Holocaust Survivors' First Moments of Liberation

[@JOANNBATES-sd3sy]

My mother was an army registered nurse serving at this time. She would cry when telling me the stories of the hunger, starvation and the horrific atrocities. She and the other nurses would sneak their bread to the starving children because they couldn't stand the cries of hunger. The kids were so grateful for just a bite. I can't believe that one human being can do this to another. We must never forget less it be repeated again. Shalom

[@keltaruusutravels4024]

My step Dad was one of many soldiers who liberated a camp in Germany, I think maybe the Dresden camp. It broke his heart. He and some others called some Germans out of their houses and made them take off their clothing. They took the clothes back to the freed prisoners.😮

[@veritasverus1276]

why she had to sneak the bread? Wasn't the victims are under careful ration to prevent overfeeding during malnutrition which may result death?

[@JOANNBATES-sd3sy]

@@veritasverus1276 These were not the patients in the hospital, but just neighborhood kids scrounging for anything they could get their hands on.

[@windycity70]

God Bless! Through generations of her humanity!

[@jenniferhampton5171]

It is tragically being repeated in the wars happening as we speak. It is a helpless feeling.😢

[@kycowboys]

My father was in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He was a Sargent and in charge of mobile kitchen. His crew was ordered to Buchenwald to feed survivors but they weren't told why they were going there or given a heads up as to what they would encounter. He didn't talk about it very much while I was growing up but when he faced his own mortality 50 years later in the form of brain tumors, he felt it important to tell his stories and Buchenwald was one of them. When my father's outfit pulled up to the field they were to set up in, it was an absolute disaster. No one seemed to be in charge, people were lying all over the place, and the moaning, wailing, and smell was awful. As soon as the first tent went up and word started to spread there was a mobile kitchen being built, the survivors who could walk started heading that way. I can only imagine it must have looked like a scene from The Walking Dead. They immediately started baking bread and making a hash soup from canned meat, potatoes and onions. Some of the survivors wanted so badly to eat but they couldn't swallow or if they could then it came right back up. There was one little boy who my father remembered the most, who he said was maybe 13 or 14 and had to be carried into the tent by others. My father brought him a small bowl of soup and a glass of powdered milk. The boy just stared up at him and smiled. He reached out and grabbed my dad's sleeve and wouldn't let go. My father sat down and placed the boy in his lap. He said the boy only weighed 30 or 40 pounds. He fed him like he was an infant, all-the-while the boy held on to my dad's sleeve. He could only take a couple of spoonfuls of soup and just a sip or two of milk. Dad couldn't stay with him so he passed him back to the ones who had carried him in and Dad went back to work. The next morning he looked for him but couldn't find him. By that afternoon he saw one of the men who was with the boy and through an interpreter found out he had died during the night. I had never seen my father weep before but he wept for that child that day.

[@jimlogan2329]

Your Dad did the best he could for that wee soul. You must be so proud of him. He was a BIG MAN with a BIG heart.

[@MaatSekhem]

Thanks for sharing. ❤

[@affair111]

I am sure both of them are with Jesus Christ now

[@MFPhoto1]

My first reaction would be, "How could the US military not prepare its soldiers for what they would witness liberating the camps?" But on second thought, how could they? No one could related to the Nazi atrocities, so how could they have briefed their soldiers beforehand?

[@gingerwilliams2092]

Those moments of deep compassion and love never die. The little boy waited for your dad. Thank you for sharing your dad's story 🙏💗

[@Jacubamustoff]

Can you imagine going back and living in the camp because you have no where to go but are free? Heartbreaking.

[@TracyBoies]

My father was among the liberators. We found that out from one of my uncles. My dad could never talk about it. When we asked him if it was true his only response was to cover his face and cry. He lived 65 more years and never spoke a word of any of what he witnessed.

[@pamelaoliver8442]

My grandpa was charged with burials. He never spoke about it either. He wouldn't ever talk about the war period. I found out after his death. Unspeakable indeed.

[@SkinPeeleR]

Poor soul..

[@Geranio-qp6dp]

Riposa in pace 🙏liberatore che hai assistito all'incredibile aberrazione della crudeltà umana🙏🙏🙏

[@Not-you-again]

Your father was a coward

[@bwktlcn]

My great-uncle was one of the liberators of Dachau. He told me that he saw living skeletons, and when those poor souls realized they were finally being freed, some literally dropped dead - their hearts sped up, and they used up the last energy they had. People who weren’t as far gone begged for weapons-and some GIs gave them pistols so they could get those who had tortured and killed their families and friends. I always thought he had been one of those who temporarily “forgot” where he’d put his pistol. That was stopped the next day, because Intelligence showed up and wanted to ask questions. My uncle never forgot what he saw, and on his death bed, he relived what he saw. He said he gave all the food he had to the survivors, and felt bad he didn’t have more. On his deathbed, he wept and begged them to forgive him for not getting there sooner.

[@francisthomlinson9062]

I hear you so sad

[@jackies56tbird]

God blessed him for helping.

[@DanaSellsLA]

God bless his soul, a hero!

[@anthonydavid5121]

A real tszadic who did great mitvot. What he did was noted by hashem, I'm sure, and becasue of it he lives as bright as the sun in olam habah .... the next world.

[@jaynegrunnill3705]

My father developed MS,and from talking alot about what he had experience liberating the camps,stopped talking about it.

[@tamaramorton8812]

It’s so heartbreaking to think about the cruelty these people faced after so much suffering but inspiring that they managed to rebuild their lives.

[@kellyismyname777]

Just want to add...Canadian soldiers liberated people, Dutch as well...I won't forget...many other countries helped during the Holocaust...❤

[@amcname8789]

And many more countries did nothing, or killed Jews themselves.

[@MEqwed]

yea thank you all

[@susanpage8315]

My dad was RAF (from Canada). He was at Bergen-Belsen.

[@catecurry48]

I was coming here to say the exact same thing.

[@soccerguy1979]

Absolutely. Thank you Canadian soldiers and Dutch soldiers, as well.

[@jude8223]

As a child, I love lived next-door to Lily and Emil Jacobson, who had been one of the last ones to escape Germany. They asked us children to call them grandma and grandpa. But often when we went to visit, Lily told us children to go home because she was so sad from her loss. I recall my mother holding her hand all day while Lili poured her heart out that there was not one person in her family who survived the holocaust.

[@56dh]

Bless your mother for her great compassion!

[@besscollins3163]

How old were the Jacobsons when you knew them?

[@jude8223]

@@besscollins3163 They told us to call them grandpa and grandma, I don’t know how old they were. I was a small child. This occurred in the 1960s and a few years later Emil passed away.

[@familyandfriends3519]

Be thankful we weren't born a monster aka German

[@jude8223]

@@familyandfriends3519 The German people suffered horribly under Hitler. The prisons were initially built for the German people, dissenting, then were use for the Jews.

[@iloveanimals1964]

My Grandads friend liberated Belsen. He said you could smell the camp from far away.They had to feed them small amounts of watery soup,not too much or it would kill them. Someone gave him a watch as a thankyou and he gave the watch to my grandad.

[@renatepfannmoller8559]

So sad to see. No words- Shalom

[@bobconnor1210]

Some of the survivors came to America and became my friends, neighbors and teachers. My father, a gentile, encouraged dialogue with them because after the hostilities were “over”, he was in charge of hundreds of DPs, many of them wandering survivors of the death and labor camps. God bless them all.

[@ElCid48]

I lived in Iowa for a year as a Vista Worker in the mid 1970's and heard about a group of men who volunteer to starve themselves at a old mental institution that was not use anymore to study how to feel people who were starved in order that they will not kill them in the process. the people took that info and help feed these people in the concentration camps that were freed. these men did not go to work because they objected to war in general but served the war with this program. starving changed them and the doctor studied that as well. one of the things they did was to collect recipes and look at them a lot of the times. looking a a cooking book was like reading a novel.

[@AaronOBryan60]

Cruelty and actions that can only be seen as Evil….These actions will never fail to sadden me…

[@DaMensch86]

Yeah I just can’t imagine this happening to me and my family. God bless these people and all those lost.

[@celiajarvis3168]

​@DaMensch - ... and to my awesome Jewish friends and still happening

[@danielskomp9072]

GAZA, GAZA, GAZA, GAZA, Nazi APARTHEID, FAZA, GAZA, murdering invaders

[@AaronOBryan60]

@@danielskomp9072 ??????….The point?

[@familyandfriends3519]

Be glad you weren't born a German aka a monster

[@tryingndoing]

The deep despair in the Holocaust survivers eyes that I met as a child in Lima, Peru and the cries of anguish in his violin music has sealed "Never Again" in my soul. My heart bleeds for them and their families, past and present. Such EVIL can happen again if we are silent. Do not allow antisemitic words in your hearing. Never be silent so as to allow atrocities such as these. Blessings to all the righteous ones.

[@familyandfriends3519]

As long as Germans exist evil will continue on

[@jenniferhampton5171]

I agree so much. My puzzle though is how to prevent also cruelty and atrocities to Palestinians, for example. The current war makes people hate Jewish people when they deserve only love. What can be done to end the cycle of war and hate?

[@edda682]

How dare you!@@jenniferhampton5171

[@Igolorbr]

Never heard of the Kielce pogrom before. Thanks for showing that so more people becomes aware of It. God bless Israel and it's people.

[@benwars9524]

In the days that followed the pogrom, twelve of its participants were arrested and tried in Kielce by the Supreme Military Court. Nine of them were sentenced to death and executed. More related arrests and jail sentences followed in the next months. It was the last pogrom in Poland.

[@erzonca558]

@@benwars9524 Thank you for this information! I am a Polish Jew and I didn't know the details.

[@TillsRojas7]

Now it’s Israel doing this

[@robsowka4985]

I knew about the progrom that took place in the town of Kielce right after the war, but I did not know untill now that justice was done after all. Thank you for this information.

[@freedahlogic8368]

@@TillsRojas7 holocaust inversion as narrative to support terrorists is disgusting. Read a book.

[@Halo17]

This was an eye-opener. I never realized how difficult life was to be for the survivors. Words fail me. God Bless.

[@melanienagy6389]

I am sure these poor people were never the same again. Losing everyone they loved, I can't imagine how they managed to move on.

[@liz-cf2rv]

They married and had children contributing to future jewish generations

[@bunnielynn777]

Heart wrenching 💔

[@ottawavalleystoner]

Thank you Yad Vashem for this video. I have studied the Holocaust atrocities and never once found myself thinking of how they felt once liberated. The dawning that they did not go back to living their lives as it was before. They didn’t have homes, jobs or families to go back too… it was all gone…. What a horrible world we live in for this to even happen 💔💔💔

[@elricbohn6483]

My grandpa was one of the first liberating the camps in eastern Germany , he never spoke of things until I returned from combat the second time. Strange how the ugliness of war can create trust

[@emiliayonekokumata7167]

The profound scars left by the Nazis will never heal. Even though the present generation and the descendants of former soldiers have no reason to be condemned, history cannot be erased. As long as official documents and the archives keep on being preserved, the humanity will always look back in disbelief of the level of cruelty and evil actions people were able to come up to. And, what is the sad reality - still, violations of similar nature have been practiced.

[@wrestlerx8494]

This kind of makes me wonder if it would be better for people not to be made aware of the atrocities of the past, since it makes them aware that people can actually do such evil things to one another. The awareness of this to some extent is subject to bring forth the same type of behavior in some people who witness it, since these people realize that others have actually done those things. But they less subject to certain types of behavior if they can't fathom that people would do those things to each other, for instance if they were not made aware of past when people did those things.

[@CozGirl17]

@wrestler x. I understand why you said this…. But history repeats itself over and over and over again if no one knows about it. This has been going in different ways since the Ancient Greek philosophers. In my humble opinion…and since there seems to be people now that don’t believe that the Nazis did what they did…I would prefer everyone knew about this….and that true history was taught in every school …middle, high school.. college in the USA. I don’t know what other countries teach. For myself….and I already knew about Roman history…I received my undergraduate degree in Ancient Roman History with a minor in Aztec and Mayan History. Unfortunately…. The human race doesn’t change a lot from century to century to century. There’s a great song…The Merry Minuet…written by the Kingston Trio in 1959. Maybe…the human race will become enlightened. As for me, I do my own work every day.

[@mapleext]

Yes, it seems it does not change. 😢

[@barbtheresa5693]

@@mapleext yes, and it will not change. the good thing is that there is the other side of humanity too - the good one

[@familyandfriends3519]

Humanity no Germans these people were born to be monsters and not Nazis Germans

[@IAM-zu9nx]

I was stationed a few minutes outside Dachau in the early seventies and would just stand there dumbfounded and heartbroken. Growing up and being about the only goy family in the old East Coast neighborhood I grew up going to Temple almost as often as Mass and it was our honor to know and listen to our parents friends who made it through Bergen Belsen and other hell holes. Shalom from Arizona 🏜️ Brian and Carol

[@solvingpolitics3172]

Lovely comment and appreciated.

[@Shaham18]

What a wonderful comment!! Thank you for sharing.

[@francesblabey3055]

When working in a Melbourne hospital Australia I would come across survives. Their suffering still existed by the mere fact they were constantly in hospital. God bless them all as they would ALL now be at peace. 😪❤

[@francisthomlinson9062]

Amen

[@susanpage8315]

I have a friend whose grandparents fled Europe in around 1915. Their siblings remained behind. After WWII, the family received a letter with the news of family who had died in camps. I cannot imagine the pain.

[@pamsullivan886]

What is wrong with human beings? Seriously!? Something is terribly wrong with us as a species.

[@margiepargie1982]

It is about power. Power to take away your way of life and dignity. You can't understand because you are a compasionate person. Some people are not.

[@David-g1p-v8k]

'To err is to be human, to forgive divine'. Somehow 'Never Forget, Never Forgive' is repugnant.

[@jayneneewing2369]

Pam, I also believe along those lines. Humans have tortured and killed one another pretty much forever just according to the history that we do have. So far, we have no explanation for where in the brain this inhumanity to man is located. Personally, I think a lot of it is learned behavior. Then there is pack mentality, and self preservation. Humans, if we survive, have a ways to go before we are truly “civilized”.

[@shirleyashanti3031]

We are the most wretched species.

[@jayneneewing2369]

@@shirleyashanti3031 - Just the other eveningI told someone, “Human beings are the dumbest creatures on earth.” We destroy our own planet and then pretend we haven’t done it. And THAT is just for starters.

[@Inspiringsuccess2]

A high school teacher in Winnipeg, Harry Zentner, had a special history class on the Holocaust, which I took. It forever impacted my conscience. Education is priceless. (TY for making this info available! )

[@f.frederickskitty2910]

My mother's family are descended from Ashkanazi Jewish heritage yet no one ever spoke about family who lost their lives during WWII. Years later I submitted my DNA for testing and discovered just how many of my family's number were lost in during the depraved Nazi regime. Each one I find through old historical records I weep bitter tears of regret and loss for loved ones I never knew. For hundreds of years Mutterstadt Germany was populated by many Dellheim's prior to the genocide but now in 2023 not a single one remains. Please never forget so history can't repeat itself. 🕎

[@CharlotteIssyvoo]

This echoes so many things I learned about my own family in the Holocaust. One cousin had escaped east into Russia and eventually joined the Red Army to fight the nazis. Once it was safe, she made her way to a displaced persons camp in Italy, where she married a partisan and became pregnant. Her father was the only surviving Jew from his town. While wandering the roads after liberation, he ran into another, younger cousin, who had returned to Vilnius to find everyone and everything gone. This younger cousin lived in and married in a concentration camp after liberation. He'd run into an uncle who almost died after being liberated from a concentration camp... On and on the stories go.

[@nicolastainon5308]

Remember....Always. Shalom.

[@Baruch-q4n]

Dear Nicola,of course Amen.We jews can never forget,it haunts us,and it should haunt the world.My own family were from Greece and France.Bless you !

[@rjprivate]

If only we had the luxury as humans to forget these times, but we can't. It must never be forgotten what people went through

[@zwijntje3010]

Shalom from the Netherlands! I'm so proud off my Jewish friends! 💜🇮🇱✡️🙏🏻

[@Neilsowards]

I read somewhere that the Netherlands made it difficult for survivors to reclaim their hidden children. They had to show proof that they were fit parents as I recall in the reading. Also I read that a greater percentage of Jews from the Netherlands went to concentration camps--a greater percentage (not number) than in other countries. Please excuse me if I am incorrect in this.

[@zwijntje3010]

@@Neilsowards Neil, that's true! I'm so very ashamed for that! My grandfather was in the resistance, he was betrayed, and was sent to camp Lütringhausen for 4 years. My uncle hid a Jewish couple, they were also betrayed, the woman survived the camps, but her husband and my uncle died. My uncle died during a transport from Oranienburg to Bergen-Belsen. The attitude off my countrymen was awful, all for money and possesions. 🤮🤮😭😭🙏🏻

[@francisthomlinson9062]

​@@zwijntje3010so sad

[@francisthomlinson9062]

​@@zwijntje3010a brave uncle amen

[@zwijntje3010]

@@francisthomlinson9062 Thank you so much, dear Francis! Have a nice day, love from the Netherlands 😘💜🙏🏻

[@stevesmodelbuilds5473]

Not only should we never forget, we should educate. It was so bad, even the Soviets were appalled.

[@Nance54]

It' absolutely necessary for these stories to be told again and again and again. Most people don't realize how long the suffering of these poor people went on, long after the Liberation. There are so many deniers out there, pushing the wrong message and this must be corrected because the Truth always matters ! By the way, I am not Jewish, just a person with a heart.

[@stjbananas]

I was standing outside the walls of Auschwitz on a very cold 27 January 2020 at 630am, 75 years to the day allies arrived, and I was standing there alone. International press occupied local restaurants in Oswicism, but very few tourists, and this place made me even more sad.

[@56dh]

I wish I could have been there. Can't imagine the feelings you had. Ty for sharing.

[@stjbananas]

@@tomaszkaczmarek422 Yes. I am glad you know which, at the time, it was.

[@FelipeHawk1]

Envy is one of the causes of persecution... The Jewish People contributed to Education, Medicine, Maritime Navigation, Culture, Art, Psychology, Science, Music, Ballet... Contribution to human evolution. Gratitude and Congratulations Jewish People. 😢😘🌹🇧🇷🇮🇱

[@lindacosta5688]

Envy and lack of understanding. We fear what we do not understand

[@grantbuchanan7295]

Nope, you're just not liked.

[@lindacosta5688]

@@grantbuchanan7295 Maybe not by you. As for me, I have Jewish friends, Christian friends. There’s good and bad in every religion

[@FelipeHawk1]

@@stevetaylor7403 Well, I praised the beautiful images of Warsaw, from the 20s, 30s... in other series... in my opinion, it was the most beautiful city in Europe and, therefore, the same reason... and, "mythological narratives ", that everyone is rich, do not justify persecution..

[@stevetaylor7403]

@@FelipeHawk1 : Couldn’t agree more. However, had they taken action sooner then fewer may have survived.

[@pedrosousa5969]

This is so moving. So much empathy for all these people and what they've been through

[@TheDog_Chef]

Thank you for making this video. The survivors struggles are not talked about enough.

[@marybee4734]

SHALOM from Arizona 🦋🌻🐝

[@Baruch-q4n]

Dear Marybee shalom to you and those you love,from Baruch in London,England.

[@antoniajane5442]

Shalom - from Spain

[@keensab]

What we humans do to each other never ceases to astound me.

[@tracesprite6078]

Let us also remember the systematic way that the Israeli government takes over the land of the Palestinian people. That is happening right now.

[@familyandfriends3519]

Just Germans are capable of doing this they are monsters

[@普通话-o4y]

Well said

[@cijmo]

Always learning something new. I knew that the survivors didn't always fare so well but I had no idea they continued to live in the camps.

[@roxanaduval6650]

My father was a prisoner of war in Barth, Germany, for 15 months. After his camp of 9,000 prisoners was liberated by the Russians, they went to a concentration camp (I guess to liberate them) and he was mortified by what he saw there. He wrote a book about his own time behind barbed wire, but he never talked about the concentration camp. He wrote a letter to his sister and expressed his extreme anger about it, and that’s how I found out after he died. Humans all over the world have been torturing and persecuting other humans throughout recorded history. Will it ever stop? What has to happen to make it stop?

[@Leo-lj6vs]

My 2 uncles took part in WW2 and I hope that their effort contributed to the end of that horrible war.

[@tirurirutralalala4488]

It makes me so sad, that the only mention of Poland here is the "kielce pogrom". Please also remember all the poles, who helped during and after the war.

[@AP-di8sy]

Irena Sendler and thousands of others brave polish people, neighbors, friends risking their own lives hiding Jewish in their homes.This Jewish were polish citizens.

[@lanaconin5704]

I’ve never understood why people have and continue to hate people for being Jewish. It doesn’t make sense to me. The fact even today people think like this is sickening. The worst part is Jewish people never did anything to deserve it 😢

[@Thor_Odinson]

Thank the Catholic Church

[@catezaida8081]

Because they are Gods' chosen people. This is a Satanic war.

[@catradorasprmanager7728]

people tend to hate anything they don't understand. it's the same with racism, homophobia, transphobia etc. there will always be a group of people who evil individuals will target, it'll never end.

[@sandijohnson2216]

@@Thor_Odinson As a catholic, especially as a child, I could never understand hating Jewish people because Jesus was Jewish. The contradiction always bothered me.

[@shafuimcoming5151]

​@@sandijohnson2216isn't according to Catholic belief Jesus was murdered by Jewish people?

[@EllenLandes-vu6mm]

This is such sickening what humans do to each other.

[@GeoffBurt08]

An important (and in moments heartbreaking) epilogue to watch in the aftermath of so-called civilization's most enduringly evil atrocity.

[@leonidastheking7830]

shalom from Brasil

[@Baruch-q4n]

Dear Leonid shalom to you and those you love.From Baruch,in London,England.

[@anthonydavid5121]

And now we have ways to defend ourselves. We have our own country, and while it is far from pefect and is a global hot spot for conflict, Israel shines brightly in the world, a light to prove that we still live, as a people and nation. They didn't get all of us! Am Israel Chai.

[@jamesb.9155]

Amazing how Israel prevails over the insidious enemies surrounding them! The world needs to know what that is really all about and quite coddling their persecutors.

[@ranjandasgupta2995]

Can't forget it, wil never forget it. Though not born in that continent, nor in that era.

[@mwblackbelt]

So often Liberation paints the VERY inaccurate picture that now all will be well for the former prisoners. Of course their world had changed. Ashamedly, this is not something I'd even thought about. It's not the happy ending we were led to believe.

[@katherinegeddie7687]

Unfortunately greed, envy, hate, selfishness, bigotry are evils fought throughout history. All of the people of all faiths, colors, and countries MUST work to keep evil at bay. The documented atrocities done to the Jewish people MUST be remembered. It is beyond belief the lengths that the evil done to these people went! It breaks my heart that this happened and that atrocities are still going on in the world. I pray for the people of our world.

[@manichairdo9265]

I'd no idea how badly the survivors were treated. My neighbour and I read many books written by or of survivors and not one mentions what happened to them as shown in the video. Greetings from Scotland.

[@karoonboomie2813]

My heart breaks for the military that witnessed this evil doing. They were so stoic, heroic when liberating the Jews, prisoners from the holocaust, they were so kind, caring & considerate not even knowing or understanding the full details yet, much appreciation to the military nations.

[@bedfordpower]

I will never stop weeping 😢

[@MM-yi9zn]

So much for the culture & civilisation the German were so proud of. Ended in brutality & state sponsored killing. Nothing in history comes even close to this evil.

[@jockellis]

My 7th grade teacher, late of Baker Co, 506th PIR, 101St Airborne, told us of the need to underfeed the prisoners when the Allies first liberated the camps. But I’ve always wondered how the nutrition program was increased to prevent deaths. More recently, I’ve wondered when the Jewish survivors began their pilgrimage to Palestine prior to 1948 when the area became Israel (and I was born).

[@jaichavi]

Sir pl tell me what happened to the ppl who returned to their homes. Is there any book or articles on this?

[@peterfinn1160]

Why would you murder such beautiful people, non-violent, have strong family values, are educated, and make a massive contribution to their communities? Did the germans go mad during this period of the thirties and early forties??

[@Neilsowards]

They didnt go mad, but they had suffered so much after WWI that they couldnt see straight and when someone (Hitler) promised something better, they followed him. I dont think people know how much the German people suffered after WWI. This is why programs such as the Marshall Plan after WWII helped so tremendously in maybe changing peoples minds a little bit. It is not good to make people suffer so much after war, even if they were the ones who started the war. This is why Lincoln was such a visionary in his attitude toward the Confederates. We had a customer once in our store who told us that after WWI, he, a German would work for a week and his paycheck wasnt enough to buy a sausage sandwich. This was the whole country was like that. So it was easy to look for a scapegoat and Hitler chose the Jews. (and Gypsies). (and Communists). I look at my neighbor down the street and I think, what....would it take for me to turn on that neighbor? I think, there is nothing that would cause me to do that, but then I have never suffered like that.

[@56dh]

Exactly!

[@nb12341000]

And skilful propaganda of the Nazis to their nation that Jews and Slavs are subhuman races, demonising and dehumanising them. Brainwashing. This tactics are still being used in the world now

[@SingenSpielenSprechen]

Not easy to answer. @Neilsowards already made an important point reminding of the end of WW 1 which was a European "accident" no-one had anticipated to grow into the catastrophy it eventually turned out to be for many reasons. Scapegoats for Germany losing that war (actually nobody really won anything from it) and having to accept to be one-sidedly blamed and pay for it for having started it were in high demand. And there were many, in particular the Socialists and Communists - who were later killed in many ways including concentration camps. "The Jews" as the scapegoats for anything were just as bad as the Russian Bolshevists. Demonising and threatening the the former was "just a means" by the Nazis to gain complete control over all the Germans. Most people weren't Antisemites. The Nazis quickly installed a sysetm of terror within the country and used their political enemies (Socialists for instance) and non-political groups such as Jews, homosexuals and others to intimidate everyone. No one should ever feel safe. "The Jews" weren't a uniformly recognisable group in the beginning. There were many Jews who didn't practice their religion in any way, people who had Jewish ancestors and didn't know about it etc. All of these were suddenly (1933) threatened - in degrees. Having your pension reduced, not being promoted, losing your job... So being "Jewish", "Half-Jewish" "Quarter-Jewish" etc was "just" one means of spreading fear amongst the whole population. (Ironically, the most unsafe place to be was in the party itself.) And of course there were winners too - those who then gained jobs, got promoted... Demonising the Bolsheviks was a means to motivate and justify the reckless war in the East using unprecedented means in 1941 including the possibilty of building even larger concentration camps and insutrializing their deadly work. (The previous two years in the West had been conventional in its means and goals). There alreday existed Antisemitism in Germany before the Nazis. It was also not contained to Germany but wasn't played out as systematically and radically. The advance of new technology (mass medium radio) and its systematic use (propagada) contributed in a way hitherto unknwon. And what about Hitler? This might seem an out of place question, but: Was Hitler an antisemite? (Yes!) But would you expect the mastermind of the Third Reich to have a family doctor, treating his mother as a patient, who was Jewish? "Strong family values" you described in the victims were propagated also by the Nazis - for the "Arians". So something seemingly "good", a virtue, like "strong family values" has proven not be a means to protect from committing the most despicable crimes. The Nazi-Germans and their collaborators killed so many people in so many different ways, that's impossible to grasp. All to create terror as a means of poltical control. But besides using obvious cruel means such as tanks, guns and gas they used means you might consider positive: tradition, patriotism, comradery, family, friendship, responsibilty, belief in higher goals... you name it. So were Germans mad in the thirties and early fourties? No. If we had travelled the country back then, we might have found many people sharing the same values, acting quite normally in many circumstances. (See for instance W.E.B. Du Bois). A lot of the people working for the Nazis or Nazis themselves you would have found to be quite regular people. Adolf Eichmann, driving force of the Holocaust, was investigated by psychogoligsts after the war and found to be psychologically very normal. Do read the diaries of Victor Klemperer. You will probably easily share his sense of shock, astonishment and puzzlement and find a detailed inside-perspective of Germany and the Germans in the Third Reich. He was from Jewish descent but converted Christian (nothing to do with the Nazi regime). He barely survived the Third Reich. One of his memorable quotes is: I am German the others (Nazis) are Un-German.

[@RedRiverMan]

tHank you for this. This sad beyond words and some of info in comments and in the video were shocking! Though I am opposed to much of the actions of the modern state of Israel, this video makes modern Israel make sense. I imagine the very soil of Europe felt poisonous everyday fir the Jews who had enddured the camps and then attacks against them after the war! I can really understand that now . As an African American I resonate with the Jewish struggle especially in those times, so similar to how white Europeans did my people after our liberation in the US....God blessings this Pesach for no more genocide ever!

[@micheletravis9057]

My Grandmother and Grandfather had to leave France before the Nazi's invaded France. My Grandfather came from Cuba, while my Grandmother was French. The Nazi's hated everyone, Not only Jewish people, but people who had disabilities, people were sick, like epilepsy, basically anyone who was not white, and not from Germany

[@Mike-01234]

We must never forget and always recognize the signs of extremism, and intolerance of people who are a minority. It's far too late to stop this if we wait until camps are being built.

[@mcz1037]

In the intro, 15 seconds there is a photo of Janusz Korczak, Henry Goldsmith. Polish-Jewish educator, probably the greatest educator of all time. It is poorly known in the world, in Poland there is a separate branch of padagogy

[@seemarajderkar3019]

Very touching photographs of the people, after they were liberated, sometime in early 1945. Sad to see most of them turned to living skeletons due to starvation and terrible living conditions at the camps. They didn't know whether their loved ones survived or not, the trauma they faced and where they were presently. They didn't know where to go, where to get shelter, food, clothing , basically, how to survive post freedom. Heartbreaking situation. May the souls of all these innocent victims rest in peace.

[@alanadair4893]

Helped look after victor fantle rsp. Kindergarten child from Poland. Never got over wha t happened to his whole family apart from his brother who survived and managed to have a life. Now it’s happening again what book is Putin going to write,give us a break from the haters

[@LoriCheeseman]

Putin is taking out the bio-weapons labs created by our deep state, Satanic. Human trafficking, Cannibals, and pedophiles not only run our gov't here in the U.S., but it's also all over. Headed up by the 13 Venetian families. The Pope, Queen Lizzy (draconian reptoid also known as Queen Lizzy who has been dead 3 years.), The Bush's , Clintons, Obama's, George Soros, Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, All of Hollyweird, This has been going on for thousands of years. These evil, sadistic, non-humans, are responsible. They escaped prosecution and took off to other countries. Antarctica, underground bases. ALL OVER THE WORLD. 378 D.U.M.B.S in the U.S. alone. The good news special forces has spent the last 7 years blowing them up. Putin went in and blew up D.U.M.B.S, rescued children, and gave aid to the people. His agenda is to help save the world from what would have been devasting to the entire planet. COVID-19 the plandemic didn't work, and neither did this bio-weapon Putin blowin em up. This is biblical. My heart goes out to all the men, women, and children who endured horrific tragedy . We MUST NEVER forget . WWG1WGA

[@mikebrisebois]

We can’t only never forget. We must understand the psychological pathway we all took to get there. We must recognize the pathway to genocide. We can very easily take a similar or worse pathway. Do not follow decisive leaders. 80 percent of us are followers. Be careful who you follow

[@normlor]

CANADIANS ALSO WERE AT THOSE LIBERATIONS!

[@edwinholcombe2741]

And..?

[@jameshaxby5434]

I wonder what kind of aid was available for the survivors, to restore their health and get housing or jobs.

[@violetgovender8957]

Im from the 60s, knew only what I've been taught in school about the war. Watched The Windermere Children last night 😢😢 My heart breaks for the children. How they suffered 😊🥺🙏. It was awesome at the end when the Actual now grown men shared a little ❤

[@RamiTamir-ud3gb]

Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices during World War II, was earlier this week. Wednesday is the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the longest and most intense rebellion of Jews against their oppressors. The heroic, yet hopeless resistance was crushed, but became a symbol of the resilience of human spirit. The Holocaust itself, however, highlights the question of the persistence of antisemitism, and why its ferocity and deadliness have not subsided throughout the centuries. Nearly 2,000 years ago, the Roman general Titus destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem and exiled its remaining Jews to Rome. The Roman emperor Hadrian changed the name Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, a city dedicated to Jupiter, and when the Jews revolted against him, he brutally crushed the revolt. To erase the connection of Jews to their land, he changed the name of Judea to Syria Palestina. Since then, every year, Jews commemorate the fall of the Temple. Likewise, since the Holocaust, every year, we commemorate the slaughter of European Jewry almost in its entirety. In between the cataclysms, we were expelled from Spain, murdered in Ukraine, driven out of England, and basically persecuted everywhere we lived, and in every generation. Why has there been no relief from Jew-hatred? There has not been a relief, there is no relief, and there will be no relief from antisemitism until we acknowledge that the root of the hatred, its wellspring, is not with the nations of the world, but with ourselves. We are creating and swelling their hatred toward us through our own hatred of each other. History proves that before every major cataclysm that befell the Jews came an extended period of growing division and internal enmity among the Jews themselves. When their inner hatred climaxes, so does the brutality and violence that their persecutors inflict on them. Nothing about our nation resembles the making or the history of any other nation. The whole world sees us as different, and the only ones who cannot accept this are we, ourselves. Nevertheless, we are indeed different, and until we understand in what way and what for, we will not uproot the hatred toward us. Abraham, the father of our nation, was not born Jewish, or even a Hebrew, as he is the one who engendered the nation. Likewise, many of our nation's greatest were either converts to Judaism or the children of converts. In fact, despite centuries of communal life, we were not regarded as a nation until we stood at the foot of Mount Sinai and pledged to unite "as one man with one heart." Immediately after, we were told that our nationhood, forged through unity, was not for our own sake, but for the sake of the nations, to be a light to the nations, a model nation that will prove that unity and peace among nations are possible, even when they seem locked in conflict. Since then, division among us and the nations' hatred toward us have been linked. When we are separated, we betray our duty to the world. As a result, the world resents us and blames us for its woes. It makes no difference that we do not understand why humanity hates us, or that humanity does not understand its grudge against the Jews. As long as we are disunited, every nation in every generation will find its contemporary pretext to vent its hatred, which is ever fermenting in their hearts. We should not be misled by momentary pretexts; underneath them lies the same old anger at the Jews for not being a model nation, a show of unity and peace despite coming from different nations. We have experienced 2,000 years of hatred with no sign of relief because we have not uprooted division from our midst. If we want to prevent the next cataclysm from unfolding, the only thing we can and need to do is reunite among us and become the model nation that the world expects to see.

[@familyandfriends3519]

Not Nazis Germans

[@ahill4642]

Thank you for this. I had no idea it was this bad after liberation.

[@williambilly3269]

Only evil people could be so cruel.

[@dawnemerson3604]

So awfully sorry and i will never forget

[@heikerosenau1520]

It is really shocking and deeply sad, what achingly horrific crimes the Nazis have done to the Jews (and the other victims)... There are no words to ask for a forgiveness that can never be earned. As a German myself I am truely ashamed about the atrocities that these innocent people had to suffer, even dying after their liberation; and I am extremely sorry for what our ancestors have done. It is always said that we must never forget, and such a holocaust (to ANY minoritiy!) must never ever happen again. But facing the harsh reality - humans don't seem to be capable of learning that... It still happens (in China the Uigures for example), even if not with the same brutality. There still are people downplaying or denying the Shoah, and unfortunately the basic ideas of Nationalsocialism (by Neonazis) still exist... In Germany there is an ultraright party called AfD, meaning Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany). Folks, this is NOT an alternative!!! Unbelievable, but this party has waaay too much supporters. Please, never give up on collecting information, educate yourself, stay open and be critical, recognize wrongdoing and DO NOT stay silent if you happen to witness injustice! A very heartfelt THANK YOU to Yad Vashem and others for all the important and hard work, the effort they take upon theirselves to help keeping a light on this dark part of history, by interviewing the last survivors and their children for example, and keeping the memory alive!

[@transnerdboy]

as a jew who lost family in the holocaust and six million of my people, thank you for saying this. it's hard to forgive to an extent, especially after growing up in a community that had and still thank G-d does have survivors. it means so much to me to see comments like your's, and i agree, it shouldn't happen to any group, yet it still sadly is. i'd be interested in speaking with you if you were open to it, i would like to hear how you were taught about germany's past and the holocaust, and your experience growing up there, especially if you know any jews who are survivors and live there now/ when you were growing up. danke!

[@familyandfriends3519]

Ha Nazis you mean Germans

[@wendygorm]

HOW can man be SO BRUTAL??

[@ofrapeters3952]

My father family lived in Vienna Austria, they escaped to Romania However only my father who was a child and his mom survived, I never knew my grandfather or my aunts and the rest of the family, also there is no way to trace the generations before …

[@achord9204]

My parents met in feldafing both survivors

[@leahkarp29]

My mother was born in Feldafing.

[@garyrandalls853]

I cannot imagine the horror, or endurance, the Jewish people had to bear, but I do know that, if we are not watchful, it will happen again. Let us learn from these lessons, and pray we will never see the like again!

[@Baruch-q4n]

Dear Garry,shalom.G-d forbid it could happen ever again ! But with the present hiddeous turn against us much backed up by the humongous moslem population now all over Europe.And them with thier most unusual solidarity of communist and left wing socialists,we can no longer feel safely sure that it never will happen again.We jews cannot help feeling betrayed by europe once more.

[@Baruch-q4n]

But dear Garry,we jews cannot be but deeply touched by the kind friendship shown to us by precious people like you.Though yes there were indeed people such as you before The Holocaust.And even through the years of The Holocaust.

[@Baruch-q4n]

Jews have only ever hoped and when and where allowed to actually asked that all we want for us is to be treated equally as everybody else. No better ! No worst !

[@danielwebster5748]

Many of the prisoners that was able got on their knees. And a lot of the soldiers told them stand up you don't have to kneel to anyone anymore.

[@jocelyneandree1900]

Reportage très intéressant mais pourquoi une telle vitesse de paroles ? Il fa choisir ou regarder les images proposées ou bien lire la traduction écrite quel dommage

[@pattispady8734]

Let us never forget.

[@Baruch-q4n]

Of us jews we never can forger as it is always there in the background of our lives haunting us.My folks were from Greece and France.

[@Vikinglouis1]

Shalom From Denmark Frends. Louis Havila. Shalom.

[@gj-po9oy]

Denmark put citizenry status above religion and continues to do so. Gd bless Denmark and it's people forever. Amen

[@williamtomkiel8215]

commentary about who the units, etc. were, that were so primary in the liberation and care following liberation how large a group were those people , who were they?

[@cjhoward409]

Visited Dachau back in 1983. It still is in my mind. Seeing one of these places is so much more loving than reading about it 😢

[@donnawatson845]

I am just so sorry

[@janice01301]

I saw a documentry that said that they had to make a specail formula so people would not die for eating regular food. It used peanut butter.

[@redstateforever]

It’s so sad how you have to basically continue to starve people who are suffering from starvation. Too much food gives them Refeeding Syndrome, which causes their organs to shut down and they die. You have to give them incrementally increasing amounts of food, over a long period of time. We learned about this mostly from WWII, when so many had gone so hungry for so long. Never again.

[@pdmotors5027]

Such a tragic part of our recent history.

[@albertschultz7151]

Looking at our world today . . Have we learnt nothing? How could man do this to his fellow being? Civilization is evidently a thin veneer that is easily broken. Shame on us.

[@tsunamis82]

Those people who took over Jewish homes should have been booted out. That is so totally unfair.

[@bartomiejlechicki9442]

Dzeci są święte....bezbronne małe piękne istoty,stworzone przez Boga,za sprawą swoich rodziców...Kto krzywdzi dzieci,ten straci wieczność....Dzieci są po to by je kochać, dbać o nie, uczyć je...One potrzebują opieki i miłości....Niemcy nie odpokutowali za swoje uczynki, dlatego znikną z mapy świata....

[@cleonorcavalcante8547]

Mas no momento exato Deus agiu. Muitos dos sobreviventes agradeceram a Deus sua libertação

[@chiefswife1212]

America ignored this genocide for so long, could have saved thousands!!!

[@anekaye4446]

I can honestly say publicly and privately that I love love love! Jews and Jerusalem. God plainly told Abraham I WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS YOU. I WILL CURSE THOSE WHO CURSE YOU. AS A LITTLE KID I WAS ALWAYS TOLD...JEWS ARE GODS PEOPLE. JESUS WAS A JEW. GODS FAVORITE REAL ESTATE IS JERUSALEM. ALL OF THE LAND OF ISARAEL I ASK GOD TO BLESS. HE ALWAYS WILL. IT WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED. IF NOONE BELIEVES THIS, STUDY HISTORY...THEN WATCH. I SAY GOD PROSPER IN ALL WAYS ALL OF THE JEWISH RACE. SHALOM!!!

[@wandertree]

Amen.

[@anaisdefleur2070]

Jesus was a Jew but never said anything about "Jewish Race". He talked about love to all human kind.

[@trinitywright7122]

The nicest man who was my neighbor about 20 years ago and was a soldier who was involved in freeing one of the camps. He told us a bit about it but it was obvious they were scars too deep to go too far into that story. What is truly hideous besides that's this ever happened, is that these people then were freed but to go where and with whom and with what, no money. No food, no family. No relatives, no homes, no transportation. It's the worst of the worst that has ever been done to people on Earth and you can't tell me any differently. I went to the Holocaust museum a few decades ago and i am a full-on rational adult, But seeing what I saw, there was beyond irrational beyond insanity, nothing but the utmost in cruel treatment of human beings. Hideous.

[@lrod8721]

I have always wondered what happened to the young when they were liberated. How did they survive without any parent or family member? All alone without anyone, just breaks my heart 💔

[@Keviin1977]

Great video. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="290">4:50</a>

[@crosseyedone7960]

How come so many people looked so well yet others so sick? Was there a reason?

[@UrracaCastilla]

Seguramente unos llevarian mas tiempo que otros en el campo de concentración

[@crosseyedone7960]

@@UrracaCastilla Can you translate to english?

[@UrracaCastilla]

​@@crosseyedone7960maybe some of them spent much longer time in the camp

[@jamesb.9155]

Some were more recently sent to the camps late in the war.

[@sandijohnson2216]

She said, “surely some would have spent more time than others in the concentration camp.” Yes - that would be the obvious reason. People who were recently put into the camps would be healthier than those who have been there longer.

[@silviajohannaflierl6847]

💔💔💔❤️🙏🏽❤️

[@bobinobaker]

Schade das es keine Deutschen Untertitel gibt.

[@jamesb.9155]

KZbin can translate into German. Look into settings below the video.

[@bobinobaker]

@@jamesb.9155 Thank you very much, but I can't find the option Subtitles German under Settings. (I write this with deepel)

[@jamesb.9155]

@@bobinobaker Open settings icon, then subtitles, then auto translate and choose German from the list.

[@bobinobaker]

@@jamesb.9155 Many, many thanks now I have managed with your help

[@jamesb.9155]

@@bobinobaker I only just figured it out for myself a few days back !

[@ruthmwawesi5127]

Putting myself in their shoes, oh how it breaks my heart just watching and listening to stories about jews people. May the perish rest in eternal peace now. God bless America and the people they rescued.