A Day In The Worst Nazi Concentration Camp | Auschwitz–Birkenau

When the Allied forces entered the camps at Auschwitz on January 27, 1945; what they found was a tragic scene of mass extermination the likes of which our world had never witnessed before.
After Germany sparked WW2 and invaded Poland, the Schutzstaffel- more commonly known as the SS- would convert Auschwitz 1 into a prisoner-of-war camp. Later on, the construction of Auschwitz 2-Birkenau started which would become the site of countless atrocities. Lets go back in history, and witness these atrocities ourselves,

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Scriptwriter: Ahsan Kamal

Voice-over Artist: Chris Redish

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[ADayInHistoryOfficial]

There's SO much more to the Holocaust than this video, and it's essential to know and understand the truth. In the description, I've compiled a list of must-read books that tell a fuller story of what really happened. Check it out!

[twojahalucynacja]

my great grandmother survived Auschwitz and believe me it was hell, when she was still alive she used to tell me what was happening there and what she been through, I cried everytime when she mentioned it. because of that she had a big trauma and she had panic attacks everytime when she heard a loud noice, she died from a heart attack. I miss her a lot and knowing that we have a war now scares me, I just hope it won't be like that.

[traces]

The day I lost my innocence:
I was 14 years old in history class when we were shown films of Nazi death camp victims. One was of a starving toddler being tormented by guards with a carrot on a string. Everytime the child would try to get the food, the guards would laugh and snatch it away. It sickened me and even 40 years later, I remember it so vividly, as I do the piles of skeletal corpses in those films. I was so emotionally overcome and distraught that I did not come back to school for almost a week. And that's why that was a defining moment in my life. My illusions of life were shattered and I found out just how dark, depraved and evil humans could be.

[benjaminpowell]

Just remember...this was less than 100 years ago...we are not disconnected historically from these events.

[anderstermansen]

Auswitch must never be forgotten, but also never forgiven.

[stevenherberts]

It makes me realize just how lucky I am to have freedom, a meal whenever I want and most of all my health, it just blows my mind how anybody could do such things, RIP to every poor man woman and child who got taken to these places 💓💓💓

[tiasky]

no matter how empathetic someone is or how many pictures and videos we see, I don't think we will ever be able to fully comprehend or truly relate to the horror that these poor souls endured.
Edited to add - hopefully and thankfully.

[emptymaker]

Hope that all of these tortured souls are in peace and living their best existence for all eternity!

[michaelwhisman]

I read about a Jewish man who had gone to a concentration camp with his wife. They got separated. 6 years after the war he met her while walking down the street tin New York City.

[TheTonialadd]

In the 70’s I had a history teacher who was a soldier and was at Auschwitz’s on the day of liberation. He told us about seeing the piles of clothing, glasses, and other personal objects.
He cried when he told us about it all those years later. Seeing these videos I’m always reminded about that man and the impact it had on him.

[GVBiggs]

It disgusts me that our educational system is trying to downplay this horrific tragedy by insisting that there be another point of view on this atrocity, or even worse, sweep it under the rug and claim it never happened at all. This must NEVER be forgotten!

[sharongibson]

It breaks my heart that anyone could ever treat another person in this manner...my deepest sympathy to all the victims and their families who survived

[girlygirl]

I will never understand how people can be so heartless and cruel to have participated in this tragic event my brain truly cannot comprehend it😢

[qfftjmw]

In September 1940, Witold Pilecki voluntarily allowed himself to be caught during a round-up and taken to the KL Auschwitz concentration camp. He spent over two and a half years there, building an underground network, and in reports for the underground he informed about the situation in the camp and the extermination of the Jews. In 1943, Pilecki did what seemed to be impossible, and together with two companions he escaped from the camp.

The so-called Pilecki's reports, also known as Witold's reports, are, next to Jan Karski's reports, the first testimony to the nightmare of the Holocaust in the world.
It was Pilecki who first made the world aware of the Holocaust. He sent reports about the extermination of the Jews, to which the Western Allies did not react.
Glory to the Great Pole Witold Pilecki !

[naomieutsey]

My grandfather survived this. To Brooklyn NY. lived this life of poverty started a business and lived the American dream. I’m so proud. My grandpa loved us so much. He loved my black grandmother so much. He died a little inside when she did. But he had us.

[p.s.]

My great uncle was one of the liberators of a Nazi camp where starving Jews were clinging to life.My uncle would tear up he was a young man and the atrocities he witnessed changed him forever

[tayninh]

When I was just a boy, my dad who served in Europe from 1942 until the end in 1945. His unit helped with the liberation of a camp. That was the one and only time I ever heard him talk about that.

[davia.holanda]

Documentaries like these need to be reviewed and never forgotten, for a thousand years, 10 thousand years... this must never be forgotten, due to such atrocity.

[Dragonfly]

My father is a Holocaust survivor and the pain doesn’t stop with him.

[louisavondart]

I have spoken with Holocaust survivors. They told me that there were worse camps than Auschwitz. If you survived the initial selection you had a chance of survival. If you got sent to Belzec, Treblinka, Chemlo or Sobibor, you died one hour after arriving. Aushwitz was simply the biggest camp, not the worst but that isn't saying much, all things considered.