “Righteous Gentile” for what he had done. He talked about the things he saw. Things no one outside the camps had seen before, and they didn’t even know what they were seeing at first. I remember him talking about a room for the nazi commanders (I think that was the term). Lampshades made of human skin. Severed genitals preserved and displayed. I don’t even remember anything he said after that. I know Mr. Whiteway has passed on, but I’m grateful to him and all the Holocaust survivors for speaking out about this. Never forget, and never again.
ive been there myself, my class was divided into 3 groups, group 1: silently following and listening to the guide. group2: disrespect the place and saying hail hitler and so on to then get kicked out. group3: those who had to be escorted out because they were crying so much they couldn't handle it because of how sad it is
Those saying hail hitler and making fun of it are actually the same devils as the nazis themselves. The only difference is they don’t have any power to do evil, but surely if they had, they would.
I was literally moved to tears. Reading and hearing about Auschwitz is one thing but seeing the actual buildings and what each one was used for is beyond comprehension. All the personal belongings left behind is a real eye-opener to this horrific event.
My son was not ready to be told about ww1/2 when he was in primary. He had nightmares for days n it took me a while to realise why he was so emotional n not happy. He was traumatised with it all. Not good
did you see the swimming pool and read about the guards playing football with the prisoners and the orchestras and plays . I have seen pictures advertising these events at the camp....i think...hmm
@@kerrystewart3857 It is an interesting question. At what age should children or young adults be told about what, "shits" humans can be towards each other. Should we preserve their' innocence as long as possible.?
I think it’s great that they’re allowing you to put this on UA-cam. I think it’s now time to show the reality of what happens when nothing is holding you back from being evil to show why you should never do it. When I was sick with Covid, I felt like I was going to die. And to humble my mind, I would watch WW1 and 2 Clips and Documentary to show that I’m going through nothing. And it did humble me. I’ve seen actual video clips of this camp and it was one the most horrific events that has happened during WW2. And if the video is done right, these types of videos should be shown to educate us. Thank you for the video 🙏.
I have never visited but I wanted to go and never made it. My sister went four years ago and she said that the impact of actually visiting made her realise even more than she had thought before the trip. This all came to an end two years before I was born and I remember the pictures that went around of the horrors, the stacks of bodies, the queues of the poor people in the lines with the scared and sometimes vacant looks on their faces, like they knew what was happening and that all hope was gone. It is ironic that Germany is now such a powerful country not even 80 years later. This was a great video that everyone should see and when you still see some of the hatred directed towards the Jewish nation, you wonder if anything was learned.
I was there not even a month ago. It is impossible to grasp and comprehend what you see when you're there but even though I know the history and I'm old enough to have met survivors that were in my school and told us about it, it was a life altering experience and I'm still processing weeks later.
Very good and educational, yet extremely sad & touching video. You've done an incredible job at displaying what it might have been like to have endured this horrific place. I am struggling to find a way to understand how mankind can inflict such suffering on other human beings. Just horrendous. Thank you for opening my eyes to this.
I feel for the people who perished here and in other camps. I feel for all the soldiers who died because of the madness of this war. I am sad very often. I do not have the means to visit these sites but my heart still breaks !! We must stay strong and never let this madness occur again !!!
It happened again with POL POT. Let's not forget about STALIN round the time of Hitler he was responsible for even more deaths than the horror of Auschwitz.
There are alot of tourists visiting them, but I wouldn't want to either. Germany was the most horrible place then. People then should've just gone and lived somewhere much more safe and civilized, which were most places outside of Germany and Russia (and I think Poland too). It's sure understanding why many people went to America throughout the first half of the 20th century. The UK wasn't too bad for much of 1900 to 1950, except during the blitz in WW2. The US was much safer and civilized during WW2 (and I think some parts of Europe were too, any European countries outside of the nazi's reach)
I used to be a paramedic 20 years ago and I remember the first time I saw one of the Jewish tattoos on a patient that I was taking back to a Jewish nursing home from the hospital it sent shivers down my spine and I could feel the anger building in my heart it was probably one of the most sobering things I've ever seen in my life and after having several patients that I brought back from the hospital I noticed that not all the tattoos were the same there was like three or four different kinds and I don't know what that means maybe it was depended on what camp you were in or what particular comedian was doing the tattoos that day I'm not quite certain all I know is it was an awful thing to see. And that was in Massachusetts USA.
That's what I thought they were all very similar but different I am had someized that it was dependent upon where you got sent. But thanks for the info now I know
Hey Adele I forgot to ask you how did you happen to find out that piece of information about the tattoos and the different camps I'd like to read up on it thanks Rick
Hi! I I Googled about tattoos in the camps, and it's mind boggling. People who didn't get a tattoo were killed right away. "A" signified a male, and "B" was fir women. A triangle signified that the person was Jewish. I was wrong that a letter signified the camp. The number ID'd the person if they died. I suggest Googling it on your own to get a better idea about it all.
Great commentary to the video... Very thought provoking as well... I visited the Washington DC museum and the end skylit bridge with the shoes piled and the smell of the leather brought what i saw there to a true realization that what i had seen was heartbreaking ... I felt immense numbness & sadness yet appreciated the awareness of atrocities... ❤ To all the victims of this tragic and needless atrocity
I believe that it is important that every traveller recognises the history of the country they visit - especially those of us who make content in these places. The disaster of Auschwitz is heartbreaking, so if this video is hard to watch, that's fine, I understand. I'll see you in the next video.
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The Word HOLOCAUST means BLOOD SACRIFICE, & there have been MANY. How would the "Jewish" people know what it means? The Babylonian Pharisee's NEVER gave the Khazars the correct Hebrew alphabet when they converted them into their Satanic sex cult of Orthodox Judaism. The Ashkenazim don't speak Hebrew, they speak Cock-a- doodle. New York Times Headline: 6 MILLION Jews are under threat of extinction...What year did they print that? 1912.....How could 6 MILLION Have been killed, when there were Not 6 MILLION Ashkenazim in Poland & Germany put together?....The New York Supreme Court ruled that the ANNE FRANK DIARY was and is a FRAUD. Ghost written after the war by MEYER LEVIN of Sweden . WHEN IS THE ZIONIST STATE GOING TO ACKNOWELEDGE THE ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST...OR THE CHRISTIAN HOLOCAUST OF OVER 66 MILLION AT THE HANDS OF THE ASHKENAZI'S.. always looking for sympathy aren't you. It's sickening! from the Tribe of my Fathers before mee, Napthali
No I would never divulge the location of this place but if you worked on an ambulance you've been the one I'm sure I just thought it was odd
But it did surprise me to see that they were different tattoos I wasn't aware of that you know they were monsters but they did it anyway it was a
You cannot assume that every single one of those Jewish Prisoners were innocent.
@@ConservativeCE2 Nazi
What's even more unbelievable are the number of people who claim that this never happened or that only a few thousand lost their lives.
Just came home from Poland visited auchwitz IT DID HAPPEN
Or, that the people who died died from sickness only
Really???Who think this?
@@loniivanova8667 prob neo nazis
@@loniivanova8667 typically white American males between the ages of 50-70 who vote conservative.
I was in the 8th grade, back in '78. We were learning about the Holocaust...
One of the students grand father was a prisoner at Auschwitz. He came in and told us first hand of some of what he experienced. He rolled up his sleeves and showed us the numbers tattooed on his fore arms. That is something I will never forget..
I would probably freak if I saw one of those numbers. It's an evil reminder of how the prisoners were stripped of their dignity and everything else. I'm not Jewish, but one of my great-uncles in the former Czechoslovakia was in one of those camps. He had been working against the Nazis and got arrested at a train station. He survived, thankfully, but had trouble with his legs years later.
I remember seeing an older lady at the local corner store as a boy in the early 80's with the tattoo on her arm.I knew what it was but not the full horror
Kinda weird to tattoo someone you're about to dispatch, isn't it?
@@1neAdam12 No I forgot what they do that to the prisoners but yes the Nazis did tattoo their prisoners on their wrist there are many sources that say why.
@@alpejohnson491
Uh-huh, sure.
This happened less than eight decades ago. Eight. Not even a century. This video was very well done. A horrific story, but well told.
The crazy thing is, I was born in 1975. I'm thus 47, as I type this. Crazy to think that I've been alive much longer than the number of years between the end of the war and my birth. This happened only 30 years before! As of 2023, 30 years ago is 1993. It's literally yesterday! Unreal.
It’s happening today in China buddy, and the china death total has exceeded the Holocaust yet no one is doing anything about it
Really? Eight decades is less than a century? Thanks for clearing that up for us 🤡🥱🙄
@@TheKonga88 it’s called emphasis.
@@TheKonga88 You're welcome, smarty pants. 😃😠
We visited the camp today. It is nothing like seeing movies or reading books about the Holocaust. Being there was a totally different experience. It is tragic, inhumane, but unfortunately all true. We could even feel the pain from the voice of our Polish tour guide, Peter.
Ok so I'm on the fence about visiting a concentration camp. The bombing of the building is kind of hard for me to take in to be honest. How did you feel after the concentration camp visit?
@@CaseyPomeroy-u3v It was the most valuable experience I've had in Krakow. I'll not visit a concentration camp again because it is heavy and very emotional but I firmly believe that every human being should visit one in his/her lifetime. Just to grasp the idea that a human being can do this to another human being is a knowledge that we should all understand. Just my two cents.
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You should have visit the Soviet Union extermination camps ran by the Jewish NKVD officers. Oh, wait… they don’t want that history exposed so you’re better off going to Auswitchz or some other death camp that the Soviet Union NKVD used during their occupation of southern Poland that the history experts claim Germany operated…
What Nazis did to Jews , Israel is doing to Palestinians but as always people who are feeling sad / emotional watching genocide of Jews are the same people who are closing their eyes when a genocide is happening in front us or may be surrounded by propaganda/hate that is not letting them speak
Years later they'll feel sad what happened
Just a fake and Hypocrites people
I want to visit so bad but I’m a very emotional person just writing this I’m in tears but I want to go and feel it 😢
My mother was a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. She obviously survived (I was born in 1949), and as to how, can only be described as a miracle.
The more young people like you who continue to bring these atrocities up is perhaps the best thing you can do. It makes us all not to forget.
What an amazing women. Thanks for sharing Stephen. I will continue to do what I can 🙏🏽
your mother was very lucky because typhus ravaged BB due to the allied bombing anything that moved and food and med production causing a lack of supplies to the camps....when liberated the camp had been without water for a week because of the bombing of the pumping station
Thank you for sharing…
I hope she found peace and joy throughout her life after liberation.
I am so sorry this happened to your mother. I'm sure it affected your family if she had nightmares and flashbacks. I hope she didn't suffer from physical problems bc of the horrible conditions.
I was living in Germany from 2007-2010 and visited Auschwitz. It was all such a somber experience, but when I saw the room full of children’s dolls, my heart just sank 😞 I will never understand such inhumanity.
Auschwitz is in Poland not Germany.. 🤔🇬🇧
Humanity is cruel, even today we still see stuff like this happening, on a small scale but its still there, we just havent had an actual world war in our time to see the harsh reality of how cruel humans can be.
It didn’t start at that either, it started small and worked its way up. Small things to discriminate, segregate, and deny Jews certain aspects of public society. Kind of like how the “unvaccinated” were discriminated against and segregated from participating in full public life because they exercised their fundamental human right to informed consent, as dictated by the Nuremberg Code, which was written in Nuremberg after the trials and the public realization of the medical horrors performed by the Nazis. And yet here we were, 75 years later, making the same mistakes that the German people let their society and government do in the 1930’s and 40’s. And when people who are politically and historically literate like myself pointed this out and were warning against it, even predicting the vax passports well over a year before they happened (it was all a crazy conspiracy theory that would never happen until it did, at which point not only is it completely normal but actually at good thing 🤡🤡🤡), we were called crazy conspiracy nuts and dismissed as such.
Our accuracy and consistency is so good that “conspiracy theory” should just be replaced by “spoilers/sneak preview of reality in the next 6-18 months”.
It pays to pay attention.
Auschwitz is in poland
Did you go to Poland? That's where Auschwitz Birkenau is. There were concentration camps in Germany but all death camps were in Poland.
In 2018 I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau. With a class full of 16-17 year-olds, laughing beforehand having a great day. I have NEVER seen a mood change so suddenly and quickly. As you said in the video, you just feel drained, and empty, with no way to fully comprehend the horrors experienced in that death camp. It was a harrowing experience and I urge people that if they get the chance to go and experience it for themselves. The feeling you get is like no other and I cannot find the words to properly do the experience justice. It is one thing to learn about it in a classroom but going there and standing where 1.5 million were murdered because of the delusions of one man is an APPALING experience. Do not bring flash photography, and don't worry about speaking too loudly. You will inadvertently be silent throughout the tour.
Iwould,never,gotothat,camp
Thank you for this. Much love.
We saw Schindlers List at the movie back then in 94-95 with school,there were about a handfull of Arabs amongst the students and they laughed and were very amused of all the worst scenes. The hate some of these people have against Jews are worst than someone who claims to be a National Socialist
You know what's sick? I heard stories of teenagers actually browsing on their phones WHILE THE TOUR IS GOING ON. They're surrounded by the remains of where thousands upon thousands of innocent people died, and they're browsing on social media.
It's good that they left the camp intact, as physical proof that such horrors were committed by actual human beings on others. No one talks about the fact that these horrors were not isolated to the Nazis. The Japanese committed similar atrocities to Chinese prisoners, for the same reason that they were taught from a young age that they were racially superior.
Thats how I felt when I went to dachua. I wouldn't go in but my dad made me. It was a feeling of evil there I have chicken skin right now just talking about it.
Thank you from presenting this in such a honorable way! I was able to show my 8 year old son, & it brought him to tears. We are in the middle of reading The Hiding Place, so it helped him understand a little better.
I visited these two camps as a freshman in high school. It is truly difficult to describe the depth of morose sadness that comes across your heart and mind as you see things like the prisoners' belongings. There was a moment which I experienced at the camp that I will remember for the rest of my life. As we entered the room that prohibited photography of any kind, the room with the display of human hair, about half of our group broke down in tears. The other half (including myself) simply stood in stunned silence. The sheer weight of the experience of visiting this place is hard to quantify. It is a mere glimpse of the depths of evil that all humanity should avoid. Thank you for this video. Much needed.
Why does the world still love Germany and Germans ????
@@ateebali7371 its not modern germans fault, it was their ancestors. This is what happened in the past. Thats why alot of modern germans get hate because of their country past crimes.
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The thought of crying in a room with a load of hair just makes me crease
I was there in September and took pictures of the hair room. I didn't see any postings saying not to. Were you on a tour? My wife and I visited 7 different camps on our trip. I'm not sure why, but Daucha and Buchenwald were worse to us. I have to say Block 11 was tough as well as visiting the 4 crematories in Camp II.
My best friend’s grandma was in a concentration camp and she had the tattoo on her arm and everything she was from Poland and afterwards she migrated to the United States and ended up in Philadelphia. I never asked her about it, but I could tell she was the strongest person I’ve met in my lifetime. She passed away this year and will be greatly missed.
May God bless her soul..
so she survived?
@@Lee-wg7en Yes she did
@@Lee-wg7en I believe she lost her parents and a sibling
@@Jdb2013 I'm very sorry for her losses. WW2 was so unnecessary. well, I suppose all wars are, for civilians at least
A extremely sad part of the worst of humanity that everyone should visit. You described the experience extremely well and we share so many of your feelings.
i think a found my aunties name on the death list her sister my mother escaped from Poland
So effing gay
The images alone break my heart, my father was present at a camps liberation, although he never spoke the name, he never described what he saw or experienced, the horror in his eyes, tremble of his voice, at just the mere memories were enough. There are times I wished he could have told me, I realized as I grew older, that some things are too horrific to describe to a child.
I have a relative who helped liberate one of the camps and he said there was a dead horse outside the gate, when the prisoners got out they started eating it. Such an awful thing. It really put it into perspective for me hearing that. Can’t fathom how people could become so evil to want to do this to another human.
When Auschwitz was liberated. many who survived, ended up dying after eating because their stomachs had shrunk. Internal hemorrhage.
It's human nature to make each other suffer you fool.
Most of the deaths were due to the illegal Allied starvation blockade, and aerial bombing which prevented supplies from reaching the camps.
Observation 👀...human history going back 3.2 million yrs ago, Lucy "book don Johansson,1999 or years2020 to 2023 to see how cruel a small group of humans can wreak havoc☮️
@@blainenodes8182 Wall Street financed the Russian Revolution.
Imagine being a prisoner in that camp and then coming back 70 years later to see it again. Still horrifying. I don’t know if I can visit again, especially if my entire family was killed there.
@Ho lee Fuk The Russians liberated the camp. God knows what they did to the Nazis bastards running it, probably off to the gulags.
@Ho lee Fuk , basically there were many concentration and extermination camps in Nazi controlled areas which had huge numbers of people in them. With the allies advancing quickly the Nazis didn't have time to kill everyone. They therefore left those who couldn't walk in the camps (7,500 survivors in all Auschwitz camps), and took the remainder on so-called death marches further into Nazi controlled areas away from the front lines (58,000 from Auschwitz - with three quarters surviving). All up it is believed about 250,000 to 300,000 survived both the concentration camps and death marches (although many died soon afterwards). Essentially you are talking about huge numbers of prisoners, huge numbers of deaths, but still many survivors, just based upon the huge numbers of people involved.
With the right story telling, you can make a child in a field of wild flowers seem like the devil himself.
@Ho lee Fuk Because there were millions of people in them. The majority-probably about 90%-of the victims of Auschwitz Concentration Camp died in Birkenau. This means approximately a million people.
@@1neAdam12 Not much story telling needed when millions were murdered tbh... just plain facts. something Deniers never seem to like.
One of my teachers in high school was a survivor of one of these camps. He never spoke about it much other than to say it was horrible. He showed us the tattooed number on his arm. He was a good guy. Also, I watched a video of this place made by a visitor. He said it’s eerily quiet. He wandered off by himself because he heard that if you can be alone, it’s very quiet. He mentioned that even in the trees around the area no birds were singing. He noticed there was no wildlife anywhere around there. It makes me wonder if animals can somehow sense death even from such a long time ago.
Animals are very sensitive to vibrations and energy........I'm sure they can feel that to this day!
The animals probably smelled the decomposing bodies and heard all the comotion so they stayed away...
Animals can definetely sense bad energy as well
I always wonder how people survived a death camp
Doug this Is very true.. no birds are supposed too fly over Auschwitz.. been too Auschwitz and recently Terazin in Prague, both deeply harrowing visits
I've visited here around 3 years ago.. It was a clear, warm day, no clouds in the sky & nothing but blue sky's.. I can 100% confirm not a single bird flew over the camp. Not a single sign of wildlife all day. Creepy
It must have been a life changing moment for you and all who have visited Auschwitz. History has lot to teach, but we learn little, hence it has to repeat itself. A humble salute to all who survived this ordeal
It does teach us a lot I do not like Germans I don’t care if everything has changed they know what they did and for that that is unforgivable so I would not want to step on German land not in this life time if Germans could rewrite history they’d kill every Jew possible again I mean Jesus Christ died for the Jewish people and people who weren’t Jewish he died for the Germans but look at what they did. he was one judge me if you will if I went to Auschwitzs it would be for the Jewish people who were killed they’re all because of their race and it’s still happening today people whom are Jewish are still getting slandered and beaten because of their race why can’t we one and just not care about race I feel really bad for the person who has a nazi for a grandparent
“If there is a God he will have to beg for my forgiveness” that is brutal 😢
i know right? but can you imagine the anger towards god, that person was feeling? seeing this short little video on the camps, i can see why someone would be angry at god for allowing the nazis to exist and do those horrible things. :(
There is and always be evil in this world which is not our ultimate home. The demons who did this and are burning in hell. No, God will not beg for your forgiveness don't count on that!
Knowing the only one that can help him/her did nothing ,yes i can understand your feeling
The devil exist too. Still does.
@@christinagonzales4701 the nerve of someone thinking that God will have to beg forgiveness blows me away!
Thanks for the video. I am over 60 and not Jewish. However, I have spent a lot of time investigating the Holocaust and what happened there. I understand your feelings of being overwhelmed.
When I try to imagine what they went through, I remember what it was like when I was personally homeless and starving for months. I use this experience as a starting point.
But when I start imagining the daily torture, the dehumanizing, the hopelessness, the disparity, the filth, the constant death & dying, the depression, the weather and living conditions... I feel sick to my stomach, weak in body, numbed in my spirit as my emotions run crazy between empathy and pure rage against the monsters who did this.
But, perhaps, the sickest people of all are those who deny this ever happened.
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@@alexbrigg2090 I don’t get what’s funny?!….grow up!
Sickest are one's that can not see that today "our" governments are doing same thing as NazionalSocialists in 1930s. They declare you "sick" and majority will follow.
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There are other groups of people that (weren't) killed by Germans in the camps. Only the Jews are talked about, that's what is funny.
@@ryejordantv1112 Ignore these guys, they just want some attention. We'll feel like idiots arguing with them
I had 8 uncles who served from 1942 to 1945. Each one made it home. And then there was my dad who served as a navy seabee in the islands of the south pacific. The stories of their experiences were very hard to extract.they didn't want to say much. They flew flags and gave me books that explained things. What's really sad is I don't think the human race has learned anything.
What an amazing family you have Frank.
the chinese stands out in this regard
Same with my family. My dad was second to the youngest of fourteen, between his and my mom's family they were sent to all fronts. I'm a generation behind most of my first cousins but my peer group of uncle's and close friends growing up on the ranch was a B-24 nose gunner, Navy Sea Bees and sailors, beach stormers and a couple Bataan survivors. I feel so fortunate to have spent my growing up years working side by side with so many of the greatest generation. I will be forever grateful for their sacrifices and will continue to relate their stories to any and all that will listen. God bless America.
@@jaredclawson1813 growing up amongst them on every side and maybe that's why I'm so angry now at this woke generation.. I think it's them that in 30 or 40 years will be suffering.. we will be gone..
@@frankcompagnone8550 I agree Frank. I live about an hour from where I grew up and it's hard to go home because so many of the people are gone now. Hard to relate to a lot of the younger generation. My daughter and I were visiting the airport in Kingman, AZ this morning looking at pictures of the miles of B-17s that were flown and stored here after the war to be chopped up and scrapped. Her big fascination wad the pay phone next to the pilots lounge. She's never used a pay phone, it's a complete novelty item. But, back him in N.M. she gets to fly in a '46 Ercoupe, so there's hope.
I was there last week. One thing that I really couldn't comprehend was the scale of it all. films, documentaries and history books didn't give me anywhere near that kind of perspective of how big it is. Seeing row after row of chimneys at birkenau knowing that they were buildings once used for such an atrocity is so hard, but I am glad I went, if only to tell others they should go if they ever get the chance. We must never forget what happened during those years, and the only way to prevent anything like it happening again is to keep people understandingg and remembering.
It's so easy to disassociate yourself from history. I often find myself reminding myself that this is real. It doesn't feel it. It gueineinly feels like something that belongs in a horror movie. I can't even begin imagine the pain and suffering both families and the people themselves went through. It's terrifying how recent WW2 really was.
Yeah, when I was in kindergarten it only happened 12 years before...😔
What do you know about history, we had to write yours because of laziness/stupidity.
What touched me the most was the small glass case containing children's clothes and shoes.
It made me shed a tear.
why? no children were killed there, I mean I have never seen the body of a child anyway
I'm a Jew
@@Lee-wg7en only 1.5 million children were murdered in the holocaust
@@Lee-wg7en They murdered children. Stop being silly
@@SuperHitman55 any bodies? as I said, I have never seen the body of a child anyway (in Auschwitz pics) - have you?
Your commentary is vitally informative, raw, yet sensitively respectful. You took on an immense subject and were able to create a topical and poignant film that conveyed a harrowing piece of history, bringing the horror to life while honoring the millions who suffered and perished.
Very very well done.
This needs to be shown everywhere. You deserve an award.
What a powerfull video. Well done. For me as a German, born 1963, all I feel is" SHAME". I will not ask for foregivnes. It's hard to find words. 😪
You can’t blame yourself. You don’t need forgiveness, you recognise.
That’s enough.
@@TFRM25 , Thank you. That's what I'm doing.
That you feel shame for the Holocaust - a genocide of unimaginable cruelty, committed a couple of decades before you were born in Germany - says much about your good character.
@@brucefoster8937 , Thx for saying that. 🙏
You're a silly person.
Can you imagine being one of the allied soldiers and having to clean up the aftermath.... I cannot even imagine what it must have been like to have been given such a burden without fully even knowing what was truly go on. My condolences to those who have lost loved ones and those who are still haunted. Lest We Forget. Never again....
It would be a horrible job. But at least you'd have the satisfaction of knowing you helped liberate the surviving prisoners
well heres a little jump boost the soldiers made the germans clean up the messes they let happen.
the german people didnt look much better/ losing a war for 2 years leaves you the choice of feeding the front line or feeding your pows..... war is hell.
Watch Band of Brothers last episode.
You mean the Russian soldiers that found it? They did what they could for the people still alive, looked around for Germans to hang, drank vodka and moved on.
It makes me so infuriated how all those people died alone not knowing that they would be recognized for the terrible things that happened to them in the future. They died thinking the world was gonna stay like that. They died thinking that they would never be remembered. And that's terrible to think about.
but it especially infuriates me when people try to defend humanity, say we can be redeemed when we can't at all.
@@evatroniclover0026 I agree with this. It's still happening
@@SuperHitman55 Finally, another misanthrope.
@@evatroniclover0026 It's not that I dislike humans, it's just I don't believe they'll ever learn from this
@@SuperHitman55 even in the future I don’t believe humanity will survive
This must never happen again, people don't change, this could happen again in an heart beat, NEVER EVER FORGET.
It does, it’s called abortion
@@loremaster77you’re disgusting
This is a trip I never thought I could do but I am glad I suffered my fears of visiting such a place but there was worse to come where the trains came into the much bigger camp and it’s recorded some were killed within two hours of arriving. I am grateful that Poland have kept the camps for people to visit.
I met a man that survived and actually showed me his tattoo on his wrist. I had chills even knowing that. It's so painful to think about it.
My mother told me a story about our family history when I was first getting into researching this kind of thing. She told me that two of her aunties (I believe), both elderly, were sent to auschwitz and gassed immediately. As despicable and twisted as it was, my mother was somewhat grateful that they were spared from the horrors that would've unfolded were they young, and forced to work until death. Such a dark and disturbing part of history. Yet nonetheless important to remember for the souls of so many, including my relatives.
For me, the part that hits me the hardest is probably how they slept. Obviously it’s disturbing how many were killed there, but the conditions they slept in really shows that the ones who got too live were seen and treated as literal animals. It’s just so difficult to comprehend
The humans there to be killed had little to no worth to their oppressors as they were going to die anyway so no comfort or thought was ever given to them. Unfortunately humans are still capable of evil and it's also how animals are still treated by us, kept in horrendous confines to be gas chambered. We're a shitty species that unfortunately has a higher brain function than our unevolved selves can handle.
Deserved it
Animals are treated much better. Or so I should hope
the guards werent doing much better than the prisoners. this is what happens when you lose a war for 2 years and are being invaded. you cant feed the troops, how would you feed your pows?
A typical ration for one adult per week was: one fresh egg; 50g (2oz) butter; 100g (4oz)margarine; 50g (2oz) tea; 25g (1 oz) cheese; 225g (8oz) sugar; 100g (4oz or 4 rashers) bacon; 3 pints (1800ml) milk, occasionally dropping to 2 pints (1200ml). Meat to the value of 1s 2d (around 6p today) was also included.
thats per week!!!!
@Leo Aldebaran i always wanted a bunk bed when i was a kid.
We cannot change the past, but we can certainly be brave enough to stop it from ever happening again. Great informative video. Thank you.
Love this. Thank you 🙏🏽
Unfortunately, we are still living in a world with pretty much the same type of concentration camps, that existed almost seventy years ago. Russia has those types of camps, hidden away in the cold wilderness of Siberia. And, North Korea has labor camps for any citizen, who breaks the most trivial of laws. So, unfortunately, we are still experiencing the horrors of the nazi camps...
@@davidgordon702 Dont forget China with the Uyghurs right now.
Except we’re letting history repeat itself in Ukraine right now.
Not if you got the un and NATO stiring the shit up for awar
You exhibited so much respect in your video. God bless you for this, in memory of all those who perished in these camps.
I grew up in the military and we were stationed in Germany. I was young, maybe 7 and we took a military tour of Poland and on the tour we visited Auschwitz. Even at a young age you could understand the gravity and seriousness of this place. There was bones and skulls in a room that were only a small scale of the death that occurred there. I am in my thirties now and I had not thought of that tour in a long time until watching this video.
Visited the camps on the 14th December 22, so upsetting, we were cold but knew we were returning to somewhere warm,we could only imagine what those poor souls went through, the guide we had was really passionate about what he was talking about,if you visit Poland you must go here just so we never forget.
@garygreen I went to Auschwitz 3 years ago with my friend . we cried all the way through it a totally harrowing experience.. to my mind one of if not the worst atrocity of mankind ever.. we planted a metallic poppy under a tree in respect..what those innocents were put through is totally beyond comprehension 😓both my friend and I could smell burning when we went past the gas chamber it was truly horrific
As of right now, it’s January 23rd 2024. Watchman River’s newest brought me back here.
My wife & I in the 90s stay for a holiday in Argen-sur ?? France and was introduced to a German, I asked him what his occupation was in Germany he told me he was a Dr and he told me at Auswich? So he never went to Argentina he hid away in France and the Bxxxdy Frogies knew it
Never ever forget! we as humans can never allow this to happen anywhere ever again!
Thank you 🙏 to all the vets!
Huge thanks for posting
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It will happen again during the 7yr tribulation period. Those who refuse to worship ob ma and recieve his mark will be beheaded.
“I was a little girl i had done nothing to nobody and I still had to go there” 😢 wow that broke my heart
I knew of how awful the Holocaust was, but actually seeing where the horrific events took place is on a completely different level. I think more people need to see and realize how terrible it really was
I think most people do
I was privileged to visit Auschwitz/Birkenau about 5 years ago and your video caused me to re visit these memories. I felt, for me, that it would be disrespectful for me to take photos. But taking photos was not necessary. What I saw is forever etched in my memory. To add to the experience for me was the weather: it was cold, misty, and perfectly still.
Richard I agree with all you say. we visited in September 2021 and the horrors will live with me forever.. it too was a bleak day on our visit and its told that even birds don't fly over Auschwitz.. very harrowing indded
Can't we just put this behind us? Revisiting these memories only causes more heartache. The future is much brighter and this was just a blimp on the radar.
As someone who has been there, I can tell you that when you first walk past security and see inside for the very first time, it hits you in a way that you can't really describe. It's like getting smacked in the chest with a baseball bat of emotion. All those images in history books, all those stories you heard growing up smack you in the face and it makes you want to fall backwards on your back.
Poppycock
@@1neAdam12 How is it poppycock? Are you one of the ingrates that think the holocaust never happened?
@@1neAdam12
What is?
@@lisah4898
With the right lighting, sound and music, you can make a film about a young child picking wildflowers in a field frightening. You only see what they want you to see. I've seen the other side and heard testimony of their truths, and it's completely different. Don't be so easily tricked by the masters of manipulation.
@@1neAdam12 What’s different?
Thank you for helping to contribute to the awareness of what occurred. The reading of the words in a textbook offers little to illuminate the absolute horrors those souls endured, whilst sensitively crafted videos such as this one, go a long way to ensure as a species, we never stop reminding ourselves of what happens when we stop loving one another.
An outstanding video here. The choice of words and tone of voice in the narrating is perfect. You can almost feel what is being said. I have seen many videos on Auschwitz and read a few books. but none has grasp my emotions as this one. A sheer place of horror and death. I will never, ever understand how one human being can inflict so much pain, suffering, horror and death on another living human being. I thought the mafia did some horrible torture to their victims until I learned of Auschwitz. I can't stand the site or knowing of animal abuse, and this horrifies me every time I watch it or any other videos. I 100% get what you mean by what comes over you by standing that place..
I’m lost for words Steve, thank you so much for the kind words.
You summed this up perfectly! The horrors are unimaginable.
@ben hunt who gives a f*ck about the Nazis' side? No excuse for that type of senseless evil. Please by all means go ahead and try to justify the intentional killing of innocent children. Good luck.
@@Ashleysplanet I have been there. It is stunningly mind numbing.
I don't recall a prohibition on photography of the hair hall... but I and no one in my family took pictures in the building with hair, baggage, pots and pans, zyklonB canisters... we felt it would be like taking pictures at a funeral.
The thing that struck me as very hard to reconcile were the lines of tour buses and the commissary where people eating and laughing... I could not eat a thing.
@ben hunt what side of this are you talking about... explain yourself
Those clay models really take your breath away. I saw a production once and they used close up shots with voice over, to give it more of a presentation I guess. It was really......it was powerful to say the least. Made me feel something. Alot of somethings. Sadness. Horror. Shame. Hopelessness. Emotions really flood when you see stuff like this, and those belongings. Thats on a whole other level. I will commend the people who saved these things. Looking at the condition of em all......our ancestors really knew how to make things that last. You don't see that alot anymore. Not as many people take pride in their work these days.....well compared to back then. The quality of these suitcases and handbags......the shoes....the boots. Some of those boots are in better shape than mine. To think all those qualities, trade techniques that might have been lost forever in the minds of those who were slaughtered. We lost that future with those people. They lost their opportunity to pass on their knowledge & trade skills to their kids.......on an individual level. They lost so much along with their lives. Their talents and their light snuffed out forever........cause of something so small as to jealousy & hate. It lit that fire and started a chain reaction to madness
Well done on the video tour and narrative..I’ve been to Auschwitz and was called “sick” and a “ghoul” for going but people don’t really understand unless they’ve been..we cannot forget what happened within the walls and fences of this place..it is a sombre experience but also in a strange way it educates in a interesting way of how humanity treated itself..people really do need to see and learn of the atrocity’s that befell millions of innocent lives
Awareness 🔑
@@Ashleysplanet 100% it was horrendous what happened but unfortunately it is now part of history and people need to know and be aware of what happened
It very much is both a sombre and educational experience. I visited Dauchau way back in 1980 when I was but 21. I met an old man and woman at the bus stop outside the camp, both had tattoos, we had a conversation and I`ve never forgot that meeting with those survivors.
@@stevegreenhorn934 I remember going to Dauchau in 1981 and what an eye opener that was.Certainly had an effect on us and I know we all went quite silent for a long time after.Don't think I would want to visit another camp for a long time.Just disgusting what the Nazi's were all about.
Grew up in Skokie IL...neighbors cousin was survivor. A young girl at Auschwitz...was aging..poor health..but Alive.!...I cannot imagine how or why the whole world let this happen.
my great uncle max is a survivor of auschwitz’s 2 camp, he wrote a big long essay about getting separated from the rest of his family and watching them get sent to their death besides himself and his father. it’s amazing reading what he went through and how he survived
it's possible they ended up on the other side of the iron curtain after being transported to another camp. it happened a lot.
how does one survive a "death camp" and extermination?
@@sheepheard483the SS guards would sometimes keep around good workers. I even read recently that an SS guard protected a Jewish girl because he thought she was beautiful and he would even take pictures of her. I saw one of the pictures he took of her in a book and she looked clean and curvy. Nothing like a concentration camp victim
@@sassycat6487 how many times have you heard this story it goes like this
I was three years old when me and my family got to the camp. My whole family died I was the only one that survived
How many times have you heard that story? Here's the problem with that how does a three-year-old survive a death camp did the Nazis have daycare
@@sheepheard483 if you read some autobiographies of survivors you will have every question answered. I've read 5 or 6 just the past few weeks and couldn't stop reading. I finished every book in under 24 hours. One of my favorites was 'a gypsy in Auschwitz' about a Germany gypsy guy. His whole family even all of his cousins ends up dead in one way or the other. It's incredible he survived but he was a great worker and the guards and kapos took a shine to him.
Thank you for this. My mom and dad visited Auschwitz-Birkenau for the first time only a few months ago; dad told us that mom, who has a kind and gentle heart, began crying upon seeing the display of hair. They are both seventy years old, and told us that it was easily one of the most somber and profound experiences of their lives. Both of my beloved grandparents on my moms side served in the war; my brave grandpa for the entire duration, and I have always been fascinated by it and exceptionally proud of that. With Remembrance Day only a few weeks away, videos like this impact me differently than they usually do.
Thank you for filming this. The world must never forget what happened there.
Never!!
I haven’t. And I certainly won’t be forgetting for a long time.
Thank you so, so very much for this video. It's chilling, disturbing, and absolutely essential; there are those who argue endlessly that the Holocaust never happened, and postings like this are the challenge to that falsehood. I am 61, and we learned very little of the horrors of the Holocaust in school. These days I don't think it's even mentioned in schools, or in a text book. That it is disappearing from taught material is a dishonor to those who perished, and we should all make sure that we pass this work on to our friends and families. We must NEVER forget.
This nor anything else will change the mind of deniers. That will never happen and is not the purpose of this video or any other such videos. The purpose is to preserve the horrible truth forever, and to warn future generations.
I am 62 and heard about the Holocaust from adults and other kids. I couldn't believe something like this could happen. When I was in 12th grade my Isms class did the Nuremberg trials.
I’ve been to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C., USA. Seeing these things in person is a totally shocking experience unlike anything you’ve ever experienced through reading or film. I remember seeing the human hair. It’s such an ominous and personal thing to lose, and seeing it in person is hard and totally understandable why photography is off limits. Thanks for sharing this video never letting us forget what happened
“…never letting us forget what happened”…. blah blah… it’s happening today, in china, in north korea…. apparently all that “never let is forget song” isn’t changing anything.
@@radiumdude FEMA, CDC, WHO, UN are all ready. and activated by the T man Jan 2020.
Greetings from New Brunswick, Canada! Great job on putting this together, more people need to be educated or reminded about the atrocities that occurred in the past! I pray to God history doesn’t repeat itself!
Thank you Mona!
Look for klaus Schwab father..
history is already being repeated, don’t you see? look at the muslim prisoners in china; the recent genocides in africa; Look at Lebanon, for god’s sake
Family on my moms side is from Poland. My grandfather was a teenager at the time and him, his siblings and his mother were able to escape the country and settled in Canada. He didn’t talk much about it, and when asked about his father he would essentially shrug. At one point he told my dad that his dad was captured when they fled. Wether he ended up in a camp or not is something that often crosses my mind.
Visited twice and it is truly disturbing. Video well put together and respectful. Well done.
What i dont understand is if It was " truly disturbing" the first time , why you come back to that place ?
@@victorgonzalezgonzalez7744 Because my friend I am still trying to understand how a human being can inflict such cruelty to another human being. Surely you must understand.
This is devastating. I still cannot believe that people actually let this happen. I want to visit this place someday to pay my respects and learn things about those that were there.
Well it is hard to fight back when your own government has weapons. Germans that did not follow through with the orders of the Nazi Regime were also executed. There was also Germans that were helping the Jews but those Germans were executed by the Nazi SS. The police force in Germany during Nazi Germany Era were ordered to carry out executions as well.
@@childskites6346 not speaking on the people that didn’t fight back but the people that actually were evil enough to concoct this plan and see it through. Maybe I should have worded it different.
This is what happens when you let fear prevail and Hitler knew this.
People will do unspeakable things.
Never again.. NEVER
Thank you for sharing this. I was there on Saturday, and I still feel completely numb and very overwhelmed by what I saw. It's something we learn about at shool and see on TV.. but it's COMPLETELY different being there and seeing it. I could feel the sadness around me. 💔
People who say that this never happened need to be dragged here and forced to look upon it, and see the horrors that happened here.
If after that they still say it never happened, then they are truly lost to the darkness that made this terrible place possible.
I was there 2X. My grandfather Marcin taught me: "Never forget what the German Nazis did to the Jews and Poland, a country that welcomed them more than all countries in Europe."
Source?
@@FortniteBlaster2 Damn man... come on! Just type "History of Jews in Poland" and there You go. It is no coincidence that Poland had the largest number of Jews in all of Europe.
@@maciekapocaliptic Europa the last battle, give it a watch.
People are shocked how Germans could have done so, but even now they act superior to the other countries.
It's the nuances, it's the comments, it's when they go on vacation when they act like they own the place, it's when they demand money from countries like Greece but yet take more than a century to pay for their destruction (see Namibian genocide).
It's not shocking at all.
@@MrWolf-xk8sl at least they don't go around grooming young girls on mass or been expelled from 109 times from diffrent countries.
I learned things from this docuseries that one does't always retrieve from books. As an African-American who desperately wants to know all there is to realize about our history an especially the "Holocaust" thank you for your contributions on this era in our history and please keep them coming!
I’m glad you liked the video Andre! The subtle details in the video are only a fraction of what I was told by the wonderful guide at Auschwitz. The tours are incredibly detailed and thorough.
If you really want to learn about what it was like visit the UA-cam Channel USC Shoah Foundation where 50k videos were made starting in the early 1990's of survivors. They go into great detail about their lives before during and after the Holocaust. Wasn't until I started watching those that I came to understand everything.
Watch Kitty Hart's video on UA-cam. Filmed in the 80s/90s. She takes her son through Auschwitz, filmed by a documentary crew. It's an hour and a half of her describing what exactly happened to her and other people.
She survived there for 5 years. Absolutely horrifying the things she says.
I want to teach my children what happened there during the Nazi invasion. Most importantly, about the holocaust. I find it quite difficult to do so because so many educators are no longer talking about it. We must let our children know what happened. It is something that needs to be taught in school as well. Stop censoring them.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana.
Taking them on a tour of this place would definitely be insightful for them.
Agreed------although there is much material available in libraries and centers --there are few mentioning of the Holocaust to newer generations .!
You could call it the GERMAN invasion.! Calling it only the Nazi invasion, let's the Germans off the hook a bit...We're all damned from the actions our forefathers did....!
They are no longer teaching it because they want people to forget the nazi tactics. They are trying to implement those same tactics today. That’s the globalist agenda. They want to take total control. And they will if we don’t stop them.
Yep all for that, teach them the truth, best learn it first,
Thank-you for your moving description of the place and for sharing your own reactions to it. Your voice lends gravitas to a specatacle that truly demands it.
Well filmed, well written.Your text and delivery are perfect: no "dramatisation", you let the facts speak for themselves.
Well done!
All of this is truly appalling, but what have we really learnt? Despite this spectacle, evil still abounds no matter how you look at it.
Thank you so much!
Absolutely heartbreaking, thank you for taking the time to make this, great piece of film 🙏🏻🙏🏻
'If there is a god he'll have to beg my forgiveness'.....what a powerful statement in so few words. Coming from that time and situation it has a colossal impact......amazing film
Insane statement! God is just and holy, humans choose to reject Him... and the outcome is Auschwitz!
There is a God but you Jews rejected him and cried let his blood and be upon us and our children! They cried we have no other King but Caesar. The Divine protection ceased and Israel house was left desolate. God begged and pleaded and in the prophecy of Daniel 490 years were given to Israel to repent. From the command to rebuild The temple by Artaxerxes Israel was given a time of probation to repent which ended in 31AD and right before the time expired Jesus was asked how many times shall I forgive my brethren? Jesus now referring to this Prophecy said 70 times 7 which is 490 years. This is why after the Jews rejected him and chanted for his crucifixion Jesus still would give them time to repent and so he commanded his disciples to preach only to The House of Israel why??? Because 3 1/2 years would remain as probation to repent but in 34 AD they stoned Stephen as the last messenger of God therefore sealing their fate. The 490 year Prophecy ended and the Jewish nation choose their fate in refusing to turn to God. This is why when Jesus on the crest of Olivet looked upon the city of Jerusalem and wept…. “ “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!” Jesus looked at the future and saw the the fate of this Nation and how as a Nation it will now have to contend on its own without God as their protector. But thank God that all was not doom according to the book of Acts Salvation was still possible. Although the Natikn reject Jesus as the Messiah any one who would repent and accept Jesus as their Savior would still be a child of the Heavenly King. So yes it was Jesus that begged and even died for you in the hope that you would be saved … Love is written in blood!
What did God have to do with it? Did he blame his God but not the Germans (the humans who did this)? Strange thing to scratch on a wall.
God will have to ask for your forgiveness? What color shy is in your world?
It was mans doing not Gods. So you will see those men and women will have to looks for Gods forgiveness.
That is how it works.
I visited this place today and like you felt numb. How man kind could inflict such cruelty on other innocent human beings, whose only crime was being different to them.
A wonderful video and you really captured the moment.
God bless their souls
This stands as a reminder of man's inhumanity towards man. But have we really learnt our lesson? Actions speak louder than words.
I was there two weeks ago. When you're there it's almost impossible to comprehend the horror that went on. Only now looking at photos and seeing people being separated from their families to go to their deaths, then realising "I was stood on that very spot" does it all sink in. I was disappointed in myself for not being traumatised after my visit, but I think delayed shock is beginning to set in.
I was like you too. I had heard stories from survivors and historians, yet I had trouble truly connecting the stories and people to the camp as I was going through both sites. It took time and discussion to process it. I would like to go back again to pay the site greater respect than I did before now that I processed the site for what it was.
I read the book: “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” VERY powerful book of survival!
Thank you for sharing this with us; a awful reminder of the cruelties perpetuated on these poor souls!
Yes, I read it, too. And cried.
Wow I’ll check that one out, thanks!
Read that too. One of many I read about that awfull time. Sure makes ones own problems seem tiny or non existent.
he moved to australia and lived in melbourne
That's an excellent book.
Well done video. Thank you. Toured a concentration camp in the Czech Republic, which was a “transition” camp. People from there were then transferred to Auschwitz. Seeing the thousands of unmarked graves was surreal. I’ll never forget the entrance gate that in big letters in German read *“Arbeit macht frei”* …which translates in English to “Work sets you free” or “Work makes one free”… When visitors came that we’re not prisoners, the Germans would pretend like everybody was having a good time and doing fine… Meanwhile people were dying left right and center, and shot/thrown into the pool they were building/digging callfor… All of the sod to the outside I to make it look like things on the inside were different than reality. That deception will always stick and me. Pure evil.
Natalie was it Terrain you are talking about? I went too Auschwitz/Birkenau in 2021 and visited Terrain in Prague in September this year.. both harrowing :(
sorry meant Terazin, please forgive the mistake x
Very difficult to watch but I think its a piece of our history that needs to be shown and to make sure that this never happens again. Thank you for the post.
It is hard to imagine why this was allowed to happen. I don't see how a person could even possibly describe how horrible it would have been. It's good that people will see this video and see what went on there!
Communism infected all of Europe after the fall of Czarist Russia. This was merely a house cleaning.
Weimar problems require Weimar solutions.
This is what is happening in Ukraine too, today, now. ”Allow to happen” doesn’t apply here neither.
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I'm not sure "I'm not scared" is the correct phasing. You should definitely be concerned at the very least; concerned that you parroted the party line--and was still censored.
It is very easy, 109 countries.............
@@coolboy5428 I said it was the rusty colored chicken that pecked a hole in my garden boots. But, thanks for the sack of taters and green beans you gave us the other night.
Powerful video. Thank you for bringing this painful and moving experience to life for so many who may not get to go visit this site.
Also, only 10-15 years prior, Stalin was doing this to his own people in numbers far greater than the NAZIs. The atrocities of the 20th century must never be forgotten.
It’s all coming back my friend..
@@anthonylemkendorf3114 Do you mean that there will be new mass murders in the near future?
It's still being done today in North Korea.
gorgeous virtue signaling adn your ability speak the completely obvious is simply amazing. You bring such new insight and information there John what would anyone do without you?
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80+ million dead at the hands of communist governments is not as widely known. That’s why we have idiots today thinking socialism is a good thing. Either ignorant, malevolent or both. You seem upset someone would dare cast light on the subject.
This is so sad. It made me cry. I am disgusted that people can even be so awful and cruel and hateful.
It's not sad. 6 million zionists kicked the bucket there
i was there in 2019.. i remember when i entered the gates i was instantly smacked in the face by a pressuring energy.. i could literally feel a dark vibe.. i didn't say a word the whole tour because i was so fascinated and disgusted at the same time. it made me realize how good my childhood was, and how good of a life i have and yet i complain about so many things. i think everybody should visit auschwitz/birkenau once in their life if they have the opportunity. it is the best history lesson you can get, and yet the saddest one.
Perspective is everything. This is why travelling outside of your hometown is so important.
@@Ashleysplanet walk a mile in someone else's shoes before you even think about judging them.
This is a cold harrowing place.
Well done! Information with intelligent narration. No dramatic music, no hype or fluff. None needed describing this horrendous atrocity the world ignored until it was too late. I pray good people never let this happen again.
I see this and I truly understand what my great grandfather left his home to serve nearly 6 years for and what my 2 great uncles gave their lives to stop. May the world never forget the horrors or the memory of those who perished
Amazing, what brave men they are. Thanks for sharing
your reply sums up why it is so important that this bunch of nonsense persists..Russia USA UK France need to have a reason why so many people and so much money were wasted over a war that was in truth fought for political reasons and not for liberation of camps and supposed evil in them....and as u have stated your uncles died for the cause that wasnt..
i suggest u 5minreedthis
TheLiberation0fTheCamps:Facts.vs.Liesby TheodoreJ.O'Keefe
Not very brave of the Allies bombing Germany's civilian cities and bombing the "death camps" or gunning down trains carrying refugees and prisoners from the other camps as the Soviet Union advanced towards Berlin and blaming the Germans for the bodies of dead innocents in the train carts...
Thank you for this video. When you visit the camps a sense of dread slowly starts creeping in along with emptiness/numbness, and once the realization of the unbelievable horrors that took place there sets in, it may be quite difficult to translate your feelings into words from this point on. As the world moves on and the past is left behind more and more every year, it becomes especially important to remind people not to forget at least some of the horrible events that took place throughout the course of history. Otherwise studpidity takes over and then it's basically a one-way ticket to a repetition of what once everyone thought wouldn't have the slightest chance of happening again. Something like "holocaust denial" may sound about as insanse to us all as the flat earth society, but it is, indeed, real. The world is a scary place.
Great video. I've been there and I agree, the place, especially Birkenau leaves a mark on you. The hair room was intense, followed by the display showing the Nazi's attempt to use the hair to make fabric. There is a sign at the Killing wall that says "Please keep your voice down out of respect for those that died here" I didn't think it was necessary as even if I could have thought of something to say, I doubt I could have said it. Went back to Krakow after the visit and it took several shots of spiritus to bring me out of the trance I was in. But I am glad I visited. Sometimes we all need to be reminded of our humanity in the face of those who have lost it.
You described that perfectly, I too was in that post Auschwitz “trance”.
I met a lady years ago in a group home I was in and she was the housemother. She still had her tattoo numbers and asked why she still had them. She was from Germany by the way to explain that even they weren't immune. She said she kept her numbers so she'd never forget. But the most amazing was that she had no hatred about it. I asked why. I'd be broiling in it. She said keeping hatred makes you no better.
My grandma and great grandparents were in a Japanese concentration camp during WW2. Some of the stories she doesn't want to talk about (understandably) because they're so horrendous. They were given little to nothing to eat, and once went hungry for 2 days as someone had decided to complain about the bread being stale! They had to even bury their silver underneath their house to stop the Japanese getting hold of it!!
prayers to your family 🙏
I barely breathed as I watched this. I saw Schindler’s List, and remember not being able to get up at the end of the movie. The inhumanity of this is something I struggle with. I’m sorry for what these innocent people went through….. Everyone should watch this. Thank you for your compassion in sharing this.
This is so respectfully portrayed - thank you for that.
Thank you for posting this very detailed, and thorough piece of history 👍🏻❤️🎥. You are very fortunate to visit such a place, and to tell us about your experience at the camp sites.
Nice to see your appreciation of this sad history. I could feel it in your voice, very powerful. Well done good sir.
I went to Auschwitz-Birkenau in April this year and part of me stayed there... when I went there was this awkward smell lingering in the air, and walking down to the main gas chambers hit me even harder. Its an emotional day and yes I agree it's at the end of the day that your able to process what you've seen and heard. I cried myself to sleep that night...
May I politely ask why did you go there for ? Whats the purpose ? And has the experience effected you than any parts of your experience as from birth to date ? I am grateful for your reply.
@@TheJackyessir I went for my own personal reasons, but in general I think everyone should go, we hear about the holocaust but to actually be there it's another thing...
@@TugaQueen vital signalling you say?
@@TheJackyessir I went on holiday to Poland & visited this place purely out of interest
My Great Grandad was SAS and was part of the team that liberated Bergen-Belsen. Words can't do justice to what that experience actually did to him. He was a hard man, made of marble from head to toe, mentally as much as physically Completely changed him.
Then i would like this opportunity to thank your great granddad for (probably) liberating my Grandma from Bergen-Belsen.
She has passed peaceful for 18 years now, but knowing her, she would like to say the same.
Respect and so much love from Houston, Texas USA.
To both of y'all's families
@@denniswier lest we forget
@@monicaterry2829 The American servicemen did a lot of liberating also . Thank you for our great friendship.
This is just overwhelming, how much suffering those poor innocent people went through. They all were people with consciousness and personalities like us all today.
Most of them were communists, so no big loss.
They’re not poor innocent people
Innocent? Don't lie
109 countries thought otherwise
Yeah, Typhus is a real killer!
Thank you for sharing this with the world. I'm a 53 year old American that had no idea about this place. I have to admit I'm crying.
It tears me apart just to walk through the Holocaust museum in DC, which I’ve been to many times. I can’t imagine the feeling of actually being where these atrocities happened… I’m sure that changes you.
In the end, I struggled with you asking to comment on what we thought "about this amazing place". At first, I felt amazing was a poor choice of words. But, when I think of how many survived to tell the tale, I do think that is amazing. I feel like you covered a lot of important ground - morally and physically. I think your video was very respectful and well done, but I don't know if I can comment on Auschwitz until I experience it myself. Thank you for sharing your experience.
I can feel the empathy in your voice. Well done.
My mother who knew an old boss who lived in the US was a Holocaust survivor and told her stories about her life in the concentration camps as a child. She lived in horror as her family were murdered by the Nazis. After liberating from the camps, she moved to the US for permanent residence in New York before moving to Los Angeles. Something my mom will never forget is that she saw her boss’s arms had tattoos of the ID numbers of the victims. Her boss worked with my mom until her passing in December 2021 at the age of 96. Her boss’s daughter still works with my mom but I will never forget how she told me her story of survival.
Thank you mom for this heartbreaking story and Rest In Peace Mrs Miller (her boss). 😢
Back in the late ‘80’s, my college had a chair in the humanities. For the first year, it focused on the Holocaust. I took a course on the Holocaust and attended many events, including the Keynote by Elie Wiesel. The one that hit me hardest though, was a talk by an elderly man named Curtis Whiteway. He was an American soldier who was one of the first to enter the camps and helped liberate them. If I remember correctly, Israel had planted a tree in his honor, and called him a “Righteous Gentile” for what he had done. He talked about the things he saw. Things no one outside the camps had seen before, and they didn’t even know what they were seeing at first. I remember him talking about a room for the nazi commanders (I think that was the term). Lampshades made of human skin. Severed genitals preserved and displayed. I don’t even remember anything he said after that. I know Mr. Whiteway has passed on, but I’m grateful to him and all the Holocaust survivors for speaking out about this. Never forget, and never again.
ive been there myself, my class was divided into 3 groups, group 1: silently following and listening to the guide. group2: disrespect the place and saying hail hitler and so on to then get kicked out. group3: those who had to be escorted out because they were crying so much they couldn't handle it because of how sad it is
I wanna know what the fuck your second group was smoking
Those saying hail hitler and making fun of it are actually the same devils as the nazis themselves. The only difference is they don’t have any power to do evil, but surely if they had, they would.
I was literally moved to tears. Reading and hearing about Auschwitz is one thing but seeing the actual buildings and what each one was used for is beyond comprehension. All the personal belongings left behind is a real eye-opener to this horrific event.
My son was not ready to be told about ww1/2 when he was in primary. He had nightmares for days n it took me a while to realise why he was so emotional n not happy. He was traumatised with it all. Not good
did you see the swimming pool and read about the guards playing football with the prisoners and the orchestras and plays . I have seen pictures advertising these events at the camp....i think...hmm
@@kerrystewart3857 It is an interesting question. At what age should children or young adults be told about what, "shits" humans can be towards each other. Should we preserve their' innocence as long as possible.?
that's a very good question. perhaps under education is why we have the woke generation. but I understand your point
I think it’s great that they’re allowing you to put this on UA-cam. I think it’s now time to show the reality of what happens when nothing is holding you back from being evil to show why you should never do it. When I was sick with Covid, I felt like I was going to die. And to humble my mind, I would watch WW1 and 2 Clips and Documentary to show that I’m going through nothing. And it did humble me. I’ve seen actual video clips of this camp and it was one the most horrific events that has happened during WW2. And if the video is done right, these types of videos should be shown to educate us.
Thank you for the video 🙏.
I have never visited but I wanted to go and never made it. My sister went four years ago and she said that the impact of actually visiting made her realise even more than she had thought before the trip. This all came to an end two years before I was born and I remember the pictures that went around of the horrors, the stacks of bodies, the queues of the poor people in the lines with the scared and sometimes vacant looks on their faces, like they knew what was happening and that all hope was gone. It is ironic that Germany is now such a powerful country not even 80 years later. This was a great video that everyone should see and when you still see some of the hatred directed towards the Jewish nation, you wonder if anything was learned.
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This was awesome , the narrative especially was very moving and articulate
Thank you so much
Great video. The horror of Auschwitz stuns me. Like many places in the world, it’s hard to grasp the total picture until you’re there.
Thanks Tom. It really hits you hard being in the place where it all took place.
I was there not even a month ago. It is impossible to grasp and comprehend what you see when you're there but even though I know the history and I'm old enough to have met survivors that were in my school and told us about it, it was a life altering experience and I'm still processing weeks later.
Very good and educational, yet extremely sad & touching video. You've done an incredible job at displaying what it might have been like to have endured this horrific place.
I am struggling to find a way to understand how mankind can inflict such suffering on other human beings. Just horrendous.
Thank you for opening my eyes to this.
I feel for the people who perished here and in other camps. I feel for all the soldiers who died because of the madness of this war. I am sad very often. I do not have the means to visit these sites but my heart still breaks !! We must stay strong and never let this madness occur again !!!
Well said.
It happened again with POL POT. Let's not forget about STALIN round the time of Hitler he was responsible for even more deaths than the horror of Auschwitz.
Cambodia Red Khmer killing fields!
There are alot of tourists visiting them, but I wouldn't want to either. Germany was the most horrible place then. People then should've just gone and lived somewhere much more safe and civilized, which were most places outside of Germany and Russia (and I think Poland too). It's sure understanding why many people went to America throughout the first half of the 20th century. The UK wasn't too bad for much of 1900 to 1950, except during the blitz in WW2. The US was much safer and civilized during WW2 (and I think some parts of Europe were too, any European countries outside of the nazi's reach)
@@alvexok5523 except USA wouldn't accept European jews for many yrs.
I used to be a paramedic 20 years ago and I remember the first time I saw one of the Jewish tattoos on a patient that I was taking back to a Jewish nursing home from the hospital it sent shivers down my spine and I could feel the anger building in my heart it was probably one of the most sobering things I've ever seen in my life and after having several patients that I brought back from the hospital I noticed that not all the tattoos were the same there was like three or four different kinds and I don't know what that means maybe it was depended on what camp you were in or what particular comedian was doing the tattoos that day I'm not quite certain all I know is it was an awful thing to see. And that was in Massachusetts USA.
The tattoos would tell which camp the person was sent to.
That's what I thought they were all very similar but different I am had someized that it was dependent upon where you got sent. But thanks for the info now I know
Hey Adele I forgot to ask you how did you happen to find out that piece of information about the tattoos and the different camps I'd like to read up on it thanks Rick
Hi! I I Googled about tattoos in the camps, and it's mind boggling. People who didn't get a tattoo were killed right away. "A" signified a male, and "B" was fir women. A triangle signified that the person was Jewish. I was wrong that a letter signified the camp. The number ID'd the person if they died. I suggest Googling it on your own to get a better idea about it all.
Thanks I'll do that I'll check into it today
Great commentary to the video... Very thought provoking as well... I visited the Washington DC museum and the end skylit bridge with the shoes piled and the smell of the leather brought what i saw there to a true realization that what i had seen was heartbreaking ... I felt immense numbness & sadness yet appreciated the awareness of atrocities... ❤ To all the victims of this tragic and needless atrocity