Auschwitz Untold: In Colour | What Happened Right Before Jewish Concentration Camps Were Liberated?

it was a contest between who was going to come earlier the death or the Americans we couldn't envisage what the end was going to be what was going to happen to us there were rumors that the Americans are coming closer as we heard in the distance the duel of the etherium artillery my mother got a message out to my father because the camp's were not that far away initially in book of all their to their near Leipzig so there were some people that were going from one camp to the other so she got a message and said you have reason to live and she any understood that to mean that she was pregnant and his brother who was in camp with him said what did you do to her what a horrible thing to do she's going to get you can get killed a pregnant woman was a not not a situation that was survivable it was immediate death in the summer of 1944 a massive Soviet offensive threatened to overrun Nazi strongholds throughout Poland the Russian army is getting close there within 50 miles concentration camp commanders across Poland were ordered to evacuate with prisoners and head to the German Interior they took us on a death march the reasons for the death march is because we either March or you die and nobody hoods couldn't match couldn't follow were shot and the body was thrown on the side of the road some of us were very sick and we didn't make it I was about to stop I was getting weaker and weaker but Franz Grauman luck in the fireman's lechna Cookman the center of the column and dragged me along literally saved my life the girls that I shared the bread with formed the chair with their arms and they carried me so I won't die isn't that amazing people who were too weak or too old or too sick who couldn't go on a forced march were put in a basement in an infirmary and left and that was my mother the Nazi regime was reluctant to give up its prisoners in the belief they might still be useful in armament factories they still believed even in January 1945 that they will somehow win the war there was a possibility prisoners could be used as a bargaining chip to save the Nazi regime and they also didn't want stories of mass murder revealed to the rest of the world when we came to vult only 400 of us of 10,000 remained their life and I was one of them the bhagavad command got an order to eliminate the entire camp there were 80,000 prisoners in both world at that time 60,000 prisoners were executed now came our turn the children's barrack just before we reached the gate the siren started to sound and the Germans closed the gates and they ran for cover the tables are turned it was beginning to dawn on us that we hadn't seen a German now for a day or maybe two the there was a barbed wire we were told that there was high voltage in the wire and some Jew was desperate enough to throw himself at the high voltage fence only to discover that there was no high voltage all the guards disappeared and three o'clock in the afternoon on April 11th 1945 two American soldiers walked into our barracks the Messiah just arrived our train was taking into today then parents taught was a getter of German Jews and Czech Jews and they were liberated four days later by the Russian army we had typhoid at all sort of diseases we heard the sound of a tank very large sand we thought they're gonna kill us there the first thing we noticed is the turret was not aimed at us and the soldier jumped out my father yelled Americans the American soldier was a Jew and he was from Brooklyn he was our Messiah and they everybody singing we yelling hooting and so forth but then I was eight years old the German soldiers threw arrivals away there was search Bell dinging and white sheets hanging out from the windows and the little girl came to me and to the hand like this and in her hand was a pain to take she says it is the Sunday forty days and forty nights in Auschwitz Birkenau be liberated Easter Sunday can't make it up can you you

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Length: 6min 40sec (400 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 18 2020