A TOUR OF AUSCHWITZ | World War 2 Nazi Death Camp

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  • čas přidán 11. 09. 2021
  • Visiting the Auschwitz concentration camp in southern Poland, where more than one million people, mostly Jews, were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
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Komentáře • 374

  • @saurabhshukla9302
    @saurabhshukla9302 Před 2 lety +81

    I like how Gabriel maintained the solemniy of places which are sensitive.Did not sensationalise it,to some one who has seen it for the first time it was very sensibly shot.I have noticed it quiet often and that’s what I admire about him

  • @christelsnow2756
    @christelsnow2756 Před 2 lety +30

    My uncle Peter Kisiel was taken there as a child with his family. Only Peter survived and was taken to a farm as a young boy. Thank you for sharing.

    • @ssherrierable
      @ssherrierable Před rokem

      Wow, just took him to a farm and left him there like some animal? That’s unreal, I hope he found his way outta that farm…

    • @uria702
      @uria702 Před rokem

      @@ssherrierableou clearly don’t understand that being sent to Auschwitz was being sent to death for a young child. Children were the first killed upon arrival because they couldn’t work and because they were the next generation of Jews or poles.
      His chances of surviving as an animal on a farm were far greater.

    • @Juliaz6712
      @Juliaz6712 Před 10 měsíci

      ​​​@@ssherrierable IT'S I HOPE THAT HE FOUND HIS WAY OUT OF THAT FARM.

    • @ssherrierable
      @ssherrierable Před 10 měsíci

      @@Juliaz6712 no it’s definitely not. I don’t know any grammar nazis that spell everything in caps while trying to critique someone else’s comment 😂

  • @timmann6106
    @timmann6106 Před 2 lety +40

    So moving, and so tastefully done. The pictures and signs said more than words ever could.

  • @coreyjelowski7525
    @coreyjelowski7525 Před 2 lety +25

    From your choice of music to the way you set up your shots, you displayed great respect and reverence for this sacred site. Bravo, a true masterpiece.

  • @johngravley2389
    @johngravley2389 Před 2 lety +52

    Thank you for posting this. I was there in 1993 and have never forgotten it. I found that I had to sit down on a bench after going through each building just to compose myself and process what I was seeing. It was an over-powering experience but I think it's important to expose ourselves to this type of experience while we travel, in addition to the museums and scenery and beaches. All we can do is hope that this never happens again. Thanks again for sharing this.

    • @ssherrierable
      @ssherrierable Před rokem

      Wow you had to sit down on a bench after? Wonder what they had to do when they walked in each room in the early 40s?

  • @EvaOwen
    @EvaOwen Před 2 lety +44

    Although I felt a deep sense of sadness as I watched this, thank you Gabriel for taking us virtually to this important place which has a horrible history that should never be forgotten.

  • @IrishLincoln
    @IrishLincoln Před 2 lety +11

    Gabriel, the buildings at the beginning where you saw the deer were the potato and vegetable store warehouses. Known as the Kartoffel Lagerhalle. It was for the local farmers distribution.
    These are the building where potatoes were stored for prisoners and other vegetables were kept cool after harvesting from local farms to be transported all over the Reich.

  • @Lau3464l
    @Lau3464l Před 2 lety +34

    Thank you for sharing this. My grandfather was in Auschwitz and his entire family was murdered there. I’m glad people recognize the importance of preserving these places for education and remembrance.

  • @williehannon9306
    @williehannon9306 Před 2 lety +6

    No words can describe how horrific the acts carried out here were. Your silence is powerful and respectful Gabriel. A deeply moving video.

  • @Nkzjr
    @Nkzjr Před 2 lety +2

    I went to Auschwitz in August last year (2021) - the skys were crying, it rained for days...there were not many people in the Memorial...as i walked through the Streets, silent not saying a word, i could feel the energy of history. Millions of souls of innocent, murdered people - still pulsing from the walls of the buildings, from the streets, the ground. We walked through the streets for 2 hours, saying nothing - and for the entire time i had "einen Klos im Hals" as we say in germany (weary/close to breaking into tears) .. this was or is one of the - maybe the - most intense experience i have ever had in my life. We, humanity, must do everything in our power, that this or something like this NEVER happens again...

  • @daddyrabbit835
    @daddyrabbit835 Před rokem +1

    We visited this whole area over 2 days, last fall. I was absolutely fascinated at the size of everything. 2 days was not enough. We found old bunkers and ruins near the old Monowitz area. We went into Birkeneau twice, and the main camp once. We spent some time back by 4 and 5 with no one around. It was peaceful and quiet. Lot's to reflect on.

  • @GabrielAngelTheAlchemist
    @GabrielAngelTheAlchemist Před 2 lety +35

    It's sickening what happened to those people. Thank you for what you're doing Gabriel!

    • @skillfuldabest
      @skillfuldabest Před 2 lety +2

      Yea, dying from starvation and typhus is terrible.

  • @beautifulworldforall
    @beautifulworldforall Před 2 lety +5

    Heartbreaking! Thank you for sharing Gabriel. I really admire your total silence while recording this video. Peace 💐

  • @griffin2263
    @griffin2263 Před 2 lety +4

    Thank you for filming...so very sad 😞 .. very haunting... the saddest there must be. Incredible

  • @travellingcharles6088
    @travellingcharles6088 Před rokem +1

    To exit a train amongst a sea of people and not know your final destination is most likely death is the saddest manifest of this human tragedy.

  • @Jose-ht2lw
    @Jose-ht2lw Před 2 lety +19

    If i ever get the chance to go to poland, ill definitely go there.

  • @dextardextar
    @dextardextar Před 2 lety +17

    saddest episode of GTraveler ever :(

  • @UWFPensacola
    @UWFPensacola Před 2 lety +2

    Was in Warsaw and Krakow in 2019 but avoided going to Auschwitz. I don't think I can handle this place. Such a tragic history.

  • @iluv2_travel
    @iluv2_travel Před 2 lety +5

    if you dont think covid could be manmade . let this be a reminder of how evil humans can be.

  • @SkySpiral8
    @SkySpiral8 Před 2 lety +19

    It's so chilling to see the real thing, just as it's been replicated in movies. The haunting emptiness of the grounds and prison barracks.

  • @justinpyle3415
    @justinpyle3415 Před 2 lety +21

    Harrowing location.
    Never forget what authoritarianism can and will do to people.

    • @banker1313
      @banker1313 Před 2 lety +15

      we are facing it right now with the governments in the west....leftists....trying to restrict and strip people of their freedoms as we speak

    • @fryrish7749
      @fryrish7749 Před 2 lety +9

      If you don't think the rhetoric is being set up to put the unvaccinated or MAGA supporters in camps as well, you're not paying attention. Evil always tries to hide from public eyes. People have always tried to control as much of the world as they can reach...its no different now. The tools and networks to do so are more sophisticated than ever before. Not even very many people are needed to pull these things off. You don't needs tens of thousands to steal an election when less than a dozen can do it. You don't need every judge, just a few who will direct key cases to your judges, etc. A key editor in a prestigious journal, the head of a board that certifies certain healthcare workers, etc. Its a misconception that extensive conspiracies consisting of tens of thousands or more are necessary. The illusion of freedom, democracy, and truth must be maintained, but that's all it is, illusion. Science is heavily manipulated and corruptible. So are all information peddlers, financial powerhouses, military leaders, unelected government bureaucrats, especially those in the FBI, DoJ, etc., and every other institution of power. It doesn't take many, just key positions. This is the oldest war in the world: Concentrated powers vs the masses. They just keep getting better at it. Auschwitz is an obvious reminder, but there are many more subtleties around as well that serve the same purpose.

    • @CripplingDuality
      @CripplingDuality Před 2 lety +2

      @@fryrish7749 Jesus Christ, you people will sink to anything, won't you? Seek help.

  • @japankofun
    @japankofun Před 2 lety +40

    That area of ruined buildings at the start where you saw the deer was most definitely related to the prison camps - that was the ‘Kartoffel Lagerhalle’ (potato warehouse) complex. Apparently prisoners constructed it and did the harvesting work (I didn't know this myself but did a bit of online detective work, as I was curious).

    • @peterhastings703
      @peterhastings703 Před 2 lety +1

      From Google maps it looks like Gabe just the south west of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum - "Judenrampe" - which is part of the rail system that was used to bring prisoners to the camp. That could be why his satnav took him there?

  • @henryi9738
    @henryi9738 Před 2 lety +5

    Somber and surreal, yet necessary to watch so as to never forget. Thank you Gabriel.

  • @maryrosed8475
    @maryrosed8475 Před 2 lety +27

    Very sad. Man's inhumanity to man. Must never be forgotten.

    • @skillfuldabest
      @skillfuldabest Před 2 lety +1

      What about the Japanese internment camps in the US?

    • @toddboothbee1361
      @toddboothbee1361 Před 2 lety +4

      @@skillfuldabest Great example of what-aboutism.

    • @skillfuldabest
      @skillfuldabest Před 2 lety +1

      @@toddboothbee1361 just asking if he’s applying his wisdom universally or just to what the elites push.

    • @nookied3735
      @nookied3735 Před 2 lety

      @@toddboothbee1361 great example of avoidance.

    • @toddboothbee1361
      @toddboothbee1361 Před 2 lety +2

      @@skillfuldabest If Gabe did that, he'd have to change the focus of his video. He's in Poland, so the topic is what's in Poland. I believe he's a travel blogger, not a internment camp specialist, or a political documentarian. Because you know about the US internment camps, as do I, this means people are addressing this, and have been for some time.

  • @Psyboy007
    @Psyboy007 Před 2 lety +6

    I felt really sad after watching this...I'm pretty surey everyone felt that way.the place will always gonna remind us the greatest despair of humanity of all the times.

  • @martinc.720
    @martinc.720 Před 2 lety +16

    Thank you for this video. It’s hard to watch (I can’t imagine actually being there), but it’s an important part of history, and one that cannot be forgotten, no matter how uncomfortable it makes us and how sickening what happened really is.

  • @DIOS10
    @DIOS10 Před 2 lety +9

    Bravo Gabriel, Bravo, when it mattered you stoped the talk and photos told the story in their own words….

  • @marleneyoung6575
    @marleneyoung6575 Před 2 lety +12

    I can't Thank You enough for this video. It has made me think of the problems we are currently facing here in the USA. Unfortunately most people don't learn from history.

    • @bigwideworld387
      @bigwideworld387 Před 2 lety +8

      Please don't compare the holocaust to a pandemic, it makes you loom very very wrong.

    • @sathwickborugadda4744
      @sathwickborugadda4744 Před 2 lety +4

      History repeats unless you learn from it

    • @bryansandiego
      @bryansandiego Před 2 lety +2

      @@bigwideworld387 exactly, it lessons the entire Holocaust when you do this.

  • @paultakeotravels6325
    @paultakeotravels6325 Před 2 lety +8

    Must be a very sobering experience. I actually had tears streaming down my cheeks. I really liked how you didn't speak while showing the camp. Let the viewer take it all in and imagine what it must have been like for the people whose only crime (in the eyes of the Nazis) was being non-Aryan.

  • @bacino49
    @bacino49 Před 2 lety +8

    This was hard to watch. So heart braking.

  • @bhakti7810
    @bhakti7810 Před 2 lety +3

    You did a great job on this one, Gabe! Very sensitiv and respectful reporting 🙏

  • @dereka8041
    @dereka8041 Před 2 lety +12

    That was intense! I don't know if I could handle traveling there. It would be intense.

    • @daddyrabbit835
      @daddyrabbit835 Před rokem

      It's actually quite relaxing and fascinating. I'd go back in a heartbeat.

  • @christinehimes6526
    @christinehimes6526 Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks for this amazing tour! Wondering what you felt after experiencing the walk thru? My father told me stories about seeing people on trains heading for the concentration camps…it never left his mind. My mother went back to Poland some years back and had a tour there. She said people were very emotional from being there. Glad you shared it.😊

  • @reelhappytravellers2691
    @reelhappytravellers2691 Před 2 lety +2

    In nature, light creates the color. In your video, color creates the light.
    The beauty has no boundaries in this video.

  • @ronnieronaldo889
    @ronnieronaldo889 Před 2 lety +1

    Thank you for going here, I enjoy your style of recording/music choices a very well put together video. One day I hope to go

  • @antoniotrinidad5453
    @antoniotrinidad5453 Před 2 lety

    Excellent work Gabriel 👍🏼👍🏼 great video. The music, edits, footage, and the set up. Really enjoyed it thank you.

  • @jenniferhanson8136
    @jenniferhanson8136 Před 11 měsíci +1

    I can't watch this video without crying and I'm in tears as I'm writing this😭

  • @Ruchita0207
    @Ruchita0207 Před 2 lety

    Appreciate how your just let the video and the boards on the site's do the talking. There was no need to say anything at all. Beautifully shot. Love you Gab for showing us the history In the best way possible.

  • @evilnemesis3459
    @evilnemesis3459 Před 2 lety

    Very very tasteful video I don't know if I could go there and not break down thinking of what it must have been like. Thank you for showing the signs long enough to pause the video so we can read everything keep up the great work

  • @samuelchambers5
    @samuelchambers5 Před 2 lety +12

    There simply are no words that would adequately describe the horror of this place and the terror and suffering of those who were sent there. And, yet if we were all honest, we would all say that there are people alive today and in "power" who would perpetrate the same crimes against humanity. So sad.

  • @Eagle-
    @Eagle- Před 2 lety +16

    Sad and shocking place, I feel the pain of the past just looking at this place.

  • @ChrissTreasureChest
    @ChrissTreasureChest Před 2 lety +2

    One of your best videos...Real life and what really happened, loved watching it and it sent chills down my spine!

  • @skillfuldabest
    @skillfuldabest Před 2 lety +2

    Did you see the wooden doors? 🚪 or the chimney that’s actually not attached to a building?

  • @scottfbradley
    @scottfbradley Před 2 lety +1

    I visited in June 2019, taking a guided tour. I’d like to visit again and walk around myself as you did here.

  • @stevo728822
    @stevo728822 Před 2 lety +1

    I did a coach tour from Krakow in 2019. My coach visited Auschwitz first and then drove us over to the huge Birkenau site. The final part of this video is walking into the gas chamber at Auschwitz where the pellets of "Gift Gas" were dropped, and then the crematorium where the bodies were burnt. Also at Auschwitz are the vast collections of human property such as shoes from the victims. If you take a coach tour, I advise you take a photo of the coach registration plate when you get out, because when you return to the coach parking lot you will have to find your coach among many others that all look the same.

  • @adrianburn7178
    @adrianburn7178 Před 2 lety +6

    Thank you for sharing. Man's inhumanity to man. We must never forget.

  • @mr_high8129
    @mr_high8129 Před 2 lety +4

    Thank you for showing the material about Auschwitz .

  • @laurazt7004
    @laurazt7004 Před 2 lety +6

    And history repeats...

  • @jessedylan6162
    @jessedylan6162 Před 2 lety +4

    Yes, i visited years ago...very emotional experience...thanks again for sharing .

  • @moun7522
    @moun7522 Před 2 lety +4

    It just breaks my heart all of this 💔. Humanity let them down miserablly 😢

  • @heypat34
    @heypat34 Před 2 lety +7

    Harrowing! A lesson of history that too many have either forgotten or never been taught. Is history doomed to repeat itself?

    • @sathwickborugadda4744
      @sathwickborugadda4744 Před 2 lety +2

      Unless it’s taught and people learn

    • @fryrish7749
      @fryrish7749 Před 2 lety +5

      It's happening again. "Health" and "Misinformation" are now the justifications for tyranny. And the so-called "open-minded" and "tolerant" are the most willing to use those to justify their increasingly authoritarian tendencies.

  • @JillTravenner
    @JillTravenner Před 2 lety +1

    Hi Gabby, Great Vlog telling on how hiatoric the city was. Keep sharing.👌

  • @adriancaldwell
    @adriancaldwell Před 2 lety

    Sensitively and beautifully filmed Gabe just as I would expect of you mate

  • @colinmaxwell4738
    @colinmaxwell4738 Před 2 lety +2

    The horrors and evil that went on here cannot be comprehended we must strive to live in freedim. and cherish it and the sanctity of life for every living person

  • @alexj1836
    @alexj1836 Před 2 lety +3

    So sad and heartbreaking 🥺
    Unfortunately many of these still happening in the world
    Thank you for the great video 👍

  • @BillKing3456
    @BillKing3456 Před 2 lety +2

    Very well done. Thank you. I was waiting for this one. I couldn't believe 24 minutes had gone by at the end of the video. Most westerners could not visit these sites until 45 years after the end of WWII. Now that everyone can go, they should. We have and because we went my cousin from Scotland and her friends also went. And so I hope that among those who watch this video, more people will go. Its importance cannot be overstated.

  • @instinctivechannel6668
    @instinctivechannel6668 Před rokem +1

    that row of abandoned building is the German store house it part of camp also when your asking what are these buildings is the camp well just feet away are the main tracks into camp this is the camp rail siding thanks for a peek in that area help settle some other question about camp and area

  • @siciliangorillian1111
    @siciliangorillian1111 Před 2 lety +2

    Did he really call a pool a water reserve for the fire brigade? 🤣

  • @travelandtash
    @travelandtash Před 2 lety +1

    I really like how you managed your videography in this video, Gabriel.

  • @alanbercovitz3657
    @alanbercovitz3657 Před 2 lety +2

    It's well worth taking the English speaking tour led by the museum guides. My guide and his family had lived in this area for generations and passed on some chilling details. There is a public bus that leaves Krakow bus station. If you come on an organized tour I don't think you get one of the guides from the museum.

  • @chrisbrown8748
    @chrisbrown8748 Před 2 lety +5

    Yet another fantastic video👍🏽👍🏽

  • @bradad2026
    @bradad2026 Před 2 lety +3

    The rooms/displays of personal items taken from prisoners really reinforced the loss of dignity and life for me.

  • @dawnwalker152
    @dawnwalker152 Před 2 lety

    Thank you for sharing with us Gabriel ~ I could hear the silence of the other visitors . What a horrible and horrific piece of history.

  • @ananwongpinyochit4919
    @ananwongpinyochit4919 Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks for the tour. It is quite a scary place for me even during the day time. I would not dare walking in when the sun sets.

  • @lydiastormberg1075
    @lydiastormberg1075 Před rokem +1

    Thank you for this video. My grandpa severed in WW2 and new people liberated the camps. And told how mentally tasking it was fir them

  • @Eryeahmaybe
    @Eryeahmaybe Před 2 lety

    I really like the way you didn't speak over the tour and showed us it how it was. It was very rare on CZcams and respectful.

  • @leearblaster8127
    @leearblaster8127 Před 2 lety +6

    I've never been and seeing that and reading those boards honestly I think I would struggle the poor people that suffered at the hands of those monsters! I can imagine how tuff it was for the soldier's that liberated these places too. Personally they was to soft on the Nazis after the war any ranked officer would have known and therefore supported this they should't have wasted time at courts they should have been taken here and surviving prisoners given the power to reciprocate the suffering imposed on them as punishment ... powerful video Gabriel and perfectly shown by possibly the most respectful traveler on CZcams

  • @TheThomeck
    @TheThomeck Před 2 lety +3

    My gf and i went a few years ago. Its a really weird feeling to be there.

  • @dodgersv3
    @dodgersv3 Před 2 lety +2

    The difference between Gabriel's videos and some other guy who records shooting wild hogs in Texas is decency. Continue the work Gabriel.

  • @SisterSherryDoingStuff
    @SisterSherryDoingStuff Před 2 lety +3

    Thank you for the respective look into a horrific part of history. I found myself tearing up...when I looked at the window a murder of crows were flying by. To me, that's a good sign. History cannot repeat itself. That soil is now sacred.

  • @michaelahass2695
    @michaelahass2695 Před 2 lety +1

    I ve watched this video, even if I ve visited this terror filled camps before...
    I appreciate the great respect and skillful filming ...
    Have no more words to say 🙏🙏🙏

  • @frankintx699
    @frankintx699 Před 2 lety +6

    Sadly there are people today that claim this never happened.😞 Thank you for showing this.

  • @JosieB76
    @JosieB76 Před rokem +1

    Another excellent video of yours Gabriel so tastefully done

  • @cindybruin4888
    @cindybruin4888 Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks for that G, video was done in very good taste.

  • @rebelrivers
    @rebelrivers Před 2 lety +3

    Very touching. Thank you.

  • @rocco...
    @rocco... Před 2 lety +7

    Being so kind hearted this must of been harder on you than expected.

  • @soumyadeeplovestoexplore6631

    It feels like that Auschwitz concentration camp has pretty much an anguish story of prisoners during the past history of World war 2, the German occupying, the brutal treatment on Jews with other prisoners and their deadly sufferings says it all. Thank you for showing this authentic coverage, it's really great to know.

  • @dodgersv3
    @dodgersv3 Před 2 lety

    This was one of your best videos. Thank you Gabriel.

  • @jims5198
    @jims5198 Před 2 lety +1

    It’s true bird don’t fly over this site. Gabriel a guided tour would have been so valuable to hear the stories. It will be my most memorable place I have ever visited.

  • @theadventuresofbrockinthai4325

    W O W ! ! !
    Hard to watch. I haven't been there yet but it is on my bucket list. I did however visit the death railway here in Thailand and when you walk through the museum and see what the Japanese did to these men you have to wonder how these people ever lived to tell the story. I'm sure they are both just as moving as the other.

  • @evacrabb5294
    @evacrabb5294 Před 2 lety

    Great video, very moving.

  • @pasqualeabarno
    @pasqualeabarno Před 2 lety +4

    🍀Hi.. Gabriel.. Amazing video.. Thanks 🍀

  • @jurekprzychodzen6454
    @jurekprzychodzen6454 Před 2 lety +7

    What Gabriel, or any foreign visitor coming to the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum is not aware of, is that currently there is a conflict between Polish visitors of the museum and the museum management. The background of the conflict is based on the accusations by Polish visitors and Polish patriotic organizations representing the families of the Auschwitz death camp victims that the museum management is gradually and secretly pushing the memory of its Polish victims out of the museum’s exhibitions. The exhibitions commemorating Poles who were killed in the camp are getting closed under the pretext of conservation work, but when the works are completed those exhibitions are not returning for viewing. Also, the museum guides withhold from the visitors the information that the first prisoners of the camp were Polish. Also, on the last anniversary of the arrival of the first group of Polish prisoners to the death camp, the museum security guards were not allowing Polish flags on the museum grounds. The families of Polish victims of the camp accuse the museum management of trying to give Jewish victims the monopoly for the status of being the victims of the Auschwitz death camp.

    • @Lau3464l
      @Lau3464l Před 2 lety +1

      Museum guides do not withhold information about the hundreds of thousands of Poles, Roma, Sinti, gays, prisoners and psychiatric patients killed at Auschwitz (or if they do, it is out of their own decision and not that of the museum). Polish citizens were also murdered at Stuttgart and Madjanek at the beginning of the Nazi occupation. A huge problem with preserving the memory of these victims was that it wasn’t documented as rigorously as the “extermination of Jews” was, by the Nazis, so there was less to display for education, and so much of what remains for the museum is there because when the Allies won, the Nazis didn’t have time to destroy any evidence, they had to just drop everything and leave. So when the Allies came in to see the concentration camp at liberation, what they found was the Jews. It does not excuse any reduction in acknowledgement, but it could be an explanation. Unfortunately, Auschwitz has also become the pinnacle of what people learn about the Holocaust, even though there were more than 44,000 concentration camps established by the Nazis. There has been a lot of recent conflict in Poland about things related to the Holocaust, whether it’s to do with Polish people protesting reparations and land-back claims for Jews (for example, my family lived in the same town in Poland for 800+ years with a very successful farm and it was completely stolen when my family was deported to Treblinka- but we don’t care to try and claim the land back for a number of reasons), fights about using terms “Nazi-occupied” vs “Polish” vs “German,” and a significant issue with Holocaust distortion running rampant. There are tons of debates surrounding the involvement of Polish people as “collaborators,” the responsibility of people who were bystanders, and Poland making it illegal for anyone to accuse Poland of being complicit in the Holocaust…. Just a ton of political disagreement and fighting. I suppose it’s in part due to Poland having the largest Jewish population in the world, for hundreds of years, and the estimate being 3 million Polish Jews that were killed. There are some who say that people in Poland blame the Jews for the Nazi occupation, because if Poland didn’t have such a huge population of Jews, the Poles wouldn’t have suffered so much. The logic is that they wouldn’t have been a major target for the Nazi occupation without the huge Jewish population. I can’t speak to how dominant that perspective is, I imagine it’s a fringe opinion because most people aren’t thinking about this stuff at all and I am hesitant to ever ascribe a belief to an entire group of people… but I digress. Just more to think about. It’s certainly an exceptionally complex topic.

    • @jurekprzychodzen6454
      @jurekprzychodzen6454 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Lau3464l How in the world can you know that the guides of the visitor tours in Auschwitz withhold information about Polish victims of the death camp because of their own volition? You’re making stuff up, apparently hoping that the topic will go away. But it won’t. Even if what you’re saying was true, it would mean that the Auschwitz museum management is willfully neglecting valid complaints of Polish victims families and organizations, because, according to them, they have been complaining about the absence of information about Polish victims of the Auschwitz for a long time and nothing was done. Training the tour guides is the management’s responsibility and so is the their supervision in carrying out their work. However, if you put it together with the fact that the museum exhibitions commemorating Polish victims of the camp were closed, supposedly due to works being done, but never returned after the work was completed, a clear picture emerges. Picture of re-writing history, of willful actions aimed at disappearing Poles as victims of the Auschwitz death camp.
      Btw, you mentioned that there were Polish people who collaborated with Germans in the persecution of Jews. I am not denying that there were some. The Polish law that you mentioned was aimed at protecting the good name of Poland as a country, not every individual Pole. All Polish organizations, starting with Polish government in exile (London) and its military arm, the Home Army, or Armia Krajowa, announced that cooperation with Germans in persecution of Jews would be punishable by death, and they acted on this decision. - That’s the reason why current Polish government wants to protect the good name of Poland. Btw, please explain to me one thing: I’m sure that you’re familiar with the Judischer Ordnungdienst, or the Jewish ghetto police that operated in the Jewish ghettos in Polish cities during WW2. Many members of this Jewish organization were instrumental in helping Germans ship Jews from those ghettos to death camps and finding and killing those who tried to stay behind in hiding to save their lives. In the 1950’s, Polish legal system was trying to prosecute members of the Jewish ghetto police for their role in killing other Jews that were Polish citizens. However, it turned out that all who survived the war were in Israel. Polish government asked Israeli government to extradite them to Poland to face justice, but Israel refused. Not only extradition was refused, but Israel also refused to try these criminals in Israeli courts. Please explain to me your views on this.
      To change the subject, I’m surprised to hear that your family owned a farm. As far as I know, even though there were many poor Jews in Poland, Polish Jews were known for running businesses and being professionals, like doctors and lawyers. In the countryside, they often owned and ran mills or local stores. Your family must have been somewhat of an exception being farmers. Thanks for sharing your family history.

    • @Lau3464l
      @Lau3464l Před 2 lety +1

      @@jurekprzychodzen6454 You're right, it's unfair for me to assume that I know the motives of the museum management and every staff member. I was recounting what I have learned from my relationships with people in the Polish government as well as tour guides I've met at the museum. Rewriting history is absolutely unacceptable, and what I meant when I mentioned collaborators etc was that it seems to be a prominent source of division between people in Poland, about perspectives/narratives about these topics. Regarding my own family, it could have been a mill rather than a farm, or even a factory. Those who escaped (my grandmother and her brother) emigrated to Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries, so much of what I've heard has been translated from whatever the dialect of Yiddish was that they spoke, into spanish and portuguese, and then into very broken English when they were already quite old and not the most articulate. But regarding the Jewish Ghetto police, my understanding was that few survived as they were largely sent to extermination camps in 1943 when the ghettos were emptied. I know Adler was one who managed to survive and he commit suicide after what he'd done, his writings have been preserved by the USHMM I believe. Perhaps many more escaped than I knew. I'd be very interested in information about them making it to Israel and the protection from prosecution, if you have any sources I can read?

    • @andyb6866
      @andyb6866 Před 2 lety

      @@Lau3464l Thank you CL and Jurek. Your dialogue is interesting and revealing. Both your views, meant in good faith I'm sure, spotlight a difficult subject.

    • @andyb6866
      @andyb6866 Před 2 lety +1

      @@jurekprzychodzen6454 Thank you CL and Jurek. Your dialogue is interesting and revealing. Both your views, meant in good faith I'm sure, spotlight a difficult subject.

  • @JC-oj7ci
    @JC-oj7ci Před 2 lety +2

    Bravo Gabe! You are the best!

  • @AnthonyJosh
    @AnthonyJosh Před 2 lety

    Gabriel did you go to this place from Katowice or Krakow?

    • @GabrielTravelerVideos
      @GabrielTravelerVideos  Před 2 lety

      I rented a car in Krakow: czcams.com/video/uoGvjNx1deU/video.html

    • @AnthonyJosh
      @AnthonyJosh Před 2 lety

      @@GabrielTravelerVideos ok thanks, I plan on visiting Poland in a few weeks, I just returned to California on Wednesday.

  • @Archytas-Leroy55
    @Archytas-Leroy55 Před 2 lety +1

    I love your videos, as always.

  • @Nature_with_Peter_Kane

    A real dark period for humanity...thanks for showing us Gabe. We had so many pictures of this place but we were robbed in Belgium and lost everything a few years ago.

  • @Bitte66
    @Bitte66 Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks for this video, very sad

  • @bonniehedden5579
    @bonniehedden5579 Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks for sharing your movie was very Reverently done. So sad so many die I all the camps

  • @banker1313
    @banker1313 Před 2 lety +3

    I do hope there was recognition of the many non jews who were murdered also....

  • @omrivol
    @omrivol Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks for sharing!

  • @copyer9088
    @copyer9088 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Such peaceful playing in the video for a tour of such a horrible place

  • @uria702
    @uria702 Před rokem

    That first building looks like a car garage or some type of entry / exit for vehicles

  • @stesan60
    @stesan60 Před 2 lety +1

    Done with Class and respect Gabe. I've been to the Dachau Camp near Munich and it is pretty much a very small version of what you shared today. I did not realize how big and extensive the Auschwitz camps are! I had friends that visited Auschwitz back in 1983 while Poland was going through Marshall law and they went over with a semi-truck full of food and clothes for the Poles. While there they swung by to see the camp. They came back and shared how shocking and real it was. The very end of your video showed how chilling it really is to walk through the gas chambers and crematorium. Thank you for sharing.

    • @daddyrabbit835
      @daddyrabbit835 Před rokem

      I found Dachau to be one of the more disturbing camps we visited. Auschwitz Birkerneau was quite relaxing to be honest. I didn't feel the horror or ghosts I felt at Dachau. Buchenwald was interesting as well as Mauthausen.

  • @jennyspyuen
    @jennyspyuen Před 2 lety +2

    I went there in 2019, they displayed tons of suitcases, toothbrushes, hairs, shoes and victim's pictures during period, most of females were not lasting 2 months, males could be 3 months, it is a sad tour.

  • @narmstr1
    @narmstr1 Před 2 lety +4

    Much better than the movies...this was an excellent edgy video..

  • @tarttart5213
    @tarttart5213 Před 2 lety +3

    thank you Gabriel for sharing .terrifying testimony

  • @biomanization
    @biomanization Před 2 lety +1

    Please Gabe, go to Terezin, near Prague, now. Your journalistic eyes will show the world your unique perspective

  • @nickpapagiorgio5056
    @nickpapagiorgio5056 Před 2 lety

    It’s crazy to think only a few miles from that beautiful square was the site of such unspeakable horror for 4-5 years….. unbelievable.

  • @unclemayhem6696
    @unclemayhem6696 Před 2 lety +1

    “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
    Abraham Lincoln