Walking Through Auschwitz | WARNING: Actual footage of entire camp

Sdílet
Vložit
  • čas přidán 19. 04. 2016
  • Filming and photographing is allowed throughout the camp except for the "room of hair" which I did not film out of respect for the people who suffered a great deal at this place. There are multiple signs showing "no flash photography" because this is not only disruptive and rude towards the people paying their respect but it also alters the items coloring over time. You can go to the website below and see it says on their website what is and isn't allowed to be filmed:
    auschwitz.org/en/press/filming...
    My regular vlogs are very happy and positive but this one is very different... I've always wanted to go visit auschwitz to see it for myself. I brought my camera with me so I could share this experience with people who wish to go see this place one day as well. Its a difficult thing to do but I believe it is necessary.
    ----------------------------------------­----------------------------------------­-------------------------------
    Link to my other channel:
    / @howtoworkout7014
    ---------------------------------------­­­­­­-----------------------------------­-­-­-­-­-­---------------------------
    Follow me on social media! :)
    Buffbunny
    www.Facebook.com/HeidiSomersFit
    HeidiSomers
    SNAPCHAT: BUFFBUNNY
    ---------------------------------------­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­---------------­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­­-­­-­­-­­-­­-­­--­--­--­--­--­--­--­--­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­
    Love hearing from you guys!
    PO BOX 591572
    San Antonio, Texas, 78259
    ---------------------------------------­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­---------------­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­­-­­-­­-­­-­­-­­--­--­--­--­--­--­--­--­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­-­

Komentáře • 4,1K

  • @heidisomers
    @heidisomers  Před 2 lety +675

    My channel is not a history channel. I am just a fitness vlogger who shares my day to day life as well as experiences. I was not expecting this video to get so many views, it was actually my lowest viewed video for awhile. I only documented it because it meant a lot to me personally. I still watch it from time to time for myself and I’m grateful I can do that. I did not monetize this video nor do I make money from it. Photography and videography is allowed throughout the camps (except for the room of hair) but flash photography is not allowed due to it being distracting.
    I’ve received the most disturbing comments on this video..so much anger and hate….but I’ve also had a lot of you reach out with kindness, love, and share your experiences going there. To those of you who are kind, I appreciate you.🥺❤️
    Since uploading this video I’ve also had quite a few teachers reach out and express their appreciation for the video…Since it’s a “vlog style” video, it has helped capture the attention of younger students who will actually listen/watch.🙏

    • @miffy2760
      @miffy2760 Před 2 lety +21

      I really appreciate this video. Thank you for sharing your very sombre experience. It is amazing how many young people don't have much of an idea of what happened during the holocaust. Some holocaust survivors are even drawing parallels from what happened then to what is happening in the world now.

    • @kaylaskreations4973
      @kaylaskreations4973 Před 2 lety +9

      This is a great video going to this place must have been very difficult and how the nazi always said the Jews were because there crime was that they existed it’s absolutely horrible to me this place is a cemetery and needs to be protected to make sure the world never forgets

    • @abel_underwater
      @abel_underwater Před 2 lety

      Ahh….reason #173 of why what happened in Dresden was more than justified. Thx you Heidi

    • @ThePeteriarchy
      @ThePeteriarchy Před 2 lety +6

      Thank you for putting this up. A lotta folks these days are too keen to ignore history, especially its darker aspects like the Nazi regime's war crimes just because it doesn't give you that feel-good dopamine as other content does. So it's fantastic that you'd make something like this even if it's not your usual type of vlog. Videos like this is just as important as the all the documentaries filmed and books written to make sure humanity doesn't repeat its mistakes.

    • @mermer3168
      @mermer3168 Před 2 lety +5

      Thank you for being very thoughtful and considerate and choosing your words in a meaningful manner, as well as the way that you filmed and presented this video. I don't understand how you could have hate comments on this. You have clearly shared your opinion and respectfully approached this in a way that was not demeaning in any way.

  • @rosykatzCATS
    @rosykatzCATS Před 7 lety +474

    Thank you for your empathy & respect.
    Ignore the idiots without brains or hearts comments.

    • @rosykatzCATS
      @rosykatzCATS Před 7 lety +1

      +Sameer Faisal your people chop off baby heads band send your children to blow themselves up band ruin our country.go home!

    • @rosykatzCATS
      @rosykatzCATS Před 7 lety +1

      +Rosy Katz your people chop off baby's heads & send your children to bow themselves up....
      go home & shut yourself up on a room alone & do us a favor & blow yourself up!

    • @sydneycunningham8337
      @sydneycunningham8337 Před 7 lety +1

      +Sameer Faisal she's talking about your race and culture honey. Not your religion 👌🏽

    • @sameerfaisal3454
      @sameerfaisal3454 Před 7 lety +1

      +Sydney Cunningham Fuck religion and fuck race.. i am just a human and talking about the race white people are worse than arabs..

    • @lisard7179
      @lisard7179 Před 7 lety +2

      Simply the way you respond proves their point! So much anger and hate.

  • @johnnyplayz920
    @johnnyplayz920 Před 2 lety +1140

    My grandpa was in a labor camp during WWII, he got lucky and sent to a labor camp rather than a killing camp. My heart goes out to anyone who lost someone In these camps.

    • @humblewiz4953
      @humblewiz4953 Před 2 lety +9

      🌹

    • @sigurdvonliebenfels3304
      @sigurdvonliebenfels3304 Před 2 lety +9

      @TessTickles You're right, the war shouldn't have happened. If only we had a Catholic radio preacher and a famous aviator to tell the American people who were trying to foment a monstrous war in Europe.
      Why don't they ever add subtitles to the German leader's speeches?

    • @joannenoble291
      @joannenoble291 Před 2 lety +10

      My grandfather dads father was captured by the germans but do not know where he was taken

    • @LiaDumpfbacke
      @LiaDumpfbacke Před 2 lety

      @@sigurdvonliebenfels3304 Your name is German. So you are a German person? If so good, me as well and I reported your comment to the police. It's illegal to deny the Holocaust. You know very well that Germans had killing camps. You just saw one in this video. And the labor Camps aswell were actually killing camps, to kill was always the main Goal that's why it's called Holocaust.

    • @haydenapel8739
      @haydenapel8739 Před 2 lety +2

      Dang

  • @emmarubenstein9085
    @emmarubenstein9085 Před 2 lety +788

    I knew a Auschwitz survivor...and I remember me seeing her tattoo....and we had a Holocaust survivor come and speak to us in high school...it was absolutely heartbreaking...never forget....

    • @dovberjoseph4833
      @dovberjoseph4833 Před 2 lety +33

      I once had a Auschwitz survivor scream at me for believing in the Messiah. Can't blame her though.

    • @nicolelawless3199
      @nicolelawless3199 Před 2 lety +3

      @@dovberjoseph4833
      Why? It’s what you believe in and I respect that

    • @saint_lunatic
      @saint_lunatic Před 2 lety +19

      @@nicolelawless3199 you don't understand the irony here, believing in Messiah and still getting killed by the hands of a human, if there is a Messiah, why not save 6 million-plus jews?

    • @ccharmolypi
      @ccharmolypi Před 2 lety +16

      @@saint_lunatic this is not the time to doubt religion. Although many people who have survived concentration camps don’t anymore, it’s not our business to judge what anyone does.

    • @saint_lunatic
      @saint_lunatic Před 2 lety

      @@ccharmolypi that's right

  • @MJ_Smallz
    @MJ_Smallz Před 2 lety +760

    Thank you for sharing this. So many people will never get to visit. And even worse - so many people are starting to forget this even happened…

    • @emmarubenstein9085
      @emmarubenstein9085 Před 2 lety +17

      Steven Spielberg went around the world recording every Holocaust survivor that was alive in the 90's ..archiving the stories...it's all on CZcams...and people won't forget..as we have many Holocaust Museums and Schindlers List..

    • @dovberjoseph4833
      @dovberjoseph4833 Před 2 lety +10

      True. As a religious Jew I can contest. I asked my co-worker if he's heard of the Holocaust and he said 'no'. It was scary to me. I've met a couple of Auschwitz survivors and they wouldn't be able to comprehend such a thing.

    • @AlexanderNathan2346
      @AlexanderNathan2346 Před 2 lety +2

      @@emmarubenstein9085 schindlers list lol. Their are hundreds of movies fiction and no fiction based upon the nazis. From video games to books movies that shows etc. WW2 atrocities aren’t going away anytime soon.

    • @emmarubenstein9085
      @emmarubenstein9085 Před 2 lety +3

      @@AlexanderNathan2346 ...what is your problem

    • @c.9900
      @c.9900 Před 2 lety +3

      @@emmarubenstein9085 he's simply saying that if you want an account of the holocaust then Schindler's List isn't the main source.

  • @imherwerdio6852
    @imherwerdio6852 Před 2 lety +930

    This was hard and gut-wrenching to watch, but thank you for making this and presenting in a respectful manner. The people denying this ever happened are appalling to me, and I abhor their willful ignorance.

    • @marcuscorda9760
      @marcuscorda9760 Před 2 lety +2

      Lol

    • @pijo1512
      @pijo1512 Před 2 lety +15

      It's not "wilful ignorance"; I would categorize it as 'malicious ignorance' propagated with the sole intention of achieving the following: 1. get a reaction 2. Bring about hurt and pain 3. Bask in the thrall of their purile peers. The best response to such kind of people is to just slyly smile at them. And tell them to believe whatever they want to believe if it brings pangs of joy to their hearts and their kin because, well, free will and all that entitles them to think/believe what they want to. Whatever else you do, please do not get angry because that is what they want to see. And seeing you in that state is their raison d'etre, so to speak.

    • @marcuscorda9760
      @marcuscorda9760 Před 2 lety +1

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @imherwerdio6852
      @imherwerdio6852 Před 2 lety +8

      @@marcuscorda9760 yeah, you're just a jerk. Good riddance

    • @charlotteex721
      @charlotteex721 Před 2 lety +9

      wait hang on. people are denying it happened??

  • @leeriches8841
    @leeriches8841 Před 2 lety +381

    My great-grandparents and their youngest two children were murdered in Auschwitz. My grandmother was a concentration camp survivor, she was in a satellite camp of Groß-Rosen called Gabersdorf which was in Czechoslovakia. She of course had the tattoo on her arm. She never ever accepted what happened. How could she? Her PTSD was immense and intense. Just a year or so before she passed away, she went to Auschwitz for the first time in her life and lit a candle for our murdered family. I hope she is in a better place now- the world was such an evil place for her and she had such a horrific life for such a beautiful, wonderful woman. She's my absolute hero. On two occasions I have supposed to go to visit Auschwitz but both times dreadfuls things happened to stop me going, very bizarre- it's almost as though I'm never to visit, I personally believe it would f**k me up big time as I already suffer from intergenerational trauma from my grandmothers experiences.

    • @AliPlays381
      @AliPlays381 Před 2 lety +27

      As a muslim i feel sad and heart broken for jewish people who just killed by mf devil hitler for no reason

    • @dovberjoseph4833
      @dovberjoseph4833 Před 2 lety +3

      @@AliPlays381 A few months back, at a Sabbath meal, I sat next to a Jew from Germany who left in 1938 to Palestine (Israel) . She left when she was 7 1/2 but she remembers before the war. She next door neighbors who were rabid anti-semites and two boys that were full on Nazis. She said it was very scary and that a whole generation grew up where Jews were consider 'rats'. They often called us 'Shmutzdiker Yuden' - 'Dirty Jew'.

    • @sigurdvonliebenfels3304
      @sigurdvonliebenfels3304 Před 2 lety +4

      No they weren't

    • @crc3387
      @crc3387 Před 2 lety +1

      @@dovberjoseph4833 nothing wrong with that 😂😂😂

    • @leeriches8841
      @leeriches8841 Před 2 lety +17

      @@sigurdvonliebenfels3304 why would I lie about that? This is literally my family history. I grew up listening to my grandmothers horror stories. I can even send you my grans POW number she had tattooed on her arm and you can check the online records. Can also send you link to my great-grandparents photo online.

  • @tonynoboa9448
    @tonynoboa9448 Před 2 lety +236

    I wasn't really sure how I felt of someone vlogging such an infamous place in our hearts and history but you were respectful and kind. I do agree with your notion that you have to keep remenbering these abhorrent times in our history and most young people don't seemed to care now and days. You seemed to have a way of connecting with youth and give an updated perspective to understand the horror that humanity went through and so that we may never forget.

  • @KingMias
    @KingMias Před 2 lety +97

    i think the hardest part would have been seeing that baby doll!! i can’t imagine a child going through this , breaks my heart

  • @believeinpeace
    @believeinpeace Před 2 lety +237

    It’s very painful to watch, you put it together in a very respectful manner. Thank you

    • @juliorosario5421
      @juliorosario5421 Před 2 lety

      czcams.com/video/GJOV_cN-JP8/video.html

    • @maxsmith695
      @maxsmith695 Před rokem +2

      i went to Auschwitz. i was frozen in fear.

    • @revisit8480
      @revisit8480 Před rokem

      @@maxsmith695
      Remember the time as a guard, or?

    • @maxsmith695
      @maxsmith695 Před rokem

      @@revisit8480 Say what

    • @maxsmith695
      @maxsmith695 Před rokem

      I think all films about Auschitz should be shown in libraries only.

  • @mcclane8812
    @mcclane8812 Před 2 lety +121

    I'm a 47 year old Italian father raising 2 daughters on my own without a single tie to any Jewish heritage and this brought me to tears. Knowing the fear they must've felt. The uncertainty. The poor children my God. The sick mentality to have a sign WORK WILL SET YOU FREE upon entering. Just a gut punch. Thank you for sharing as this can and should never be overlooked. Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler eradicated 10s of millions of people which just staggers my mind. How? Why? Would this ever happen again? Again, your video was informative and macabre but done respectfully.

    • @thevoiceofreason.1708
      @thevoiceofreason.1708 Před rokem

      Jews don’t like to work.

    • @Dobetter15
      @Dobetter15 Před rokem +2

      It’s happening now in China they have the same camps for Muslims and in Syria and Palestine

    • @revisit8480
      @revisit8480 Před rokem

      @@Dobetter15
      >The j*ws have camps for palestinians
      Wanna bet you wouldn't bring this to the news?

    • @alvarosousa7707
      @alvarosousa7707 Před měsícem

      Acho que foi mais turismo-----mas tudo bem--Auschwitz é preciso sentir e não virar feira. ---enfim

  • @kristenharrison9279
    @kristenharrison9279 Před rokem +42

    My grandmother was in a concentration camp. She lost her parent and siblings. My grandfather rescued her!!! She couldn’t ever talk about what she went through.

  • @amandaallen9460
    @amandaallen9460 Před 2 lety +47

    In both highschool and college, I was extremely fortunate to have been able to meet and hear the stories of 3 survivors who have sense passed away...#neverforget

    • @maxsmith695
      @maxsmith695 Před rokem

      i went to Auschwitz and was frozen in fear.

    • @amandaallen9460
      @amandaallen9460 Před rokem

      @@maxsmith695 I'm still hoping to get there in person one day

    • @manymany4879
      @manymany4879 Před 6 měsíci

      je propaganda

  • @historicqueensborough2862
    @historicqueensborough2862 Před 5 měsíci +7

    I am a history teacher in Canada, and I show this video to my history classes every year. My students listen in silence as you describe the camp. Thank you so much for producing this video, and for the compassion and empathy you demonstrate on your journey.

    • @heidisomers
      @heidisomers  Před 13 dny +1

      Thank you so much for sharing this. I’ve been reached out by many teachers who say their students actually listen/watch this video and are able to learn about what happened.🙏

  • @lauriethompson6069
    @lauriethompson6069 Před 2 lety +95

    No. Matter how many videos I see on this awful place it never fails to make me cry, never forget. Remember the poor souls who suffered this awful place. Utterly soul crushing.

    • @starfox1395
      @starfox1395 Před 2 lety +2

      Especially the women and children. 🥲

    • @juliorosario5421
      @juliorosario5421 Před 2 lety

      czcams.com/video/GJOV_cN-JP8/video.html

    • @bnabna1012
      @bnabna1012 Před 2 lety +4

      @@starfox1395 how about the men tf?

    • @PurpleIsGood_Dog
      @PurpleIsGood_Dog Před rokem +2

      @@starfox1395 Did you forgot that men do infact exist?

    • @starfox1395
      @starfox1395 Před rokem +1

      @@PurpleIsGood_Dog Do you know what the word “Especially” means? It means I speaking for both genders but especially women and children. 🙄

  • @benicio1967
    @benicio1967 Před 2 lety +48

    Heidi.... this was so poignant and profound. You truly brought so much empathy and respect to this piece. We’re all seeing this as a chapter that can be repeated far more easily than we could have ever imagined.

  • @specterusarmy3983
    @specterusarmy3983 Před 2 lety +25

    This is way history should never be forgotten

  • @inac.7842
    @inac.7842 Před 2 lety +24

    This is just so horrendous- I’m feeling really down now 😞😞😞😞😞You’re absolutely right in regard to remembering history in order to learn from the past . 👍👍 xxx I deeply respect you for having done this on your own . Must haven been horrible when you probably needed a shoulder to cry on . Bless you xxx

  • @stephaniecain7032
    @stephaniecain7032 Před rokem +4

    I'm watching this 6yrs after you posted. I just want to say thank you for sharing and bringing these details to light.

  • @ticrific
    @ticrific Před 2 lety +225

    I couldn’t watch the full video. This is haunting. Every Holocaust denier and person who makes incredibly insensitive comparisons should go there and see it for themselves

    • @tedbarbosa539
      @tedbarbosa539 Před rokem +2

      Why go all the way to germany. Go to LA, Philly, youll see some of the same inhumane stuff.

    • @maxsmith695
      @maxsmith695 Před rokem

      I went to Auschwitz. I became frozen. It was -30C. Kitty slept in those conditions each night

    • @UnknownName-ob4jo
      @UnknownName-ob4jo Před rokem

      @@tedbarbosa539 you sound stupid af 🤣

    • @Ionabrodie69
      @Ionabrodie69 Před rokem +5

      @@tedbarbosa539comments like yours just proves the point above …😡🇬🇧

    • @nicholasyong7051
      @nicholasyong7051 Před rokem +1

      ​@Ted Barbosa you can't compare evil with evil

  • @primetime758
    @primetime758 Před 2 lety +43

    i'm Polish so it makes me feel guilty it happend on my land i live in Canada Toronto to be exact and my Parents wanted to take me there i was 18 and i remember reaching the gates Arbeit Mach Frei ''work sets you free'' i got a shiver and as we walked on i found it harded to breath and to hold my tears back and my parents saw the emotions but i wasn't alone others had tears as well and we i saw everything the gas chambers the clothes the personal belongings the fact little kids died i did cry out loud but the tears just came i couldn't hold back... this is a very very dark time that will live forever

    • @anitajolly1326
      @anitajolly1326 Před 2 lety +9

      Why would you be ashamed that it happened on your land? It happened TO your land! Polish people were not responsible for death of millions of people.

    • @savithrynamboodiripad1279
      @savithrynamboodiripad1279 Před 2 lety +5

      @@anitajolly1326 survivors guilt is real.. they said guilty, not ashamed.. and we are nobody to tell them how to feel. All we can do is lend an ear

    • @heightsofsagarmatha
      @heightsofsagarmatha Před 2 lety

      Canada committed genocide during the pandemic, with lockdowns which killed thousands of people, it was done by force, a literal genocide, also happened in USA but thankfully many parts of the country were not subject to harsh, murderous lockdowns

    • @vernongoodey5096
      @vernongoodey5096 Před rokem

      I’m from UK visited Auschwitz a few years ago, just to say never feel guilty this happened in Poland it was the Germans that planned and carried out these crimes. Britain is blamed by some for not allowing Jewish people to leave Eastern Europe in the 1930s to settle in what is now Israel. Also have many friends whos Fathers were Polish and came over to Britain in 1940 to fight in the Royal Air Force and helped us defeat the Germans in the Battle Of Britain

  • @ceznaa3228
    @ceznaa3228 Před 2 lety +55

    My heart was beating so fast while watching this. Respect for all the people that suffered in these camps.

  • @Lily-ld4nw
    @Lily-ld4nw Před 2 lety +35

    Wow. I never really saw how terrible the living was, I always understood this was a horrific event but seeing it makes it a reality check. ❤️

  • @sassyjintheuk
    @sassyjintheuk Před 2 lety +29

    I commend you Heidi on being so open and courageous to go and learn for yourself. And to report so well to us.
    It simply must be hell on earth when such evil surfaces, and sadly now. May we all be strong enough to face it and end it. God bless all those caught by such evil and may they suffer no more. May we bear witness and together put an end to such hideous atrocities. 🙏 Amen.

  • @kathyturner6177
    @kathyturner6177 Před 2 lety +6

    Heidi thank you for bringing this to us. Just can not believe how people can do these horrible things to others. It makes me sick ti my stomach to see and hear what happened. Just unbelievable, but thank you for your time and sharing what you saw. You didn’t a wonderful job narrating what you saw and learned. Just off the subject wanted to say you are a beautiful young lady. Thank you🙏🏻

  • @richardbartolo2890
    @richardbartolo2890 Před 2 lety +5

    Thank You for spending your time to bring this to Social Media. For some one so young your thoughtful and mature. The more people like you bring this kind of history to the forefront for those who are to young to know, Or those who are just really not aware of this atrocity of history the less chance this history will have to repeat itself.

  • @jasminesingh5396
    @jasminesingh5396 Před 2 lety +22

    thank you for sharing all this, its so hard to listen to such stuff, to all the young historians, I recommend coming to Poland, Krakow for this experience, it features so much to learn . people forget the small parts in WWII that are dreadful to the people who lived during the period. thank you for presenting this in a respectful manner to other to spread awareness :)

  • @loveserveovercome4211
    @loveserveovercome4211 Před 2 lety +5

    Thank you so much for sharing this Heidi! I was just bawling watching your video 😭 I live in North Pole, Alaska - practically neighbors with your family 🙏🏻 This is so important for everyone to see

  • @iainmcclain
    @iainmcclain Před 2 lety +18

    I just recently discovered that I am part Jewish. Though I am greatful that none of my ancestors went through this that I know of, I am thankful that you shared this and am privileged to have seen it.

    • @41g28
      @41g28 Před 2 lety

      How can you be part Jew?

    • @iainmcclain
      @iainmcclain Před 2 lety +1

      @@41g28 One side of my family is Jewish while the other is not. Благословите тебе богу.

    • @miamarino339
      @miamarino339 Před 2 lety

      @@41g28 haveing one side me jewish babe

    • @41g28
      @41g28 Před 2 lety +1

      @@miamarino339 but Judaism is a religion…

    • @darkx6869
      @darkx6869 Před 2 lety +2

      I thought being Jewish was a religion not race…
      If so you can’t be Jewish just because someone in your family is, it’s like saying you’re Christian because your mom is.

  • @littlesofty01
    @littlesofty01 Před 2 lety +36

    My father fought in WWII 1944-45 Belgium he told me how horrible it was when he saw the people who suffered

    • @sigurdvonliebenfels3304
      @sigurdvonliebenfels3304 Před 2 lety +2

      Charles Lindbergh will tell you who wanted the war.

    • @littlesofty01
      @littlesofty01 Před 2 lety +1

      @Sigurd VonLiebenfels WTF? does that have to do with my father? OH NOTHING!

    • @sigurdvonliebenfels3304
      @sigurdvonliebenfels3304 Před 2 lety

      @@littlesofty01 Your father would not have had to fight the war, and tens of millions of people would not have been killed if it were not for the schemes and machinations of people like Henry MORGENTHAU, lying rodents like FDR, and warmongering perverts like Winston Churchill (good job on saving Poland from btw). The world leader who wanted war the least is defamed and vilified the most. Don't forget, the Lugenpresse still calls it "the good war".

    • @lynux54663
      @lynux54663 Před 2 lety

      @@sigurdvonliebenfels3304 What the fuck are you on about?

    • @lynux54663
      @lynux54663 Před 2 lety +1

      @@sigurdvonliebenfels3304 are you saying hitler was good ?

  • @blakepickett1082
    @blakepickett1082 Před rokem +5

    Just got back from Poland and Germany. We also went to Auschwitz and Birkenau. Very impactful and I highly encourage people to do it! You learn a lot about it and how big one of the camps actually is.

  • @karenbellard5729
    @karenbellard5729 Před 2 lety +11

    I am so proud of you that wasn’t it feel good trip. I grew up in the Oklahoma and the trail of tears is a real thing. You honored all of those people bless your heart

    • @galenmerrick
      @galenmerrick Před rokem

      1920 Tulsa was a real thing. Sort of pre dates the jew experience. What are you thoughts on Tulsa. Or anything that happened in the 1920s, everything before, and all that's happened after?

  • @mitchellmagiera6189
    @mitchellmagiera6189 Před rokem +5

    Thank you for sharing! We can't forget our history! This was an awful time and can never be forgotten or repeated. Such a sad place but something to see and pay respects to those who died there.

  • @erikua2010
    @erikua2010 Před rokem +4

    Visited the memorial in 2017. Specifically made this my first stop on my first trip to Europe. It was numbing… I don’t think I slept for two days. This video is as hard to watch as the day I was there. Thank you for posting this.

  • @user-dh3ry6zn2v
    @user-dh3ry6zn2v Před 2 lety +27

    This is where i want to go to pay my respect to all the people who went through those gates ❤️

  • @lindadull2391
    @lindadull2391 Před 2 lety +13

    Heidi, thank you for sharing this. I have read a few books about Holocaust survivors, their experience, their survival. What a horrific time in history. How can so many people deny that this ever happened. Genocide still happens. We just have to open our eyes to see how.

  • @lalalalaokok367
    @lalalalaokok367 Před 2 lety +18

    I can just feel the negativity through the video... it's really heartbreaking what people had gone through 💔

  • @JojoleeAnimates
    @JojoleeAnimates Před 2 lety +25

    This was truly a calamity... It awesome to see people still remembering this tragedy. Great video

  • @louebegg3623
    @louebegg3623 Před 2 lety +8

    Thank you for sharing. I have never been and not sure I’ll get there so this was a good way to see it. Very respectfully done 🙏

  • @wilburcase3766
    @wilburcase3766 Před rokem +3

    Thank you for sharing this video it is a part of our history we must never let be forgotten. I had the honor of meeting a Holocost survivor a few years ago at a Memorial day service he was the guest speaker. He spent his entire teenage years in the camps, he saw and was forced to do things no one should have to see and do.

  • @happybirthdayniallerwelove2249

    I always think “this is it, now they will stop” but as it is, sometimes people cross all their limits, Nazis proved they were inhumane and monsters. I cried watching this video and it makes me feel horrible of what actually happened there. Nothing can be worst then this. I am studying the Nazi Germany chapter for my history lesson and now each and everything that happened with innocent Europeans haunts me in my dreams. Knowing very well, millions of people were murdered here and for no reason makes me feel angry and unlimited hatred towards all those who participated in it without any regret and shame. I feel sad and upset when I think of all those who had to go through it. There was no Humanity in Hitler’s rule. It was just power and evilness. I still don’t understand the concept of Hitler’s hatred. Everyone have a strong reason of hating someone, cause hate is in itself a very strong word. But his hatred had no reason. It is still not clear to me how the hell he said “they are not worthy of living”, this in its own was horrible. It made feel sad. Hats off to you for video taping everything and showing this to us. Not everyone will have , including me the courage to step in there as everything I read would revolve in my mind like a flashback as if I am living in that time. Even then you explained everything that happened and told your experience. I salute everyone who had to resist the Holocaust. Once again Thankyou.

    • @happybirthdayniallerwelove2249
      @happybirthdayniallerwelove2249 Před rokem

      Aashu what? This doesn’t make sense at all. Hitler didn’t helped India or any other country in any way. He was a psycho who wanted all Jews killed for no valid reason.

  • @missmiley78
    @missmiley78 Před 2 lety +14

    This was hard to watch very heartbreaking parts of this video made me cry just looking at the peoples belonging was horrible to watch God rest all the people who died here thank you for sharing this it's never easy to visit a place where millions died but it's worth going to the place to see what it most of been like for the people that went there and died there

  • @jessicacrist8038
    @jessicacrist8038 Před 2 lety +41

    I remember hearing about this in history class in high school the pictures still burned in my head. I can't believe what happened to all those innocent people. I'm in my 30es now it still makes me sad. Thank you for sharing your experience ive often wondered what the camp actually looked like.

  • @garywalter8493
    @garywalter8493 Před 2 lety +18

    My son toured Auschwitz a few years back, he said the feelings and eeriness is real........its on my bucket list

  • @wandaratcliff3985
    @wandaratcliff3985 Před 2 lety +3

    Thank you for Sharing...my uncle was in WWII...i Loved hem so much....he lived to tell me about it... he died @home when i was only 8 in 1976 ...im so thankful that a member of my family helped these people....however for some..we get there a bit. to late..sad for loss on both sides!

  • @jocelynzahn1896
    @jocelynzahn1896 Před 2 lety +14

    Thank you for sharing. Our schools need to be teaching this history.

  • @ambreeniram2268
    @ambreeniram2268 Před 2 lety +7

    It's difficult to watch. Imagining what they suffered. It's horrific and inhumane. May their souls rest in peace.

  • @leogol6045
    @leogol6045 Před rokem

    Such a respectful vlog. I'm glad I found it so many years later. Great job and well done. Dziękuję.

  • @karenbellard5729
    @karenbellard5729 Před 2 lety +11

    It’s hard to face the truth of what else human beings have done to other human beings. the victims deserved your respect and I am proud of you.

  • @anthonycontares8660
    @anthonycontares8660 Před 2 lety +4

    As a child growing up in Vacaville California and attending church regularly in the early 1960s there were members of our congregation who were Holocaust concentration camp survivors, many who were prominent members of our community. I learned about the ugly reality's of the Holocaust at an early age because it was being taught in school about the horrors of WWll. I had the honor to meet many military veterans of that war who shared their stories with me of their experiences.
    My late uncle, "my mom's Elder brother" who was a army medic in WWll towards the end of the war.
    His unit liberated and assisted in medical treatment and humanitarian aid to the wrongly incarcerated prisoners at Dachau on April 29 1946.
    Horrors there were just unbelievable. Dachau was the first and longest running camp inside Germany.

  • @LRAinCA
    @LRAinCA Před rokem +2

    The prisoner barracks are so heartbreaking. I can only imagine how cold and uncomfortable they must have been. On top of being starved, abused, and in constant stress, not being able to rest is another level of hell.

    • @innovbrain
      @innovbrain Před 7 měsíci

      Add to it what was worse : Bacteria, rats and parasites everywhere 😢

  • @TheMcKnights.
    @TheMcKnights. Před 11 měsíci +4

    As a German this is a mandatory class trip for everyone, I went to two or three camps I think when I was younger. Seeing you vlog this experience with such grace and historic curiosity made me respect you even more so than I already did for your bubbly but honest fitness videos. When you wondered why some rooms were allowed to be seen I thought to myself how we often show the most ugly truths in order to have them be remembered. So they are not so much shown for sensational reasons but to educate and have people grasp the whole disturbing truth and danger that lies within regimes and hateful humans. It is to make you painfully aware what people are capable of and to remind you to stand up for the people that need your help and power. To never make this happen again. Now, at a time where right wing parties are on a rise all over the world I am even more so grateful for someone like you to share this as people will be more receptive to your experience there rather than a finger in the air know it all teacher figure. Thank you again.

    • @clovergrass9439
      @clovergrass9439 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Judaic indoctrination.

    • @user-lr8xf9df3d
      @user-lr8xf9df3d Před 2 měsíci

      You being German has nothing to do with it. Stop pushing this disgusting gulit.

  • @conniann5450
    @conniann5450 Před 2 lety +8

    Never Forget. So heart breaking. So much respect to everyone. Let’s live in love from now 😢

  • @katherinekerbow8344
    @katherinekerbow8344 Před 11 měsíci +3

    I hope everyone knows how much courage this sweet girl has or had....i really don't know if i could have made it through at all... It is so traumatizing to even think about....much less actually be there...

  • @jillianalampon3458
    @jillianalampon3458 Před 3 měsíci

    I praise you for going and showing us through your lens what these innocent beautiful people went through. Thank you for sharing this with us. So grateful. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

  • @mariecrabtree3409
    @mariecrabtree3409 Před 2 lety +9

    Thank you for sharing this sad video. So many have watched movies of the death camps. Your video made it more personable.

  • @HumanSagaVault
    @HumanSagaVault Před rokem +4

    "genocide still happens today"
    Syria, Palestine, Israel, Ukraine and many more countries getting bombed left and right killing innocent civilians including children. heartbreaking, What a cruel world we have💔😢

  • @joaoramos32
    @joaoramos32 Před rokem +2

    I know nothing about your channel, but the way you're presenting this is very classy.
    You got my respect. Best of luck

  • @sherribell4032
    @sherribell4032 Před 8 měsíci +1

    My Dad was Army Infranty WW2. He was in the Battle of the Buldge. After the war he was sent to Germany with my mom and big brother. My parents went here. My mom said it was horrible. This was right after the war and it was not as sanitized as now.

  • @joshallday95
    @joshallday95 Před 2 lety +7

    Thank you for sharing, this is very important to remember in these times now! Remember to be grateful and remember to respectful! I felt like I went to concentration camp by watching this…cried a lot, If we forget about History, there will be no History! - JIG.

  • @cindymichaels548
    @cindymichaels548 Před 2 lety +11

    I'm jewish and Thanks for making my day it really means a lot to me

  • @dominicfischio851
    @dominicfischio851 Před 2 lety +2

    outstanding video - very well done, great job capturing the proper essence. i plan on going some day in the foreseeable future.

  • @SebMick-fr2yt
    @SebMick-fr2yt Před 2 lety +5

    It is an outrage that there are many who deny that these atrocities occurred, thank you for helping to educate the world about the truth.

  • @Izzy-ue1sx
    @Izzy-ue1sx Před rokem +12

    I went to the holocaust museum a couple of days ago and I’m absolutely traumatized on the horrific pictures I saw, it’s so sad and unfortunate how evil human beings can be, it’s even worse that many genocides are still happening today.. so unfortunate, may those who passed Rest In Peace❤

    • @revisit8480
      @revisit8480 Před rokem

      Now imagine you went to Russia and had to see pictures of 100 million civilians killed by people like Genrich Jagoda (who killed around 20 Million).

  • @pd417
    @pd417 Před rokem +2

    Many years ago I met an Auschwitz survivor. While speaking with her, I saw the numbers tattooed on her arm and I immediately apologized. She told me not to be sorry. She said the world must never forget what happened, we proceeded to have a long conversation about what happened to her and her family in Auschwitz.

  • @kaylawarner3669
    @kaylawarner3669 Před rokem +2

    This was hard to watch for me. My great great grandfather got his family, (my great grandma) out of Germany right before Hitler started rounding us up. He went back for their belongings and never returned. We know he must have died at a camp but don't know which one. And to see that clip of the luggage with Our name on it, Goldstein. Just brought me to tears. Thank you for Sharing

  • @bikerguy5829
    @bikerguy5829 Před 2 lety +23

    Makes me ashamed to be a human being knowing what these people went thru.

  • @Sarah-sb5do
    @Sarah-sb5do Před 2 lety +6

    Appreciate your work Heidi.
    After a pass of about a long term of years this place still looks so horrifying creepy just imagine how it must have looked before and what was it for the innocent people to go through it.
    We'll never let this happen again!
    #NeverAgain #EqualityForAll

  • @von-Adler
    @von-Adler Před rokem +1

    Auschwitz has had a visitor years ago that identified one suitcase with name written on it, as the suitcase his father used. Upon arrival all bags and suitcases had to be given up. Suitcases/ bags etc were taken to the Kanada barracks and sorted/stored there.

  • @ABonRMS
    @ABonRMS Před 2 lety +19

    Good for you, sad as it is I wish more people would stare Evil in the eye to recognize how horrible it has and can be. You are stronger have more respect for how people can slip into its horrible grip. And to think there are people who still will try to deny this ever happened? I to have fascination with history, thank God that not all is as terrible as this. You did a great job on this, and you are a better person for having seen it for yourself. Thanks

  • @apriljepsen9778
    @apriljepsen9778 Před 9 měsíci

    Thank you so much for offering me this video fan rewards and I try to keep it up and keep my eyes on the future

  • @johnkammerer5707
    @johnkammerer5707 Před 2 lety +3

    Thank you. I can feel the anguish just watching the video.

  • @piperentp7
    @piperentp7 Před 2 lety +7

    Seeing the little shoes and baby doll was so sad. 💔

  • @daniellebenfield95
    @daniellebenfield95 Před 2 lety +20

    Omg! When my high school took us to the holocaust museum in DC, the area that had the shoes was the one that got me the most too! I was literally just thinking about that right before the shoes were shown

    • @4my2kids53
      @4my2kids53 Před 2 lety

      Do you remember the pair of red shoes that’s stood out

    • @4my2kids53
      @4my2kids53 Před 2 lety

      Do you remember the pair of red shoes that’s stood out

    • @accesstotheredcarpet
      @accesstotheredcarpet Před 2 lety

      Same here. Went to that one in DC. Couldn’t finish the entire tour. Just too heartbreaking

  • @stefanimcgehee5140
    @stefanimcgehee5140 Před 3 měsíci

    Heidi you did a great job in the narration of this, thank you

  • @anthonysmith9564
    @anthonysmith9564 Před rokem

    I visited this place two days ago. Very emotional, mixed feelings of anger, disgust and sadness, but I’m glad they preserved it. It’s one thing to read about it but visiting this place gives you the true perception of what a truly massive machine this was. It’s important to learn from the past as we move into the future.

  • @unknownusersnm
    @unknownusersnm Před 2 lety +14

    This was so interesting to watch as I always wondered what it was like in the camps but too sad to even watch :(

  • @user-tq4vj3ck9t
    @user-tq4vj3ck9t Před 2 lety +13

    Be alert about evil people specially when they start forming aggressive righteous groups targeting others

    • @Meee853
      @Meee853 Před 2 lety +1

      exactly like gangstalkers and cyberbullies

  • @barb6281
    @barb6281 Před rokem

    Thank you. I've never been and I don't know if I'll ever have a chance to see it. I am grateful to you for posting this video.

  • @elainehardyman4694
    @elainehardyman4694 Před rokem

    This was done with great respect and reverence. What happened here ahould necer been forgotten. My sister lived in Germany for 3 yrs and visited here. She said it was the hardest thing to see, but she's grateful she did.

  • @johnconnick5308
    @johnconnick5308 Před 2 lety +21

    Every school across Europe the USA and the UK should do this and put this into there agenda that teenagers should go to Auschwitz and Treblinka and get to see what it was like and how lucky they are and be grateful for what you have.

    • @arjun4584
      @arjun4584 Před 2 lety +3

      I agree with your point but everyone should have to see the horrors of the holocaust no matter where they are from this is because nationalism racism anti-Semitism and other prejudice are increasing all over the world and hence we all must be shown the true evilness of the holocaust to prevent such a thing from ever happening again

    • @sigurdvonliebenfels3304
      @sigurdvonliebenfels3304 Před 2 lety

      The pool wasn't even heated. The barbarians.

    • @mi3lla
      @mi3lla Před 2 lety

      my school has a whole unit on it in 2 classes

    • @johnconnick5308
      @johnconnick5308 Před 2 lety

      @@mi3lla I truly commend you and other countries a cross the World 🌎 this is get the people that bully into today’s society then watch their faces drop to the floor. Can I ask you a question? Please

    • @KoshVader
      @KoshVader Před 2 lety +1

      I agree that we need to learn about it but I'm not sure about saying people should be grateful for what we have.
      Too often that phrase is used to get people to accept things as they are and discourage them from making changes. The world is in a terrible place right now, the planet is burning, the divide between rich and poor is widening, the pandemic is still killing people (especially clinically vulnerable people) and those who speak out are told they need to be grateful for what they have.
      You can appreciate what you have while also saying that things need to be better.

  • @helenchelmicka3028
    @helenchelmicka3028 Před rokem +5

    When I visited I found the rooms with the material evidence some of the hardest things to see there. I think it was next to the hair, there was a pile of teeth, many with gold fillings. Just horrific. Thank you for such a powerful video.

  • @patricklee6451
    @patricklee6451 Před rokem +2

    It's awesome, as a young person like yourself will have so many people of the same age to relate and help understand what happened here and to help never forget what happened. I thought as a world we would have learned from the past but in some countries hatred and violence still happens.

  • @happyside795
    @happyside795 Před 2 lety +14

    Just watching this makes me so sad that people had to live through this and toured it just makes me upset

  • @Daisy1001
    @Daisy1001 Před 2 lety +30

    Sickening how much evil has and still exist in this beautiful world.

  • @ilduce5874
    @ilduce5874 Před 2 lety +2

    My late father was one of the American service members who helped liberate these camps. His campaigns were D-Day, Northern France, Rhineland, Central Europe and the Ardennes (popularly known as the Battle of the Bulge).

  • @smartchai
    @smartchai Před 2 lety +5

    This part of history should NEVER... EVER... EVER... be allowed to repeat itself ! RIP to everyone who suffered during the Holocaust 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 !

  • @HumanSagaVault
    @HumanSagaVault Před rokem +5

    "Women, CHILDREN!, elderly and the handicapped were sent directly to the gas chambers" clenches my heart so much...oh my god💔😭😭😭

  • @jodieannehuntley2881
    @jodieannehuntley2881 Před rokem +2

    It wasn't mentioned that the prisoners in the video with the upside down triangles were there for being homosexual. It's a population far too often left out of the Holocaust discussions.

  • @jlaskier
    @jlaskier Před rokem +1

    I dont normally comment on such a painfull topic,but as the son of a wonderful man who survived Auschwitz i feel compelled to express my admiration for a lady from a different life and almost a different world who has opened her eyes to history.Henry Kissinger once said "the only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history"
    This history must not be repeated.Thank you from a son who still bears the scars of this darkest time

  • @KimFsharpHarp
    @KimFsharpHarp Před rokem +5

    Thank you for sharing. History is so important. You are actually doing what I want to do! The size is so enormous; it took thousands of Nazis to carry out the killing. The people in the towns, villages, prisoners, had to have smelled the incineration. Spielberg’s capture is priceless in Schindler’s List: the falling ashes. God rest every lost soul that died there.

  • @einfachicke1417
    @einfachicke1417 Před rokem +2

    It is realy good to see a young lady like you to go and visit such a horrible place and learn about the history. Thank you for doing this and for this extreme emotional video. Sorry for my bad english.

  • @theduchessofceylon
    @theduchessofceylon Před 2 lety +8

    I don't think i would be able to make it thru if i had to go there in person.
    Thank you for sharing this

  • @tobiojo6469
    @tobiojo6469 Před rokem +2

    I went to the Holocaust memorial and museum in high school, it’s the most emotional trip I’ve ever been and it will remain with me for the rest of my life.

  • @haycock7759
    @haycock7759 Před rokem

    It took courage to embark on this adventure and then to film this by yourself. Great job. I've never seen the inside of Camp 1. Its difficult to see it on video. I can only imagine the emotion you would feel in person. I still want to go and see this place in person one day. Thanks for the video.

    • @littlebobas9656
      @littlebobas9656 Před rokem

      The reason you haven't seen footage of inside before is because it is treated respectfully as a tomb so should not be filmed or photographed.

    • @maxsmith695
      @maxsmith695 Před rokem

      @@littlebobas9656 Geraldo filmed King Tut tomb and posted it on TV.

  • @ReficulDrakul
    @ReficulDrakul Před 2 lety +4

    I'm sad I'll never be able to afford to go here... I have family from this era and I want to go and witness it but just... It's expensive and I coudn't go alone. Hell I was only 5 minutes in before I was crying so I shudder to think what emotions I'd feel actually being where I lost distant family members.

  • @badjinn4521
    @badjinn4521 Před 2 lety +8

    I hope people also remember the pain and suffering of uyghur who are currently suffering from this and also sympathize with them as well, just like how they do with these poor victims

  • @lorir5728
    @lorir5728 Před rokem

    I'm light headed just watching this. It's so overwhelming.

  • @lakenita2443
    @lakenita2443 Před rokem

    Omg how cool and inspiring yet sad and it seems as if u are there with the people that died at the camp.. wow , may they rest in peace.. loved your video ❤

  • @phillricher7375
    @phillricher7375 Před 2 lety +3

    I am doing the same thing this summer...every one who can, should. My dad was in WW2 so now it's my time to pay respects to the lost Generation of people. I am going to Warsaw and Cracow..