80 years later...three survivors of Auschwitz death camp tell of their experiences

[Debp]

Must see video for the younger generation.    Some photos included at intervals.

 

[In the Clouds]

It's heartbreaking.  

[Debp]

PBS had two specials last night on Auschwitz which I watched.    One was about the Jewish resistance fighters who were the young people.    The other about two survivors of the camp.

I know a lot about the Holocaust as I read books on it when I was a teenager.   However, I didn't know about Jews being in the resistance.

[In the Clouds]

I have been watching the series, too.  I'm 1/4 Polish.  My immediate family was already in the states during that time; but, I can't help thinking about the what ifs and those who experienced such atrocities.  When I went to Yad Vashem, I cried my heart out and thought, "How can this be real?"

[Debp]

44 minutes ago, In the Clouds said:

I have been watching the series, too.  I'm 1/4 Polish.  My immediate family was already in the states during that time; but, I can't help thinking about the what ifs and those who experienced such atrocities.  When I went to Yad Vashem, I cried my heart out and thought, "How can this be real?"

I'm half Polish, 1/4 German and 1/4 other Eastern European (maybe Austro Hungarian Empire or Slovakia).

[Neighbor]

15 hours ago, Debp said:

PBS had two specials last night on Auschwitz which I watched.    One was about the Jewish resistance fighters who were the young people.    The other about two survivors of the camp.

I know a lot about the Holocaust as I read books on it when I was a teenager.   However, I didn't know about Jews being in the resistance.

Hi, It was three hours of presentation which I managed to stay with till the finish. Excellent, informative, and helpful, especially because the presentation did address resistance in two parts of it's three parts. I will call it Christlike spiritual resistance from the beginning, plus then physical resistance with real counter attacks and escapes all with the determination that there will be a record left of the holocaust. That  the horror the evil that was, and still is, will not be allowed to be forgotten nor denied successfully. The accounts of heroes mostly women are amazing testimonies.

That the idea the Jews went to slaughter like so many cattle and did  not resist was turned on it's head  in the accounts presented of determination to resist and keep record of the atrocity that so many even today try to deny ever happened.

 Sidenote: The Florida Holocaust Museum at St.Petersburg, Florida, USA.,  https://www.thefhm.org will reopen mid year 2025 after extensive expansion/renovation. The small Danish fishing boat "Thor" used to hide and smuggle Jews away from the Germans was discovered, saved, and will be on display. It arrived At St.Petersburg  on December 24th 2024 in  and will be part of the new displays of testimony when  the museum reopens mid 2025.

 

[Debp]

I just watched the movie, Across The Waters, of how the Danish boat captains helped the Jews escape to Sweden.

The movie is free on Tubi app or website.   They have many movies about the Holocaust....a lot based on true events.

I've watched several on Tubi the past several years including one on Sobibor.

Tubi now has several movies about the Jewish uprising and escape from Sobibor.

 

 

[farouk]

On 1/29/2025 at 8:25 AM, In the Clouds said:

I have been watching the series, too.  I'm 1/4 Polish.  My immediate family was already in the states during that time; but, I can't help thinking about the what ifs and those who experienced such atrocities.  When I went to Yad Vashem, I cried my heart out and thought, "How can this be real?"

I visited a concentration camp museum; horrendous things to remember; must not be forgotten.

[Lery_27]

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