My grandmother survived 9 months in that hell, her parents and siblings were gassed upon arrival. Her nightmarish experience continues to shadow my family even after her passing. I usually avoid seeing pictures or watching videos of the camps; it's too raw and too close for comfort. My grandmother's tattoo and her shattered psyche were always a constant reminder of what we lost and what we cannot afford to lose. I don't know why I decided to watch this vlog but I'm glad I did; you did a good job (and despite all the haters the music wasn't bad).

I'm Polish and been to Auschwitz 3 times. I was really worried when I saw this video as this is not something people usually put on the vlog.. but you really captured it in a respectful way, showing the overall atmosphere of the place but not going into the gruesome detail that I think is only appropriate to experience whilst you are actually there.

It’s funny how kara and nate’s accent used to be so strong when they first started travelling and now they’ve lost it quite a bit

4:02 That's from the prisoners scratching to be free. Truly heart breaking 💔

Honestly..the background music didn't fit for this blog...

In sixth grade I was lucky enough to meet a survivor that went through 13 concentration camps. She was super kind, and if I would have been in that circumstance I would be really cold and rude. It is not fare that innocent people were killed, and still are due to sexual preference, race, looks or even religion.

My Mother in Law grew up in the Netherlands and was a teenager during the war. They rarely talked about life in occupied Netherlands, but she did tell us after many years how she remembered the trains that were headed to the camps and seeing the fingers of hundreds of Jews and prisoners of war sticking out between the slats in the box cars as they slowed down when coming through her town in Haren. She will never forget it and she is now 90. It is so sickening to hear people say that it never happened.

When I worked for a local bank in Maryland, I work in the Jewish neighborhood. A lot of my customers came in and saw him try to hide the numbers on their arms. Some did not. My heart always dropped when I saw that. Knowing that they have been through hell. I just met a lady in my community who’s mother was best friends with Anne Frank. It’s amazing you never know who you’re talking to. She told me where I could go to verify it and read all about it she said. I did!! Please except your neighbors especially if they are different from you. You never know you may learn something new!! I love meeting new people from different ethnic groups. The food is pretty good to!!

In 1975 a man started working with me. After a few weeks he told me and the other at work what he and his family have been through. He was a survivor of Auschwitz. He told how his whole family - grandparents, mother, father, siblings and cousins - about 15-20 people (don't remember exactly) were killed in the camp. He was rescued by the russians, but ended up in Sweden in 1949 or 1950 .... For me as a 17 year old, it was hard to believe everything he told me. But when I got older I really understood. Thank you for charing this moment with this vlog to all of us

This video has rendered me almost breathless. And devastated. And heartbroken. You know the history, you hear of the horrors, but to see it like this... raw and real... to walk on the same soil, amidst the spirits of those who endured the unimaginable pain of the worst of humanity. Unbelievable. Someday, I would love to travel to this place, to pay my respect to all those who suffered so the world would learn a lessen no one should have had to learn, so as to never repeat an atrocity such as this. Thank you for this one, Kara & Nate. ❤

The people you saw in the second camp in the white shirts and the Israeli flags were probably 12th grade students, I am from Israel and when I get to the 12th grade were flying with our school to Poland to see those camps, the 12th graders at my school are at Poland right now and I am going to be there next year. It's sad but so important.

The shot with the Israeli flag was powerful to me. Survivors and descendants going back triumphantly even though it is such a horrific thing. I think I would be too sad to see it. I’m glad it’s free though and people are not banking anything from this suffering and still make it available to view so that the atrocities are not forgotten.

I read people complaining about the background music. Gets on my nerves how people now a days will look for any reason to get offended. If you even heard the music, you missed the point of the whole video

Hello Kara and Nate. It's Uncle Dave. Your dad told me to find and view this video. I think you were respectful and aware of exactly where you were. Thanks for sharing. Love you guys.

The claw marks on the walls brought immediate tears streaming down my face. This is history that must never be forgotten.

I was there when I was 16 on a class trip. I found my family in the book of names. No words can describe that feeling.

The book of names says it all. Wow, Just wow. Tragic, the weather seems fit the mood and your day.

You guys did a really good job of respectfully capturing this experience. There's no perfect way of doing it, but this vlog really communicated some amount of the true tragedy, which reading about it just doesn't do justice to. Definitely a place to visit just to appreciate how dark humanity can be if good people stand idly by. I'm glad they've preserved it so well.

Thank you guys so much for sharing this with us. I got chills watching. I can’t imagine what it would be like to walk through in person. Thank you so much for being so respectful. I commend you guys❤️

Your travelling has really impacted on your accents lol I’m going through and rewatching from the beginning (again) and I just noticed Nate’s accent and how different he sounds now. Oh and I just finished the vlog where you bought your new cameras in Turkey and comparing the current style to this... you guys have come such a long way from 2016. Keep up the great work.

Beautiful vlog you two :') brb crying. I remember coming here in 2015 and my heart just felt so heavy walking around.

Your final quote is perfect. The world is so close to going precisely there again. Peace & Love & Understanding to everyone here on this vlog X

I met a survivor when I was in high school (10 years ago) and she was still in so much pain even after all these years. It’s so sad. I can’t imagine what they saw and went through ☹️😔

I watched this video and started cry about 5 mins in. My great grandfather fought in the war to save people from that horrible place. He survived the war and came home with bullet holes in his back. Although he survived its hard to imagine what he would’ve experienced. Watching his fellow soldiers die before him. He has been passed for about 10 years now but we still tell his story and how he almost gave his life for our country’s freedom❤️

No wonder things like this tend to reoccur as a good portion of people were so focused on background music that they apparently were not aware of the serious nature of the video and the respectful manner it was presented. If you want to be offended by something so badly that it completely distracts you from onw of the most significant atrocities in recent history I ahve little hope that something of this nature is not imminent. If you need so badly to be offended how about taking offence to the millions of people who died at the hands of a radical group that still exists to this day? If you have to have some somber Hollywood music to cue you in that the subject is somber or if you allow something as trivial as a little music played occasionally in a low volume to completely distract you I doubt you would or have even seen the signs of a resurgence of this exact mentality that caused this place to exist in the first place.

Oh my goodness, I wanted to cry. You two are wonderful, you went in those camps and showed us how horrifying it all was. The look on Kara’s face said it all.❤️

Looking at this in 2020 and comparing to your current videos, I'll offer just this: You two have grown a lot over the years. I think your travels have given you perspective and maturity that many Americans don't have.

I knew a few survivors growing up. It didn't seem special or unusual at the time. Now I realize the history and pain they carried and how terrible it was to just take their presence for granted. What strong people they were.

I am so glad that you as young people are using your platform to familiarize your followers of this sad part of history. In 2002 I brought 5 friends and family from America to this place. My daughter was a school teacher who met a camp survivor whose story inspired us to make the trip. Loved Krakow.

I have relatives names in that book sadly

I’m just now finding this video. How sobering and difficult to walk through and experience such a place. THANK YOU for the tasteful way you filmed, edited and presented this vlog. Great job.

So glad you guys went here! It's on my "must" list for when we go to Poland. Being somber in such a setting is really the only response to remembering such horrors.

I'm watching this after one of your more recent vlogs and your accents have both changed so much!

I would recommend having the guided tour of those two places because it gets even more real and you get the whole picture when you have someone explaining everything as you go. The guide has a microphone on him and you will get headphones so you can hear him perfectly fine even if it's a big group. Kind regards from Sweden.

I just found your channel and subscribe it a few days ago. This volg made me a bit emotional 😭. It’s just said to know that this horrible thing happened and that some many people died . Thanks for showing the rest of us a bit about how things were in those places.

y'all are awesome and its so important to go to these places no matter how sad or uncomfortable because it is our duty as humans to learn about our history and how to never repeat it. i hope i can make it here one day to pay my respects, but for now i am thankful for you guys for showing this and being incredibly respectful. i am a proud german/american but i am ashamed that this has stained our history. thank you for your insight

It breaks my heart knowing what these poor people went through.. :(

The clip of all the striped uniforms made me feel sick. I remember my 6th grade teacher reading the Boy in the Striped Pajamas, which is by no means the most historically accurate, but was age appropriate, to us. She read it well, and she tried her very best to get a bunch of 12 year olds from western Pennsylvania to understand that liberation, at that time, was only 75 years ago. We absolutely didn’t get it.

its so insane to me. i have done lots of projects at school both in history and english on world war 2, and have seen photos of those gates at both camps. i cant imagine what it would be like to go there, knowing how just photos make me feel. thank you for being respectful. it was a really interesting video to watch

I know I am watching this 5 years late, but I appreciate how you handled this vlog. I have only visited the Dachau camp in Germany, but your videos brought tears to my eyes, remembering the heaviness I felt during my visit. I appreciate you documenting your visit so those who can't get a small glimpse into Auschwitz.

Wow the filming u have done has bought so much to life and light Thankyou

I so love the repect you both paid,my daughter went in her last year of school,and she came back a different person xxxx

Thank you for keeping the video and talking at the memorial to an absolute minimum and for using quiet, respectful tones. When I’ve gone to the death real way and seeing people taking selfie’s with the peace sign at hellfire pass or the bridge with absolutely no reference or respect for what the place is it really upsets me. Thank you for showing respect and being so informative and helpful and yet tactful and appropriate with this video. Really a very good job. Cheers to you both

Extremely sad,my grandparents came from Poland Krackow my dad was born in Germany they escaped and made it too Australia with much luck,living a very sombre lucky life,watching this brought tears too my eyes,I always been very proud off my heritage,but seeing this truly shows how sad it is those poor people i can only imagine what they went through,So very gratefull for my life,thankyou Kara and Nate,

Out of all those millions of names, one just stands out for me... sweet darling girl Czeslawa Kwoka... the moment i saw her photo i got so emotional.

I was there when I was 17 and this video just reminded me the things I've seen there, it's crazy seeing it all over again

Thank you for respecting the history, location, and those who suffered. Kara nailed it when she said it was a heavy day.

What an amazing video... very respectful and informative. I could FEEL what it was like to be there. I'm not sure if I'll ever get there in person and appreciate having seen what a moving experience it is to visit there now.

The music choice seems pretty damn inappropriate

Thats a tough video to make, props to you guys!

Thank you for such a respectful vlog about a horrific time in history. I can only imagine how difficult and mentally draining this day would have been.

I appreciate the level of respect and somberness with which this video was made. Not a lot of talking, you let the images speak for themselves. Thank you for making this video. It was beautifully done.

Agree music is weird here but keep in mind ,this is not a movie production with sound engineers and big budget to make the perfect audio. It's pretty obvious they took this place seriously regardless.

I feel like the lo-fi background music is trying to "aestheticize" a place where horrific and devastating things happened, which I find to be quite inappropriate.

Thank you for sharing. It was hard to watch but I'm glad I did. Everyone needs to know what happened there and in other camps. We must never forget.

Great respect for showing that on a travel blog. Very important to keep the worldwide awareness up about the horrors that happened during the Nazi government in Germany. This hopefully will never happen again, nowhere on the planet. So thanks a lot for using your popularity to spread this message, from a German.

I don't think I would be able to eat or drink while there..just knowing how hungry the prisoners were...I couldn't do it

Kara turning the pages of the enormous book full of millions of names of people who were murdered there... *chills*

Thank you for covering as much as you can bring as respectful as you were. All the memorials and commemorations. You two were very sympathetic. Thank you for this video. Have a good day. 😊

I went to the camps when I was 15 with a summer program. When we got to the camps it was eye opening. Like you said the raw camp was more eyeopening for us. Thanks for making this vlog.

It's weird, I've watched this so long ago and I just found your channel like three days ago and I just realized that you were the ones that made this.

Im polish and only decided to go and visit Aushwitz 2 years ago at the age of 32. I cried when I walked past the (unshown in the VLOG) piles of shoes, suitcases, hair combs, etc. Its just so ... incomprehensible. How, why? I was angry, sad, mad, gutted. I went with a friend and she was trying to chat me up while walking through the said exposition and i just shoved her off and grawled "Dont touch me". Its hard to describe...

I think you made an interesting and respectful video of a terrible tragic place. Thank you for sharing your visit there; many of us will never see it in person. And yes, it was not that long ago which is so disturbing. We must not forget and must not repeat.

I visited here in the late 1980s. What struck me most was the foresight to just not destroy the camp after it was liberated but also when we were approaching the camp, I was shocked that it was right out in the open, not hidden in a forest somewhere.... 😢 I'm glad y'all were able to experience it. And

2:36 I was so excited to see Hebrew in this place... I'm being honest here, I have been there and it's a hard experience...

Great footage but the music doesn’t fit. It’s the saddest place.

Powerful video. Thank you for making it. Not sure if you mentioned it and I missed it but if not, please visit the Paperclip Project at Whitwell Elementary School when you go back home.

I remember going to the Sydney Jewish museum and meeting Eddie he was a survivor and being really young I didn't really know what the severity of what he had gone through. He took me and my older sister to a bench in the museum and started telling us about his story. He has now unfortunately he has now passed but he has written a book, one that I have not gotten around to reading yet but I will always remember him and a kind soul.

The music though.... Probably not what my great grandmother was feeling...

I watched this a long time ago and that was it. Now years later I actually watch your channel. I knew y'all looked familiar

I appreciated the pics of some of the signage. I was able to pause and read for myself. I am happy that the souls lost here are being respectfully remembered.

I visited this place about 9 years ago and have to say of all the places I visited around Europe ( I live in Ireland ) there were a few notable places that left me feeling a whole range of emotions from anger to sadness, pity and resentment. This was one of them. I've been to several concentration camps and swore after Dachau that I would never set foot in one again. Well I did eventually return to one and it was here. I was overcome with an enormous feeling of sorrow and empathy for the people that not only died here but the ones that survived after enduring so much horror. There are several spots in the second larger camp that seem innocuous but u soon realise that on every inch of this place something horrible occurred. As u enter the camp and go past the car that was left there as a memorial, u go down a lane way that ran between the women and children's camps. All what u see is obvious so u know what you're looking at. But when u get to the bottom and off to the left there is a small wood. Here amongst the trees u first notice how quiet it is. Then u notice how few if any birds there are anywhere near the camp. Amongst these trees was where the women and children were forced to strip and wait their turn to enter the buildings that lead to the chambers. Many of them were shot on the spot right there so to stand there was eeire to say the least. Then once u come out the other end this is where u see the pool shown in the video at 8:25. As I approached it, it seemed like a normal small pool of water until that is I spotted the memorial plaque. In the water there are the ashes of hundreds of thousands of men women and children. Just dumped there. This one tiny place. That really struck me hard at the absolute callousness of the men who ran the camp. The undignified cruel treatment of fellow human beings was manifested here in this small body of water right at the back of the camp. I came away from this place feeling empty and sad like I'd bever felt before. It's so important we never forget what human beings were capable of in the 20th century.

It’s one of those places the true enormity hits you when you get the wooden huts at camp 2. You can look 2km in any direction and you compare it on a map to the size and it’s a tiny square. The guided tours give a insight into the devastation of it. Our guide leader had an Aunt who was murdered here and she felt it was her duty to keep her legacy going as an example for the future human race not to follow.

My heart is broken these people that suffered didn’t have a great childhood 💔

Thank you for doing this vlog with such dignity and reverence and get allowing your followers to glimpse into what was a harrowing past.

Showed this to my mom. She went to that area in 2017 or 2018 and pointed out all the places she went to (and didn’t want to go to). She said she felt like she was being watched by ghosts, which is the most creeped out I’ve ever seen her feel.

Seriosuly, what the hell were you thinking when you decided to use this music for this video???

I watched a video in 8th grade and it may me cry so much. If I went there I would probably be balling my eyes out

I agree with the other commenters: You all presented this video in a very respectful tone; and your honest, human reactions to encountering such a somber, tragic site really come through. My family and I will be visiting Krakow in early September-like you all, also with the main intention of visiting Auschwitz. So I appreciate seeing in advance a bit of what to expect. (We have already made our reservations, and we’re scheduled to accompany a tour.)

This is how I felt when I went to the slave castle in Elmina Ghana. There's really no explanation for the feelings you feel. You want to capture everything you can, but also be in the moment.

Not sure that the music fits the mood lol

That background music though

Just came across this video for anyone in the comments that sees this and someone they know or them selfs im so so sorry i know all about this now we started learning about this in school

I went to Dachau camp in 2000. Such a very somber experience. Everybody should visit one of these camps at least once to understand the incredible wrongs that were performed by humans upon humans. This should never be allowed to happen ever again. Thank you for such a careful production of imagery in this video. We must remember these atrocities to avoid allowing them to be repeated. Nie Wieder ... NEVER AGAIN!!

As an Israeli,that’s such a strong and emotional video! Thank you for doing it!❤️ Seeing all the Hebrew letters there and some Israeli flags was just a proof that we won. Also,today,8/4,is the memory of Holocaust day(hope I wrote right)here in Israel.so I just wanted to stop and say thank you even though it’s an old video ❤️🇮🇱

My great grandparents were here and they still had their numbers on the arms before they died.

Just came across this vlog episode. My grandmothers brother was one of the first to find this camp and liberate ( if that’s the correct wording) those that were there and then many other camps later on. Such a horrible part of history that has to continue to be taught and not let happen again.

I appreciate this video, think you were both incredibly sensitive, and do not think the music was upbeat at all. As someone who has also traveled to 40+ countries, I can tell you that those who are criticizing have clearly never seen “inappropriate” and “disrespectful”. I think the survivors would be honored to be remembered. Further, I believe travelers appreciate having someone document their honest firsthand experience as well as recommendations for ease of travel. Many hugs as always.

My Great Grandad was a little kid ( who was also Jewish) in Poland at the time of the invasion. Luckily he escaped here to the UK and never went back before passing away last year . sorry if this story depressed anyone 😕

For those complaining about the music would clearly rather have depressing music 😶 the more calming music provides more of a passing era of such torture in my opinion

I am just discover your channel. I've watched you on Facebook but didn't notice you had an KZfaq channel until now. This is very moving and I can't imagine seeing it in person. When I was in 7th grade we where this in history class. They showed an actually film when they where discovered and liberated. My history teacher sat in the hall while it was being shown because she was of Jewish faith.

Amazing video - I'm a recent follower so I've been binge-watching all your videos. Loved the NZ videos (that's where I am from). I've always wanted to visit Auschwitz because I am interested in WW2. I never thought twice about the background music until it was pointed out but I figured that we all knew visiting Auschwitz was going to be somber and dark...your background music kinda makes it easier in weird way.

Kara and Nate’s voices have changed so much in the past 2 years.

My dads side is all Jewish and my great grandma and her family managed to pay to get out using diamonds. You presented this so well and respectfully ❤️

I was in Bikernau some years ago with my late wife. Thanks for your effort to show us the spirit of that terrible place.

I went to Auschwitz a long time ago and it is a sobering experience. It is one thing to read about it but to actually walk the grounds where so much pain, fear, anxiety and unfounded hatred took place is completely different not to mention seeing the displays of personal items left behind. Despite all this it is worth the trip...

May there souls rest in peace ✌😢

The cheerful music in the background is horrible

To think that I'm here in 2021 watching realising how much it has helped me watching due to covid we can't do a visit through history class and this has helped me souch to atleast understand and see visually

It’s so sad to see this because when I was in 6th grade our teacher read us a book about this and then let us use virtual reality to see the camp these people were sent to and one of the ones I saw in your video was one my teacher showed me