AUSCHWITZ II: The German Nazi extermination camp, a complete tour
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Construction on Auschwitz II-Birkenau began in October 1941 to ease congestion at the main camp. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel (SS), intended the camp to house 50,000 prisoners of war, who would be interned as forced laborers. Plans called for the expansion of the camp first to house 150,000 and eventually as many as 200,000 inmates. An initial contingent of 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war arrived at Auschwitz I in October 1941, but by March 1942 only 945 were still alive, and these were transferred to Birkenau, where most of them died from disease or starvation by May. By this time Hitler had decided to annihilate the Jewish people, so Birkenau was repurposed as a combination labor camp/extermination camp. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum estimates that 1.3 million people, 1.1 million of them Jewish, were sent to the camp during its existence.
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Thank you so much for putting in a lot of time and effort to make sure everything about this HELL ON EARTH place covered & not forgotten. I thought I knew a lot of this place, but I was wrong. I couldn't bring myself to visit in person. Maybe one day I will. Again, thank you so much.
You are very welcome
I visited Auschwitz in 1995 as a 24 year old. Watching your video, it feels like just yesterday. I have never felt so chilled to the bone as I felt that day. I cannot believe people try to deny this atrocity took place, and I agree 100% with you, any non-believers should go and stand on the selection platform-the enormous weight of lingering sadness and loss cannot be escaped or denied.
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If you ever go again Cynt, invite Angela Merkel the rest of her government along. Don't ever let THEM forget what their predecessors, & in some cases relatives main contribution was to Germanys WW2 effort
@@williamwhitcombe6487 Agree with your sentiments completely. Question: how is it that the SAME cannot be understood concerning the African Holocaust committed against the Black People of America???
Why no ghost hunting experiments there like evp recordings?
@Thack It's not entertainment but for the spirits there who want to be known. Is it open at night?
Sitting here watching this and stressing out about work. My problems are nothing compared to the emotions people must have been experiencing here. So humbling.
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I visited in 2005 stayed in krakow that wkend. If you get the chance then go and visit ..its interesting heartbreaking humbling at the same time..
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Amen 🙏🏻
Scares me. Because of this, I will never give up my gun,,,or be taken alive. Satin was on earth .
Peace for all victims 😪
I lived in the Eastern suburbs of Sydney from early 90's until 2010. I had 2 old ladies, sisters, who lived next door to me in a unit. They survived the war by hiding in the Black Forest for 6 years. Another man I used to know was a carpenter and survived 5 camps including Auschwitz. He had his camp ID number tattooed into his wrist. A permanent memory, his story was incredible. My uncle escaped a POW train headed for Germany from France. So many amazing stories of survival. Thanks for your video x
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Most humbly, thank you.
Great documentary gentlman.. you took me to those sad days where the Jews were mercilessly killed.. poor souls..
Something I appreciated in watching your presentation is how you have successfully portrayed a sense of the sheer scale of the murder factory, which isn't always apparent. I think this is an important part of bringing the memory of the victims to those of us who have not yet had the opportunity to see the scars of this incomprehensibly horrorific part of history for ourselves.
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Only 70 years ago...jesus. the closest thing to "hell on earth" humanity ever witnessed.
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80 years ago...
Unfortunately it still continues. North korea and China still use concentration camps.
The Americans put Japanese in concentration camps.
@@JoeyDavies777 eh they weren't like the nazis one's tho.
My father was one of the first to reach Bergen-Belsen during it's Liberation. The horrors he saw and experienced there were way beyond what I could possibly conceive in my mind.
Wow... Usually, former soldiers were so traumatised with the experience and from what they saw, they refused to speak about it until the end end of their lives..
@@VicStefanu My father said the thing that struck him when he arrived there was that there was petrified wood or ivory stacked all over the place. Out in the open, underneath the trees, against the buildings and in pits around behind the buildings in this huge barb wire surrounded complex. He said that he asked himself why would they do such a thing? It was then he got a much closer look and realized what it was. Thousands of bodies stacked everywhere and that is when the real horror of the situation set in. He showed me the pictures of what he saw and told me the whole story when I was around 7 years old .
@@jonstearns886 Amazing.. I have heard so many horrible things from witnesses but this is a new one, thanks for sharing..
I heard that the soliders that liberated these hell holes had nightmares for a long time
Thank You for this. My adopted mother has relatives who's ashes are in that lake. Their only wrongdoing was not having their papers when asked.
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That sounds like the SS, butcher's
So sad. The more I know. God bless you and your family.
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This is amazing. I am a history buff (good and bad) and this is really well done. too many people want to just "forget" all of the horrible things that have happened in the world's history and move on. We all know the saying "Those who don't learn from history...." Thank you for this and your other videos.
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Steve P - I too am a history buff. I read a lot and continue to be both amazed and terrified how history is repeating itself currently…. down to the same phrases being used.
I agree, we must NEVER forget!!
Hi Vic, I visited Auschwitz 1 and 2 ten years ago in April 2012, but my visit of Birkenau was nothing as 'complete' as yours. I was part of a 2-3 hour or so tour and as you mentioned, the tours left out much of the camp. I do wish to visit again some day to go around on my own as you have done. I will have maps and information with me. Thank you so much for your time expended in creating this very moving footage for us. It truly is a grim place but I feel I just have to return in order to experience it more personally and completely. Thanks again.
Hi, I hope that you get a chance to go back one day... and to spend more time walking around in order to get a better idea of the place... When I was there filming this video, I saw groups that came to the camp and left 1 hour later...
I really appreciate that you returned to Auschwitz in order to show us inside. Many documentaries just sort of show the room, or scan across, but I appreciate the step by step filming and narration. This is the best way for us to understand just how it was, if we haven't been. My parents would never take me when we lived in Germany in my youth. They thought it would give me nightmares, that they were protecting me. Now that I am grown, however, I want to take my own children and see it so we can pay tribute and honor to all those innocent souls. So thank you.
I hope you never took your children, I have recently returned and this is not something children should see. I understand the need for them to know about it & educate them on the matter but allow them to make their own decision when they are grown. This is too much for a child.
Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍I hope that you can visit Auschwitz with your children one day..
@@vp5633 It depends on how old the children are.. I would certainly not take 5 year olds, but, if the children are grown up (maybe 15 or over) and curious about history, and with enough warnings, you can take them there.. Also, if you worry about nightmares, etc., just take there there for a walk around the camp and do not walk down to the crematoria..
Please see my comments to 'Lou' below..
@@VicStefanu absolutely agree with you there, 15 and up & the person is able to grasp and understand but below this age far too young. In my recent trip I saw several young children & they were playing etc. not something that should be happening
I did a tour of Auschwitz 1 and 2 over 13 years ago. Walking towards that huge gate where the trains went through was the most unnerving thing i have ever done in my life. How those souls felt going through that gate i don't think anybody will ever understand. A truly insightful and humbling experience. Thank you for the video.
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Vic how many years did they use these sites , was it 2 years?
Are these sites still open to the public? And how come no one else was there visiting?
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Did you also see the burial sites.?
@@mistyvioletconservative.3889 Auschwitz II operated for a little more than 3 years and it is open to the public, free entrance.. When I created this video, I tried to avoid all crowds, plus, most of the people visit the front part of the camp, so once I moved away form that part, I was all alone..
Vic, your video is, in my opinion the most important video ever created. I cannot comment on the subject, it is unspeakable to comment on. What I can comment on is you. The detail, your emotion and your clarity of delivery is beyond any I have ever seen.
I feel that your video should be mandatory viewing of everyone on earth. To show what can happen if absolute power goes unquestioned and unchecked.
Thank you for your work and I will recommend this to everyone I know
Steve
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I couldn't even type, thank you for your eloquent comment !
connor This guy is fraud
connor He wanted to clean out the Evil,but today they control whole world including me and you.
Steven Craig... Universal Permission to Let Go And Yes You CAN Comment on what you feel knowing what you have learned thus far about Auschwitz. .you commented its "unspeakable" and yet you do know NOT commenting about it leads to absolute repetition of it....
People say that this happened so long ago. In reality this is pretty much recent history. How quickly people forget the evil that continues to lurk in this world.
Great video, thank you.
+Brian H Hello, thank you for your wonderful comments and for watching my videos!!
+Sixte. & native american & cdn
History repeats itself. The US government and UN have built hundreds of concentration camps in the US. The US Army published a field training manual in the mid 2000s about how to organize and operate the civilian internment camps. Look on Georgia Guidestones and the first commandment is to keep the world population at 500 million people.
Sam Walton of Wal Mart was, well before that, on the board of directors for a government agency that built and operated concentration camps, in the US, in which Japanese Americans were incarcerated during the Second World War.
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Not so long ago. I remember it clear as if it was yesterday.
I’ve recently dove into history, I enjoy watching vlogs and researching things that I don’t understand.
I’ve watched many videos on this horrible event & yours is different in the best ways possible.
Thank you for sharing your experience & prayers to all those who lost their lives.
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I’m not leaving a message often, but really wanted to thank you dearly. I’m from the Netherlands (Amsterdam) and due to my chronical illness never had the chance to go. Especially when you’re so close to this. So TYVM!🤗
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Even though you didn't want to go back there, I thank you for going and taping the tour so that we can see a place many of will only hear of in our life. I learned a lot and am grateful for your time.
Very revealing and rare view that we get. Thank you Vic for sharing this very important aspect of the camp. Very sad and maddening, maddening, because it seems we really haven't learned much, given current events.
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+1 2 If ever proof were needed that just about any kind of nonsense serves as evidence in denier circles, then your post was it: a poorly constructed compendium of just about every ridiculous, trumped-up and ludicrous cliché, chestnut and canard in the revisionist armoury; most of it decades-old and long-debunked; none of it worth the cyberspace it occupies. If this is the best you can do, don't bother.
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@@MSM4U2POM Thank you so very much for sharing this video, I just felt so cold, sad n lost for words of how any human could do such a thing as evil as this
Yupppppp especially now
Excellent, off the beaten path, tour! You make it look like I'm there, seeing it with my own eyes! I've always wanted to see it for myself, and not the "cookbook" guided tour, either. Your video tour is the next best thing to actually being there. Thank you very much for doing this! It is truly an eye-opening and somber experience!
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Thank you Vic that was just so sole searching. I can tell by your voice that it is very emotional to do the tour
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Thank You Vic, for your time and work put into this project. It is so very sad and I am so sad for those who do not believe such terrible killings occured. Take Care and May God Bless you and your family.
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This is the best tour of this type that I have seen. It is so informative, and it is heartbreaking to see what those who experienced it personally had to endure. It is really sad, and I pray that it is never allowed to happen again to anyone. Thank you.
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Your simple commentary without music lets the stark images speak. Thank you for this excellent and important footage.
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This just gives me a look at what those people had to go thru. It’s so heart breaking. I couldn’t even image how they could survive like they did. Thank you Vic for sharing.
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I had vowed never to read another book account of the unimaginable horrors of Auschwitz...but i guess time has healed my horror at what took place, cause i just completed reading a another book just a few days ago : the account of a survivor whose book " The Happiest Man On Earth" reflects the character of this amazing man ."" Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful.""...He did not allow evil steal his peace...a truly remarkable account of asurvivor..
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Vic, if you're still out there, I've got to say you are doing some great work recording this stuff. I hope it never gets taken off and always reminds the world of what happens when good men do nothing to stop tyrants. That's all it takes to happen for the world to turn into such ugliness and destitute. Just discovered you here on youtube. I pray you are well and still keeping all informed.
Hi Crystal, thank you for all your comments! I am still out here, travelling all around.. I am so glad you enjoyed my video!!
Thank you for posting this. I have visited both Auschwitz 1 and 2. I couldn't speak to anyone for about 3 days after visiting. I was just destroyed on the inside and my heart was completely broken.
I know what you mean.. The first time I went there (2010) I promised myself never to go back again.. But I went back a few years later because I wanted to make this video..
@@VicStefanu it's very important to not turn away from it. It was a real sad experience for me but I'm glad I went.
hi Vic, thanks for making your videos. I watched a few and enjoyed them.
Thank you for taking time to share. Having lit a candle in remembrance at 8pm tonight as so many all over the world have done I have watched this and I found the tour harrowing. No one deserved this prayers to those who died and to the survivors.
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this is the best online tour of the camp i have seen. thank you so much for posting this...
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@@VicStefanu Thanks Vic...
Thank you for putting this documentary tour together. I've never visited but would like too in the future.
With much Gratitude for your excellent and informative tour. As a historian myself, I truly appreciated and understood all your comments and camera angles. Thank you so much for sharing your experience literally. Time well spent.
You are very welcome!
Thank you for showing us everything, your pictures are great, you are very good and your English is so easy to understand.
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leaves one shocked, even though i know the history,the walk thru still dug deep in me.
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Wow this was a very informative video!! I learned things I didn’t know and never saw before. Thank you so much for sharing this with all of us!!! May we never forget what humans are actually capable of doing to others and may we learn from this.
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I wouldn't call "humans" to those animals who killed innocent people, the way they did.
Greetings.
hey Vic, your documentary is absolutely amazing. really special. thank you for the good job of guiding online through a place i want to visit. you provide very good overview, so i can plan easily :)
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Thank you so much for making this video! My great grandmother and great grandfather came to the United States from Poland and Austria and I have always been interested in learning as much as I can about history. I may never get the chance to see this place in person and this video made me feel like I was there! You did a wonderful job!! It is truly heartbreaking!! Thanks again!!
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Book a flight to Poland! It's not 1000s for a round trip ticket I been to Europe many times right before the border blocks, the prices vary depending when and how far ahead you book a ticket. Price round trip will be from about 700-1100 give or take 100 USD.
Hi vic, thanks for a brilliant video of Auschwitz. Three years ago i visited with my wife and friends on a organised tour whilst staying in Krakow but we didnt see half the things you have shown. What a sad place it was to visit but I’m really pleased we made the effort and was a talking point long after. Thanks again. John from UK
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Thank u so much for taking the time to create this and how beautiful u speak from ur heart
Wow, thank you!!
You did a respectable job filming & explaining. Thank you !
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Thank you Vic. for sharing ALL your wonderful videos, you do a fantastic job They are so well filmed and your very knowledgeable commentaries are really interesting. Thank you again
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RUclips should be ashamed of themselves putting adverts into these videos 😓
Great video! Thanks for the in depth tour and explaining the finer details.
You did a great job of putting things in perspective of where they were located in the camp and where all the crematoriums were.
The pond was a good addition as I've seen that explained in the series "World at War"
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Thank you for taking the time to make this video. It's very informative.
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Thankyou for a private visit of the camp with no music so we could really listen to every word you said so sad 😞
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Very important time in history. Just breaks my heart. Why are we so mean to each other?
I just do not understand.
Most comprehensive video I've ever seen. Thank you, I know it hurts 😥
Thank you very much for this video, amazing work and really appreciate the time and effort you put in it, to educate whoever watches this video in the future. Thank you.
Hi Dario, thank you for your wonderful comments!
It was fascinating to see the camp as it is with a "guided tour". I dont know that I would ever make it to see it in person, but this is a historical place that should be visited to really see where it all happened. Thanks so much for taking the time to make this video. It looks like a painful experience for you, and appreciate the effort in bring this to us to see.
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Thank you Vic for taking me to a place I want to visit but will never make it. As I watch more & more documentaries of the Holocaust, I find there is still so much being uncovered even to this day!
Hello, thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!! 👍👍👍 I agree with you, even today we do not know all the details of this incredible tragedy..
Thank you Vic, for this thorough, respectful and sensitively conducted
documentary of one of the most horrid places of our lifetime.
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This will help so much with my history assignment great job and I have subscribed 👍
+Shudson 32 Thank you very much!!
Very intrigued by your video. Thank you for taking the time to show the details inside and around certain areas.
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Thank you for this informative video. Such a horrible site, but very educational. I come from Jewish decent, having had both great grandparents persecuted at this site. My grandmother was just a baby when they sent her on a ship with a family friend. I have her manifest when she arrived at Ellis Island. If not for her escape, I wouldn’t be here today. God bless all families affected by this tragedy 🙏
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These people are the apple of Gods eye. They will burn in hell if not repented for this awful killing. This is unreal to look at and know what happened to these precious people
You have a very profound story. Your life, alone, if not for any other reason, gives you a reason to revere life, itself! So many young people in America do not realize how thankful they should be for life, itself!! They completely take their own life AND the privilege of living in a country that has guaranteed human rights, for granted, and don’t realize that life is special and sacred! This is true for every single human who was ever, or will be born!!! Our lives are all wonderful to our creator, our Father in Heaven, and He sent each and every one of us here! Many women do not understand the power they have inside their bodies of creation with God! Every baby conceived is of God, irrespective of the sins of their parents! Children are completely innocent, and should be treated that very way. They are all born with wonderful personalities and potential and individual talents! I’m sharing this with anyone who might read this.
I came from Jewish descent, too, but those I descended from were fortunate enough to come to America from Ukraine and Romania in the very early 1900s and resided in NYC for a time, where they opened a jewelry business. Then, for reasons unknown to me, they moved to Chicago, where my Grandfather was born in 1910. For reasons again unknown, they moved to the west coast, where my great grandmother had children in Seattle, San Francisco, LA, and San Diego. The births of my great aunt and uncles enable me to track their family’s travels to the cities they lived in! My great uncles remained in San Diego, with one moving up to Pacific Palisades, while my grandpa settled in Huntington Beach. It is remarkable to me that all four of my grandfather’s children, who were all born in the 1930s, remained in Orange County for their entire lives with their spouses and children!!! So today, myself and several cousins remain in OC or San Diego, as well as many of our children and even grandchildren.
I wish our ancestors had been inspired by the fact that we really WANTED to know about their lives and our family history! Because what I have told you is almost all that I know about them! I wish I knew so much more!!! I can reasonably deduce that I had many distant cousins and other relatives who suffered in the concentration camps, and were put to death, just because they were Jewish!! 😢
My grandfather and his brothers did largely abandon his Jewish heritage and religion. My father was an atheist. But my mother always loved God and Jesus Christ and was insightful enough to be baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints when she was expecting me. I’ve been a strong believer of our Savior, Jesus Christ during my whole life, and have known since I was very young that His name is the only name given under heaven whereby we may receive salvation. I love Jesus so very much and He is my greatest friend! I strongly believe that my grandpa and his brothers and sister have been taught these truths since they have passed through the veil that leads to our next existence. They now know that the Jews missed the fact that the Savior of the World was already born in Bethlehem over 2,000 years ago, but He lives!!! He is more alive than you and I, and resides in Heaven, His spirit inhabiting His resurrected body. Jesus fulfilled the Father’s commandment and broke the bands of death for us by allowing himself to do the Father’s will and died to pay for our sins, if we would choose to repent for our sins. We will all be resurrected because Jesus Christ made this possible for us! That is the reason we love Him so very much, and want to do his will and serve Him and His children. I want this salvation for my Jewish ancestors, if they want it for themselves. I love all of them, and they made my life possible. Please visit churchofjesuschrist.org for more information on the saving ordinances for those who have left this earth, so that, through the Holy Melchizedek Priesthood and the Aaronic Priesthood, they can receive their baptism, blessings, and endowments for those who recognize and revere and love our Savior.
Life is truly precious, and the opportunity to come to earth to become mortal for a time in our existence, is truly a wonderful opportunity, and God will heal all our sorrows that we did not bring on ourselves, especially the horrible, horrific, horrifying atrocities that these Jewish people suffered!!!!! We can only imagine!!!! But, they suffer no more, because of the great love of the Savior, Jesus Christ, who is the Healer, and because of God, our loving Father in Heaven. He will make sure that justice will be served to the wicked Nazi leaders and officers, just as mercy will be given to all the Holocaust victims, and this is because God is perfect and cannot lie, nor will He ever!
I am so grateful to this wonderful man who cared enough about them and us, to go there and share with us this marvelous tour, and describe it for us in such heartfelt ways, and in such knowledgeable detail, so that we will never forget, that this kind of atrocity will never happen again!!!
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Thank-you for sharing this most important part of our history. As horrific as it was, it’s important that people learn from this.. and we must never let this kind of torment happen again. May all the souls lost from this torturous place.. rest in peace.
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Thank you so much for returning. I've read/studied alot about this. Most books don't show what you've shown in this film & I thank you for that.
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Good day to you, Vic. Thank you for going back and sharing this experience with the world. I also want to thank you for doing so with reverence and such respect, and with the weight of stern reality and not with sensationalism. Asking the viewer to "Take a good look" and to "look again" impresses the seriousness and heavy burden of history that must not be denied and must never be forgotten, lest such things may happen once again. I pray they never do, and I pray for those left in the wake of such destruction. Again, Thank You for this important video, and may you be blessed now and always.
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Thank you for this walk-through of this notorious death camp. Quite an eye-opener! I'm very interested in WW2 history and this documentary was done with sensitivity and respect. I enjoyed this very much. Well done, sir!
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Thank you so much for this video. My grandfather survived this hell on earth. He was a banker in Germany. He was a Christian man who was helping Jewish people to get out of Germany before the trains came for them. He was arrested and sent to this very place. I still don’t understand how this happened. Equally disturbing is the people who say this never happened! God bless you.
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Thank you for this video Vic. May those who suffered and died in these dreadful places find themselves now on a safer shore and in a greater light, with peace in their souls.
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Thank you Vic for this amazing tour.It was so worth to watched it. Love from Nepal ❤️
My pleasure 😊
Thank you for doing this. Great job, very well done
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I have long wanted to visit Auschwitz but as I am in New Zealand it’s not so easy and opportunity hasn’t come along yet. I really appreciate this in-depth your and discussion, it is incredible and extremely helpful in keeping the memory alive, paying tribute and to those of us that haven’t visited. Thank you.
Although it's a very long way I think you can do it with only one change of planes if you're near enough to Auckland to not have to take a local flight there first. Auckland - JFK - Warsaw or better yet Auckland - Chicago - Krakow
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Excellent video. Thanks for your work and posting of this video.
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Thank you for posting your outstanding guided tour of Auschwitz II. My wife and I visited this place last year. However, your video filled in many of the gaps of our visit. It is a horrible place, however, I am glad that many today know about what happened there, primarily because of testimonials, and videos like yours. Out of all the similar videos I have watched, your video is the best. Very best wishes.
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This was an amazing and informative video. Thank you for making it, it was so interesting.
+Bonnie Zinck Thank you very much for your wonderful comments!!
Thank u Vic for taking the time to do this and for showing us a horrible part of history that should never be repeated
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Amazing video. We visited Birkenau recently but didn't explore it in as much depth, but I can't get it out of my mind. Thank you for your insights. Lest We Forget.
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That scene from "Sophie's Choice" was brutal to watch! Meryl Streep did it in one take and told the director she couldn't do it again - she also NEVER watched that scene - until years later when she was guesting on a talk show and they showed it.
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I love this tour well done for filming it for us to see. I would love to go & visit & see it for myself. So sad to hear what those poor people went through. We will always remember! Never forget their souls xxx
Thank you Vic for bringing this back . I am only now viewing the horrors I was taught & you have made the images live in a sad but true realistic was . May we never forget and never allow this evil again .
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All schools over the WORLD need to learn from this Great reportage.I teach my three children.
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Thank you for sharing this remarkable film .It is so important to never forget .
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WWII history has always caught my attention. Reading about these hellish camps always get to my emotions. Seeing this documentary gives me more of a visual of the horror of what I read about. Thank you for going and filming. One day I would like to see this but watching your video was close enough for me.
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This was without doubt the best docu I have watched thus far on Auschwitz. I felt compelled to find and watch the movie Sophie's Choice. Thank you Vic for the clear and concise video.
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Sophie’s Choice was a stupid movie. I walked out of the theatre about half an hour into the movie. You should never believe what is filmed in Hollywood as being either truthful or accurate.
Hi Vic. Super good documentary you have put together, great work
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One of the best videos I have ever seen, Thank You so Much.
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Thanks for filming and narrating this - I will likely never have the resources to go and see this myself.
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Same here if I had the money it's one place I'd like to see for myself. What a brutal world we have created. Love from U.K.x
Thank you for a most thoughtful, thorough, and emotive documentary. It was done with great sincerity, accuracy, and respect. I can only imagine the difficulty you ( or any rational human being) would have in remaining calm and lucid in the presence of such horror. Unfortunately the "holocaust deniers" have found this video as they always do, and have attempted to desecrate it. I am surprised that such people can read and write, much less operate a computer, yet here they are in force. Please give them the attention they are due, which is exactly zero, and do not let them diminish the importance and depth of this work. It is greatly appreciated by me and I am sure countless others who may never have the opportunity to set foot in this horrid place, yet through your lens and voice have been able to experience it.
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You are correct, I have watched several tours but never some of the content as here.
Thank you for returning to video for us who cannot go but would like to.
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I must really compliment you on this video, since this covers way more than what I've seen when i visited. I visited Auschwitz with my school at tthe age of about 17, but i didn't really feel anything special like everyone else does when going there to be honest.
It depends (how you feel regarding your visit) on many factors, such a background, how much one has been exposed to the history of the place, etc...
Wow this is the first video I've seen that really captures just how HUGE this camp was😱 Horrific.
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Thanks for taking effort to share this video which is very informative
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Hi Vic. Thank you so much for this interesting and very educational tour of this infamous historical place. I visited both camps I & II in 2009 and I saw replica bunk beds in some of the barracks at Auschwitz II (Birkenau). Could you please tell me which barrack has the original bunk beds as shown in the film? I would really like to see it should I visit Oświęcim again in the future. I really would like to see the camp again (this time not as an academic) so it would be interesting to see some of the original furnishings (If I can call it that) that still remains on site. Thank you again for uploading this. I will definitely be subscribing to your channel. Regards.
Hi Chad and thank you for subscribing.. The only way to enjoy a tour of Auschwitz II is to go alone and to take at least 2 hours to walk around in order to see as much as possible, with a map! The barracks that you see here are on the first row of the men's part of the camp, the part of the camp to the right after you pass the notorious guard station. There are 20 or so of these buildings and at one time, they only have the doors of 1 or 2 of the barracks open.. so walk along the buildings and you will find the doors unlocked, just open the door and go inside.. caution: there are guards there and they do not like it if people lay down on the 'beds' for selfies, they consider that very disrespectful...
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This is the most thorough walk thru documentary on Auschwitz II that I have encountered and one well done by Vic. In particular, Vic’s geographic orientation of the camp was accurate and useful. For example, the railroad tracks divided B1 from B2 sections of the camp. The relatively remote areas of the camp where the crematoria were located was stated as such. They are on the western side of the Camp and in the corners (II and V). Short of actually being there, this video provides a good depiction of the structural and geographic arrangement of Birkenau. And Vic adds a level of sensitivity and proper remembrance for what occurred here. Very well done as this must not have been easy to document and narrate.
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Vic, Thank You for this video!
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Thank you for showing parts that I have never seen before when I see this horrific place. Thank you. 🙏🏼
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Thank you for your video. I was there a couple of years ago. It's too tragic to imagine what these people went through.
Never again!
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This is the most impactful video I've seen about Auchwitz 2. I agree with you about the film "Sophie's Choice" as being that best and more emotionally wrenching stories about this awful place. Thank you, Vic.
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Vic thank you for the video. You did a good job documenting what you saw. When I was younger I was going to make the trip but I didn't have the composure to be able to handle viewing it. See I am the grandson of a suvivor of Auschwitz. She survived 4 concentration camps and was liberated from Bergen Belsen. Both my grandma and her sister were here and survived. Her mother after some time was selected and gassed. My grandpa fled his home town of Snina and his entire family was deported and sent to Auschwitz where his 4 sisters, his brother and his mother and father were gassed. I grew up very close with my grandma and over the course of my life as I aged I asked more and more questions about what happened. Through her first hand experiences even through my genology, holocaust research and reading the books still dont fully tell the horrors that took place there. The discussion is too much to put into words for a human to comprehend. Thank you for filming as I couldnt bring myself to go and your video did it for me. I appreciate it so you can show the world.
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Hello, really interesting video, thank you. When did you visit (what time of year)?
It was during the month of April!
I visited this camp back in 2000. It was a moving experience. The silence of the whole place really gets you.
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That's in my mother's country! Thanks for video! I was there, and now I can say, that it's really nice, but sad place. Thanks again!
Thank you for your effort to do this video, greetings from Malaysia
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thank you for filming this. not a lot of people would be able to go to the camp and you provided invaluable access to a dark time in world history.
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Thank you Sir, for this in-depth and profound analysis! Much appreciated...
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i have been watching this at least 10 times a year for the past few years... cheers Vic
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Thank you for posting this video. I can see in your eyes and your voice how emotionally difficult it was. I had to stop watching at some points and then come back to it. So haunting and heartbreaking....but also, I have to have hope that we learn the lessons of history so that we are not forced to repeat it.
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