As a Pole, it is hard for me to understand the question "why didn't Poles/people save Jews from the Holocaust?" Only someone who doesn't know the history of World War II can ask it. This question is just as reasonable as the question. Why didn't Jews save themselves from the Holocaust? Let me remind you that Poland lost its independence in the first months of World War II (10.1939) and only regained it in 1989. Poles did as much for Jews as they could. Witold Pilecki was a Polish soldier who, as a VOLUNTEER, allowed himself to be captured and imprisoned in Auschwitz. He then infiltrated the camp's operations and sent reports to the commander. He began to create a resistance movement in the camp. He believed that liberating the camp was possible with a simultaneous attack from the outside and a revolt from within. The command of the Polish underground state did not decide to take this step. Poland did not have enough resources. They also feared the wrath of the Germans. It should be added that it was popular at that time for the Germans to kill 100 random Poles on the streets of cities for the murder of 1 German officer. Jan Karski delivered reports on German crimes against the Jewish population to the world, including Roosevelt. It was expected that the bombing of German cities would begin. Unfortunately, the free world did not take any action... According to the Germans, Poles were also considered a "lower race" or subhumans. During the war, 6 million Poles died, including 3 million Polish Jews. That is 20% of the population. Every Polish family lost someone. My nation bears a similar trauma to yours. No one helped my nation either. My nation fought and died fighting on all fronts on the side of the Allies. Then, after the war, it was betrayed by them. You have no right to judge them.
While this might be true that pols who would hide jews got killed for doing so He focuses alot on why there are no jews who stayed in Poland after the war which was because their houses were stolen from the jews during the war and the ones who returned and asked back for it were killed by the locals
@@yoilishr5713 Ok. As I know a bit of the history.... what happened during the Polish uprising against Russian Car? Poles were sent to Syberia and their houses, homes, land plots taken by Jews...
Helping Jews was punished with death for the whole family in Poland so we don't know what would we to in this situation. And there were still people helping them
You could have done what Denmark did - the entire nation and even the Danish King encouraged Danes to rescue the Jews and send them to Sweden. Denmark managed to save 92% of their Jewish population, very brave people!
@@ScaniaVikingslol in denmark there were only 6000 jews before World War XD in Poland there were 3.4 milion Jews in most of cities there were huge miniority sometimes even 30 % of city population they have own neibourhood etc to who you can sent 3.4 milion of people whitout army noticed? And name me a country with ocuppied poland have a border and was neutral bc soviets were allies to nazis
@@ScaniaVikings There were about 7,500 Jews in Denmark when the war started and 3,474,000 in Poland so that's the difference. And "you could have done" sounds weird because we didn't live back then. But I didn't know that the danish king encouraged people to help the Jewish citizens, very interesting.
did poland have a president during the occupation to encourage rescuing the jews, i dont think so, also around 300k poles were involved in helping the population of jews
Przyjechał do Polski, obraził nas, obraził polskich Żydów którzy tu jeszcze żyją, czepia się że trzeba płacić bilety za wstęp, mówi że ukradliśmy domy i że nic nie robiliśmy, gdy ludzie ginęli w obozach. Totalny brak wiedzy i ignorancja, widać w jakim kraju kończył edukację. I tyle z tego naszego pamiętania i przywracania pamięci o naszych sąsiadach Żydach. Przyjedzie taki ignorant i... Szkoda słów. Zero doceniania tych, dzięki którym pamięć o Żydach jest wciąż żywa, są ludzie opiekujący sie grobami, synagogami, artyści, żydzi tu mieszkający, rabini, a ten przyjechał i powiedział że nikogo nie ma xD
niestety taka antypolska indoktrynacja jest teraz że Polacy to ogólnie chuje i zabijali tylko i ogólnie jesteśmy najgorszym narodem świata, tymczasem o niemcach nic nie piszą
Ortodoksyjni Żydzi ze Stanów mają podejście z góry do Polaków i innych nacji Europy Wschodniej czego jakoś nie demonstrują wobec Niemców. Cóż być może wiedzę o Torze mają dużą, natomiast o historii ich wiedza jest dość selektywna, bo pewnie nie wiedzą, że również Cyganie, Świadkowie Jehowy, homoseksualiści czy Polacy nie chcący się podporządkować i być tania siła roboczą byli traktowani w ten sam sposób. Ciekawe czy mógłby chodzić w jarmułce w ten sam sposób w Szwecji, Niemczech, wschodnim Londynie, Marsylii czy też Birmingham.
As an Israeli granddaughter of holocaust survivors, thank you for all that you do. We appreciate you and your leadership for taking the right steps to ensure safety. I enjoyed this movie but not the commentary that was uncalled for. Thank you and Shalom ❤
Nawet nie próbował spotkać sie z żyjącymi tu żydami i porozmawiać jak żyje im się w Polsce, postanowił napluć nam w twarz i zrobić z nas współpracowników faszystów!
In Europe, if you go to a historical religious site, no matter whether it’s a church or synagogue you have to pay an entrance fee. If a Christian goes to an old church or cathedral they still have to pay. In case of the Old Synagogue, it acts as a museum and that’s how the Jewish community of Krakow can fund restoration works and maintenance of the buildings. There’s no bad faith involved here. As a Polish atheist who was raised Christian I’ve visited synagogues in Prague and Budapest and paid the entrance fees, same as in Malta, Spain or Portugal where I had to pay to visit old churches outside of mass times.
It’s also worth noting that by paying an entrance fee in synagogues turned into museums, people support the maintenance and renovation of synagogues and cemeteries. It’s the case also in Prague and Budapest. Shloime was definitely trying to mislead people watching this documentary that everything is in the hands of Polish government.
Jews should be able to enter without paying a penny. It's the LEAST any self-respecting people should do considering the evil perpetrated against them. Regular taxes can contribute to their maintenance. Thinking it's ok to use a place of worship as a restaurant, etc is nauseating. 🤮 @@pshemko__
I am a Polish Jew. I was born and brought up in Poland. I think that your film material is very good, valuable and very interesting. Professionally done and in every way important and necessary. However, let me make two comments. 1. The crimes against the Jews and other peoples of Eastern and Central Europe were not committed by aliens or any Nazis, but by Germans and Austrians who were willingly assisted by Lithuanian, Latvian and Ukrainian helpers. In Hungary, after the fall of Miklos Horta, also some Hungarians. The Poles were also victims of the Germans, the Soviets and Ukrainian nationalism. The experience of extermination is not unknown to the Poles. It is enough to go to Ponary to see where Jews and Poles lie in the same death holes. Please remember this. 2. Placing stickers in unauthorised places is forbidden in Poland. Poles take great care of their surroundings. As you have probably noticed, Poland is very clean. Poles take great care of it. Such behaviour is considered as littering. Would you like to be considered as a badly behaved person. 3. it is not true that there are no Jews in Poland. There are, and quite a lot of them, of course not as there were before the war. But it is not the same as it was before the war. The Jewish community in Poland is there and is doing quite well.
I will add that Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva belongs to Jews and they pray and study there. You can find even something in youtube if you really want. Yeshiva was very famous and used to have many books before Holocaust, but they were burned by you know who.
2. No, we're not xP There's shit on the ground all around. I guess not to such an extent as in america or western Europe, but still not Japan level clean (I guess it's my bad for expecting perfection). And by shit I mean trash (or occasional dog poop, nothing like the state of western Europe: human waste).
I have the impression that the author of the film does not know the history of Poland, his message points more to the guilt of the Poles for the death of the Jews, the word Germany does not go down this gentleman's throat too much. He suggests that we stole the property of the Jews, which to me is a slap in the face. Let's learn history and then point things out to other nations!
Just FYI on Polish law: You can record everything you like in the public space without anyones permission. You are not allowed to publish the likeliness of any person without their consent.
@@Mug-82 What a weird comment. I am stating what the law is at this current time with no personal opinion, this was not an invitation on debating whether they are good or not
@@HowlingWo1f Dude this synagoge changed to restaurant is owned by Jewish community, they are renting this space............... Nothing was stolen here, maybe your integrity
I am the son of Holocaust survivors from Poland and I visit Poland three time a year. I read, write and speak fluent Polish, so communication there, for me, is not a problem. I am the longest serving volunteer (over 18 years) at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. This documentary is SO MISLEADING. It seems like he went to Poland and INTENTIONALLY AVOIDED meeting any Polish Jews. He was in Kraków exploring everywhere EXCEPT the Kraków Jewish Community Centre. THERE he would find Jews!! In Lódź, he went to the cemetery of course, but he didn't visit the synagogue and the Jewish centre, with its Jewish guest house. THERE he would find Jews!! And, of course, did he go to Warsaw where there are plenty of LIVING POLISH JEWS? The answer is NO. Did he meet with Poland's Chief Rabbi, Michael Schudrich, who could have pointed him in the right direction to meet LIVING Polish Jews IN Poland? Of course not! According to estimates, today, there are between 25,000 and 30,000 Jews in Poland - it seems that he went out of his way NOT to meet them.This "documentary" is SO misleading and should be viewed with EXTREME skepticism.
Before the Shoa, there were 3,3 MILLION Jews living in Poland. Today it are about 25 000. So just look at those numbers - it is not even 1% left (and i did not count how many jews there would be today with children and grandchildren from those 3,3 Millions!) if you count 4kids per family- it would today be 16,3 Millions. We have 25000 So Shloime is right.
Agreed - I like his previous videos but this particular one was extremely misleading. There’s no mention of the life of contemporary Polish Jews, no interviews with members of the Jewish community in Poland. Also, he acted quite ignorant when they asked him to pay for the ticket at the old synagogue the maintenance of which is funded through donations or entrance fees.
@@channarubin8267 There are probably more Poles with Jewish heritage. It’s just some of them converted to Christianity, became assimilated. There were quite a few secular Jews who joined the communist party and had nothing to do with Judaism. My aunt’s husband is quarter Jewish but doesn’t feel any connection with Judaism as his grandparents converted to Christianity. I have some very distant Jewish ancestry from the 18th century (9 generations before me). The Jewish population is actually growing - there are Jewish communities in Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw or Łódź where they still feel safer compared to Western Europe as there are far less Muslim immigrants and there aren’t many woke antifa youths.
I live in Warsaw and here the local Jewish community are "dyed Jews". They are mostly actual converts with one single Jewish ancestors deep in the past, who didn't cultivate Judaism. And most them have suprematist views. They would not have vibes with American Jews.
I knew the guy was prejudiced when he started talking that the synagogues were stolen. WTF?! There were agreements between the authorities and jewish community. Without them he wouldn't even have chance to see anything, because they would be simply ruined.
80% in and not even a single reference that germans procured and conducted the Holocaust. If someone is disrespectful, it's You Shloime. Polish people give lots of money to preserve and care for remnants of jewish history. Shame on You for leaving out such important information.
Sorry - 48:06 - tehere is a word 'nazi'. Not german (as the plaque says), but always a word pointing to germans (for those who know a little bit of history).
@@ptasptasznick9305 : Can you explain to me how this is any different than the Christian world, for the past 2000 years, claiming that Jews killed Christ, all because of the fanaticism of a few religious leaders, if even, that at all, sparking the antisemitism that has lasted to this day. Then there are sources that claim no Jew at all, of any sort, had anything to do with it. Has was pointed out in the film, Jews no longer exist in Poland, to this day. Communities that had endured there for over a 1000 years, and who I am sure, was as much Polish as any other. Those of us who are not Jewish cannot possibly, understand the pain of things of this nature. I am not saying you are incorrect in your point, but it is such a small point compared to the overall, picture here. Even today, with everything currently, going on; I am a super, passionate supporter of Israel and the Jewish People in their current, struggle, but as then so now, I know I am apart of the minority of people on this planet. So what has changed? What have we learned? Nothing it seems. Trying to shame this Brother, already adding to his terrible, pain seems a little harsh and cruel to me. Just saying. My Best. Out.
This is an commercial for a tour operator disguised as a documentary. His confrontational attitude was an act to give the documentary a "plot". Poland has done the best it can to preserve the memory of it's lost Jews who were exterminated by the Nazis. When we Jews travel back there to see that history we should appreciate that. The Polish population's behavior during the Holocaust was mixed and complicated. Shlomie Zionce is young and uneducated in this sensitive topic. He was there to film a commercial. He didn't give the issue much thought.
This is the right comment. There were Poles who saved Jews, the underground state which was powerless was trying to do its best, there were also Poles assisting in Holocaust (minority but those cases were more common in eastern parts of Poland but also in other countries like Lithuania, Slovakia). The majority was indifferent because they were scared of the consequences or just wanted to survive. Unfortunately, it looks like this was just a commercial for a tour operator which mostly stirs up negative emotions and reveals maybe 20% of truth. This is quite sad as I strongly support Israel in its right for self- determination and right to exist in the global map but movies like this one just add more negativity.
@@ShatzMat ok, Shlomie might be indeed young and uneducated but what about the Hasidic Embassy? Uneducated as well? Just accidentally producing well-made pseudo-document that will circulate in the web spreading hate and misinformation freely? Who will take responsibility if consequences of hate, in this case anti-Polonism, will have effects in real life?
Thank you for this normal comment. As many people have already mentioned, we were completely conquered by the Germans and Russians. We had nothing to say and to prove it to us, the invaders immediately introduced brutal rules. Murdering and persecution of the Polish intelligentsia, soldiers, any people associated with the pre-war Polish state (officials, railway workers, scouts, etc.), elderly people who opposed the invader Prussia during regaining independence in 1918, and ordinary people. Auschwitz was established in 1940 exclusively for Poles. Birkenau for Jews was not established until two years later. Considering such conditions, I believe that many Jews were saved and many Poles were involved. This is why the "Żegota" organization was created. Did some Poles help the Germans? As I understand it, you are Jewish, I don't know if you are from Israel or live somewhere else. Do you have prisons in Israel, who goes there, for what crimes, even for murders? In Poland we also have full prisons and we had them before the war. I don't know how it happened, historical sources are silent about it, but I suspect that such people could have been released just before the Germans entered. And for such a criminal who murdered and stole before the war, he probably did the same during the war, with the silent consent of the Germans. But the Polish Underground State always tried to eliminate such people. I will not apologize for such garbage, and neither will the Polish state. I don't even intend to be ashamed of them, and life is worth nothing to me, you can only try to isolate such people from society. As I mentioned earlier, we saved as many Jews as we could. Could more Jews have survived and how many more (2, 3, 100, 1000 people or maybe more)? Jews also had their own organization, it was called "Żagiew". Have you heard of her? It is being erased from the pages of history. If you can, please write back if you know about it. Some Jews converted to Christianity before or long before the war or their ancestors. They stopped being Poles of the Mosaic faith and decided to be Polish Christians. It was difficult for the Germans to locate such Jews who had voluntarily become members of the Polish Christian community. And here Jewish communities rushed to "help" the Germans by providing such data. As you say, history is not that simple and colorful. Moreover, in many cases, the history of Poland was not written by Poles but by those who ruled us - occupied us. The history of Polish-Jewish relations is also changing. As far as I know, a different history was written by Jewish historians right after the war, those who survived the war and were our neighbors. And a different story is beginning to be told by modern Jewish historians. Mutual relations are also not helped by films like this one and the authors of these films. Every year, young Jews from school come on a tour of the extermination sites. In the 1990s, the Polish side came up with a project to make these trips to places of culture, nature, to get to know us Poles, but also to get to know each other. And Auschwitz and these other death camps were supposed to be just for good measure, a small percentage of these trips. It worked for a few years. But the Jewish side decided that this cannot be the case and now there are only tours around the camps. What this is all for, I don't know. Someone in an earlier comment quoted data about what percentage of Poles hate Jews. This is also a complex topic. But such films certainly do not improve Poles' relations with Jews. Thank you once again for your normal comment and understanding of each other's history, especially the history of the war. And please write whether you have heard about this Jewish organization "Żagiew" or whether you can learn about it from the Jewish media.
I have watched the entire video and I must say that it is very biased and pretentious. 14:30 in Poland there is a law that prevents people from taking pictures and video of people without their permission this is why this lady said that she doesn't want you to record her. Also it is their right not to allow you record inside the restaurant. Further more or maybe what is more important win many places in the video you stated that this place or that place was taken away from your people. Building is a building. This particular place you were not allowed to filmed in it used to be place where jews prayed but because there was a war it was destroyed. So after the war people of Cracow had to either level it and build something new or renovate it and repurpose it. The same thing about any other place that you mentioned in the video. You said it best yourself, there are very little jewish people in Poland or in Europe for that matter. Mostly because of what have happened to them during 2nd World War. So from my perspective jews just left their heritage here and moved somewhere else. 18:18 this synagogue has been turned into museum because it has been ruined and then restored. Agreement between Cracow's museum and jewish community has been made to make it into museum. And because it is a museum you have to buy the ticket for the people who work there and who take cafe of it to have money. 52:40 this part sounded like you think that people of Lublin knew about atrocities and that just lived their normal lives and didn't care about their brother, sisters, neighbours that were taken to Majdanek. As @kumarro11 said this part sounds like you are asking why polish people didn't try to save jews or more jews and to that I say that there are a lot of polish people risking their lives to hide and protect jews from being killed or transported to camps. I have watched the whole thing but 55:50 made me angry and I decided to post this response. In many places in the video you place your stickers where ever you like. I don't know how is it in USA but in Poland it is an act of vandalism and you can be given a ticket for that. But when you stuck your sticker on the rails of the Auschwitz concentration camp it was the straw that broke the camel's back. This whole video had a vibe of entitlement but in Poland we treat everyone equally so the fact that you are a jew doesn't give you the right to do such things. In Auschwitz many people have been tortured and killed, not only jews so if everybody felt entitled this place would be devastated long time ago. I believe that you wanted to make a documentary in a good faith but I must say it doesn't show the whole picture and therefore might be misleading. Edit: As a side note at the time of writing this response, two days earlier I have been out with some friends at the exactly he same place in Kraków where you have been and I have seen jews enjoying their time there. They might have been visiting, I don't know, I didn't ask but they were there :)
I feel it was powerful for him to put the sticker there. Do some research on what Tefillin is and how going back to Auschwitz, the place where g-d seemingly abandoned us, and putting a sticker symbolizing our undying faith in G-D even in the darkest of times, is real moving.
I couldn't agree more. Also his behavior in Poland was disgusting. He didn't go visit to actually get to know the country and understand what happened to the Jews and how. Most of his viewers share the opinion the Poles are complicit in murdering the Jews as the Polish State. He doesn't say much about Poland being occupied and brutalized by two allies: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union He doesn't even acknowledge the fact Birkenau was part of Germany then. These people are so brainwashed and will never understand. I'm saying this as a very pro-Israeli person. All this hatred against the Jews that is happening in the US and Canada right now and these guys still blame the victims for the Holocaust not the actual perpetrators.
I’m Polish living in USA I’m pro Israel and love Jews Short statement Don’t expect much from religious Jews 😂😂😂😂😂 As well don’t expect much from any religious person Please don’t mix religion with people of real faith in one true God Religion is poison Faith is freedom
He was not making an unbiased history documentary about the war. He made a personal trip to find his roots from his own perspective. And yes you can call that biased. I agree with him, world loves to scapegoat Jews and people don’t help Jews, with few exceptions. Large majority of Poland hates Jihadist terrorists continually votes for politicians who will keep these jihadists out of Poland, but would Poland offer support for Israel? No. Look how Israel is fighting this evil alone. No one is helping Israel. I’m from Latvia my family suffered as well, my family lost property and had family members sent to Gulags . That’s not the point of this documentary. That hippie was effin rude, she interrupted him during a prayer . She couldn’t fathom for one second that he clearly is from abroad that this might be emotional for him to see a synagogue turned into a cafe and that he might not know about some Polish laws about filming in public. She could’ve been a lot nicer about it. I work in hospitality I wouldn’t behave like that. Also the way she asked him where he’s from she was hoping he would say Israel, I read that straight in her face in that moment that she was a Hamas supporter. Ask her what she thinks about patriotic poles, I bet she would love to replace them with gang raping murderous jihadists instead. Yeah that clip from the museum was nuisance that’s true. But that’s about it. But it is his history too , you can’t deny that from him. It’s not just your history it is also his history. World has no issues using Jewish innovations but you you help them or support them noooo. Your phone your write your comment on is a Jewish invention
I think you should select the language you use carefully. You claim that Jewish property was stolen by Poles. My Polish grandparents lived before war in Vilnius which was back then a Polish city. My grandma was a successful businesswoman who run a grocery shop. They owned a house, a car and a shop. When Soviets came they had like 10 minutes to pack their stuff and run. They lost everything. It never crossed my mind to try to regain possession of my family's property, let alone accuse Lithuanians that they stole something from me. If you feel that something was stolen from you, send a bill to Germany!
Many, many families in Poland has similar story, our country was heavily affected by war. But I never heard them saying that Lithuanias, Belarusians, Ukrainians etc stole something from them. Never, ever, there is simply no such narrative in Poland. But Jews were robbed, and not by Germans who devastated Poland totally, but by Poles. Many of them had properties in Warsaw which was levelled to ground, and later rebuilt by hard work of Poles in extremely difficult time (country devastated totally, no reparations from Germany, no money from Marschall plan, country occupied and robbed by Russia, etc) and they still think we are obliged to return the rebuilt house to them. Interesting. No Pole would ever say such thing about their lost properties. Not to mention that due to what they do to Palestinians, how they truly stole their land and still doing this, how they oppress them, they really should just shut up and beg the Lor for mercy for their crimes.
The exact same story here, but it was a small manor with some land in what is today north-western Ukraine. My family also never "challenged" the possession rights to that property. We are just happy that after the war the Ukrainians that live there rebuild it to its former state.
Also they have received more money in aid than any place on the planet , and they did nothing with that money except dig up some terror tunnels. They have no infrastructure because they don’t work they sponge off the Western working class because our governments send them billions
Yes we sure should should have a more nuanced conversation about what happened to Poland and Baltics where I am from during Russian and German invasion, as we all suffered, but he is not claiming that Poles stole his property. He wanted to say a prayer and that pro Hamas hippie treated him very badly. So I completely understand his sentiment in that moment. I also understand that it can be distressing to see a house of prayer converted into a cafe. He was not a nuisance. He prayed quietly, he was not sticking his ass in the air laying down in the middle of the room and screaming allahu Akbar That hippie was rude and disgusting. I would love to know what that wench thinks about patriotic poles, if it was up to her she would flood Poland with gang raping murderous jihadists.
Forgot to mention that nobody wanted Jews in their country and only asylum they found was Poland, we live together for hundread of years together, sadly when war happend in 1939 people were afraid of their life becasue of death penalty for saving Jews.
@@twinklestar94 During WWII there were about 65 mln of citizens in Germany and only about 520 thousand of Jews, not even 1%. While in Poland there were only about 34mln of citizens and 3,5 mln of Jews. Really Poland didn't do any special things? You are ridiculous.
@@ScaniaVikings Apparently, you don't understand what he is writing about. He means past centuries before WWII. I read the numbers and before WWII there were ridiculous low number of Jews in Sweden.
The accusation that a building was "stolen" is ridiculous. After World War II, most buildings were destroyed, and those that survived were abandoned by the Jews. It was the Poles who rebuilt and renovated these buildings to preserve the history of Jews in Poland. And now a Jew accuses the owners who maintained this building for over 70 years of theft.
Not to mention the camps that were preserved and are being maintained by the Polish state as opposed to Austria and former CC there where villas with pools are built where the camps once were ( KL Gusen)
Abandoned? Wow. That’s one way to put it if the owner that building and his whole family were murdered! If you take such pride in maintaining these buildings, a Jew should be able to enter and pray there, for the families who didn’t get to come home to their properties! Not to mention how many polish jews did come back and were promptly either murdered or kicked out in the late 40s! Amazing… the amount of ignorance in that statement.
A czego sie spodziewałeś? Ze ci zapłacą. Ty ty masz im i całe pokolenia płacić za krzywdy wojenne. Bo Niemcy już spłacili im dług. Czas na Polskę. Po to tu przyjechał na inwentaryzację polskiego mienia z Brooklynu. Piwnice widocznie były za ciasne, więc szukają okazalszych lokali za darmo. I patrz znalazł jak szybko. Mają widocznie już działki co jest dla nich cenne. tak ogrywa sie frajerów którzy nie pilnują a sprzedają swój naród dla judaszowego narodu.
@milz5243 You are delusional. No one will let any jew to come into his house to pray. Do you allow Palestinians to come into jewish homes to pray? Yeah, we all know the answer. GTFO of Poland. You're not going to make next Palestine in here. Also, please be consistent with your lies. If you keep saying that Poland is so full of hate against you then do not come here. According to jews it's deadly dangerous here so for your own safety, stay away.
It is a biased narrative of an ethnocentric Jew who visited another sovereign country with an attitude as he OWNS its streets and buildings. Your ancestors were Polish citizens with Jewish ancestry and should have fought in Polish armed forces when Hitler attacked in 1939. Sadly, Jews refused to contribute to share the responsibility of defending a country where they lived, which led to their own demise, later blaming others for not intervening on their behalf. Many Jews were saved by Poles, many were not, as Polish people themselves were exterminated by German and Soviet occupiers. Thus, blame Stalin and Hitler for the Holocaust, instead of Polish people who often sacrificed their own lives and their families to save Jews.
I'm from Łódź ( in English Lodz ). You should soend more tine in this city. There's a Jewish community here. My best friend's father was even someone important in it before he died. You should also see in Warsaw Polin Museum. It is dedicated to commemorate a thousand years old history of Jews in Poland. My whole family comes from Lodz, there lived here long before WWII. I remember my greatparents talking about how hard it was for a Jew to pretend being Polish during war just for this simple reason they couldn't speak Polish properly. Almost only young generation, educated in Polish schools before the war spoke Polish fluently. And before the war 30 % of Lodz inhabitants were German. They could perfectly distinquish between Jews & Poles. Not to mention that in occupied Poland, not like in France or other Western European countries, helping Jews in any way was punished by death. Not only death of the person who helped but also his whole family and sometimes even neighbours. And about so called "stolen" property - remember that after the war Poland felt under soviet occupation and had to remain in soviet zone for nearly 50 years. It were commies who nationalised a lot of private properties. After 1989 all buildings of religious purposes were returned to the religious communities. Of course if they wanted. Due to the decline of Jews living in Poland after the war not all synagogs were wanted by remaining Jews. So some of them were turned into museums. As for private properties - a lot of them after the war were only rubbish. Nothing left. Some of them were also nationalised by commies, in the same way as properties of Poles. After 50 years the process of restoration of properties was difficult and in many cases impossible due to many legal reasons. Poles are in exactly the same situation, Jews aren't discriminated against at all.
Your refusal to pay for entrance to the Alte Shul museum and your claim that it was stolen from the Jews are completely incorrect. When you tour a synagogue that has been converted into a museum, you are required to pay an entrance fee, such as at the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem. The Alte Shul was completely ruined during the war by the Nazi Germans; only the bare walls without a roof remained. In 1956, the Polish state fully financed the renovation of the ruined synagogue. In 1958, the Krakow Jewish Congregation ceremoniously turned over the synagogue for museum purposes. It currently serves as a branch of the Historical Museum of the City of Krakow - the Judaic Museum. Similarly, the Hevra synagogue has been returned to the Krakow Jewish Congregation and is now being leased to private operators who oversee the current commercial activities.
@@agnieszkaolszewska6079you being upset that we believe that we are the chosen people just shows you have an internal issue with us and have antisemitic feelings. you are disgusting
How can something abandoned be stolen? If it was not repurposed it would have fallen into ruin. Now matter where in the world, if the owner abandons a property and stops paying taxes, the property is confiscated and repurposed. That's the way things work in the world, like it or not.
Wielu ludzi myśli, że Polacy byli antysemitami, tymczasem prawda leży pośrodku. Byli antysemici, ale byli też liczni filosemici, szczególnie wśród inteligencji i artystów. Dzisiaj im lepsze wykształcenie, tym mniej antysemitów. Około 30% Polaków deklaruje sympatię do Żydów. Polityka Netaniahu sprawiła, że antysemityzm rośnie, ale przecież dzieje się tak nie tylko w Polsce. Jeśli o mnie chodzi, mam świadomość, że polscy Żydzi byli bardzo różni, dzielili się na wiele różnych grup. I mieszkali w tym kraju od prawie tysiąca lat, więc Polska była przecież ojczyzną dla bardzo wielu pokoleń aszkenazyjskich Żydów. Mam też świadomość, że było wielu wybitnych Polaków żydowskiego pochodzenia kształtujących polską kulturę i naukę. Polskiego dorobku narodowego nie można sobie wyobrazić bez tego drogocennego wkładu. Swego czasu Rafał Betlejewski zorganizował akcję pt. "Tęsknię za Tobą, Żydzie". Ona oddaje to co czuje bardzo wielu z nas. Odczuwamy pustkę. Wojna wyrwała nam coś, co było integralną częścią polskiego krajobrazu przez setki lat. Nie mówię w imieniu Polaków, bo my, oczywiście, też jesteśmy bardzo różni. Są wśród nas antysemici, są filosemici, są ludzie neutralni i obojętni. Ale generalnie ludzie lepiej wykształceni lepiej znają historię i starają się weryfikować różne informacje. Mity, stereotypy, kłamstwa, propagandę łatwo obalić - wystarczy uzbroić się w wiedzę. Dla mnie, Polaka z Warszawy, polscy Żydzi zawsze byli mi jakoś dziwnie bliscy.
Albo Żydzi w szkołach tego nie uczą, albo autor filmiku w szkołę tylko kamieniami rzucał, bo nie wie, jakiego narodu przedstawiciele, są najliczniejszą grupą, odznaczoną medalem Sprawiedliwi wśród Narodów Świata.
W sumie obie twoje teorie są prawdziwe. Obstawiam że to przez połączenie braku wiedzy, nakłamania historii i chęci zrobienia kontrowersyjnego filmu "dokumentalnego", który będzie się klikał doprowadziły do stanu w jakim został opublikowany. Co najlepsze nie obraża i znieważ tylko Polaków ale i jednocześnie innych żydów zakłamując tak fakty.
That's very misleading material, full of hate and lies. Firstly, I'm baffled that the author didn't mention even once, that concentration camps were GERMAN camps on occupied Polish land and keept calling them "Polish camps". Secondly, Jews weren't only people that's have been persecuted by the Germans. Gypsies, Poles, Ukrainians (generally slavic people) etc... were also opressed and send to death camps. There were Poles that saved Jews despite the threat of death penelty (person that tried to save the Jew and that persons family were killed, for example Ulm family, that's been hiding Jews were killed. A father, pregnant mother and their seven children, including a newborn). That penelty was introduced only in estern countries, while on the west punishments for helping the jews were much milder). On the list of Righteous Among the Nations largest group of people are Poles. Ofcourse there were Poles that were collaborating with Germans (by that I mean, telling to the Germans who's Jewish etc...). Many Jews in camps and ghettos were helping in extermination of another Jews (forcing them to work, organising deportation of Jews to the camps). There were even Jewish police units under German commands inside the ghettos that were helping the Germans in deportations and extermination. Another thing is that Polish people after the war weren't stealing Jewish homes and other properties, it was stolen by communists from USSR and communist regime of Poland. After the war there were some persecutions of Jews, but it was result of that many communists, that were persecuting and killing polish partisants after the war, were Jewish (for exampple, a Katyan massacre, where over 10k Poles were executed by NKVD, many NKVD officers were Jews). You need to pay for entry to synagogoue because it was destroyed during the war and it was rebuild after the war ended. Money from tickets are gathered for keeping this place and restoration of it, like many other historical places, churches, castles etc... . Nobody is trying to "make" money on the holocaust, Polish people are taking care of death camps so people can learn about atrocities commited during II World War and see on their own eyes places of death of their ancestors (didn't you heard that lately in Germany, ex-death camp was soled into private hands and it's going to be a estate or some other thing, thst won't preserve suffering and history of the prisoners?) Maybe there's isn't a lot of Jews in Poland, but there's some of them and it's fault of communist regime. In the 60's communist goverment repressed the Jews and forced them to migrate from the country. There are some other things in the video that are misleading and historically incorrect. Sorry for my English, but it isn't my native language and shame on you Shloime for misleading the people with this video. If anyone tries to make money on Jewish suffering that's you and if you have any hatered towards people responsible for Holocaust, then it should be targeted toward the Germans, who started II World War and the Holocaust.
Your comment is such utter bullshit. Of course the polish are judged for the acts of nazis, many poles were nazis. Poles were not shipped from all corners of Europe to concentration camps, your logic is victim blaming. Poles ran the polish concentration camps, zero camps were run by jews.
@@Aaron565 You are full of misguided brainwashing bud My ex wife’s family was Polish and actually hid Jews during the war Get a life and wake the hell up before it’s too late NOBODY is buying your BS anymore
@@Aaron565 well, during ww2 poland lost almost 20% of its population. Its estimated that around 70,000 poles were killed in contentration camps during occupatipn.
@@Aaron565 Hard logic. So Poles were Nazis, right? In 1939 they attacked themselves and killed 3 million of their own people. They also set up Polish concentration camps for themselves. All this to get rid of a certain minority whose name cannot be pronounced. I wonder if people like you think at all?
nothing was stolen from you, the Germans and Austrians murdered you, Poles rebuilt everything after the destruction, you should be grateful for keeping your memory alive
Rebuilt? Really? You had Anti-Jewish violence and discrimination even after WW2 from Poles and communists which is why the remaining Jews left your country...
incorrect, dirty work of killing jews was given to the local polish police and they did with great satifaction, this is why my polish jewish grandfather Swore to never speak polish again, many local Poles were celebrating when jews were sent to the concentration camps. It doesn't mean I agree with everything was saidin the video.. as it more generalized ..but yes the locals were never friendly to us and hatred was felt even before the war
@@AB-fl6uq as well as many jews were celebrating Poles being murdered, does it mean jews are responsible for millions of Poles dying? And many Poles were friendly to you, dude, especially those who were killed for helping. Imagine someone who during the war was fighting against the nazi and organizing help for jews, and after the war was persecuted and tortured by jewish communists. He said that they were not worth helping. See how the generalisation works?
As many people mentioned, this is not all the story and it lacks some historical background. Many building are still there and are not ruined because they were restored and preserved to tell the story of the Holocaust in Poland as well as centuries of jewish history in Poland. You can't simply tell that something was stolen from you because you need to pay a small price to keep it running and maintain it. Why in some cases there is no interest in sponsoring such places by jewish communities from US or other places but you are blaming people who really took their passion, time and want to show to other people tough history of Poles and Jews in Poland. These people show respect to all Jews, these in the past and current who want to see how their relatives lived in Poland for centuries.Germans put a lot of effort to split Poles and Jews and it would be great to see how many activities are done by people who are not Jews to show the history and remember Jews so this does not happen again! Like museums, festival of jewish culture in Krakow, Wroclaw. How many books about holocaust and history are written to preserve the memory of Jews in our history. Yes, there is no many Jews in Poland but how can be if most of them were exterminated by Germans alongside with Poles who helped them and yes sometimes betrayed them too. But only in Poland you could be killed because of helping Jews during WW2. As with everything, history is not simple and would be good to try all the sides of the story. I am not hating, I would just ask for showing the whole story, to not provide next barriers between Poles and Jews. In that matter, everyone should be careful to show the respect and help restoring our relationships. I like you, you seem to be a good man and maybe creating another movie with a help of the people who could show all the tough history could help you and your viewers to see all the sides of the story. And yes, I feel that putting a sticker on rails in Auschwitz may be disrespectful in someone's eyes and to me, this was not a thing I'd like to see and I feel uncomfortable as this is a place with terrible history of both nations and should not be a place where you put whatever sticker you want to show respect to everyone who died there and who maintain this place for everyone to learn this tragic history. Thank you
I don't like how any other victim of war is not mentioned, even briefly. I know it's a story about Jews and their tragedy during the war and that's fine, but deliberately not mentioning anything else gives this false impression that the war was solely to exterminate the Jews, like Germans wanted to kill them and Poles just didn't do anything and later stole Jewish estates... 3 millions Polish civilians died in ww2, some of them for helping Jews, some just for being Polish, their history isn't much different of the Jewish one. Even Auschwitz at the beginning was a camp mainly for Polish prisoners, only when the 2nd part of the camp - Birkenau was built it became a place of Jewish extermination. Of course most people who were killed there were Jewish, but numbers of other nations are significant enough that it's unfair to them to not mention them when talking about victims of Auschwitz. Not only Jews and Poles, also Russian, Roma and even Germans who were oppose the Nazi were killed there. The story of Polish Jews is inseparable from the story of the Poles, many Jews even consider themselves Polish just of other faith. Also is kinda baffling how you feel entitled to walk into every building that used to be Jewish just because you are a Jew xD It doesn't work this way, just like you can't enter any church just because you are a Christian. Reading comments i feel like many people have no idea about the situation in Poland during the war and nothing wrong with it, but videos like that enforce the false narration, it's not like there are lies in it, just things that were untold gives false impression of the history.
You missed the premise of this particular video. In response to people yelling "go back to Poland" this video attempts to find why there are basically no Jews in Poland now (yes we know there are some remnants here and there). This video is not about WWII in general, but about the specific phrase yelled at Jews of "go back to Poland".
Shloime, I have followed your channel since the beginning. I really hope that you will take the time to read and absorb the many meaningful and valid comments…… People have taken the time to watch this video and have shared, respectfully, their observations and knowledge bases about an incredibly sensitive, horrific period of history and about the current, everyday life situations….. I am shocked by what I see as a ‘passively aggressive’ approach, by you - in your presentation…..’overall’……👎😢
My Bubbie’s family was from Poland. Thank you for showing me where my family comes from. I’m learning so much about who I am and where I come from. I am an Ashkenazi American Jew. I am a Reform Jew. I can’t fast due to medical issues which I got the ok from my Rabbi to not fast. I wish those that do fast and easy fast.
Even if u dont fast you cud say tehillim in memory of all those that perished in all our years of suffering and bring comfort to their souls in heaven. Every word you say will bring more peace to them. Every mitzva u do for your grandparents soul will bring them to a better place in heaven. You can do your part as well.
@@jsw7814 I don’t know what part of Poland. I need to ask my aunt who knows since I forget since it’s a lot of information to take in when I’m with my family.
Many synagogues in Poland are left to rot not even restaurants inside, being totally honest it's good that there is something there so it's not completely abandoned. Unfortunately there is not enough Jews to keep synagogues as synagogues tickets are necessary for upkeep costs, I know it's painful but Jews should understand how money works...
I guess people left with the message that Poland is bad today. Maybe that's the worng message... He was trying to explain that when you scream back to poland, let's see if we can find the "back to poland"
@@chaimbochner7474 Well, it's not easy to be a Christian Pole in Israel either. You get spat at. I don't think relations between us should be so tense, there is no reason for that. I think Israeli school trips could see more of Poland than just Auschwitz, and there could also be Polish school trips to Israel - it would be a good initiative at building bridges. Besides, now Israel needs allies more than ever.
I am not Polish but can understand why people reacted negatively on some of his remarks, such as “ this was stolen from the Jews and Jews were not allowed to enter there although these belong to them”. He expressed unbearable sense of entitlement and lack of the sense of historical develop,ent. jews, it is undeniable, suffered immensely during the second world war but they were not the only one. Did he ever made similar type of comments when visiting Israel - these were Arab places, houses, businesses, houses of preyers but their original owners and descendantsare not allowed to visit it. That much about his hypocrisy.
Some facts: 6 milion of polish citizens died during II WW. Half of them were of polish origin and half of them were jewish. Germans and russians occupied Poland. The russian occupation lasted until 1993. Germans created and operated concentration camps.
Check the list of Polish names in yad vashem. You still have to learn a lot. You prezent your judgments very easy. Stop learn and better say less nthan to much
Shloimie, thank you for sharing. This was very emotional for me as my father Was from Sulaki Poland and when my grandmother saw what was about to happen she and my father snuck on a boat to the US.
How did you manage to visit Kraków and not find any Jews?! There’s a lively Jewish community in Kraków. You should have gone to shul at a time when there were services or visited the JCC at pretty much any time. Then you would have seen where the Jews are.
There’s a Jewish community in Warsaw too. Couple thousand strong and growing. There still are Polish Jews, albeit not anywhere near as many as there used to be. The Jewish history of Poland is not over.
Yale that's because he wasn't looking. He knows there are no more Jews in Poland, and nothing - not even Jews in Poland - would have convinced him otherwise.
I went with a jewish group to Poland, and while we were in Auschwitz there was a muslim group who started yelling "free Palestine" at us. Everyone there threw the Muslims out so fast...
@@cpt.flamer7184 YT deleted my comment. Look up how much land Germ-Many gave away to Pole-Land, its about 100,000km^2, 5x of Ezrael's land. Why not take a slice of that, as they are the ones who committed the acts Ezrael uses as justification.
@@chocolatecity2 the exodus you are talking about was caused by the European invasion of Pal-Esstein. If it never happened, Joooohs would still live in Morocco, etc. Even if the MENA Jooohs would have been kicked out somehow, they would have simply fled to the Ezrael next to Germ-Many, which is now instead all Pole-Lish land.
I’m a Catholic Polish Canadian. Immigrated with my parents in 1984 when I was 10. I never understood antisemitism and always thought that the Holocaust was not only a Jewish but also a Polish tragedy. We lived together in peace for a thousand years and Poland had the most Jews of any nation on earth. The brain drain alone was devastating…such a shame, we are practically brothers and we’re both attacked by Soviets and fascists. I’m just glad the Jews are in Israel keeping the Middle East in check…it’s their God given land!
Legal rights of legitimate offspring of former owners (of whatever nationality / ethnic group) of property in Poland is exercisable under Polish law and has been so for the Jews worldwide as well for over quarter of a century. Those Jews that could prove their lineage and trace it back to the legitimate owners have long successfully reclaimed their property in Poland. Since the Jews purport to be civilized and law-abiding people they should know the story ends here and they have already been compensated by the Germans. Having said that, all places of Jewish worship such as synagogues or yeshivas should be returned to the Jewish communities without restrain. To be clear: most of them have already been returned- nice catch of those that have not been yet. All in all, the film itself is misleading to say the least and portrays Poland and the Poles in the typical stereotypical way well known to the Jews worldwide- as it is purposefully and continually re-instigated and fueled by them.
This made my heart ache. It made me weep. All those synagogues, the school. But the stones and the earth remember. So I reposted this to my fb page. I want others to see this journey. It's important. Thank you for making this.
R שלמה for the same reason that you went back to revisit the destruction of the entire Jewish population of Poland, there are a large segment of Jews which sware never to set again their feet on the blood soaked countries in Europe that flourished with Jews centuries, never ever to forgive the poles ,the Hungarians ,the Romanians ,the slovaks ,and many more which were out right complicite in the extermination of million of our Jewish brothers and sisters and as you see it for yourself there are plenty of poles which are antisemites which hate us with a pattion, for some of us Jews it's just horrific even to step one inch in those countries never again to look back at them , and I guess that each and every pole is really happy that yuden rein accomplished what they have been longing for the past who knows how long ,
@@jsw7814 Lovely comment. My entire (very grass roots, clergy level Catholic) family fled Poland during WW2 as they were hiding Jews. My mother is of Jewish decent. I want nothing more than to visit Poland & Israel. My family has a tree planted in Yad Vashem - the Road of the Righteous. It's a very humbling honor. I was born in the US. I began chasing God the day my feet hit the ground. We need to pray our King home to restore this Earth as promised. "And the Spirit of the Living God said, 'Come' and the Bride of Christ said, 'Come'". Shalom May the Living God of Eternity wrap you & your loved ones in a veil of protection. May He find you when you search for Him. Continue to Seek Him out. He is not far from you and he does hear & respond to our prayers. Stay Safe. Stay Free. ꧁•♥ Believe♥•🕊꧂
Thank you very much for the exciting and important video! My late father was born in Poland, not in Krakow, but in Warsaw (1904-1994), but through the video I imagined the streets of Warsaw, which probably also abounded in Jewish and rooted life! My grandfather was the butcher of the town and I'm sure the whole street was full of Yiddishkeit until the beginning of the war. My father's entire family was murdered and only he survived the horror of the war years and immigrated to Israel and built a new family with 13 grandchildren!
Entitled much, eh? My ancestors used to own half of Europe, yet I don't go around saying it's mine. It seems you tried really hard not to meet any Jews, as there are so many here. Also, filming people when they say they don't wish to be filmed? She should sue you
Thank You for including us on a great Pilgrimage. Sharing the journey with your Father is a blessing. The light of goodness and truth outshines the darkness of evil. Shloime, never be silent and keep up the great work. Shalom
No thanks. Poland is fine on its own, these people would never be patriotic to Poland as they have their own agenda. Matter of fact they would campaign for things against the interest of the Polish nation if it would benefit them.
Greetings. I am so excited to finish watching this. My entire (very grass roots, clergy level Catholic) family fled Poland during WW2 as they were hiding Jews. They were fortunate to have the capital but none the less left everyone they knew and everyone they loved behind them in a past life. My mother is of Jewish decent. I want nothing more than to visit Poland & Israel. My family has a tree planted in Yad Vashem - the Road of the Righteous. It's a very humbling honor. I was born in the US. I began chasing God the day my feet hit the ground. This is the legacy left to me by my through my Polish decent; a reverence and a hunger for God and the willingness to abide in all His good common sense laws that protect true freedom. Shalom May the Living God of Eternity wrap you & your loved ones in a veil of protection. May He find you when you search for Him. Continue to Seek Him out. He is not far from you and he does hear & respond to our prayers. Stay Safe. Stay Free. ꧁•♥ Believe♥•🕊꧂
It is so sad to be in a Jewish neighbourhood in Cracow and not meet any Jews. There are Jews in Cracow and Poland. Moreover 20-25% of Poles have Jewish roots. Thank God that there are Jews in Poland. It there weren’t, it would mean that Nazis have won. Unfortunately the History of Poland was written only by winners of WWII, among them Russia which hated us. This is how the myth of Polish antisemitism was born. Stalin was the one who rounded up Jews and sent them to Germany because he had a pact with Hitler, Russian communist party was the one which ordered to lay off all the Jews from governmental positions both in Poland under the occupation and in USSR. Nobody has the right to stop you from filming anywhere in Poland unless on a private property. That Synagogue you visited is a listed building and it means that it has praying hours and sightseeing hours, like many listed churches or old mosques. It means that you need to buy the ticket of 1-2 dollars to sightsee it during those hours. Also, the poor retired guy that was supposed to guard it doesn’t speak good English. He works there to earn more money to his modest pension. You can do visit synagogue or a church for free if you are willing to participate in religious celebrations or outside of praying hours. You keep saying that buildings were stolen from you - Jews but Jews at that time were also Poles. 3 millions of Polish Jews were murdered in Holocaust and on top of that 3 millions of Poles of non-Jewish origin were slaughtered during WWII - 20% of our population. Our - Polish society became ripped to shreds by Holocaust too. Moreover, instead of a chance to recover we were left to fight Soviet occupation for 43 more years (1939-1945; 1945-1989). It is very sad that Poland lost 20% of its population and 53% of our territory. All the big cities were destroyed and buildings rebuilt by our own money because there was no Marshall Plan for Poland like it was for Germany. Poles after the occupation rebuilt Jewish synagogues, cemeteries and houses along with other non-Jewish places. Nazis and Soviets used tombstones to built pavements or bridges and Poles put them in cemeteries again, showing them respect after occupation. I believe it’s worth remembering about Żegota - a governmental organisation in occupied Poland, first in Europe solely dedicated to save Jews; about Jan Karski, a Pole who as a first person alerted the world (Churchill and Roosevelt) about Holocaust; about Witold Pilecki, who volunteered to go to Auschwitz to write a first report which shown what was happening there and was murdered by Soviets because of that; about Irena Sendler who was a nurse who saved Jewish children; about Janusz Korczak who went to the gas chamber instead of being saved with Jewish orphaned children he took care of; about Ulm family who were murdered by Nazis for hiding Jews among many others. Poles are not antisemites and Jews in Poland are not only found as ashes in concentration camps. They live among Poles and you didn’t contact with Jewish Centers or any Jews on social media. „Nothing about restaurant is Jewish except of Jewish food” - isn’t food a point of a restaurant? There are both kosher and non-kosher stores and restaurants in Cracow if you only look for them in Google maps. Some of the tombstones wait to be restored, just like the one on Christian cemeteries if you visit them you will see. Poles are not defined by the tragedy that happened to us. It’s sad that you show it this way but it is your choice.
It was called Kara Smierci, why are Poles held to such high standards, when now there are 40 thousand Gazans are killed, and certainly all of them are Hamas?
Wow, thank you so much. This was so beautiful and touching and sad and uplifting all in one. Subscribed and will definitely be sharing with friends. Thanks again! Am Israel Chai! 🇮🇱💙
as my father+grandfather survived ww2,born in Poland and were transferred to Soviet camps during ww2.having survived and replanted their families in Brooklyn,ny.65 yrs.later i'm alive,proud of my roots in Krakow/galicia region.i go back almost yearly to Krakow,altough with very few Jews left after 1000 yrs.i reach out to poles thru dialouge and sifting thru the hate/anti-semetisim mess existing for generations.shloimy thn'x,you're video is a great contribution in our troubled world of 2024.touch and reach out ,perhaps you can change one life at a time.yasher koach.
Not was it mentioned that such a large concentration of the Jewish population in Poland before the war was possible because it was the only country in Europe that did not eliminate rights and privileges this minority from society. But how is the author of the film supposed to know such things? The film is biased
@@ShloimeZionce Hello I wrote a comment for you and tried to tag you but I think it failed, so I'm responding directly to you here so you can go find my comment. My comment has positive things I want to say to you, but also be warned, a bit of negative. Thanks for the movie!
As strange as it sounds, Jews are welcome back in Poland. Poland is not under any occupation by “nazis” or “soviets anymore, so people here do welcome honest and good citizens. Whet they don’t need is extremist groups, tax evaders, etc. - hence there isn’t many people from the well known immigrant countries that wish to go there. Jews lived in Poland for hundreds of years and never they were expelled from there. I hope that history will heal all the wounds, and people responsible for all the horrible things that happened will be named, and Polish nation won’t be getting backlash because of it. Take care
This video moved me deeply. The portrayal of the Holocaust and the Jewish people in Poland was incredibly powerful and emotional. It touched my heart in a profound way, reminding me of the immense suffering and resilience of those who lived through such unimaginable horrors. Thank you for creating such a respectful and moving tribute to this important part of history.
Don’t forget please about socialism in Poland after llnd WW , it was no chance to keep any religion and cultural symbols during 50 years . Thank God for everything what we still have
Excellent job, Shloime and Hasidic Embassy. That was very moving and educational! I've been to Krakow and Auschwitz twice (in 2001 and 2008). It was very interesting and moving to see it from your perspective.
Shloime, this was so beautifully done. Although my grandparents are/were from the Hungarian and Slovakian region of Europe, they did their many years in Auschwitz and this brought back so many emotional memories of my trips there. We actually found my grandmother's barrack in Birkenau and my family sang Ani Maamin together there....we are thank G-d the living revenge against Hitler. Thank you for this and for your tremendous messages throughout
As a reminder, the Holocaust was carried out by Nazi Germany throughout Europe. The atrocities were committed by the Germans of that era. In occupied Poland, the Germans established the concentration camps, the atrocities were carried out by the Germans. I realize that we live in politically correct times and quite often the word "nazis" is used instead of the word "Germans" but by omitting the word "Germans" it is an attempt to change the facts and obscure the history. I am beginning to think that this is intentional, and it is shameful. Who is doing this in the media? Now, the modern-day Germans are not responsible nor are they guilty of the crimes. But their great-grandparents and grandparents are. Israel's Shimon Peres on a visit to the Warsaw Ghetto Monument in Warsaw on the anniversary of the Uprising in 1943 stated emphatically that "the Polish nation is NOT responsible for the Holocaust". Last year in 2023 at the same memorial, the German Foreign Minister stated unequivocally that Germany and Germany alone is responsible for the Holocaust.
It is much more complicated than that . Various national or ethnic groups sided with the Nazis in hopes of independence from the Soviets or others. The Nazis also found local people in each country to assist them in the Final Solution.
Many ppl of other nations were only too happy to join. Full towns were killed by zealous neighbors. My great uncle survived the camps and was killed by the ppl who stole their house when he came back
sadly its a fact that many poles and other nationalities happily joined the nazis in their evil deeds...that is not to say that there werent polish heroes who saved Jewish lives also
@@planesense7390 Interesting. Any sources of "poles .... happily joined the nazis"? Imagine "happily joining" your attacker. Someone who killed 6mln Poles.
Beautiful video am YISROEL chai 🇮🇱 some of family members came from Poland very 😢touching & emotional and spiritual video. Keep making more so the world can see the yidden jews are still here & not going anywhere anytime soon
Presenting history requires objectivness which you apparently lack...It makes me sad!And moving as Jews throgh Poland using a German luxury car Mercedes Benz is kind of ironic, isn't it?
@@TM-100 No, he should have avoided while visiting Poland - the place where most of the Shoah took place - any linkeage to the opressors and murderers...the Germans...otherwise I read it as not telling the whole story right. Look at the comment of @andrewrajcher7263...mayby you will understand my point
There are jews in Poland, I don't understand why it wasn't shown in this documentary. In Cracow every year an amazing festival of Jewish culture takes place. Also, I wanted to point out that the old synagogue functions as a museum and the money from the tickets is used to look after it. Polish people also have to buy tickets when visiting polish museums. But in general I enjoyed the documentary and the tribute to Jewish heritage.
My grandfather was 10 years old when the Nazis came to Poland. He lived in the outskirts of Lublin. He watched as every single Jewish person in his town was brutally murdered. He saw several of his classmates being shot outside with their families through his kitchen window. My grandmother was 16 when the Nazis occupied her town. She was living in Staszów and lived through what was called Black Sunday. On that day, the Nazis ordered all the Jews from the town to congregate in the center and they would march. As they started to funnel into Krakowska street, the Nazis fired into the crowd and murdered most of the people. She said the river was red with blood. Everyone who survived was marched to Bełżec or put on a train to Treblinka where they perished. Any Jewish family who didn't appear in the town center was brutally murdered in their homes. Both my grandparents were Catholic so they were bystanders to these tragic events.
My family also suffered during war. I heard stories from grandparents. They never knew any NAZIS. They were talking about GERMANS. But putting the blame right hearts your throat. You dared to say it only once... Germans did it, Poles did all we could to help.
@@ShloimeZionce 3 aspects. if it dont open your eyes, you will stay blind Forever. 1. polish undergroud army Armia Krajowa with scarse weapons they had delivered weapons to Warsaw ghetto to make Warsaw ghetto uprising even possible, it was approx 200 Jews, who refused to be gased but chose honourable death in combat. 2. for helping a Jew it was a death penalty, not for helper, bu all family, learn of history of Ulm family, please. 3. Pilecki. Rotmistrz.
@@pl-hq5hr There are way too many emotions. Do you see the energy of emotions? I'm wondering that if you're right, wow did I here so much negativity towards the poles from the older generation? Many were greatful to the swedish. We are greatful to all those that helped. It was very betraying when my grandmother went to school with polish friends, to be betrayed and made fun of...
@@chaimbochner7474 I can't care less about your emotions, I care about facts. Check out your Yard Vashem ranking on racheous among nations and stop making fool out yourself.
It's such a shame you came to Poland with a close heart. I am partly Jewish on my mum's side. I am proud of being both Polish and Jewish. The history of both mation is not white and black, unfortunately you only see one side of it!
It is very difficult to want to close your heart to what is obvious. Poland is still antisemitic . To move forward a country needs to accept what they did. Imagine survivors coming to a building that if still standing they will tell you I don’t know who you are and this is not your home. Think what would you do and now they make money of the conversation camps but as of today have not paid back in compensation for the property. Art and belongings stolen.
Excellent, highly professional and dramatical. My parents came from the Kruchnik and Bilgorai cities of Poland. My mother spent 5 years in Auschwitz/Birkonau. My father was sent to Siberia. I dreamt of going to Poland to explore my parents' roots. This is the closest I've come. Thank you.
Unlike other countries occupied by the Nazis, such as France or the Netherlands, in Poland, helping Jews was punishable by death for you and your family. The premises where the restaurants are located belong to the Jewish community, which rented them about 20 years ago. Yes, before the war, there was significant anti-Semitism in Poland. In my opinion, it wasn’t so much about the Jews but rather a mix of poverty and unemployment. In such a mix, people look for someone to blame, and it’s easiest to find it among others - “foreigners.” Regardless of race, religion, time, or place in the world. Another smaller wave of anti-Semitism occurred in the 1990s when the communist system collapsed, and many fell into poverty. They blamed the imagined new government, believing that 90% of them were Jews, and that’s why the country was in such a bad state - which was absurd. Today, if you are visibly Jewish in Poland, outside of football stadiums - where hooligans are - you are definitely safer than in France, Germany ....
Also, antisemitism before the war was much more common in smaller towns and in poorest regions of Poland. Jews living in larger cities had a pretty good life.
Hi dear shloime, I have tried the Whole day to watch this video and my phone didn’t go through, but thank you hasham that I watched it now, it was ports in the video how was very emotional i watched it with my brother and we both literally had tears in the eyes, your videos is very very special to me and specially this one, Hasham should give you the anergy for your forward projects. (The editing on the video was super super good)
❤ jak wchodzisz do muzeum trzeba kupić bilet chyba że przyjdziesz w dzień w którym wpuszczają bez opłaty ale bilet i tak trzeba pobrać. Takie mamy zasady w tym muzeum Stara Synagoga.
A quote from you viewer, to the point, shame on you, Shliome, for being so biased and anti-Polish, I recommend to you to go to Canada or the US to see all the hatred for the Jews and Israel now in 2024. Enjoy this comment : @andrewrajcher7263 2 days ago (edited) I am the son of Holocaust survivors from Poland and I visit Poland three time a year. I read, write and speak fluent Polish, so communication there, for me, is not a problem. I am the longest serving volunteer (over 18 years) at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. This documentary is SO MISLEADING. It seems like he went to Poland and INTENTIONALLY AVOIDED meeting any Polish Jews. He was in Kraków exploring everywhere EXCEPT the Kraków Jewish Community Centre. THERE he would find Jews!! In Lódź, he went to the cemetery of course, but he didn't visit the synagogue and the Jewish centre, with its Jewish guest house. THERE he would find Jews!! And, of course, did he go to Warsaw where there are plenty of LIVING POLISH JEWS? The answer is NO. Did he meet with Poland's Chief Rabbi, Michael Schudrich, who could have pointed him in the right direction to meet LIVING Polish Jews IN Poland? Of course not! According to estimates, today, there are between 25,000 and 30,000 Jews in Poland - it seems that he went out of his way NOT to meet them.This "documentary" is SO misleading and should be viewed with EXTREME skepticism.
Incredible watch on this Tisha B'Av, Shloime. This kind of documentary needed to be made. I'm glad also you and your father got so much meaning out of this trip. Thank you for sharing. 💙
Amazing and mind blowing! I’m at a loss of words to express what I’m actually feeling. Nice job and God bless the Jews always and forever! You will always thrive no matter who is against you !!!
I cant even imagine how emotional and meanuful this trip was for you and for your father and for your family. Thank you for sharing this with us. May Hashem continue to give you the strength to help klal yisrael. Iy'H this will be the last tisha baav!
Great documentary. Just not enough explanation why polish jews are no more? Who were the natzi ? Were natzi polish Christian citizens? Who built concentration camps? Which nation is responsible for killing polish jews? Documentary does not explain natzi ideology? I had to search internet to find out why after almost thousand of years jews are no longer part of poland.
Beautiful work Shloime. So emotional and rich - showing the rich and beautiful life our ancestors had in Poland. And the sad fact that they were brutally murdered for being Jewish.
Shulem aleichem. Next time visit Jewish Religious Community in Krakow or JCC (Jewish Community Center) and learn a few things about Poland before you start to spread false narrative. Za gezint
Thank you for this, it reached in a grabbed my soul. Since October 7th I have been disgusted with the world. I never, ever thought I'd see all the hate that's going on in it. I'm heartbroken, my grandmother and aunt fled Poland right before the start of ww2. My grandfather immigrated from Luxembourg, joined the navy and fought in the war. I've recently been trying to research my great uncle, who was a political prisoner in Dachau, as well as trying to track other family members. It's overwhelming knowing all the lives, and generations of people who are gone. I always wonder what they could have accomplished if they were still here. 💙
@@shmulyitzkowitz6479 You are so right, My Grandmothers experience was mild, but she would not talk about her family, really anything to do with Poland. She was scared of people and their reactions. She hid her religion and ancestry. Sending you and your family love.
@@laurenkillough4273 I also wonder what my cousins could have done if they didn’t perish in the Shoah. Who they would have been and what they would have done for a career. I think of how much they would’ve loved me. We were all robbed of knowing our loved ones which is so sad. May all their memories be a blessing.
This is incredible work, Shloime. I have been following your journey since you started posting videos and people would comment that this is not for you. Somehow I knew then that your work would get this good.
This touched me to my core. My ancestors may not be from Europe, as I come from Sephardic roots, but these souls are my brothers and sisters. It's heartbreaking to see how the world moves on, as if the unspeakable horrors of less than 100 years ago have faded into the background. And we, too, are guilty of letting these memories slip away far too easily. But in doing so, we dishonor those who suffered, and we risk allowing such horrors to happen again. We must hold on to these memories, fiercely and intentionally, because if we let them fade, we lose a piece of our humanity. We owe it to our ancestors-and to ourselves-to remember, to mourn, and to ensure that the world never forgets. Thank you for sharing this experience with us. 🇮🇱 אם ישראל חי
As I can see from the comments, lots of us Poles got at least irritated by this individual. Some Jewish people are known to be extremly arrogant so is this fellow ,therefore we shouldn't be supprised, if I may I would suggest not to overreact. This is the way some Jewish people are and no one can do much about it, we can camly point out their wrongs and not expect any constructive conversation since Choosen People are always right.
I saw your video with Peter Santanello regarding Shabath and learned a lot about the great jewish culture, really loved the video. I love the fact that you had the chance to visit Poland, where your ancestors come from. Peace to you my friend.
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As a Pole, it is hard for me to understand the question "why didn't Poles/people save Jews from the Holocaust?" Only someone who doesn't know the history of World War II can ask it.
This question is just as reasonable as the question. Why didn't Jews save themselves from the Holocaust?
Let me remind you that Poland lost its independence in the first months of World War II (10.1939) and only regained it in 1989. Poles did as much for Jews as they could.
Witold Pilecki was a Polish soldier who, as a VOLUNTEER, allowed himself to be captured and imprisoned in Auschwitz. He then infiltrated the camp's operations and sent reports to the commander. He began to create a resistance movement in the camp. He believed that liberating the camp was possible with a simultaneous attack from the outside and a revolt from within. The command of the Polish underground state did not decide to take this step. Poland did not have enough resources. They also feared the wrath of the Germans.
It should be added that it was popular at that time for the Germans to kill 100 random Poles on the streets of cities for the murder of 1 German officer.
Jan Karski delivered reports on German crimes against the Jewish population to the world, including Roosevelt. It was expected that the bombing of German cities would begin. Unfortunately, the free world did not take any action...
According to the Germans, Poles were also considered a "lower race" or subhumans. During the war, 6 million Poles died, including 3 million Polish Jews. That is 20% of the population. Every Polish family lost someone. My nation bears a similar trauma to yours. No one helped my nation either. My nation fought and died fighting on all fronts on the side of the Allies. Then, after the war, it was betrayed by them. You have no right to judge them.
While this might be true that pols who would hide jews got killed for doing so
He focuses alot on why there are no jews who stayed in Poland after the war which was because their houses were stolen from the jews during the war and the ones who returned and asked back for it were killed by the locals
@@yoilishr5713 Ok. As I know a bit of the history.... what happened during the Polish uprising against Russian Car? Poles were sent to Syberia and their houses, homes, land plots taken by Jews...
how many jews help Palestinains who are killed and raped in concentration camps in Israel?
In J*ish Death Camps in Israel Palestinians are r*ed by IDF.
How many J*wsh help Palestinians?
@@yoilishr5713 This is crazy man give me proves.
Helping Jews was punished with death for the whole family in Poland so we don't know what would we to in this situation. And there were still people helping them
You could have done what Denmark did - the entire nation and even the Danish King encouraged Danes to rescue the Jews and send them to Sweden. Denmark managed to save 92% of their Jewish population, very brave people!
@@ScaniaVikingslol in denmark there were only 6000 jews before World War XD in Poland there were 3.4 milion Jews in most of cities there were huge miniority sometimes even 30 % of city population they have own neibourhood etc to who you can sent 3.4 milion of people whitout army noticed? And name me a country with ocuppied poland have a border and was neutral bc soviets were allies to nazis
@@ScaniaVikings There were about 7,500 Jews in Denmark when the war started and 3,474,000 in Poland so that's the difference.
And "you could have done" sounds weird because we didn't live back then.
But I didn't know that the danish king encouraged people to help the Jewish citizens, very interesting.
@@alka__7136First send Jews to Sweden, and later established Frikorps Danmark.
did poland have a president during the occupation to encourage rescuing the jews, i dont think so, also around 300k poles were involved in helping the population of jews
Przyjechał do Polski, obraził nas, obraził polskich Żydów którzy tu jeszcze żyją, czepia się że trzeba płacić bilety za wstęp, mówi że ukradliśmy domy i że nic nie robiliśmy, gdy ludzie ginęli w obozach. Totalny brak wiedzy i ignorancja, widać w jakim kraju kończył edukację. I tyle z tego naszego pamiętania i przywracania pamięci o naszych sąsiadach Żydach. Przyjedzie taki ignorant i... Szkoda słów. Zero doceniania tych, dzięki którym pamięć o Żydach jest wciąż żywa, są ludzie opiekujący sie grobami, synagogami, artyści, żydzi tu mieszkający, rabini, a ten przyjechał i powiedział że nikogo nie ma xD
niestety taka antypolska indoktrynacja jest teraz że Polacy to ogólnie chuje i zabijali tylko i ogólnie jesteśmy najgorszym narodem świata, tymczasem o niemcach nic nie piszą
Ortodoksyjni Żydzi ze Stanów mają podejście z góry do Polaków i innych nacji Europy Wschodniej czego jakoś nie demonstrują wobec Niemców. Cóż być może wiedzę o Torze mają dużą, natomiast o historii ich wiedza jest dość selektywna, bo pewnie nie wiedzą, że również Cyganie, Świadkowie Jehowy, homoseksualiści czy Polacy nie chcący się podporządkować i być tania siła roboczą byli traktowani w ten sam sposób.
Ciekawe czy mógłby chodzić w jarmułce w ten sam sposób w Szwecji, Niemczech, wschodnim Londynie, Marsylii czy też Birmingham.
As an Israeli granddaughter of holocaust survivors, thank you for all that you do. We appreciate you and your leadership for taking the right steps to ensure safety. I enjoyed this movie but not the commentary that was uncalled for. Thank you and Shalom ❤
Nawet nie próbował spotkać sie z żyjącymi tu żydami i porozmawiać jak żyje im się w Polsce, postanowił napluć nam w twarz i zrobić z nas współpracowników faszystów!
@@user-sz7sz3fr9m NO! for Polish money!
In Europe, if you go to a historical religious site, no matter whether it’s a church or synagogue you have to pay an entrance fee. If a Christian goes to an old church or cathedral they still have to pay. In case of the Old Synagogue, it acts as a museum and that’s how the Jewish community of Krakow can fund restoration works and maintenance of the buildings. There’s no bad faith involved here. As a Polish atheist who was raised Christian I’ve visited synagogues in Prague and Budapest and paid the entrance fees, same as in Malta, Spain or Portugal where I had to pay to visit old churches outside of mass times.
The synagogues are the property of the Jewish Religious Community and Polish haven't stolen them. Information is available on the Internet.
It’s also worth noting that by paying an entrance fee in synagogues turned into museums, people support the maintenance and renovation of synagogues and cemeteries. It’s the case also in Prague and Budapest. Shloime was definitely trying to mislead people watching this documentary that everything is in the hands of Polish government.
Jews should be able to enter without paying a penny. It's the LEAST any self-respecting people should do considering the evil perpetrated against them. Regular taxes can contribute to their maintenance. Thinking it's ok to use a place of worship as a restaurant, etc is nauseating. 🤮
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Shish, it's against the the narrative. We shall not talk about that. heh
you give give and they will always ask for more and play the victim
@@pshemko__Everything should be in Polish hands.
I am a Polish Jew. I was born and brought up in Poland. I think that your film material is very good, valuable and very interesting. Professionally done and in every way important and necessary. However, let me make two comments.
1. The crimes against the Jews and other peoples of Eastern and Central Europe were not committed by aliens or any Nazis, but by Germans and Austrians who were willingly assisted by Lithuanian, Latvian and Ukrainian helpers. In Hungary, after the fall of Miklos Horta, also some Hungarians. The Poles were also victims of the Germans, the Soviets and Ukrainian nationalism. The experience of extermination is not unknown to the Poles. It is enough to go to Ponary to see where Jews and Poles lie in the same death holes. Please remember this.
2. Placing stickers in unauthorised places is forbidden in Poland. Poles take great care of their surroundings. As you have probably noticed, Poland is very clean. Poles take great care of it. Such behaviour is considered as littering. Would you like to be considered as a badly behaved person.
3. it is not true that there are no Jews in Poland. There are, and quite a lot of them, of course not as there were before the war. But it is not the same as it was before the war. The Jewish community in Poland is there and is doing quite well.
I will add that Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva belongs to Jews and they pray and study there. You can find even something in youtube if you really want. Yeshiva was very famous and used to have many books before Holocaust, but they were burned by you know who.
@@mattearl8213 Yes the books were destroyed but a small part survived I saw them in the synagogue on lubartowska street
Very well said thank you
2. No, we're not xP
There's shit on the ground all around. I guess not to such an extent as in america or western Europe, but still not Japan level clean (I guess it's my bad for expecting perfection). And by shit I mean trash (or occasional dog poop, nothing like the state of western Europe: human waste).
I have the impression that the author of the film does not know the history of Poland, his message points more to the guilt of the Poles for the death of the Jews, the word Germany does not go down this gentleman's throat too much. He suggests that we stole the property of the Jews, which to me is a slap in the face. Let's learn history and then point things out to other nations!
Note to remember: These are nazi germany camps, not polish camps.
Was there such an expression here?! Unbelievable!
Nie chcą tego zmienić i używają nazwy polskie obozy koncentracyjne!
They were polish death camps. Stop spreading lies.
@@user-bw2id9fp1o a ty TVN z rosji piszesz, czy tylko oni ci płacą?!
@@user-bw2id9fp1o no, Poles hides Jews at the wwII, Nazi Germans killed Jews, Poles and others nationalities
Just FYI on Polish law: You can record everything you like in the public space without anyones permission. You are not allowed to publish the likeliness of any person without their consent.
You sound ignorant. The laws in Poland are under the floor as if the law really interests the citizens themselves...
@@Mug-82 What a weird comment. I am stating what the law is at this current time with no personal opinion, this was not an invitation on debating whether they are good or not
The law goes in the garbage when you’re talking about in schools, synagogues, homes, businesses, that have been stolen and still belong to us Jews.
@@HowlingWo1f Dude this synagoge changed to restaurant is owned by Jewish community, they are renting this space............... Nothing was stolen here, maybe your integrity
WWII taught us about laws & what they are worth...
I am the son of Holocaust survivors from Poland and I visit Poland three time a year. I read, write and speak fluent Polish, so communication there, for me, is not a problem. I am the longest serving volunteer (over 18 years) at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.
This documentary is SO MISLEADING. It seems like he went to Poland and INTENTIONALLY AVOIDED meeting any Polish Jews.
He was in Kraków exploring everywhere EXCEPT the Kraków Jewish Community Centre. THERE he would find Jews!!
In Lódź, he went to the cemetery of course, but he didn't visit the synagogue and the Jewish centre, with its Jewish guest house. THERE he would find Jews!!
And, of course, did he go to Warsaw where there are plenty of LIVING POLISH JEWS? The answer is NO. Did he meet with Poland's Chief Rabbi, Michael Schudrich, who could have pointed him in the right direction to meet LIVING Polish Jews IN Poland? Of course not!
According to estimates, today, there are between 25,000 and 30,000 Jews in Poland - it seems that he went out of his way NOT to meet them.This "documentary" is SO misleading and should be viewed with EXTREME skepticism.
Before the Shoa, there were 3,3 MILLION Jews living in Poland.
Today it are about 25 000.
So just look at those numbers - it is not even 1% left (and i did not count how many jews there would be today with children and grandchildren from those 3,3 Millions!)
if you count 4kids per family- it would today be 16,3 Millions. We have 25000
So Shloime is right.
Agreed - I like his previous videos but this particular one was extremely misleading. There’s no mention of the life of contemporary Polish Jews, no interviews with members of the Jewish community in Poland. Also, he acted quite ignorant when they asked him to pay for the ticket at the old synagogue the maintenance of which is funded through donations or entrance fees.
@@channarubin8267 There are probably more Poles with Jewish heritage. It’s just some of them converted to Christianity, became assimilated. There were quite a few secular Jews who joined the communist party and had nothing to do with Judaism. My aunt’s husband is quarter Jewish but doesn’t feel any connection with Judaism as his grandparents converted to Christianity. I have some very distant Jewish ancestry from the 18th century (9 generations before me).
The Jewish population is actually growing - there are Jewish communities in Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw or Łódź where they still feel safer compared to Western Europe as there are far less Muslim immigrants and there aren’t many woke antifa youths.
I live in Warsaw and here the local Jewish community are "dyed Jews". They are mostly actual converts with one single Jewish ancestors deep in the past, who didn't cultivate Judaism. And most them have suprematist views. They would not have vibes with American Jews.
I knew the guy was prejudiced when he started talking that the synagogues were stolen. WTF?! There were agreements between the authorities and jewish community. Without them he wouldn't even have chance to see anything, because they would be simply ruined.
80% in and not even a single reference that germans procured and conducted the Holocaust. If someone is disrespectful, it's You Shloime. Polish people give lots of money to preserve and care for remnants of jewish history. Shame on You for leaving out such important information.
Sorry - 48:06 - tehere is a word 'nazi'. Not german (as the plaque says), but always a word pointing to germans (for those who know a little bit of history).
Bruh it’s obvious that the Germans ran the war
@@ptasptasznick9305 : Can you explain to me how this is any different than the Christian world, for the past 2000 years, claiming that Jews killed Christ, all because of the fanaticism of a few religious leaders, if even, that at all, sparking the antisemitism that has lasted to this day. Then there are sources that claim no Jew at all, of any sort, had anything to do with it. Has was pointed out in the film, Jews no longer exist in Poland, to this day. Communities that had endured there for over a 1000 years, and who I am sure, was as much Polish as any other. Those of us who are not Jewish cannot possibly, understand the pain of things of this nature. I am not saying you are incorrect in your point, but it is such a small point compared to the overall, picture here.
Even today, with everything currently, going on; I am a super, passionate supporter of Israel and the Jewish People in their current, struggle, but as then so now, I know I am apart of the minority of people on this planet. So what has changed? What have we learned? Nothing it seems. Trying to shame this Brother, already adding to his terrible, pain seems a little harsh and cruel to me. Just saying. My Best. Out.
Don't even watch this disgusting propaganda film. We know the truth about them and what they are up to.
Jews do everything to avoid mentioning that it was the Germans who murdered them.
This is an commercial for a tour operator disguised as a documentary. His confrontational attitude was an act to give the documentary a "plot". Poland has done the best it can to preserve the memory of it's lost Jews who were exterminated by the Nazis. When we Jews travel back there to see that history we should appreciate that. The Polish population's behavior during the Holocaust was mixed and complicated. Shlomie Zionce is young and uneducated in this sensitive topic. He was there to film a commercial. He didn't give the issue much thought.
This is the right comment. There were Poles who saved Jews, the underground state which was powerless was trying to do its best, there were also Poles assisting in Holocaust (minority but those cases were more common in eastern parts of Poland but also in other countries like Lithuania, Slovakia). The majority was indifferent because they were scared of the consequences or just wanted to survive.
Unfortunately, it looks like this was just a commercial for a tour operator which mostly stirs up negative emotions and reveals maybe 20% of truth.
This is quite sad as I strongly support Israel in its right for self- determination and right to exist in the global map but movies like this one just add more negativity.
Please be very specific about what is bothering you regarding this film?
@@ShatzMat ok, Shlomie might be indeed young and uneducated but what about the Hasidic Embassy? Uneducated as well? Just accidentally producing well-made pseudo-document that will circulate in the web spreading hate and misinformation freely? Who will take responsibility if consequences of hate, in this case anti-Polonism, will have effects in real life?
Thank you for this normal comment. As many people have already mentioned, we were completely conquered by the Germans and Russians. We had nothing to say and to prove it to us, the invaders immediately introduced brutal rules. Murdering and persecution of the Polish intelligentsia, soldiers, any people associated with the pre-war Polish state (officials, railway workers, scouts, etc.), elderly people who opposed the invader Prussia during regaining independence in 1918, and ordinary people. Auschwitz was established in 1940 exclusively for Poles. Birkenau for Jews was not established until two years later. Considering such conditions, I believe that many Jews were saved and many Poles were involved. This is why the "Żegota" organization was created. Did some Poles help the Germans? As I understand it, you are Jewish, I don't know if you are from Israel or live somewhere else. Do you have prisons in Israel, who goes there, for what crimes, even for murders? In Poland we also have full prisons and we had them before the war. I don't know how it happened, historical sources are silent about it, but I suspect that such people could have been released just before the Germans entered. And for such a criminal who murdered and stole before the war, he probably did the same during the war, with the silent consent of the Germans. But the Polish Underground State always tried to eliminate such people. I will not apologize for such garbage, and neither will the Polish state. I don't even intend to be ashamed of them, and life is worth nothing to me, you can only try to isolate such people from society. As I mentioned earlier, we saved as many Jews as we could. Could more Jews have survived and how many more (2, 3, 100, 1000 people or maybe more)? Jews also had their own organization, it was called "Żagiew". Have you heard of her? It is being erased from the pages of history. If you can, please write back if you know about it. Some Jews converted to Christianity before or long before the war or their ancestors. They stopped being Poles of the Mosaic faith and decided to be Polish Christians. It was difficult for the Germans to locate such Jews who had voluntarily become members of the Polish Christian community. And here Jewish communities rushed to "help" the Germans by providing such data. As you say, history is not that simple and colorful. Moreover, in many cases, the history of Poland was not written by Poles but by those who ruled us - occupied us. The history of Polish-Jewish relations is also changing. As far as I know, a different history was written by Jewish historians right after the war, those who survived the war and were our neighbors. And a different story is beginning to be told by modern Jewish historians. Mutual relations are also not helped by films like this one and the authors of these films. Every year, young Jews from school come on a tour of the extermination sites. In the 1990s, the Polish side came up with a project to make these trips to places of culture, nature, to get to know us Poles, but also to get to know each other. And Auschwitz and these other death camps were supposed to be just for good measure, a small percentage of these trips. It worked for a few years. But the Jewish side decided that this cannot be the case and now there are only tours around the camps. What this is all for, I don't know. Someone in an earlier comment quoted data about what percentage of Poles hate Jews. This is also a complex topic. But such films certainly do not improve Poles' relations with Jews. Thank you once again for your normal comment and understanding of each other's history, especially the history of the war. And please write whether you have heard about this Jewish organization "Żagiew" or whether you can learn about it from the Jewish media.
Everything about this commercial add is bothering me. Especially the lies, but I guess I should get used to it by now
I have watched the entire video and I must say that it is very biased and pretentious.
14:30 in Poland there is a law that prevents people from taking pictures and video of people without their permission this is why this lady said that she doesn't want you to record her. Also it is their right not to allow you record inside the restaurant.
Further more or maybe what is more important win many places in the video you stated that this place or that place was taken away from your people. Building is a building. This particular place you were not allowed to filmed in it used to be place where jews prayed but because there was a war it was destroyed. So after the war people of Cracow had to either level it and build something new or renovate it and repurpose it. The same thing about any other place that you mentioned in the video. You said it best yourself, there are very little jewish people in Poland or in Europe for that matter. Mostly because of what have happened to them during 2nd World War. So from my perspective jews just left their heritage here and moved somewhere else.
18:18 this synagogue has been turned into museum because it has been ruined and then restored. Agreement between Cracow's museum and jewish community has been made to make it into museum. And because it is a museum you have to buy the ticket for the people who work there and who take cafe of it to have money.
52:40 this part sounded like you think that people of Lublin knew about atrocities and that just lived their normal lives and didn't care about their brother, sisters, neighbours that were taken to Majdanek. As @kumarro11 said this part sounds like you are asking why polish people didn't try to save jews or more jews and to that I say that there are a lot of polish people risking their lives to hide and protect jews from being killed or transported to camps.
I have watched the whole thing but 55:50 made me angry and I decided to post this response. In many places in the video you place your stickers where ever you like. I don't know how is it in USA but in Poland it is an act of vandalism and you can be given a ticket for that. But when you stuck your sticker on the rails of the Auschwitz concentration camp it was the straw that broke the camel's back.
This whole video had a vibe of entitlement but in Poland we treat everyone equally so the fact that you are a jew doesn't give you the right to do such things. In Auschwitz many people have been tortured and killed, not only jews so if everybody felt entitled this place would be devastated long time ago.
I believe that you wanted to make a documentary in a good faith but I must say it doesn't show the whole picture and therefore might be misleading.
Edit: As a side note at the time of writing this response, two days earlier I have been out with some friends at the exactly he same place in Kraków where you have been and I have seen jews enjoying their time there. They might have been visiting, I don't know, I didn't ask but they were there :)
I feel it was powerful for him to put the sticker there. Do some research on what Tefillin is and how going back to Auschwitz, the place where g-d seemingly abandoned us, and putting a sticker symbolizing our undying faith in G-D even in the darkest of times, is real moving.
I couldn't agree more. Also his behavior in Poland was disgusting. He didn't go visit to actually get to know the country and understand what happened to the Jews and how. Most of his viewers share the opinion the Poles are complicit in murdering the Jews as the Polish State. He doesn't say much about Poland being occupied and brutalized by two allies: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union He doesn't even acknowledge the fact Birkenau was part of Germany then. These people are so brainwashed and will never understand. I'm saying this as a very pro-Israeli person. All this hatred against the Jews that is happening in the US and Canada right now and these guys still blame the victims for the Holocaust not the actual perpetrators.
I’m Polish living in USA I’m pro Israel and love Jews
Short statement
Don’t expect much from religious Jews 😂😂😂😂😂
As well don’t expect much from any religious person
Please don’t mix religion with people of real faith in one true God
Religion is poison Faith is freedom
He was not making an unbiased history documentary about the war. He made a personal trip to find his roots from his own perspective. And yes you can call that biased. I agree with him, world loves to scapegoat Jews and people don’t help Jews, with few exceptions. Large majority of Poland hates Jihadist terrorists continually votes for politicians who will keep these jihadists out of Poland, but would Poland offer support for Israel? No. Look how Israel is fighting this evil alone. No one is helping Israel. I’m from Latvia my family suffered as well, my family lost property and had family members sent to Gulags . That’s not the point of this documentary. That hippie was effin rude, she interrupted him during a prayer . She couldn’t fathom for one second that he clearly is from abroad that this might be emotional for him to see a synagogue turned into a cafe and that he might not know about some Polish laws about filming in public. She could’ve been a lot nicer about it. I work in hospitality I wouldn’t behave like that. Also the way she asked him where he’s from she was hoping he would say Israel, I read that straight in her face in that moment that she was a Hamas supporter. Ask her what she thinks about patriotic poles, I bet she would love to replace them with gang raping murderous jihadists instead. Yeah that clip from the museum was nuisance that’s true. But that’s about it. But it is his history too , you can’t deny that from him. It’s not just your history it is also his history. World has no issues using Jewish innovations but you you help them or support them noooo. Your phone your write your comment on is a Jewish invention
No such thing as a jewish political/financial statement in good faith.
I think you should select the language you use carefully. You claim that Jewish property was stolen by Poles. My Polish grandparents lived before war in Vilnius which was back then a Polish city. My grandma was a successful businesswoman who run a grocery shop. They owned a house, a car and a shop. When Soviets came they had like 10 minutes to pack their stuff and run. They lost everything. It never crossed my mind to try to regain possession of my family's property, let alone accuse Lithuanians that they stole something from me. If you feel that something was stolen from you, send a bill to Germany!
Many, many families in Poland has similar story, our country was heavily affected by war. But I never heard them saying that Lithuanias, Belarusians, Ukrainians etc stole something from them. Never, ever, there is simply no such narrative in Poland. But Jews were robbed, and not by Germans who devastated Poland totally, but by Poles. Many of them had properties in Warsaw which was levelled to ground, and later rebuilt by hard work of Poles in extremely difficult time (country devastated totally, no reparations from Germany, no money from Marschall plan, country occupied and robbed by Russia, etc) and they still think we are obliged to return the rebuilt house to them. Interesting. No Pole would ever say such thing about their lost properties. Not to mention that due to what they do to Palestinians, how they truly stole their land and still doing this, how they oppress them, they really should just shut up and beg the Lor for mercy for their crimes.
The exact same story here, but it was a small manor with some land in what is today north-western Ukraine. My family also never "challenged" the possession rights to that property. We are just happy that after the war the Ukrainians that live there rebuild it to its former state.
Exactly. EVERYONE lost properties when the communist era began. If one group of people gets compensation, what about the rest ?
Also they have received more money in aid than any place on the planet , and they did nothing with that money except dig up some terror tunnels. They have no infrastructure because they don’t work they sponge off the Western working class because our governments send them billions
Yes we sure should should have a more nuanced conversation about what happened to Poland and Baltics where I am from during Russian and German invasion, as we all suffered, but he is not claiming that Poles stole his property. He wanted to say a prayer and that pro Hamas hippie treated him very badly. So I completely understand his sentiment in that moment. I also understand that it can be distressing to see a house of prayer converted into a cafe. He was not a nuisance. He prayed quietly, he was not sticking his ass in the air laying down in the middle of the room and screaming allahu Akbar That hippie was rude and disgusting. I would love to know what that wench thinks about patriotic poles, if it was up to her she would flood Poland with gang raping murderous jihadists.
Forgot to mention that nobody wanted Jews in their country and only asylum they found was Poland, we live together for hundread of years together, sadly when war happend in 1939 people were afraid of their life becasue of death penalty for saving Jews.
Jews lived in Hungary, Lithuania, Holland, UK, Germany etc before the war, Poland wasn't doing any special favours.
@@twinklestar94 I'm talking about XIV century
@@twinklestar94 During WWII there were about 65 mln of citizens in Germany and only about 520 thousand of Jews, not even 1%. While in Poland there were only about 34mln of citizens and 3,5 mln of Jews. Really Poland didn't do any special things? You are ridiculous.
Sweden took many Jewish refugees - especially from Denmark so I don't know what you are talking about.
@@ScaniaVikings Apparently, you don't understand what he is writing about. He means past centuries before WWII. I read the numbers and before WWII there were ridiculous low number of Jews in Sweden.
The accusation that a building was "stolen" is ridiculous. After World War II, most buildings were destroyed, and those that survived were abandoned by the Jews. It was the Poles who rebuilt and renovated these buildings to preserve the history of Jews in Poland. And now a Jew accuses the owners who maintained this building for over 70 years of theft.
Not to mention the camps that were preserved and are being maintained by the Polish state as opposed to Austria and former CC there where villas with pools are built where the camps once were ( KL Gusen)
Abandoned? Wow. That’s one way to put it if the owner that building and his whole family were murdered! If you take such pride in maintaining these buildings, a Jew should be able to enter and pray there, for the families who didn’t get to come home to their properties! Not to mention how many polish jews did come back and were promptly either murdered or kicked out in the late 40s! Amazing… the amount of ignorance in that statement.
Nothing was stolen talk to the Germans
A czego sie spodziewałeś? Ze ci zapłacą. Ty ty masz im i całe pokolenia płacić za krzywdy wojenne. Bo Niemcy już spłacili im dług. Czas na Polskę. Po to tu przyjechał na inwentaryzację polskiego mienia z Brooklynu. Piwnice widocznie były za ciasne, więc szukają okazalszych lokali za darmo.
I patrz znalazł jak szybko. Mają widocznie już działki co jest dla nich cenne.
tak ogrywa sie frajerów którzy nie pilnują a sprzedają swój naród dla judaszowego narodu.
@milz5243 You are delusional.
No one will let any jew to come into his house to pray. Do you allow Palestinians to come into jewish homes to pray? Yeah, we all know the answer.
GTFO of Poland. You're not going to make next Palestine in here.
Also, please be consistent with your lies. If you keep saying that Poland is so full of hate against you then do not come here. According to jews it's deadly dangerous here so for your own safety, stay away.
It is a biased narrative of an ethnocentric Jew who visited another sovereign country with an attitude as he OWNS its streets and buildings. Your ancestors were Polish citizens with Jewish ancestry and should have fought in Polish armed forces when Hitler attacked in 1939. Sadly, Jews refused to contribute to share the responsibility of defending a country where they lived, which led to their own demise, later blaming others for not intervening on their behalf. Many Jews were saved by Poles, many were not, as Polish people themselves were exterminated by German and Soviet occupiers. Thus, blame Stalin and Hitler for the Holocaust, instead of Polish people who often sacrificed their own lives and their families to save Jews.
To nie ma dla nich znaczenia. Pamiętaj i nie tłumacz się. Nie wchodź do namiotu grzeszników i obłudników. To zakazane w kościele katolickim.
@@piotrzet9927 Co ma do tego KK???
KK powinien "wyjść z siebie" w takim razie
@@piotrzet9927
Agree 100%
I'm from Łódź ( in English Lodz ). You should soend more tine in this city. There's a Jewish community here. My best friend's father was even someone important in it before he died. You should also see in Warsaw Polin Museum. It is dedicated to commemorate a thousand years old history of Jews in Poland.
My whole family comes from Lodz, there lived here long before WWII. I remember my greatparents talking about how hard it was for a Jew to pretend being Polish during war just for this simple reason they couldn't speak Polish properly. Almost only young generation, educated in Polish schools before the war spoke Polish fluently. And before the war 30 % of Lodz inhabitants were German. They could perfectly distinquish between Jews & Poles. Not to mention that in occupied Poland, not like in France or other Western European countries, helping Jews in any way was punished by death. Not only death of the person who helped but also his whole family and sometimes even neighbours.
And about so called "stolen" property - remember that after the war Poland felt under soviet occupation and had to remain in soviet zone for nearly 50 years. It were commies who nationalised a lot of private properties. After 1989 all buildings of religious purposes were returned to the religious communities. Of course if they wanted. Due to the decline of Jews living in Poland after the war not all synagogs were wanted by remaining Jews. So some of them were turned into museums. As for private properties - a lot of them after the war were only rubbish. Nothing left. Some of them were also nationalised by commies, in the same way as properties of Poles. After 50 years the process of restoration of properties was difficult and in many cases impossible due to many legal reasons. Poles are in exactly the same situation, Jews aren't discriminated against at all.
Your refusal to pay for entrance to the Alte Shul museum and your claim that it was stolen from the Jews are completely incorrect.
When you tour a synagogue that has been converted into a museum, you are required to pay an entrance fee, such as at the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem.
The Alte Shul was completely ruined during the war by the Nazi Germans; only the bare walls without a roof remained.
In 1956, the Polish state fully financed the renovation of the ruined synagogue. In 1958, the Krakow Jewish Congregation ceremoniously turned over the synagogue for museum purposes. It currently serves as a branch of the Historical Museum of the City of Krakow - the Judaic Museum.
Similarly, the Hevra synagogue has been returned to the Krakow Jewish Congregation and is now being leased to private operators who oversee the current commercial activities.
Nie ma sensu tlumaczyc tym ludziom.."Naród wybrany" i już. Bez dyskusji. Wszystko im sie należy.
Koniec!
@@agnieszkaolszewska6079calm down lil bro
@@agnieszkaolszewska6079you being upset that we believe that we are the chosen people just shows you have an internal issue with us and have antisemitic feelings. you are disgusting
@@MendelDanzoSIOSTRO.Agnieszka to kobieta,zapewniam że jest spokojna jak 38 milionów Polaków.
To Żydzi fikaja.
@@nsz-lf6yk maybe she wouldn't be so apathetic if she was part of the Jews who suffered in her country
How can something abandoned be stolen? If it was not repurposed it would have fallen into ruin. Now matter where in the world, if the owner abandons a property and stops paying taxes, the property is confiscated and repurposed. That's the way things work in the world, like it or not.
These properties weren't abandoned. They were stolen by the Nazis when they killed the Jews who lived there.
Wielu ludzi myśli, że Polacy byli antysemitami, tymczasem prawda leży pośrodku. Byli antysemici, ale byli też liczni filosemici, szczególnie wśród inteligencji i artystów. Dzisiaj im lepsze wykształcenie, tym mniej antysemitów. Około 30% Polaków deklaruje sympatię do Żydów. Polityka Netaniahu sprawiła, że antysemityzm rośnie, ale przecież dzieje się tak nie tylko w Polsce.
Jeśli o mnie chodzi, mam świadomość, że polscy Żydzi byli bardzo różni, dzielili się na wiele różnych grup. I mieszkali w tym kraju od prawie tysiąca lat, więc Polska była przecież ojczyzną dla bardzo wielu pokoleń aszkenazyjskich Żydów. Mam też świadomość, że było wielu wybitnych Polaków żydowskiego pochodzenia kształtujących polską kulturę i naukę. Polskiego dorobku narodowego nie można sobie wyobrazić bez tego drogocennego wkładu. Swego czasu Rafał Betlejewski zorganizował akcję pt. "Tęsknię za Tobą, Żydzie". Ona oddaje to co czuje bardzo wielu z nas. Odczuwamy pustkę. Wojna wyrwała nam coś, co było integralną częścią polskiego krajobrazu przez setki lat.
Nie mówię w imieniu Polaków, bo my, oczywiście, też jesteśmy bardzo różni. Są wśród nas antysemici, są filosemici, są ludzie neutralni i obojętni. Ale generalnie ludzie lepiej wykształceni lepiej znają historię i starają się weryfikować różne informacje. Mity, stereotypy, kłamstwa, propagandę łatwo obalić - wystarczy uzbroić się w wiedzę.
Dla mnie, Polaka z Warszawy, polscy Żydzi zawsze byli mi jakoś dziwnie bliscy.
No i..? To, co teraz robi Izrael...przekreśla wszystko
Przeciez zydzi, ktorzy mieszkali w Polsce to nie byli nawet semici. Pojecie antysemityzmu jest niedorzeczne.
Właśnie ci dobrze wykształceni są antysemitami, bo znają prawdę o tym narodzie
@@NEBUKADNECCAR No tak sie po prostu mowi, zydem moze byc kazdy i czarny i bialy i zolty,
I kto za to odpowiada? Dlaczego nie ma informacji o Niemcach?
..bo Żydzi są sprytni..przebiegli.
When he says Nazis it's clear he is referring to the Germans
Albo Żydzi w szkołach tego nie uczą, albo autor filmiku w szkołę tylko kamieniami rzucał, bo nie wie, jakiego narodu przedstawiciele, są najliczniejszą grupą, odznaczoną medalem Sprawiedliwi wśród Narodów Świata.
W sumie obie twoje teorie są prawdziwe. Obstawiam że to przez połączenie braku wiedzy, nakłamania historii i chęci zrobienia kontrowersyjnego filmu "dokumentalnego", który będzie się klikał doprowadziły do stanu w jakim został opublikowany. Co najlepsze nie obraża i znieważ tylko Polaków ale i jednocześnie innych żydów zakłamując tak fakty.
Polecame dokument "defamacja"
That's very misleading material, full of hate and lies.
Firstly, I'm baffled that the author didn't mention even once, that concentration camps were GERMAN camps on occupied Polish land and keept calling them "Polish camps".
Secondly, Jews weren't only people that's have been persecuted by the Germans. Gypsies, Poles, Ukrainians (generally slavic people) etc... were also opressed and send to death camps.
There were Poles that saved Jews despite the threat of death penelty (person that tried to save the Jew and that persons family were killed, for example Ulm family, that's been hiding Jews were killed. A father, pregnant mother and their seven children, including a newborn). That penelty was introduced only in estern countries, while on the west punishments for helping the jews were much milder). On the list of Righteous Among the Nations largest group of people are Poles.
Ofcourse there were Poles that were collaborating with Germans (by that I mean, telling to the Germans who's Jewish etc...). Many Jews in camps and ghettos were helping in extermination of another Jews (forcing them to work, organising deportation of Jews to the camps). There were even Jewish police units under German commands inside the ghettos that were helping the Germans in deportations and extermination.
Another thing is that Polish people after the war weren't stealing Jewish homes and other properties, it was stolen by communists from USSR and communist regime of Poland.
After the war there were some persecutions of Jews, but it was result of that many communists, that were persecuting and killing polish partisants after the war, were Jewish (for exampple, a Katyan massacre, where over 10k Poles were executed by NKVD, many NKVD officers were Jews).
You need to pay for entry to synagogoue because it was destroyed during the war and it was rebuild after the war ended. Money from tickets are gathered for keeping this place and restoration of it, like many other historical places, churches, castles etc... . Nobody is trying to "make" money on the holocaust, Polish people are taking care of death camps so people can learn about atrocities commited during II World War and see on their own eyes places of death of their ancestors (didn't you heard that lately in Germany, ex-death camp was soled into private hands and it's going to be a estate or some other thing, thst won't preserve suffering and history of the prisoners?)
Maybe there's isn't a lot of Jews in Poland, but there's some of them and it's fault of communist regime. In the 60's communist goverment repressed the Jews and forced them to migrate from the country.
There are some other things in the video that are misleading and historically incorrect.
Sorry for my English, but it isn't my native language and shame on you Shloime for misleading the people with this video. If anyone tries to make money on Jewish suffering that's you and if you have any hatered towards people responsible for Holocaust, then it should be targeted toward the Germans, who started II World War and the Holocaust.
Agree propaganda film basically
Your comment is such utter bullshit. Of course the polish are judged for the acts of nazis, many poles were nazis. Poles were not shipped from all corners of Europe to concentration camps, your logic is victim blaming. Poles ran the polish concentration camps, zero camps were run by jews.
@@Aaron565 You are full of misguided brainwashing bud My ex wife’s family was Polish and actually hid Jews during the war Get a life and wake the hell up before it’s too late NOBODY is buying your BS anymore
@@Aaron565 well, during ww2 poland lost almost 20% of its population. Its estimated that around 70,000 poles were killed in contentration camps during occupatipn.
@@Aaron565 Hard logic. So Poles were Nazis, right? In 1939 they attacked themselves and killed 3 million of their own people. They also set up Polish concentration camps for themselves. All this to get rid of a certain minority whose name cannot be pronounced. I wonder if people like you think at all?
nothing was stolen from you, the Germans and Austrians murdered you, Poles rebuilt everything after the destruction, you should be grateful for keeping your memory alive
Rebuilt? Really? You had Anti-Jewish violence and discrimination even after WW2 from Poles and communists which is why the remaining Jews left your country...
Oy vey😢
incorrect, dirty work of killing jews was given to the local polish police and they did with great satifaction, this is why my polish jewish grandfather Swore to never speak polish again, many local Poles were celebrating when jews were sent to the concentration camps. It doesn't mean I agree with everything was saidin the video.. as it more generalized ..but yes the locals were never friendly to us and hatred was felt even before the war
@@AB-fl6uqSo why millions of You lived in Poland if it was so bad there?
@@AB-fl6uq as well as many jews were celebrating Poles being murdered, does it mean jews are responsible for millions of Poles dying? And many Poles were friendly to you, dude, especially those who were killed for helping. Imagine someone who during the war was fighting against the nazi and organizing help for jews, and after the war was persecuted and tortured by jewish communists. He said that they were not worth helping.
See how the generalisation works?
As many people mentioned, this is not all the story and it lacks some historical background. Many building are still there and are not ruined because they were restored and preserved to tell the story of the Holocaust in Poland as well as centuries of jewish history in Poland. You can't simply tell that something was stolen from you because you need to pay a small price to keep it running and maintain it. Why in some cases there is no interest in sponsoring such places by jewish communities from US or other places but you are blaming people who really took their passion, time and want to show to other people tough history of Poles and Jews in Poland. These people show respect to all Jews, these in the past and current who want to see how their relatives lived in Poland for centuries.Germans put a lot of effort to split Poles and Jews and it would be great to see how many activities are done by people who are not Jews to show the history and remember Jews so this does not happen again! Like museums, festival of jewish culture in Krakow, Wroclaw. How many books about holocaust and history are written to preserve the memory of Jews in our history.
Yes, there is no many Jews in Poland but how can be if most of them were exterminated by Germans alongside with Poles who helped them and yes sometimes betrayed them too. But only in Poland you could be killed because of helping Jews during WW2. As with everything, history is not simple and would be good to try all the sides of the story.
I am not hating, I would just ask for showing the whole story, to not provide next barriers between Poles and Jews. In that matter, everyone should be careful to show the respect and help restoring our relationships.
I like you, you seem to be a good man and maybe creating another movie with a help of the people who could show all the tough history could help you and your viewers to see all the sides of the story.
And yes, I feel that putting a sticker on rails in Auschwitz may be disrespectful in someone's eyes and to me, this was not a thing I'd like to see and I feel uncomfortable as this is a place with terrible history of both nations and should not be a place where you put whatever sticker you want to show respect to everyone who died there and who maintain this place for everyone to learn this tragic history.
Thank you
I don't like how any other victim of war is not mentioned, even briefly. I know it's a story about Jews and their tragedy during the war and that's fine, but deliberately not mentioning anything else gives this false impression that the war was solely to exterminate the Jews, like Germans wanted to kill them and Poles just didn't do anything and later stole Jewish estates...
3 millions Polish civilians died in ww2, some of them for helping Jews, some just for being Polish, their history isn't much different of the Jewish one. Even Auschwitz at the beginning was a camp mainly for Polish prisoners, only when the 2nd part of the camp - Birkenau was built it became a place of Jewish extermination. Of course most people who were killed there were Jewish, but numbers of other nations are significant enough that it's unfair to them to not mention them when talking about victims of Auschwitz. Not only Jews and Poles, also Russian, Roma and even Germans who were oppose the Nazi were killed there.
The story of Polish Jews is inseparable from the story of the Poles, many Jews even consider themselves Polish just of other faith.
Also is kinda baffling how you feel entitled to walk into every building that used to be Jewish just because you are a Jew xD It doesn't work this way, just like you can't enter any church just because you are a Christian.
Reading comments i feel like many people have no idea about the situation in Poland during the war and nothing wrong with it, but videos like that enforce the false narration, it's not like there are lies in it, just things that were untold gives false impression of the history.
You missed the premise of this particular video. In response to people yelling "go back to Poland" this video attempts to find why there are basically no Jews in Poland now (yes we know there are some remnants here and there). This video is not about WWII in general, but about the specific phrase yelled at Jews of "go back to Poland".
Shloime, I have followed your channel since the beginning. I really hope that you will take the time to read and absorb the many meaningful and valid comments…… People have taken the time to watch this video and have shared, respectfully, their observations and knowledge bases about an incredibly sensitive, horrific period of history and about the current, everyday life situations….. I am shocked by what I see as a ‘passively aggressive’ approach, by you - in your presentation…..’overall’……👎😢
he will never respond
@@kacperwalkowiak2564- Disappointing👎
41:50 not only jews were burned in these crematoria. Many Poles and other nations were also
My Bubbie’s family was from Poland. Thank you for showing me where my family comes from. I’m learning so much about who I am and where I come from. I am an Ashkenazi American Jew. I am a Reform Jew. I can’t fast due to medical issues which I got the ok from my Rabbi to not fast. I wish those that do fast and easy fast.
@@PinkHawk191 what part of Poland
Even if u dont fast you cud say tehillim in memory of all those that perished in all our years of suffering and bring comfort to their souls in heaven. Every word you say will bring more peace to them. Every mitzva u do for your grandparents soul will bring them to a better place in heaven. You can do your part as well.
Thank you a very important documentary I really appreciate and enjoyed it very much
@@jsw7814 I don’t know what part of Poland. I need to ask my aunt who knows since I forget since it’s a lot of information to take in when I’m with my family.
Jesli jestes Aszkenazi to twoje korzenie sa z Ukrainy a nie Polski.
Why not meet any Polish jews? Would have been extremely interesting.
my ancestors come from Poznań and being Polish there was just crazy, my grandfather miraculously survived the concentration camp
Many synagogues in Poland are left to rot not even restaurants inside, being totally honest it's good that there is something there so it's not completely abandoned.
Unfortunately there is not enough Jews to keep synagogues as synagogues tickets are necessary for upkeep costs, I know it's painful but Jews should understand how money works...
As a Polish nationalist, I am all for positive Polish-Jewish relations. In 2024 there is no reason for us to be negative to each other as peoples.
I guess people left with the message that Poland is bad today. Maybe that's the worng message... He was trying to explain that when you scream back to poland, let's see if we can find the "back to poland"
@@chaimbochner7474 Well, it's not easy to be a Christian Pole in Israel either. You get spat at. I don't think relations between us should be so tense, there is no reason for that. I think Israeli school trips could see more of Poland than just Auschwitz, and there could also be Polish school trips to Israel - it would be a good initiative at building bridges. Besides, now Israel needs allies more than ever.
@@skullmaster6888 I agree. I was disgusted to see the clips of “so called” frum Jews, spitting at other people.
@@skullmaster6888Israel needs allies?! For what?! They've had allies all over the USA..the world, in fact. They've bought them!
Is there something that you don't own or do not deserve?
I am not Polish but can understand why people reacted negatively on some of his remarks, such as “ this was stolen from the Jews and Jews were not allowed to enter there although these belong to them”. He expressed unbearable sense of entitlement and lack of the sense of historical develop,ent. jews, it is undeniable, suffered immensely during the second world war but they were not the only one. Did he ever made similar type of comments when visiting Israel - these were Arab places, houses, businesses, houses of preyers but their original owners and descendantsare not allowed to visit it. That much about his hypocrisy.
Some facts: 6 milion of polish citizens died during II WW. Half of them were of polish origin and half of them were jewish. Germans and russians occupied Poland. The russian occupation lasted until 1993. Germans created and operated concentration camps.
1989 not 1993 :)
Put another way, 10% of the ethnic Poles perished, while 90% of the Jews were murdered. There’s no comparison.
@@Rubiagirl86 1993
Socialism destroys a lot of religious communities and symbols
@@zibix7173 No. Poland stopped to be communist country in 1989 and set free from USSR. Check in Google.
Check the list of Polish names in yad vashem. You still have to learn a lot. You prezent your judgments very easy. Stop learn and better say less nthan to much
Shloimie, thank you for sharing. This was very emotional for me as my father Was from Sulaki Poland and when my grandmother saw what was about to happen she and my father snuck on a boat to the US.
How did you manage to visit Kraków and not find any Jews?! There’s a lively Jewish community in Kraków. You should have gone to shul at a time when there were services or visited the JCC at pretty much any time. Then you would have seen where the Jews are.
There’s a Jewish community in Warsaw too. Couple thousand strong and growing. There still are Polish Jews, albeit not anywhere near as many as there used to be. The Jewish history of Poland is not over.
That would be against the narrative.
Yale that's because he wasn't looking. He knows there are no more Jews in Poland, and nothing - not even Jews in Poland - would have convinced him otherwise.
Nothing has been stolen from you, you were only guest in our country. Poland is a Christian country 🇵🇱 ⛪️ and will remain strong 🦅
I went with a jewish group to Poland, and while we were in Auschwitz there was a muslim group who started yelling "free Palestine" at us. Everyone there threw the Muslims out so fast...
They are right though, should have given the German land to Jews instead of Poles if they liked them so much
@@based4573 What? xD
@@based4573 and all of the Jews in the Middle East and North Africa where should they have gone?
@@cpt.flamer7184 YT deleted my comment. Look up how much land Germ-Many gave away to Pole-Land, its about 100,000km^2, 5x of Ezrael's land. Why not take a slice of that, as they are the ones who committed the acts Ezrael uses as justification.
@@chocolatecity2 the exodus you are talking about was caused by the European invasion of Pal-Esstein. If it never happened, Joooohs would still live in Morocco, etc. Even if the MENA Jooohs would have been kicked out somehow, they would have simply fled to the Ezrael next to Germ-Many, which is now instead all Pole-Lish land.
I’m a Catholic Polish Canadian. Immigrated with my parents in 1984 when I was 10. I never understood antisemitism and always thought that the Holocaust was not only a Jewish but also a Polish tragedy. We lived together in peace for a thousand years and Poland had the most Jews of any nation on earth. The brain drain alone was devastating…such a shame, we are practically brothers and we’re both attacked by Soviets and fascists. I’m just glad the Jews are in Israel keeping the Middle East in check…it’s their God given land!
Nie jesteś Polakiem, i nigdy nim nie byłeś twoje opinie na temat Izraela pokazują to
Most of Israelis are not Jews just Syonists.
@@ozjaszgoldberg3193 co?
Legal rights of legitimate offspring of former owners (of whatever nationality / ethnic group) of property in Poland is exercisable under Polish law and has been so for the Jews worldwide as well for over quarter of a century. Those Jews that could prove their lineage and trace it back to the legitimate owners have long successfully reclaimed their property in Poland. Since the Jews purport to be civilized and law-abiding people they should know the story ends here and they have already been compensated by the Germans. Having said that, all places of Jewish worship such as synagogues or yeshivas should be returned to the Jewish communities without restrain. To be clear: most of them have already been returned- nice catch of those that have not been yet. All in all, the film itself is misleading to say the least and portrays Poland and the Poles in the typical stereotypical way well known to the Jews worldwide- as it is purposefully and continually re-instigated and fueled by them.
Thank you so much. Hope everyone has an easy and meaningful fast.
This made my heart ache.
It made me weep.
All those synagogues, the school. But the stones and the earth remember.
So I reposted this to my fb page. I want others to see this journey.
It's important.
Thank you for making this.
Ever heard of Simon of Trent or the USS Liberty?
@@marsettenmohn no room for hate.
@@marsettenmohnwho was Simon of Trent?
R שלמה for the same reason that you went back to revisit the destruction of the entire Jewish population of Poland, there are a large segment of Jews which sware never to set again their feet on the blood soaked countries in Europe that flourished with Jews centuries, never ever to forgive the poles ,the Hungarians ,the Romanians ,the slovaks ,and many more which were out right complicite in the extermination of million of our Jewish brothers and sisters and as you see it for yourself there are plenty of poles which are antisemites which hate us with a pattion, for some of us Jews it's just horrific even to step one inch in those countries never again to look back at them , and I guess that each and every pole is really happy that yuden rein accomplished what they have been longing for the past who knows how long ,
I am a Christian from Poland and l truly enjoyed watching this documentary. I support and stand for Israel. Todah raba. Am Israel Chai. ❤️🇮🇱❤️🤗🙏
@@idaselinahobbs9031 what a beautiful comment.
I am yewish not Israëli
@@Tofegast I am both
@@jsw7814 Lovely comment. My entire (very grass roots, clergy level Catholic) family fled Poland during WW2 as they were hiding Jews. My mother is of Jewish decent. I want nothing more than to visit Poland & Israel. My family has a tree planted in Yad Vashem - the Road of the Righteous. It's a very humbling honor. I was born in the US. I began chasing God the day my feet hit the ground. We need to pray our King home to restore this Earth as promised. "And the Spirit of the Living God said, 'Come' and the Bride of Christ said, 'Come'".
Shalom
May the Living God of Eternity wrap you & your loved ones in a veil of protection. May He find you when you search for Him. Continue to Seek Him out. He is not far from you and he does hear & respond to our prayers.
Stay Safe. Stay Free.
꧁•♥ Believe♥•🕊꧂
@@MarieElenaCambria1 how can I contact you
Thank you very much for the exciting and important video!
My late father was born in Poland, not in Krakow, but in Warsaw (1904-1994), but through the video I imagined the streets of Warsaw, which probably also abounded in Jewish and rooted life!
My grandfather was the butcher of the town and I'm sure the whole street was full of Yiddishkeit until the beginning of the war.
My father's entire family was murdered and only he survived the horror of the war years and immigrated to Israel and built a new family with 13 grandchildren!
Entitled much, eh? My ancestors used to own half of Europe, yet I don't go around saying it's mine. It seems you tried really hard not to meet any Jews, as there are so many here. Also, filming people when they say they don't wish to be filmed? She should sue you
Thank You for including us on a great Pilgrimage. Sharing the journey with your Father is a blessing.
The light of goodness and truth outshines the darkness of evil.
Shloime, never be silent and keep up the great work. Shalom
I have Jewish and Catholic Polish ancestry and wish for the bonds of our Jewish and Polish nations to forever be united 🇵🇱🇮🇱❤️
No thanks. Poland is fine on its own, these people would never be patriotic to Poland as they have their own agenda. Matter of fact they would campaign for things against the interest of the Polish nation if it would benefit them.
Greetings. I am so excited to finish watching this. My entire (very grass roots, clergy level Catholic) family fled Poland during WW2 as they were hiding Jews. They were fortunate to have the capital but none the less left everyone they knew and everyone they loved behind them in a past life. My mother is of Jewish decent. I want nothing more than to visit Poland & Israel. My family has a tree planted in Yad Vashem - the Road of the Righteous. It's a very humbling honor. I was born in the US. I began chasing God the day my feet hit the ground. This is the legacy left to me by my through my Polish decent; a reverence and a hunger for God and the willingness to abide in all His good common sense laws that protect true freedom.
Shalom
May the Living God of Eternity wrap you & your loved ones in a veil of protection. May He find you when you search for Him. Continue to Seek Him out. He is not far from you and he does hear & respond to our prayers.
Stay Safe. Stay Free.
꧁•♥ Believe♥•🕊꧂
It is so sad to be in a Jewish neighbourhood in Cracow and not meet any Jews. There are Jews in Cracow and Poland. Moreover 20-25% of Poles have Jewish roots. Thank God that there are Jews in Poland. It there weren’t, it would mean that Nazis have won. Unfortunately the History of Poland was written only by winners of WWII, among them Russia which hated us. This is how the myth of Polish antisemitism was born. Stalin was the one who rounded up Jews and sent them to Germany because he had a pact with Hitler, Russian communist party was the one which ordered to lay off all the Jews from governmental positions both in Poland under the occupation and in USSR. Nobody has the right to stop you from filming anywhere in Poland unless on a private property. That Synagogue you visited is a listed building and it means that it has praying hours and sightseeing hours, like many listed churches or old mosques. It means that you need to buy the ticket of 1-2 dollars to sightsee it during those hours. Also, the poor retired guy that was supposed to guard it doesn’t speak good English. He works there to earn more money to his modest pension. You can do visit synagogue or a church for free if you are willing to participate in religious celebrations or outside of praying hours. You keep saying that buildings were stolen from you - Jews but Jews at that time were also Poles. 3 millions of Polish Jews were murdered in Holocaust and on top of that 3 millions of Poles of non-Jewish origin were slaughtered during WWII - 20% of our population. Our - Polish society became ripped to shreds by Holocaust too. Moreover, instead of a chance to recover we were left to fight Soviet occupation for 43 more years (1939-1945; 1945-1989). It is very sad that Poland lost 20% of its population and 53% of our territory. All the big cities were destroyed and buildings rebuilt by our own money because there was no Marshall Plan for Poland like it was for Germany. Poles after the occupation rebuilt Jewish synagogues, cemeteries and houses along with other non-Jewish places. Nazis and Soviets used tombstones to built pavements or bridges and Poles put them in cemeteries again, showing them respect after occupation. I believe it’s worth remembering about Żegota - a governmental organisation in occupied Poland, first in Europe solely dedicated to save Jews; about Jan Karski, a Pole who as a first person alerted the world (Churchill and Roosevelt) about Holocaust; about Witold Pilecki, who volunteered to go to Auschwitz to write a first report which shown what was happening there and was murdered by Soviets because of that; about Irena Sendler who was a nurse who saved Jewish children; about Janusz Korczak who went to the gas chamber instead of being saved with Jewish orphaned children he took care of; about Ulm family who were murdered by Nazis for hiding Jews among many others. Poles are not antisemites and Jews in Poland are not only found as ashes in concentration camps. They live among Poles and you didn’t contact with Jewish Centers or any Jews on social media. „Nothing about restaurant is Jewish except of Jewish food” - isn’t food a point of a restaurant? There are both kosher and non-kosher stores and restaurants in Cracow if you only look for them in Google maps. Some of the tombstones wait to be restored, just like the one on Christian cemeteries if you visit them you will see. Poles are not defined by the tragedy that happened to us. It’s sad that you show it this way but it is your choice.
It was called Kara Smierci, why are Poles held to such high standards, when now there are 40 thousand Gazans are killed, and certainly all of them are Hamas?
Im a Polish Catholic i remeber my grandma telling me about her jewish friends before the war
Wow, thank you so much. This was so beautiful and touching and sad and uplifting all in one. Subscribed and will definitely be sharing with friends. Thanks again! Am Israel Chai! 🇮🇱💙
Amazing! Thank you so much for this very moving proud to be Jewish 😁✡️
as my father+grandfather survived ww2,born in Poland and were transferred to Soviet camps during ww2.having survived and replanted their families in Brooklyn,ny.65 yrs.later i'm alive,proud of my roots in Krakow/galicia region.i go back almost yearly to Krakow,altough with very few Jews left after 1000 yrs.i reach out to poles thru dialouge and sifting thru the hate/anti-semetisim mess existing for generations.shloimy thn'x,you're video is a great contribution in our troubled world of 2024.touch and reach out ,perhaps you can change one life at a time.yasher koach.
My grandparents also from Poland. And we’re transferred to Siberia camps. And survived the brutality. Not too many polish hidden survived.
For your information, in the United States every population that exists is transplanted including the Americans themselves with European roots...
Contempt is what Jews have for Poles.
You are the ones who carry hatred in you,which no one has.
Not was it mentioned that such a large concentration of the Jewish population in Poland before the war was possible because it was the only country in Europe that did not eliminate rights and privileges this minority from society.
But how is the author of the film supposed to know such things? The film is biased
Good to see you back in Poland. Welcome !
Thanks! 😃
@@ShloimeZionce Hello I wrote a comment for you and tried to tag you but I think it failed, so I'm responding directly to you here so you can go find my comment. My comment has positive things I want to say to you, but also be warned, a bit of negative. Thanks for the movie!
As strange as it sounds, Jews are welcome back in Poland.
Poland is not under any occupation by “nazis” or “soviets anymore, so people here do welcome honest and good citizens.
Whet they don’t need is extremist groups, tax evaders, etc. - hence there isn’t many people from the well known immigrant countries that wish to go there.
Jews lived in Poland for hundreds of years and never they were expelled from there.
I hope that history will heal all the wounds, and people responsible for all the horrible things that happened will be named, and Polish nation won’t be getting backlash because of it.
Take care
This video moved me deeply. The portrayal of the Holocaust and the Jewish people in Poland was incredibly powerful and emotional. It touched my heart in a profound way, reminding me of the immense suffering and resilience of those who lived through such unimaginable horrors. Thank you for creating such a respectful and moving tribute to this important part of history.
Don’t forget please about socialism in Poland after llnd WW , it was no chance to keep any religion and cultural symbols during 50 years . Thank God for everything what we still have
Excellent job, Shloime and Hasidic Embassy. That was very moving and educational! I've been to Krakow and Auschwitz twice (in 2001 and 2008). It was very interesting and moving to see it from your perspective.
Shloime, this was so beautifully done. Although my grandparents are/were from the Hungarian and Slovakian region of Europe, they did their many years in Auschwitz and this brought back so many emotional memories of my trips there. We actually found my grandmother's barrack in Birkenau and my family sang Ani Maamin together there....we are thank G-d the living revenge against Hitler.
Thank you for this and for your tremendous messages throughout
As a reminder, the Holocaust was carried out by Nazi Germany throughout Europe. The atrocities were committed by the Germans of that era. In occupied Poland, the Germans established the concentration camps, the atrocities were carried out by the Germans. I realize that we live in politically correct times and quite often the word "nazis" is used instead of the word "Germans" but by omitting the word "Germans" it is an attempt to change the facts and obscure the history. I am beginning to think that this is intentional, and it is shameful. Who is doing this in the media? Now, the modern-day Germans are not responsible nor are they guilty of the crimes. But their great-grandparents and grandparents are.
Israel's Shimon Peres on a visit to the Warsaw Ghetto Monument in Warsaw on the anniversary of the Uprising in 1943 stated emphatically that "the Polish nation is NOT responsible for the Holocaust". Last year in 2023 at the same memorial, the German Foreign Minister stated unequivocally that Germany and Germany alone is responsible for the Holocaust.
It is much more complicated than that .
Various national or ethnic groups sided with the Nazis in hopes of independence from the Soviets or others. The Nazis also found local people in each country to assist them in the Final Solution.
Many ppl of other nations were only too happy to join. Full towns were killed by zealous neighbors. My great uncle survived the camps and was killed by the ppl who stole their house when he came back
sadly its a fact that many poles and other nationalities happily joined the nazis in their evil deeds...that is not to say that there werent polish heroes who saved Jewish lives also
@@planesense7390 Interesting. Any sources of "poles .... happily joined the nazis"? Imagine "happily joining" your attacker. Someone who killed 6mln Poles.
@@stephenfisher3721 Mainly Germans.
Polish people helped the most. You don't say true about polish people.
Beautiful video am YISROEL chai 🇮🇱 some of family members came from Poland very 😢touching & emotional and spiritual video. Keep making more so the world can see the yidden jews are still here & not going anywhere anytime soon
Presenting history requires objectivness which you apparently lack...It makes me sad!And moving as Jews throgh Poland using a German luxury car Mercedes Benz is kind of ironic, isn't it?
Ya, Mercedes should give him the car!!
@@TM-100 No, he should have avoided while visiting Poland - the place where most of the Shoah took place - any linkeage to the opressors and murderers...the Germans...otherwise I read it as not telling the whole story right. Look at the comment of @andrewrajcher7263...mayby you will understand my point
Just DON'T visit Poland
@@mafes28
Best thing I could have watched on tisha b'av. You lifted my soul Shloime!
There are jews in Poland, I don't understand why it wasn't shown in this documentary. In Cracow every year an amazing festival of Jewish culture takes place.
Also, I wanted to point out that the old synagogue functions as a museum and the money from the tickets is used to look after it. Polish people also have to buy tickets when visiting polish museums. But in general I enjoyed the documentary and the tribute to Jewish heritage.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to experience this virtually.
Our pleasure!
Thank you so much for making this! I was looking for something appropriate to watch on Tisha B'Av, and so glad I came across this. :)
Glad it was helpful!
My grandfather was 10 years old when the Nazis came to Poland. He lived in the outskirts of Lublin. He watched as every single Jewish person in his town was brutally murdered. He saw several of his classmates being shot outside with their families through his kitchen window. My grandmother was 16 when the Nazis occupied her town. She was living in Staszów and lived through what was called Black Sunday. On that day, the Nazis ordered all the Jews from the town to congregate in the center and they would march. As they started to funnel into Krakowska street, the Nazis fired into the crowd and murdered most of the people. She said the river was red with blood. Everyone who survived was marched to Bełżec or put on a train to Treblinka where they perished. Any Jewish family who didn't appear in the town center was brutally murdered in their homes. Both my grandparents were Catholic so they were bystanders to these tragic events.
Just one detail. Nazis = Germans. Thank You ;)
I'm sure it was traumatic for them to witness.
10 years old when the Nazis came to Poland - No Nazis - GERMANS AND SOVIETS !!!!!!
Nazis = GERMANS
My family also suffered during war. I heard stories from grandparents. They never knew any NAZIS. They were talking about GERMANS. But putting the blame right hearts your throat. You dared to say it only once... Germans did it, Poles did all we could to help.
I’m sorry your family suffered.
“Poles did all they could to help.”
Which side were the poles helping?
@@ShloimeZionce 3 aspects. if it dont open your eyes, you will stay blind Forever.
1. polish undergroud army Armia Krajowa with scarse weapons they had delivered weapons to Warsaw ghetto to make Warsaw ghetto uprising even possible, it was approx 200 Jews, who refused to be gased but chose honourable death in combat.
2. for helping a Jew it was a death penalty, not for helper, bu all family, learn of history of Ulm family, please.
3. Pilecki. Rotmistrz.
@@pl-hq5hr There are way too many emotions. Do you see the energy of emotions? I'm wondering that if you're right, wow did I here so much negativity towards the poles from the older generation?
Many were greatful to the swedish. We are greatful to all those that helped. It was very betraying when my grandmother went to school with polish friends, to be betrayed and made fun of...
@@ShloimeZioncewhat a stupid question !!
@@chaimbochner7474 I can't care less about your emotions, I care about facts. Check out your Yard Vashem ranking on racheous among nations and stop making fool out yourself.
It's such a shame you came to Poland with a close heart. I am partly Jewish on my mum's side. I am proud of being both Polish and Jewish. The history of both mation is not white and black, unfortunately you only see one side of it!
My heart is open and I will be back soon to see more. ❤️
It is very difficult to want to close your heart to what is obvious. Poland is still antisemitic . To move forward a country needs to accept what they did. Imagine survivors coming to a building that if still standing they will tell you I don’t know who you are and this is not your home. Think what would you do and now they make money of the conversation camps but as of today have not paid back in compensation for the property. Art and belongings stolen.
Excellent, highly professional and dramatical. My parents came from the Kruchnik and Bilgorai cities of Poland. My mother spent 5 years in Auschwitz/Birkonau. My father was sent to Siberia.
I dreamt of going to Poland to explore my parents' roots. This is the closest I've come. Thank you.
Biłgoraj that's the name of this city
Wow wow wow!!! How sad that there's almost nothing left of the bustling jewish community of years ago 😢. Thank you for this!!
Unlike other countries occupied by the Nazis, such as France or the Netherlands, in Poland, helping Jews was punishable by death for you and your family. The premises where the restaurants are located belong to the Jewish community, which rented them about 20 years ago.
Yes, before the war, there was significant anti-Semitism in Poland. In my opinion, it wasn’t so much about the Jews but rather a mix of poverty and unemployment. In such a mix, people look for someone to blame, and it’s easiest to find it among others - “foreigners.” Regardless of race, religion, time, or place in the world.
Another smaller wave of anti-Semitism occurred in the 1990s when the communist system collapsed, and many fell into poverty. They blamed the imagined new government, believing that 90% of them were Jews, and that’s why the country was in such a bad state - which was absurd. Today, if you are visibly Jewish in Poland, outside of football stadiums - where hooligans are - you are definitely safer than in France, Germany ....
Also, antisemitism before the war was much more common in smaller towns and in poorest regions of Poland. Jews living in larger cities had a pretty good life.
Hi dear shloime, I have tried the Whole day to watch this video and my phone didn’t go through, but thank you hasham that I watched it now, it was ports in the video how was very emotional i watched it with my brother and we both literally had tears in the eyes, your videos is very very special to me and specially this one, Hasham should give you the anergy for your forward projects.
(The editing on the video was super super good)
❤ jak wchodzisz do muzeum trzeba kupić bilet chyba że przyjdziesz w dzień w którym wpuszczają bez opłaty ale bilet i tak trzeba pobrać. Takie mamy zasady w tym muzeum Stara Synagoga.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful documentary. Full of so much emotion and history.
A quote from you viewer, to the point, shame on you, Shliome, for being so biased and anti-Polish, I recommend to you to go to Canada or the US to see all the hatred for the Jews and Israel now in 2024. Enjoy this comment :
@andrewrajcher7263
2 days ago (edited)
I am the son of Holocaust survivors from Poland and I visit Poland three time a year. I read, write and speak fluent Polish, so communication there, for me, is not a problem. I am the longest serving volunteer (over 18 years) at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.
This documentary is SO MISLEADING. It seems like he went to Poland and INTENTIONALLY AVOIDED meeting any Polish Jews.
He was in Kraków exploring everywhere EXCEPT the Kraków Jewish Community Centre. THERE he would find Jews!!
In Lódź, he went to the cemetery of course, but he didn't visit the synagogue and the Jewish centre, with its Jewish guest house. THERE he would find Jews!!
And, of course, did he go to Warsaw where there are plenty of LIVING POLISH JEWS? The answer is NO. Did he meet with Poland's Chief Rabbi, Michael Schudrich, who could have pointed him in the right direction to meet LIVING Polish Jews IN Poland? Of course not!
According to estimates, today, there are between 25,000 and 30,000 Jews in Poland - it seems that he went out of his way NOT to meet them.This "documentary" is SO misleading and should be viewed with EXTREME skepticism.
Incredible watch on this Tisha B'Av, Shloime. This kind of documentary needed to be made. I'm glad also you and your father got so much meaning out of this trip. Thank you for sharing. 💙
Much appreciated!
Amazing and mind blowing! I’m at a loss of words to express what I’m actually feeling. Nice job and God bless the Jews always and forever! You will always thrive no matter who is against you !!!
I cant even imagine how emotional and meanuful this trip was for you and for your father and for your family. Thank you for sharing this with us. May Hashem continue to give you the strength to help klal yisrael. Iy'H this will be the last tisha baav!
Great documentary.
Just not enough explanation why polish jews are no more? Who were the natzi ? Were natzi polish Christian citizens? Who built concentration camps? Which nation is responsible for killing polish jews?
Documentary does not explain natzi ideology?
I had to search internet to find out why after almost thousand of years jews are no longer part of poland.
Nie oglądałam tego filmu, nie mam nerwów ze stali. Ta nacja uważa się za wybrana i już. "Handlowe plemię"..
@@agnieszkaolszewska6079cope
Beautiful work Shloime. So emotional and rich - showing the rich and beautiful life our ancestors had in Poland. And the sad fact that they were brutally murdered for being Jewish.
Your Bochners from Galitzia?
Bruttally murdered by nazis...
they were never Polish People. According to their rabbis they segregated from the human cattle to be pure = lol
@@metanoian965 dude, stfu. Quit talking out of your rear lol.
THE DOCUMENTARY IS WONDERFUL. I WILL ALWAYS SUPPORT THE JEWS AND THEIR CULTURE!
why ?
@@metanoian965Naród wybrany..poza prawem i moralnością. Polska ma ich dość!
It is a "mocumentary" - pretending there are no Jews in Poland today. That is rubbish!
@@andrewrajcher7263 Yes, there are Zyd. Some make vids @ themselves being Zyd.
Zyd are involved with importing darkness out of Africa and Hindukush.
@@maiahswanson904 same
My father, Beryl Hirsch, was born in Poland & was chased out by the Cossacks. He was so grateful to move to America & never missed Poland.
Cossacks were Ukrainians and Russians. We dont have them anymore
Shulem aleichem. Next time visit Jewish Religious Community in Krakow or JCC (Jewish Community Center) and learn a few things about Poland before you start to spread false narrative. Za gezint
Thank you for this, it reached in a grabbed my soul. Since October 7th I have been disgusted with the world. I never, ever thought I'd see all the hate that's going on in it. I'm heartbroken, my grandmother and aunt fled Poland right before the start of ww2. My grandfather immigrated from Luxembourg, joined the navy and fought in the war. I've recently been trying to research my great uncle, who was a political prisoner in Dachau, as well as trying to track other family members. It's overwhelming knowing all the lives, and generations of people who are gone. I always wonder what they could have accomplished if they were still here. 💙
I’ve been disgusted with the world since I found out my parents were holocaust survivors the didn’t talk about it
@@shmulyitzkowitz6479 You are so right, My Grandmothers experience was mild, but she would not talk about her family, really anything to do with Poland. She was scared of people and their reactions. She hid her religion and ancestry. Sending you and your family love.
@@laurenkillough4273 I also wonder what my cousins could have done if they didn’t perish in the Shoah. Who they would have been and what they would have done for a career. I think of how much they would’ve loved me. We were all robbed of knowing our loved ones which is so sad. May all their memories be a blessing.
lovely to see your prayers in that room where your grandpa prayed
This is incredible work, Shloime.
I have been following your journey since you started posting videos and people would comment that this is not for you.
Somehow I knew then that your work would get this good.
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Im sorry to say but what I have been through the way you father hugs you makes me cry more then anything
This was so well done! I mourn today and in this season for the Jewish people.Praying for you and the peace of Jerusalem❤
You shld make a map where all your stickers are and people go find them and stuff video was amazing!!!
That is a crazy idea. I love it! Let’s see if we can make it happen.
✔💯👍👍👍
This touched me to my core. My ancestors may not be from Europe, as I come from Sephardic roots, but these souls are my brothers and sisters. It's heartbreaking to see how the world moves on, as if the unspeakable horrors of less than 100 years ago have faded into the background.
And we, too, are guilty of letting these memories slip away far too easily.
But in doing so, we dishonor those who suffered, and we risk allowing such horrors to happen again. We must hold on to these memories, fiercely and intentionally, because if we let them fade, we lose a piece of our humanity. We owe it to our ancestors-and to ourselves-to remember, to mourn, and to ensure that the world never forgets.
Thank you for sharing this experience with us. 🇮🇱
אם ישראל חי
As I can see from the comments, lots of us Poles got at least irritated by this individual. Some Jewish people are known to be extremly arrogant so is this fellow ,therefore we shouldn't be supprised, if I may I would suggest not to overreact. This is the way some Jewish people are and no one can do much about it, we can camly point out their wrongs and not expect any constructive conversation since Choosen People are always right.
Based European response.
Wow wow wow I'm speechless the whole film is beautiful and the shots and editing are also insane Shlomi you hit it again your a soul one of a kind
I saw your video with Peter Santanello regarding Shabath and learned a lot about the great jewish culture, really loved the video. I love the fact that you had the chance to visit Poland, where your ancestors come from. Peace to you my friend.