AUSCHWITZ II: The German Nazi extermination camp, a complete tour

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Construction on Auschwitz II-Birkenau began in October 1941 to ease congestion at the main camp. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel (SS), intended the camp to house 50,000 prisoners of war, who would be interned as forced laborers. Plans called for the expansion of the camp first to house 150,000 and eventually as many as 200,000 inmates. An initial contingent of 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war arrived at Auschwitz I in October 1941, but by March 1942 only 945 were still alive, and these were transferred to Birkenau, where most of them died from disease or starvation by May. By this time Hitler had decided to annihilate the Jewish people, so Birkenau was repurposed as a combination labor camp/extermination camp. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum estimates that 1.3 million people, 1.1 million of them Jewish, were sent to the camp during its existence.
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@JohnWest-hi1dg 3 месяца назад

Thank you so much for putting in a lot of time and effort to make sure everything about this HELL ON EARTH place covered & not forgotten. I thought I knew a lot of this place, but I was wrong. I couldn't bring myself to visit in person. Maybe one day I will. Again, thank you so much.

@VicStefanu 3 месяца назад

You are very welcome

@cynthiagodwin5043 3 года назад

I visited Auschwitz in 1995 as a 24 year old. Watching your video, it feels like just yesterday. I have never felt so chilled to the bone as I felt that day. I cannot believe people try to deny this atrocity took place, and I agree 100% with you, any non-believers should go and stand on the selection platform-the enormous weight of lingering sadness and loss cannot be escaped or denied.

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

Hello, thank you for your thoughtful comments!! 👍👍👍

@williamwhitcombe6487 2 года назад

If you ever go again Cynt, invite Angela Merkel the rest of her government along. Don't ever let THEM forget what their predecessors, & in some cases relatives main contribution was to Germanys WW2 effort

@elx2482 2 года назад

@@williamwhitcombe6487 Agree with your sentiments completely. Question: how is it that the SAME cannot be understood concerning the African Holocaust committed against the Black People of America???

@dare-er7sw 2 года назад

Why no ghost hunting experiments there like evp recordings?

@dare-er7sw 2 года назад

@ It's not entertainment but for the spirits there who want to be known. Is it open at night?

@gripplehound 3 года назад

Sitting here watching this and stressing out about work. My problems are nothing compared to the emotions people must have been experiencing here. So humbling.

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

@stephenpoole7828 3 года назад

I visited in 2005 stayed in krakow that wkend. If you get the chance then go and visit ..its interesting heartbreaking humbling at the same time..

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

@@stephenpoole7828 Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

@mistyvioletconservative.3889 2 года назад

Amen 🙏🏻

@dorishousand3122 2 года назад

Scares me. Because of this, I will never give up my gun,,,or be taken alive. Satin was on earth . Peace for all victims 😪

@HG-zm4qg 5 лет назад

Only 70 years ago...jesus. the closest thing to "hell on earth" humanity ever witnessed.

@VicStefanu 5 лет назад

Hello, thank you for your comments!!

@rogeeeferrari 3 года назад

80 years ago...

@AG26498 3 года назад

Unfortunately it still continues. North korea and China still use concentration camps.

@JoeyDavies777 3 года назад

The Americans put Japanese in concentration camps.

@conpop6924 3 года назад

@@JoeyDavies777 eh they weren't like the nazis one's tho.

@darrynreid4500 2 года назад

Something I appreciated in watching your presentation is how you have successfully portrayed a sense of the sheer scale of the murder factory, which isn't always apparent. I think this is an important part of bringing the memory of the victims to those of us who have not yet had the opportunity to see the scars of this incomprehensibly horrorific part of history for ourselves.

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

Hello my friend, thank you for these wonderful comments! 👍👍👍

@jonstearns886 3 года назад

My father was one of the first to reach Bergen-Belsen during it's Liberation. The horrors he saw and experienced there were way beyond what I could possibly conceive in my mind.

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

Wow... Usually, former soldiers were so traumatised with the experience and from what they saw, they refused to speak about it until the end end of their lives..

@jonstearns886 3 года назад

@@VicStefanu My father said the thing that struck him when he arrived there was that there was petrified wood or ivory stacked all over the place. Out in the open, underneath the trees, against the buildings and in pits around behind the buildings in this huge barb wire surrounded complex. He said that he asked himself why would they do such a thing? It was then he got a much closer look and realized what it was. Thousands of bodies stacked everywhere and that is when the real horror of the situation set in. He showed me the pictures of what he saw and told me the whole story when I was around 7 years old .

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

@@jonstearns886 Amazing.. I have heard so many horrible things from witnesses but this is a new one, thanks for sharing..

@donaldkepple4927 Год назад

I heard that the soliders that liberated these hell holes had nightmares for a long time

@BonnieDragonKat 2 года назад

Thank You for this. My adopted mother has relatives who's ashes are in that lake. Their only wrongdoing was not having their papers when asked.

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

@m42037 Год назад

That sounds like the SS, butcher's

@joannemcfadden6405 Год назад

So sad. The more I know. God bless you and your family.

@moneyfornothing3264 Год назад

@@joannemcfadden6405 😮

@daviddunnmusic8323 2 года назад

RU-vid should be ashamed of themselves putting adverts into these videos 😓

@pjromero6604 3 года назад

Thank you for this informative video. Such a horrible site, but very educational. I come from Jewish decent, having had both great grandparents persecuted at this site. My grandmother was just a baby when they sent her on a ship with a family friend. I have her manifest when she arrived at Ellis Island. If not for her escape, I wouldn’t be here today. God bless all families affected by this tragedy 🙏

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

Hello, thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!! 👍👍👍

@lindamcdaniel5066 Год назад

These people are the apple of Gods eye. They will burn in hell if not repented for this awful killing. This is unreal to look at and know what happened to these precious people

@deboraholsen2504 Год назад

You have a very profound story. Your life, alone, if not for any other reason, gives you a reason to revere life, itself! So many young people in America do not realize how thankful they should be for life, itself!! They completely take their own life AND the privilege of living in a country that has guaranteed human rights, for granted, and don’t realize that life is special and sacred! This is true for every single human who was ever, or will be born!!! Our lives are all wonderful to our creator, our Father in Heaven, and He sent each and every one of us here! Many women do not understand the power they have inside their bodies of creation with God! Every baby conceived is of God, irrespective of the sins of their parents! Children are completely innocent, and should be treated that very way. They are all born with wonderful personalities and potential and individual talents! I’m sharing this with anyone who might read this. I came from Jewish descent, too, but those I descended from were fortunate enough to come to America from Ukraine and Romania in the very early 1900s and resided in NYC for a time, where they opened a jewelry business. Then, for reasons unknown to me, they moved to Chicago, where my Grandfather was born in 1910. For reasons again unknown, they moved to the west coast, where my great grandmother had children in Seattle, San Francisco, LA, and San Diego. The births of my great aunt and uncles enable me to track their family’s travels to the cities they lived in! My great uncles remained in San Diego, with one moving up to Pacific Palisades, while my grandpa settled in Huntington Beach. It is remarkable to me that all four of my grandfather’s children, who were all born in the 1930s, remained in Orange County for their entire lives with their spouses and children!!! So today, myself and several cousins remain in OC or San Diego, as well as many of our children and even grandchildren. I wish our ancestors had been inspired by the fact that we really WANTED to know about their lives and our family history! Because what I have told you is almost all that I know about them! I wish I knew so much more!!! I can reasonably deduce that I had many distant cousins and other relatives who suffered in the concentration camps, and were put to death, just because they were Jewish!! 😢 My grandfather and his brothers did largely abandon his Jewish heritage and religion. My father was an atheist. But my mother always loved God and Jesus Christ and was insightful enough to be baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints when she was expecting me. I’ve been a strong believer of our Savior, Jesus Christ during my whole life, and have known since I was very young that His name is the only name given under heaven whereby we may receive salvation. I love Jesus so very much and He is my greatest friend! I strongly believe that my grandpa and his brothers and sister have been taught these truths since they have passed through the veil that leads to our next existence. They now know that the Jews missed the fact that the Savior of the World was already born in Bethlehem over 2,000 years ago, but He lives!!! He is more alive than you and I, and resides in Heaven, His spirit inhabiting His resurrected body. Jesus fulfilled the Father’s commandment and broke the bands of death for us by allowing himself to do the Father’s will and died to pay for our sins, if we would choose to repent for our sins. We will all be resurrected because Jesus Christ made this possible for us! That is the reason we love Him so very much, and want to do his will and serve Him and His children. I want this salvation for my Jewish ancestors, if they want it for themselves. I love all of them, and they made my life possible. Please visit churchofjesuschrist.org for more information on the saving ordinances for those who have left this earth, so that, through the Holy Melchizedek Priesthood and the Aaronic Priesthood, they can receive their baptism, blessings, and endowments for those who recognize and revere and love our Savior. Life is truly precious, and the opportunity to come to earth to become mortal for a time in our existence, is truly a wonderful opportunity, and God will heal all our sorrows that we did not bring on ourselves, especially the horrible, horrific, horrifying atrocities that these Jewish people suffered!!!!! We can only imagine!!!! But, they suffer no more, because of the great love of the Savior, Jesus Christ, who is the Healer, and because of God, our loving Father in Heaven. He will make sure that justice will be served to the wicked Nazi leaders and officers, just as mercy will be given to all the Holocaust victims, and this is because God is perfect and cannot lie, nor will He ever! I am so grateful to this wonderful man who cared enough about them and us, to go there and share with us this marvelous tour, and describe it for us in such heartfelt ways, and in such knowledgeable detail, so that we will never forget, that this kind of atrocity will never happen again!!!

@annnash2106 Год назад

😊😊😊

@used2beburnsy336 Год назад

I’ve recently dove into history, I enjoy watching vlogs and researching things that I don’t understand. I’ve watched many videos on this horrible event & yours is different in the best ways possible. Thank you for sharing your experience & prayers to all those who lost their lives.

@VicStefanu Год назад

Hello, thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!

@historicaustralia 4 года назад

I lived in the Eastern suburbs of Sydney from early 90's until 2010. I had 2 old ladies, sisters, who lived next door to me in a unit. They survived the war by hiding in the Black Forest for 6 years. Another man I used to know was a carpenter and survived 5 camps including Auschwitz. He had his camp ID number tattooed into his wrist. A permanent memory, his story was incredible. My uncle escaped a POW train headed for Germany from France. So many amazing stories of survival. Thanks for your video x

@VicStefanu 4 года назад

Hello, thank you for these interesting comments!! 👍👍👍

@jeffreycurtis9075 3 года назад

Most humbly, thank you.

@chrisdoherty8044 3 года назад

Great documentary gentlman.. you took me to those sad days where the Jews were mercilessly killed.. poor souls..

@jhorne18 9 лет назад

Very revealing and rare view that we get. Thank you Vic for sharing this very important aspect of the camp. Very sad and maddening, maddening, because it seems we really haven't learned much, given current events.

@VicStefanu 9 лет назад

Hello and thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!!

@MSM4U2POM 7 лет назад

+1 2 If ever proof were needed that just about any kind of nonsense serves as evidence in denier circles, then your post was it: a poorly constructed compendium of just about every ridiculous, trumped-up and ludicrous cliché, chestnut and canard in the revisionist armoury; most of it decades-old and long-debunked; none of it worth the cyberspace it occupies. If this is the best you can do, don't bother.

@jamesoughton7284 7 лет назад

MSM4U2POM Jun

@patricialauhingoa2001 3 года назад

@@MSM4U2POM Thank you so very much for sharing this video, I just felt so cold, sad n lost for words of how any human could do such a thing as evil as this

@mistyvioletconservative.3889 2 года назад

Yupppppp especially now

@brianh2159 9 лет назад

People say that this happened so long ago. In reality this is pretty much recent history. How quickly people forget the evil that continues to lurk in this world. Great video, thank you.

@VicStefanu 9 лет назад

+Brian H Hello, thank you for your wonderful comments and for watching my videos!!

@patkeeler6645 5 лет назад

+Sixte. & native american & cdn

@guymorris1963 3 года назад

History repeats itself. The US government and UN have built hundreds of concentration camps in the US. The US Army published a field training manual in the mid 2000s about how to organize and operate the civilian internment camps. Look on Georgia Guidestones and the first commandment is to keep the world population at 500 million people. Sam Walton of Wal Mart was, well before that, on the board of directors for a government agency that built and operated concentration camps, in the US, in which Japanese Americans were incarcerated during the Second World War.

@etville3 3 года назад

@@guymorris1963 :;

@doreenmessenger817 3 года назад

Not so long ago. I remember it clear as if it was yesterday.

@leighlong5447 3 года назад

Your simple commentary without music lets the stark images speak. Thank you for this excellent and important footage.

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

Hello my friend, thank you for these wonderful comments! 👍👍👍

@WW2HistoryHunter 7 лет назад

Thank You for taking time to share Your videos. Greetings from WW2HistoryHunter.

@VicStefanu 7 лет назад

Hi and thank you for viewing my videos, I am so glad that you like them!!

@patriciahale4267 3 года назад

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@adambeasley2706 3 года назад

Why does your name has a tick mark?

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

@@adambeasley2706 It means that my channel is certified (safe)

@adambeasley2706 3 года назад

@@VicStefanu Thanks Vic...

@stevep8445 3 года назад

This is amazing. I am a history buff (good and bad) and this is really well done. too many people want to just "forget" all of the horrible things that have happened in the world's history and move on. We all know the saying "Those who don't learn from history...." Thank you for this and your other videos.

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

@BBB-rd2qi 2 года назад

Steve P - I too am a history buff. I read a lot and continue to be both amazed and terrified how history is repeating itself currently…. down to the same phrases being used.

@thomasschwarting5108 Год назад

I agree, we must NEVER forget!!

@hazzachannel1 9 лет назад

leaves one shocked, even though i know the history,the walk thru still dug deep in me.

@VicStefanu 9 лет назад

hazza harris Hello and thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!! If you have not done so by now, please subscribe to my channel for more exciting videos from around the world, here is the link: www.youtube.com//user/vstefanu?sub_confirmation=1 I welcome all comments and suggestions regarding my videos and their content so do not hesitate to send me a message after viewing my channel..

@hollieprice4941 7 лет назад

I am so interested yet so heartbroken from this tragedy. I will be visiting when I can, through curiosity and sheer respect 🦋

@paulbookbinder4899 9 лет назад

Thank you for a most thoughtful, thorough, and emotive documentary. It was done with great sincerity, accuracy, and respect. I can only imagine the difficulty you ( or any rational human being) would have in remaining calm and lucid in the presence of such horror. Unfortunately the "holocaust deniers" have found this video as they always do, and have attempted to desecrate it. I am surprised that such people can read and write, much less operate a computer, yet here they are in force. Please give them the attention they are due, which is exactly zero, and do not let them diminish the importance and depth of this work. It is greatly appreciated by me and I am sure countless others who may never have the opportunity to set foot in this horrid place, yet through your lens and voice have been able to experience it.

@VicStefanu 9 лет назад

+Paul Bookbinder Hi Paul, thank you for your wonderful comments. This is a very special video and I have received thousands of encouraging comments and messages, far outweighing the negativity of the deniers...

@Robin-fn3tw Год назад

I must really compliment you on this video, since this covers way more than what I've seen when i visited. I visited Auschwitz with my school at tthe age of about 17, but i didn't really feel anything special like everyone else does when going there to be honest.

@VicStefanu Год назад

It depends (how you feel regarding your visit) on many factors, such a background, how much one has been exposed to the history of the place, etc...

@crystalr7602 Год назад

Vic, if you're still out there, I've got to say you are doing some great work recording this stuff. I hope it never gets taken off and always reminds the world of what happens when good men do nothing to stop tyrants. That's all it takes to happen for the world to turn into such ugliness and destitute. Just discovered you here on youtube. I pray you are well and still keeping all informed.

@VicStefanu Год назад

Hi Crystal, thank you for all your comments! I am still out here, travelling all around.. I am so glad you enjoyed my video!!

@hannah74100 9 лет назад

I love this tour well done for filming it for us to see. I would love to go & visit & see it for myself. So sad to hear what those poor people went through. We will always remember! Never forget their souls xxx

@catandcaboodle6492 9 лет назад

I really appreciate that you returned to Auschwitz in order to show us inside. Many documentaries just sort of show the room, or scan across, but I appreciate the step by step filming and narration. This is the best way for us to understand just how it was, if we haven't been. My parents would never take me when we lived in Germany in my youth. They thought it would give me nightmares, that they were protecting me. Now that I am grown, however, I want to take my own children and see it so we can pay tribute and honor to all those innocent souls. So thank you.

@vp5633 2 года назад

I hope you never took your children, I have recently returned and this is not something children should see. I understand the need for them to know about it & educate them on the matter but allow them to make their own decision when they are grown. This is too much for a child.

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍I hope that you can visit Auschwitz with your children one day..

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

@@vp5633 It depends on how old the children are.. I would certainly not take 5 year olds, but, if the children are grown up (maybe 15 or over) and curious about history, and with enough warnings, you can take them there.. Also, if you worry about nightmares, etc., just take there there for a walk around the camp and do not walk down to the crematoria..

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

Please see my comments to 'Lou' below..

@vp5633 2 года назад

@@VicStefanu absolutely agree with you there, 15 and up & the person is able to grasp and understand but below this age far too young. In my recent trip I saw several young children & they were playing etc. not something that should be happening

@diane189444 9 лет назад

Thank you for this video. Watching it really is upsetting but a must to know about and how these innocent souls suffered and died. This whole camp was well planned out...I think even before the war. SS had everything planned to a Tee. Horrible just horrible. I lost my family in the camps. My great grandparents, cousins. Again thank you for this tour I appreciate it.

@johnny_pilot 2 года назад

Hi Vic, I visited Auschwitz 1 and 2 ten years ago in April 2012, but my visit of Birkenau was nothing as 'complete' as yours. I was part of a 2-3 hour or so tour and as you mentioned, the tours left out much of the camp. I do wish to visit again some day to go around on my own as you have done. I will have maps and information with me. Thank you so much for your time expended in creating this very moving footage for us. It truly is a grim place but I feel I just have to return in order to experience it more personally and completely. Thanks again.

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

Hi, I hope that you get a chance to go back one day... and to spend more time walking around in order to get a better idea of the place... When I was there filming this video, I saw groups that came to the camp and left 1 hour later...

@tamarabodkin2088 5 лет назад

Wow this was a very informative video!! I learned things I didn’t know and never saw before. Thank you so much for sharing this with all of us!!! May we never forget what humans are actually capable of doing to others and may we learn from this.

@VicStefanu 5 лет назад

Thank you for your comments!!

@MrPaultopp 3 года назад

✌️

@carmenseeley3739 2 года назад

I wouldn't call "humans" to those animals who killed innocent people, the way they did. Greetings.

@SixRavenEight 9 лет назад

Even though you didn't want to go back there, I thank you for going and taping the tour so that we can see a place many of will only hear of in our life. I learned a lot and am grateful for your time.

@janinegudelj1275 4 года назад

Wow this is the first video I've seen that really captures just how HUGE this camp was😱 Horrific.

@VicStefanu 4 года назад

Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

@leighannwoody545 8 лет назад

Thank You Vic, for your time and work put into this project. It is so very sad and I am so sad for those who do not believe such terrible killings occured. Take Care and May God Bless you and your family.

@VicStefanu 8 лет назад

+Leigh Ann Woody Thank you very much for your wonderful comments and for viewing my videos!!

@mmbmbmbmb 5 лет назад

Thank you Vic, for this thorough, respectful and sensitively conducted documentary of one of the most horrid places of our lifetime.

@VicStefanu 5 лет назад

Hi Karin, thank you for your wonderful comments!

@gshockbabe6144 2 года назад

Anyone who denies that this happened either needs their head examined or sympathises with the monsters who did this!

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

@ricardoalmeida6046 6 лет назад

Thank you for showing us everything, your pictures are great, you are very good and your English is so easy to understand.

@VicStefanu 6 лет назад

Hi, thank you for viewing my videos and for your wonderful comments!!

@kencompton6422 8 лет назад

Excellent, off the beaten path, tour! You make it look like I'm there, seeing it with my own eyes! I've always wanted to see it for myself, and not the "cookbook" guided tour, either. Your video tour is the next best thing to actually being there. Thank you very much for doing this! It is truly an eye-opening and somber experience!

@VicStefanu 8 лет назад

+Ken Compton Hello, thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!!

@denahoward10 2 года назад

This just gives me a look at what those people had to go thru. It’s so heart breaking. I couldn’t even image how they could survive like they did. Thank you Vic for sharing.

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

@maricakoroitanoa8879 2 года назад

I had vowed never to read another book account of the unimaginable horrors of Auschwitz...but i guess time has healed my horror at what took place, cause i just completed reading a another book just a few days ago : the account of a survivor whose book " The Happiest Man On Earth" reflects the character of this amazing man ."" Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful.""...He did not allow evil steal his peace...a truly remarkable account of asurvivor..

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

@@maricakoroitanoa8879 Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

@Hax0rZ1 Год назад

Vic thank you for the video. You did a good job documenting what you saw. When I was younger I was going to make the trip but I didn't have the composure to be able to handle viewing it. See I am the grandson of a suvivor of Auschwitz. She survived 4 concentration camps and was liberated from Bergen Belsen. Both my grandma and her sister were here and survived. Her mother after some time was selected and gassed. My grandpa fled his home town of Snina and his entire family was deported and sent to Auschwitz where his 4 sisters, his brother and his mother and father were gassed. I grew up very close with my grandma and over the course of my life as I aged I asked more and more questions about what happened. Through her first hand experiences even through my genology, holocaust research and reading the books still dont fully tell the horrors that took place there. The discussion is too much to put into words for a human to comprehend. Thank you for filming as I couldnt bring myself to go and your video did it for me. I appreciate it so you can show the world.

@VicStefanu Год назад

Hello my friend, thank you for the wonderful comments regarding my video! You are absolutely right... nothing can 'tell the horrors that took place there'....

@bonnieparrett696 Год назад

You did a respectable job filming & explaining. Thank you !

@VicStefanu Год назад

Hello, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!!

@stevencraig1582 9 лет назад

Vic, your video is, in my opinion the most important video ever created. I cannot comment on the subject, it is unspeakable to comment on. What I can comment on is you. The detail, your emotion and your clarity of delivery is beyond any I have ever seen. I feel that your video should be mandatory viewing of everyone on earth. To show what can happen if absolute power goes unquestioned and unchecked. Thank you for your work and I will recommend this to everyone I know Steve

@VicStefanu 9 лет назад

Steven Craig Hi Steve, thank you for your wonderful comments and for watching my videos!! Here's the link in case you or your friends would like to subscribe to my channel, I have so many other videos dealing with subjects on history (and more coming up): www.youtube.com//user/vstefanu?sub_confirmation=1

@jillsmcfarland2001 5 лет назад

I couldn't even type, thank you for your eloquent comment !

@Batman-wv5ng 4 года назад

connor This guy is fraud

@Batman-wv5ng 4 года назад

connor He wanted to clean out the Evil,but today they control whole world including me and you.

@stacynels4 3 года назад

Steven Craig... Universal Permission to Let Go And Yes You CAN Comment on what you feel knowing what you have learned thus far about Auschwitz. .you commented its "unspeakable" and yet you do know NOT commenting about it leads to absolute repetition of it....

@takkiejakkie5458 8 лет назад

I remember the first time I saw footage of the bodies laying on top of each other and the lifeless faces with open mouths I had nightmares for weeks. At that time I thought it was a horror movie or something (I was a child). To now know that this took place not very far from where I live still shocks me. I have no words. I really can't imagine a more evil thing. Good video however. It is important. Don't forget: North Korea uses similar camps TODAY. It's still happening. At this moment. And nobody is doing anything about it.

@enquiringmindswanttoknow699 3 года назад

Thank you Vic, I hope to take my little girl oneday so that she will never forget what people are capable of and remember all those innocent lives foe the next generation

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

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@deanoh9980 3 года назад

I did a tour of Auschwitz 1 and 2 over 13 years ago. Walking towards that huge gate where the trains went through was the most unnerving thing i have ever done in my life. How those souls felt going through that gate i don't think anybody will ever understand. A truly insightful and humbling experience. Thank you for the video.

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

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@joyleenpoortier7496 3 года назад

Thank you Vic that was just so sole searching. I can tell by your voice that it is very emotional to do the tour

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

Thank you!! 👍👍👍

@ShlomoSiany 3 года назад

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@erichwyatt6554 2 года назад

Thank you Vic for bringing this back . I am only now viewing the horrors I was taught & you have made the images live in a sad but true realistic was . May we never forget and never allow this evil again .

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

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@cairderose887 2 года назад

WWII history has always caught my attention. Reading about these hellish camps always get to my emotions. Seeing this documentary gives me more of a visual of the horror of what I read about. Thank you for going and filming. One day I would like to see this but watching your video was close enough for me.

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

Hello, I am glad you enjoyed the video!! 👍👍👍

@Sp84245 2 года назад

This is the most thorough walk thru documentary on Auschwitz II that I have encountered and one well done by Vic. In particular, Vic’s geographic orientation of the camp was accurate and useful. For example, the railroad tracks divided B1 from B2 sections of the camp. The relatively remote areas of the camp where the crematoria were located was stated as such. They are on the western side of the Camp and in the corners (II and V). Short of actually being there, this video provides a good depiction of the structural and geographic arrangement of Birkenau. And Vic adds a level of sensitivity and proper remembrance for what occurred here. Very well done as this must not have been easy to document and narrate.

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

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@rowan6541 5 лет назад

This was without doubt the best docu I have watched thus far on Auschwitz. I felt compelled to find and watch the movie Sophie's Choice. Thank you Vic for the clear and concise video.

@VicStefanu 5 лет назад

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@frankiefelinesalwayswelcom5825 2 года назад

Sophie’s Choice was a stupid movie. I walked out of the theatre about half an hour into the movie. You should never believe what is filmed in Hollywood as being either truthful or accurate.

@michelleking9542 3 года назад

Thank you so much for this video. My grandfather survived this hell on earth. He was a banker in Germany. He was a Christian man who was helping Jewish people to get out of Germany before the trains came for them. He was arrested and sent to this very place. I still don’t understand how this happened. Equally disturbing is the people who say this never happened! God bless you.

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

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@CrimeCricket 9 лет назад

Thank you so much for making this video! My great grandmother and great grandfather came to the United States from Poland and Austria and I have always been interested in learning as much as I can about history. I may never get the chance to see this place in person and this video made me feel like I was there! You did a wonderful job!! It is truly heartbreaking!! Thanks again!!

@VicStefanu 9 лет назад

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@m42037 Год назад

Book a flight to Poland! It's not 1000s for a round trip ticket I been to Europe many times right before the border blocks, the prices vary depending when and how far ahead you book a ticket. Price round trip will be from about 700-1100 give or take 100 USD.

@gshockbabe6144 2 года назад

You brave brave man.Five hours of hell for you,1 hr of tears for the rest of us.xxxxxxx😢

@janethammer9501 Год назад

Thank-you for sharing this most important part of our history. As horrific as it was, it’s important that people learn from this.. and we must never let this kind of torment happen again. May all the souls lost from this torturous place.. rest in peace.

@VicStefanu Год назад

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@viyau 8 лет назад

It was fascinating to see the camp as it is with a "guided tour". I dont know that I would ever make it to see it in person, but this is a historical place that should be visited to really see where it all happened. Thanks so much for taking the time to make this video. It looks like a painful experience for you, and appreciate the effort in bring this to us to see.

@VicStefanu 8 лет назад

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@darrinlumby3296 5 лет назад

Thank you for doing this. Great job, very well done

@VicStefanu 5 лет назад

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@v.gopalakrishnan350 3 года назад

That these deranged Nazi barbarians had nothing better to do in life than this evil work is astounding! All it takes is an insane man assuming power to unleash such horrors on innocents! Sickening to say the least! Excellent coverage!

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

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@sandirobinson7278 9 лет назад

this is the best online tour of the camp i have seen. thank you so much for posting this...

@VicStefanu 9 лет назад

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@maryannmonahan2131 3 года назад

Well made documentary. Respectfully made. This horror could happen again if we let it.

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

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@Nenad484 6 лет назад

Mr Stefanu....Thank you

@VicStefanu 6 лет назад

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@RR_NN 3 года назад

Why some of the buildings are erased completely? I am sure it is by some purpose. Had it been natural, then some remains would have remained. But these are erased completely.

@Sarhea 2 года назад

I’m not leaving a message often, but really wanted to thank you dearly. I’m from the Netherlands (Amsterdam) and due to my chronical illness never had the chance to go. Especially when you’re so close to this. So TYVM!🤗

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

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@AnnaN78 3 года назад

Thank you so much for sharing this video Such an awful place... how could people not believe this took place... the depths of depravity knows no end in such places Thank you again sincerely appreciate it

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!!

@beverleymacdonald1352 3 года назад

Your deep sadness in bringing this video to us, brings home the awful truth of what happened there. Thank you for going back to document it for us.

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

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@melissamathews1391 8 лет назад

I cried almost all the way through this video, I'm glad I found it though. It's my dream that before I die, I visit this place. I have ancestors that were at Auschwitz but I can't find any information about whether or not they survived. I can't imagine what it's going to be like to see this in person...

@VicStefanu 8 лет назад

+melissa mathews Hi Melissa, thank you for your comments and for viewing my videos!! I hope that one day you can make it to this place and walk through the camp... it is an extraordinary experience...

@charlesparrish2831 2 года назад

God bless you Melissa and your sweet beautiful ancestors hun 🙏❤️🙏❤️

@ThePanda5001 4 года назад

Thank you for the informative documentary. I don't think I'd be able to go and explore Auschwitz myself as it doesn't look very disabled friendly, so thank you once again for being my eyes to the world!

@VicStefanu 4 года назад

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@Michelle-qd9gm 4 года назад

Thankyou for a private visit of the camp with no music so we could really listen to every word you said so sad 😞

@VicStefanu 4 года назад

Hello Michelle, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

@glendaroland4190 3 года назад

Very important time in history. Just breaks my heart. Why are we so mean to each other? I just do not understand. Most comprehensive video I've ever seen. Thank you, I know it hurts 😥

@chrislinn2681 2 года назад

Thank you for posting this. I have visited both Auschwitz 1 and 2. I couldn't speak to anyone for about 3 days after visiting. I was just destroyed on the inside and my heart was completely broken.

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

I know what you mean.. The first time I went there (2010) I promised myself never to go back again.. But I went back a few years later because I wanted to make this video..

@hanzzimmer1132 2 года назад

@@VicStefanu it's very important to not turn away from it. It was a real sad experience for me but I'm glad I went.

@scrappyLiz1 2 года назад

Thank you so much for returning. I've read/studied alot about this. Most books don't show what you've shown in this film & I thank you for that.

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

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@Stonepestal 8 лет назад

Thank you for sharing this remarkable film .It is so important to never forget .

@VicStefanu 8 лет назад

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@carmenseeley3739 2 года назад

Thank you! So much detail! I really appreciate what you did at putting together this detailed, mouth-dropping documentary. Most others show mainly the original Auschwitz camp, but no more. I hope I can visit one day. I have great respect for the concentration camps; and I never end to feel outrage for such horrendous atrocities. 🤬 Thanks, and best of luck to you. Great work!

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

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@melvinfreeman4040 8 лет назад

Thanks kindly Vic for your documentary video. I'm sure the filming wasn't easy. Elie Wiesel died today at the age of 87. I read his book "Night ". He was placed in Auschwitz at the age of 15.

@VicStefanu 8 лет назад

Hi Melvin, I read his book, many years ago.. There is a paragraph in there describing his first experience when he arrived at the Camp, here are the words: Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never

@rufusdufalot3623 2 года назад

I visited this camp back in 2000. It was a moving experience. The silence of the whole place really gets you.

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

That’s right! 👍👍👍

@vincentbergman4451 2 года назад

Very intrigued by your video. Thank you for taking the time to show the details inside and around certain areas.

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

Thanks for visiting! 👍👍👍

@verymozart 2 года назад

I searched and studied too much for me to visit Birkenau in person. I think I would have an hysterical reaction If I were there in person. I would feel the horrors of the atrocities in my soul

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

I know what you mean... I had a very difficult time after my first visit there...

@verymozart 2 года назад

@@VicStefanu oh, no doubt 👍 I'm sure you had 😭 Because after studying, it's for me already shocking to see the pictures and videos of the ruins of the gas chambers from hell and the barracks . There is also that one, the only one with bars at the windows, in which the women destined to be killed where kept. Naked, without water nor food, sometimes for days. That was pure hell before being gassed. There are prisoners survivors who witnessed that when the doors were opened, the stench was unbearable and spread all over the camp. My God

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

@@verymozart I know... I know.. And the incredible thing is that there are millions of people that still believe that it never happened..

@verymozart 2 года назад

@@VicStefanu I know that is still the negationism propaganda. It always existed unfortunately. but it's such weak bases that you need to be total ignorant to follow it

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

@@verymozart I agree... Thank you for all your comments!

@ZeddProphecy 9 лет назад

Thanks for filming and narrating this - I will likely never have the resources to go and see this myself.

@VicStefanu 9 лет назад

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@clarebriggs8169 2 года назад

Same here if I had the money it's one place I'd like to see for myself. What a brutal world we have created. Love from U.K.x

@debimccormack3243 8 лет назад

Amazing video. We visited Birkenau recently but didn't explore it in as much depth, but I can't get it out of my mind. Thank you for your insights. Lest We Forget.

@VicStefanu 8 лет назад

+Boxcitement Thank you very much for your wonderful comments!!

@dianebeelman9873 3 года назад

Thank you. We must never forget! Schools need to teach about this horror that happened. I’m going to an Auschwitz exhibit in Oct. with actual pieces from there. I’ve read many books and watch many videos and listened to many survivors. It’s so hard to imagine human beings were capable of doing such horrible things to other humans. Never forget!

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

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@kevinmelicant9566 Год назад

👍 yes I tottaly agree. You get it. ✌

@trr5291 Год назад

Some schools in the usa are removing Anne Frank's diary and Holocaust books from libraries. Also there's a group of fascists who want empathy banned in schools. Nothing good will come from that. They want a uneducated society that has zero empathy for other humans. Empathy is needed or things like the Holocaust happen.

@Alex-ve8uq 2 года назад

Wooden doors.

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

@izabelakisio-skorupa137 10 лет назад

That's in my mother's country! Thanks for video! I was there, and now I can say, that it's really nice, but sad place. Thanks again!

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

Please accept my apologies for the abrupt start of the video... During editing, unfortunately, the first 5 seconds of the videos were cut off.. For the complete video click on ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JR4wPTZGpX0.html

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

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@Skuzzii 2 года назад

Calm

@mistyvioletconservative.3889 2 года назад

@@VicStefanu Vic how many years did they use these sites , was it 2 years? Are these sites still open to the public? And how come no one else was there visiting?

@mistyvioletconservative.3889 2 года назад

@@VicStefanu Did you also see the burial sites.?

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

@@mistyvioletconservative.3889 Auschwitz II operated for a little more than 3 years and it is open to the public, free entrance.. When I created this video, I tried to avoid all crowds, plus, most of the people visit the front part of the camp, so once I moved away form that part, I was all alone..

@flordelizabautista494 5 лет назад

😔Very sad.. Thank you, this documentary is highly appreciated.

@VicStefanu 5 лет назад

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@judycolin 7 лет назад

Genesis 12:3New King James Version (NKJV) 3 I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” God Bless All Jewish people!!!!❤ Thank You got sharing.

@leah1tee367 3 года назад

Thank you Vic. Horrific and tragic, but necessary for us all to see, so that it should never be forgotten.

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

@susandavis8028 3 года назад

After I graduate from college, I plan to come visit this place. A survivor spoke to me as a young girl of 12 and I vowed then I go see this place for myself. I have Jewish blood in my lineage

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

Hi Susan, thank you for your comments. Make sure that you spend a few hours walking around the camp, you will never forget the experience..

@egilb3273 8 лет назад

i wonder why it took so much time before they knew what that place was about, but the germans were masters of organizing .thats a fact, its a sad story in Germany history

@VicStefanu 8 лет назад

+Egil B Hello, thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!!

@Nenad484 6 лет назад

All schools over the WORLD need to learn from this Great reportage.I teach my three children.

@VicStefanu 6 лет назад

Thank you for your wonderful comments!!

@tara607 5 лет назад

One of the best videos I have ever seen, Thank You so Much.

@VicStefanu 5 лет назад

Hello, thank you for watching my videos!!

@alisaannunziato1084 2 года назад

Thank u so much for taking the time to create this and how beautiful u speak from ur heart

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

Wow, thank you!!

@sarge6870 2 года назад

Thank you Vic for taking me to a place I want to visit but will never make it. As I watch more & more documentaries of the Holocaust, I find there is still so much being uncovered even to this day!

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

Hello, thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!! 👍👍👍 I agree with you, even today we do not know all the details of this incredible tragedy..

@kathryntoler1444 3 года назад

This is the best tour of this type that I have seen. It is so informative, and it is heartbreaking to see what those who experienced it personally had to endure. It is really sad, and I pray that it is never allowed to happen again to anyone. Thank you.

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

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@annalewis5443 2 года назад

Thank you for recording this extraordinary piece of film. It is harrowing to watch, but I feel like many others do, that everyone should be informed about the atrocities that took place in this vile place, and that it should NEVER be either forgotton or denied. It is my hope that I will be able to there one day to pay homage to all the people who suffered and died there. God rest their souls

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

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@davidmarsden192 2 года назад

That scene from "Sophie's Choice" was brutal to watch! Meryl Streep did it in one take and told the director she couldn't do it again - she also NEVER watched that scene - until years later when she was guesting on a talk show and they showed it.

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

Very interesting, thank you for these comments!! 👍👍👍That scene has always stayed in my mind and this is why I mentioned it, it very accurately indicated the conditions right upon the arrivals of the Jews in Auschwitz...

@rosalieromua5401 2 года назад

I was there several years ago and I was saddened what Jews have suffered. As we were touring the place we came to an area where they were burned and saw the pit used to dumb ashes. We visited the camp that still standing I was very saddened and emotional. I will visit Amsterdam and I will definitely visit Anne Frank’s house and museum. Your video bring back sad memories. Thank you.

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

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@kreh1100 Год назад

Thank you for enduring and posting this video. I doubt I will ever get to go to Poland as I live in the US. It is and always will be an unbelievable part of history. Again, thank you for sharing with so many of that would otherwise never be able to experience what you have given us. Gob Bless all of those that actually experienced this horrible place.

@VicStefanu Год назад

Hello, thank you for your thoughtful comments!!

@Quaker-tc8ue 8 месяцев назад

I also live in the US, but happened to meet a survivor of Auschwitz in the summer of 1994, as a twentysomething. I was sharing a noon meal with a female acquaintance at an indoor food court. A shorter, older man walked by our table. My acquaintance knew him, stopped him for a chat. After about a minute, he crossed his arms at his waist. When he saw my eyes widen at the tattoo on his outer left forearm, he angled his body so i could get a better look. He let me touch it. When i asked, ‘which camp?” (I think he was very surprised that a twentysomething knew what the tattoo symbolized, but he kept it to himself). He, “Auschwitz.’ Me, ‘how many in your family were murdered?” He, “74.’ He didn’t want to accept my condolences, but the acquaintance knew me well enough to say, ‘she means it.’ My maternal grandparents were US born-and-raised, well remembered those years.

@SubjectDelta9 4 года назад

With much Gratitude for your excellent and informative tour. As a historian myself, I truly appreciated and understood all your comments and camera angles. Thank you so much for sharing your experience literally. Time well spent.

@VicStefanu 4 года назад

You are very welcome!

@Blazzedskater 5 лет назад

Thank you for this video!! I didn't want to go there my self, I wouldn't be able to handle it, so this video really helped !!

@VicStefanu 5 лет назад

Hello, thank you for your comments!!

@jacquel.dawson139 2 года назад

History of this nature must never be closed to any human being. This must never happen again. Our children need to know how evil this place was. It's our responsibility to educate the children and young people about what took place at camps like this. Nothing but evil lived their. Thank you for this video.

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

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@marcelmolenaar5684 7 лет назад

Do you know that the typhus run through Eastern Europe and Turkey?

@dorthymartin2425 3 года назад

Thank u Vic for taking the time to do this and for showing us a horrible part of history that should never be repeated

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

@irishfergal 3 года назад

This is the most impactful video I've seen about Auchwitz 2. I agree with you about the film "Sophie's Choice" as being that best and more emotionally wrenching stories about this awful place. Thank you, Vic.

@VicStefanu 3 года назад

Hello my friend, thank you for these wonderful comments! 👍👍👍

@mjb12141963 2 года назад

This documentary was very interesting and educational. When I was born WWII had ended only 20 years previous. There were still artifacts from those who served, I wish now I had kept them. To me growing up during the cold war the threat of WWIII was very real to me. Today the threat of WWIII is becoming real again, so much so that even though I am now medically disabled I have started working on my physical fitness again at 60. I hope the lessons of the past do not come to haunt the future of this planet.

@VicStefanu 2 года назад

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@melissaduffy2627 4 года назад

Thank you Vic. I feel like I was Walk thru the the camp with u.

@VicStefanu 4 года назад

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@Lisa1111 8 лет назад

Thank you for showing the world what we are about to repeat. We must stand now, or it is coming again my brothers and sisters! Jill Stein 2016! A jew even ❤

@paramaraba 6 лет назад

Thank you very much for this video, amazing work and really appreciate the time and effort you put in it, to educate whoever watches this video in the future. Thank you.

@VicStefanu 6 лет назад

Hi Dario, thank you for your wonderful comments!