Genocide of Jews in Poland | The Abyss Ep. 8 | Full Documentary 

My father was a survivor of Sobibor. Spent his life traveling around the world lecturing about the revolt at Sobibor until the age of 90.

Kind of Ironic that a documentary about a people whose genocide started with acts of censorship, has all the material depicting scenes of the horror censored ! Seems we're headed in the same direction these days !

Not many people realise that the Jews and Gypsies were only first on the list. Next in the queue were the Slavic people, with only a small percentage of them being left to serve "the Master Race"...if the Germans hadn't been stopped. No doubts about it. Regards

My Father was one of the liberaters of prisoners.....it affected him all his life...

For me there are two major difficulties. 1) That anyone can be so full of hatred/fear that they feel justified in committing these atrocities. 2) That ANYONE can be so full of hubris theey think these atrocities never happened.

Never again is on our doorsteps.

I am a Muslim but my heart is broken when I learn about Holocaust :( No human kind deserves to suffer like this :(

I can't believe that Speer managed to avoid the noose.

I must mention this. My grandfather, first generation Jewish American. He had a classmate whos mother and father met while her fathers family were hiding her mothers family. When he passed away there was a local jewish newspaper or pamphlet of sorts that told their story. There were not near enough people like that but i dont want anyone to forget about the brave people who put EVERYTHING on the line for whats right. Something to think about

Every series this channel puts out is so well done. Such important historical content. Please keep at it. Thank you.

Will there ever come a day when we as a people can coexist together and live in peace? Has anything been learned about the steep price of war? "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." Look around at the world we live in now - and obviously not a lesson learned...........and we have no one to blame for that other than ourselves. 😞💔😢🙏

Truly *excellent* channel. I don't know if I'm happy I found it, or more depressed that I found it...

This is the reason why Israel today take no chances. Every attempt to attack them is met with vicious force and you can't blame them for that.

One of my top favorite channels on RU-vid to watch! Thank you

Part of what infuriates me about the Nazis is that they were so proud of what they did to human beings that they photographed it, brought their children to these camps, so sure of their superiority. But then when it came time to be held accountable, instead of standing up for their so called righteousness, they ran or swallowed a cyanide capsule.

Excellent informative video. Credit for showing it to the world, and I know you have nothing to do with censoring anything. But if and when that other archival box(es) are found, they are just as well still lost due to censorship? Not the people who made this video but the horrible deniers out there, isn't this censorship exactly what they want?

I have seen the film of this German camp and I have told my children to watch this. I cannot believe a country can inflict suffering on a scale that will be infamous in history 😡😡😡😡

I m waiting whole weekend for your video to on air . Awesome series keep it up

I tell you, if what they are saying is true here, then the U.S. certainly, turned things around, big time, in just a few, short, decades. Sadly now, they are going way, way, too far in the other direction.

Unbelievable atrocities were committed with the silent acceptance of a whole nation

This episode is making me physically sick. The inhumanity shown these people is just staggering. My heart is heavy thinking of what those people went through. The pain, the hunger, the horror, the degradation. Yet in all that there is dignity of the soul. One story I want to relate is that of Mary and Morris Weinrib. They are the mother and father of Rush frontman and bassist, Geddy Lee. They were both in Auschwitz together before Morris was moved to Bergen Belson. Mary explained to Rush drummer and lyricist, Neil Peart, what it was like in the camps. She explained, "We always wondered if anyone else was alive outside the fences." She told of how her mother was determined to keep her family alive. That was Mary, her sister, and the mother. Sadly, Mary's brother and father didn't survive. Mary and what was left of her family were liberated when the American's came in. Morris was also liberated and promptly traveled back to Auschwitz to see if he could find Mary. When he got back, he did find her. They were married in the camp. Both made their way after their release to Canada where they settled down in Toronto where Geddy, his brother Alan, and sister Cythia were born. Neil Peart wrote a song for Rush's "Grace Under Pressure" album called "Red Sector A." Here are the lyrics and I'll link the actual song. "Red Sector A" All that we can do is just survive All that we can do to help ourselves is stay alive All that we can do is just survive All that we can do to help ourselves is stay alive Ragged lines of ragged grey Skeletons, they shuffle away Shouting guards and smoking guns Will cut down the unlucky ones I clutch the wire fence until my fingers bleed A wound that will not heal, a heart that cannot feel Hoping that the horror will recede Hoping that tomorrow, we'll all be freed Sickness to insanity Prayer to profanity Days and weeks and months go by Don't feel the hunger, too weak to cry I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate Are the liberators here, do I hope or do I fear? For my father and my brother, it's too late But I must help my mother stand up straight Are we the last ones left alive? Are we the only human beings to survive? Are we the last ones left alive? Are we the only human beings to survive? I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate Are the liberators here, do I hope or do I fear? For my father and my brother, it's too late But I must help my mother stand up straight Are we the last ones left alive? Are we the only human beings to survive? Are we the last ones left alive? Are we the only human beings to survive? Songwriters: Alex Lifeson / Geddy Lee Weinrib / Neil Peart Red Sector A (R30 tour) lyrics © Ole Media Management Lp Video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B3ytkyn3vUU.html

I am so impressed with all of these heart-felt comments. Why is it when us African Americans post videos about the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Arab Slave Trade, our heart felt comments are as follows: Get over it already. Stop biching about the past. You people are a piece of work! Enjoy your weekend !!

"You who live safe In your warm houses, You who find, returning in the evening, Hot food and friendly faces: Consider if this is a man Who works in the mud Who does not know peace Who fights for a scrap of bread Who dies because of a yes or a no, Consider if this is a woman, Without hair and without name With no more strength to remember, Her eyes empty and her womb cold Like a frog in winter. Ponder that this had been: I commend these words to you. Carve them in your hearts At home, in the street, Going to bed, rising; Repeat them to your children. Or, may your house fall apart, May illness impede you, May your children turn their faces from you". ~ "If this is a man" - Primo Levi, poet and Holocaust survivor

Here are some of the names of the most famous people who were among the 50 people who successfully escaped from Sobibor and survived the Holocaust. Some of the most famous people who survived Sobibor included Tovi Blatt, Phillip Baloiwtz, Chaim Engel, Selma Engel, Leon Feldhindler, Alexander Perchersky, Ada Lichtman, Esther Rabb, Simjon Rosenfield, Ursula Stern, Sholomo Szmajner, and Jules Schelvis.

My great uncle was one of the first into belson, he never spoke about it, we did find out that later at the end of the war he joined others to hunt down these evil bastards

Just seeing the ladies trying to walk in those sandals, was heart wrenching. Forget about everything that followed. Terrible, terrible, time in history. Never forget. And never, EVER, let this happen again. Although it actually is, to some degree, in some countries, perhaps on a smaller scale. My heart aches for all of these victims of these atrocities. And the survivos. I can't imagine the scars on their hearts. God bless them all, & everyone.

This is a very sad video. What's worse is the countless barrage of RU-vid ads interrupting this video.

The title suggest responsibility of Polish people, while it was the Germans responsible for these deaths. Moat of whom were actually Polish citizens. And remember this: Poland was the ONLY country occupied by Germany where there was an immediate death sentence for the ENTIRE family harboring Jews. Yet many Poles hid their Jewish neighbors from German savages. My own family did too. No other nation did that much to help and no other paid a greater price. GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS.

UK & US could of bombed railway lines repeatedly to prevent transport of Jews and others to these murder camps.

I don’t know why, but I’ve always been particularly crushed by the boy at 36:35. I think it’s because he reminds of myself at that age. It’s so crazy to think these sorts of atrocities actually happened to real people- mothers, kids, husbands, puppies, horses, grandfathers, grandkids. This should have never happened… 😢

Great post....very informative....thanks

Thank you for this. The world needs to know so this will never happen again.!

AMAZING that footage was taken and even more that it was found.

It's incredible Germany could remain a state after this.

You may want to update the captions, there are a lot of misinterpretations from the auto-cap. Some are even a bit offensive. 36:20 is one. The Warsaw guitar pricing

All American community need to see this important documentaries

This series is great. Also focus on pacific ww2 theatre as well and cover the war in the pacific as well in the upcoming series

A similar extermination occurred with the Khemer Rouge in Cambodia, although not as huge. This extermination of the Jews by the Germans has no parallel in human history. So cold and so insensible and so terrifying. The Germans stole and raped and did all the worst crimes against the defenseless Jews. I do not know how can we still live with that memory.

How a nation could turn into Nazis both fascinates me and disgusts me!!

My grandmother living in Amsterdam said that one of her greatest regrets was sending my father to the houses after the Jewish were picked up to scavenge what he could. She said she taught him to steal. It was survival.

In German occupied Poland, not only Jews was genocide.

In saying this I am by no means downplaying the horrific event, but it always rubs me wrong to hear terms like "unparalleled" when we know good-and-well how many humans were terminated under Stalin.

This should be shown in schools so we never forget.

Some of these images are "censored" so that young people can be shown films like this at school without being traumatized. Anyone who wants to see the images of the atrocities in their entirety can easily find them at various online and offline archives. Older children should definitely learn about this and see selected images in school, but younger children in particular don't need to see them yet.

Although this is undoubtedly a dark chapter of history, we’ve been led to believe only the Germans had concentration camps. In many cases, the real monsters came out, after the war had ended. The Poles proudly committed many atrocities, after the war, attacking people for simply speaking German. Seems to me, most people are monsters, when given the opportunity to be.

Not in Poland. Poland state didn't exist at the time. Germans want to make someone else responsible which is understandable. But why the British and the Americans are helping them in this is mystery to me.

I'm so glad I watched this. Incredible just Incredible.

Saddens my heart when i see such past history failing to teach us the price of war...as i write this analysis am watching The War in Ukraine...surely when will the mankind realise its worth? Are we too domed? Are we hopeless? We shouldn't!

So unbelievable are these crimes, and so brutal and inhumane are those who committed these atrocities, films produced during the War have to be seen. But please stop censoring such important images, as difficult as it may be to view, I am not sure if censorship and blurring out particular scenes makes it more palatable.

28:06 Not British but Polish mathematicians Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski from the Polish Cypher Bureau, then delivered to the British. ☝🏼

You can turn Any human being no matter how gentle into a killing machine capable of anything , you just need to find the right button to push , the hard thing is finding the off switch once he is activated. True of any soldier through history , their training is geared to finding that button , what do you do with millions of killing machines when the fighting stops ???.

I've been watching some of these documentaries. Where can I find the uncensored ones? The real horror needs to be seen so It's not repeated.

My great grandparents on my mothers side were Russian Jews, relocated to Harbin China, God Bless them on making it to our beautiful state of Hawaii. Wish I could of met them...❤🙏❤️🙏❤️

UNLIKE FRONT LINE'S FILM OF THE BRITISH AND CANADIAN LIBERATION WHERE NO HORRORS WERE BLURRED OUT, THIS FILM DID JUST THIS GIVING RISE TO THOSE NON-BELIEVERS OF EXACTLY WHAT TOOK PLACE SINCE 1934.

Wars are cruel and nobody wins but loose so many innocent lives.Lesson to be learned by our present leaders of world all over.

Ann Chessman what do You mean by ''What'' ?

Wonderful stuff.. so well done documentaries

Why are some images blurred? You can not blur history.

Staggering Horror...Pure Evil.

Albert Speer got 20 years! 20 years. Never understood that.

Tragicallly These places were known. But dismissed by civil servants in Whitehall and in America..

Some of these Nazis don't have very Germanic last names or look Germanic at all.

We should never forget x This is what HUMAN BEINGS are capable of very scary xxx

I love history but not when it's blurred out..

Maybe sophistication does not equal enlightened and well educated does not equal wise and good. What does that remind you of? America tiday

It's hard to imagine how people can be so evil

I always dismissed religion thinking this causes lot of issues in the world, but then I learnt that Nazis weren't really religious.

Never Forget.

Chilling!

To this day I can't stand hearing a train horn.

Hatred is a slippery slope that can only lead to suffering and madness for all parties involved.

Similar to what the brittish government and monarchy done to the irish over hundreds of years . We had a population of 10 million b4 the famine and genocide

If WW1 is the basic reason for WW2, then WW2 is the basic for all following wars. One factor is control of natural resources, another over the political state, which both are fundaments in imperialism, but the main motive is testing and display of military force.

People that do these horrors, are possessed by demons.

The blurring of images needs to stop those who are ignorant of history are bound to repeat it

Similar thing happened to Igbos in Nigeria, between 1967 and 1970. Then United Nations, and most entities promoting antisemitic sentiments kept mute. Even systemic annihilation of Igbos is going on in Nigeria.

I had a friend whose mother lived near Dachau. She told me everyone knew. Read Hitler’s Willing Executioners.

How dare you to say that Jews were killed in Poland!!! There was no Poland during ww2 there. Our Polish land was divided by Germans and Russians till end of war.

10,000 per day is a hard thing to wrap one's head around. 6 million is a number that seems surreal! That many people, each with hopes and dreams. Each with a body, soul and spirit. We must always insist on "Never again!" 😢

Never again should mankind allow such a thing to happen again

This series brings the holocaust into sharp focus. Richard in Dallas.

Sad, Never again. Wished there are more punishment dealt out to those perpetrators.

This excellent production has some important imperfections: 1. Jan Karski is presented as having "escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto". True, but the statement fails to explain that Karski was NOT Jewish. He was a member of the Polish Resistance who voluntarily entered the Ghetto to see what actually was happening. THEN, Karski escaped and as part of the Polish Underground used the organizations network to travel to Britain with the news of the Holocaust. He was also the one who informed Roosevelt. 2. Witold Pilecki was another member of the Polish Resistance who acted like Karski but did so in Auschwitz. He also organized a resistance within Auschwitz before he escaped and informed the Polish Underground which then informed Britain. 3. The Polish Resistance had a formal government organization to help the Jews in Poland. "Zegota" should have been included in the episode.

how much infamy, how much bestiality in the blood. not even the meanest beast in the world could do something like this what a disgusting breed

I cannot believe this was done to my people. Shame on the Germans for what they did. Unforgivable. The definition of pure evil.

DOCUMENTARY'S DO NOT HAVE TO EDIT (CENSOR) SO WHY HERE?

Sadly, less than 4%, were punished.

How did Spear escape the hanging? That's what I want to know.

Imagine if the railway resources spent on the final solution was used for the war❗

400 000 helped themselves to jewish property in Hamburg alone. Then in the next sentence "a great number of germans helped jews, as many as 20 000 all across Germany". So disgusting

It’s 2023 and I feel we are headed back in time.. Have we not learned from our past? Hate begets hate. I hope people watch this and feel the horror of it so it may never be repeated.

They even killed Children too how Evil and Sadistic were they, it SHOULD NEVER BE FORGIVEN and never ever FORGOTTEN

This is a black mark on Germany for the next 1000 or 2000 years.

You know why because they started two world wars and im still sure wolf can change skin but not mind ! Same blood today still !!!

19:00 Factc Error : IG Farben did not make synthetic Fuel... They made synthetic Rubber.

3:40 map shows Finland as part of the occupied territory, but that was not the case. We had allied (bc we basically had to, we had just ended the Winter War with Russia and now got pinned between 2 great forces) with Germany, so they sold us grain and goods and we let them go through our territory to move towards Russia and northern Norway. We only aided Germany with war efforts against Russia after Russia bombed our capital, Helsinki and then we entered the Continuation War.

The lady has made a comment about educated people some of the dirtiest people I know or educating

Why is genocide in Africa filmed and recorded by Europeans belittled and disregarded?

This hard to watch how on earth others could be so cruel at every level to others

I am so glad I am Italian and an American for real,