My step Dad was one of many soldiers who liberated a camp in Germany, I think maybe the Dresden camp. It broke his heart. He and some others called some Germans out of their houses and made them take off their clothing. They took the clothes back to the freed prisoners.😮

why she had to sneak the bread? Wasn't the victims are under careful ration to prevent overfeeding during malnutrition which may result death?

@@veritasverus1276 These were not the patients in the hospital, but just neighborhood kids scrounging for anything they could get their hands on.

God Bless! Through generations of her humanity!

What an evil time that was. We need to teach our children so this can never happen again.

Your Dad did the best he could for that wee soul. You must be so proud of him. He was a BIG MAN with a BIG heart.

Thanks for sharing. ❤

I am sure both of them are with Jesus Christ now

My first reaction would be, "How could the US military not prepare its soldiers for what they would witness liberating the camps?" But on second thought, how could they? No one could related to the Nazi atrocities, so how could they have briefed their soldiers beforehand?

Those moments of deep compassion and love never die. The little boy waited for your dad. Thank you for sharing your dad's story 🙏💗

Envy and lack of understanding. We fear what we do not understand

Nope, you're just not liked.

@@grantbuchanan7295 Maybe not by you. As for me, I have Jewish friends, Christian friends. There’s good and bad in every religion

@@stevetaylor7403 Well, I praised the beautiful images of Warsaw, from the 20s, 30s... in other series... in my opinion, it was the most beautiful city in Europe and, therefore, the same reason... and, "mythological narratives ", that everyone is rich, do not justify persecution..

@@FelipeHawk1 : Couldn’t agree more. However, had they taken action sooner then fewer may have survived.

And many more countries did nothing, or killed Jews themselves.

yea thank you all

My dad was RAF (from Canada). He was at Bergen-Belsen.

I was coming here to say the exact same thing.

Absolutely. Thank you Canadian soldiers and Dutch soldiers, as well.

I hear you so sad

God blessed him for helping.

God bless his soul, a hero!

A real tszadic who did great mitvot. What he did was noted by hashem, I'm sure, and becasue of it he lives as bright as the sun in olam habah .... the next world.

My father developed MS,and from talking alot about what he had experience liberating the camps,stopped talking about it.

Bless your mother for her great compassion!

How old were the Jacobsons when you knew them?

@@besscollins3163 They told us to call them grandpa and grandma, I don’t know how old they were. I was a small child. This occurred in the 1960s and a few years later Emil passed away.

Be thankful we weren't born a monster aka German

@@familyandfriends3519 The German people suffered horribly under Hitler. The prisons were initially built for the German people, dissenting, then were use for the Jews.

Yeah I just can’t imagine this happening to me and my family. God bless these people and all those lost.

​@DaMensch - ... and to my awesome Jewish friends and still happening

GAZA, GAZA, GAZA, GAZA, Nazi APARTHEID, FAZA, GAZA, murdering invaders

@@danielskomp9072 ??????….The point?

Be glad you weren't born a German aka a monster

In the days that followed the pogrom, twelve of its participants were arrested and tried in Kielce by the Supreme Military Court. Nine of them were sentenced to death and executed. More related arrests and jail sentences followed in the next months. It was the last pogrom in Poland.

@@benwars9524 Thank you for this information! I am a Polish Jew and I didn't know the details.

Now it’s Israel doing this

It is about power. Power to take away your way of life and dignity. You can't understand because you are a compasionate person. Some people are not.

'To err is to be human, to forgive divine'. Somehow 'Never Forget, Never Forgive' is repugnant.

As long as Germans exist evil will continue on

I agree so much. My puzzle though is how to prevent also cruelty and atrocities to Palestinians, for example. The current war makes people hate Jewish people when they deserve only love. What can be done to end the cycle of war and hate?

How dare you!@@jenniferhampton5171

I lived in Iowa for a year as a Vista Worker in the mid 1970's and heard about a group of men who volunteer to starve themselves at a old mental institution that was not use anymore to study how to feel people who were starved in order that they will not kill them in the process. the people took that info and help feed these people in the concentration camps that were freed. these men did not go to work because they objected to war in general but served the war with this program. starving changed them and the doctor studied that as well. one of the things they did was to collect recipes and look at them a lot of the times. looking a a cooking book was like reading a novel.

I wish I could have been there. Can't imagine the feelings you had. Ty for sharing.

@@tomaszkaczmarek422 Yes. I am glad you know which, at the time, it was.

I read somewhere that the Netherlands made it difficult for survivors to reclaim their hidden children. They had to show proof that they were fit parents as I recall in the reading. Also I read that a greater percentage of Jews from the Netherlands went to concentration camps--a greater percentage (not number) than in other countries. Please excuse me if I am incorrect in this.

@@Neilsowards Neil, that's true! I'm so very ashamed for that! My grandfather was in the resistance, he was betrayed, and was sent to camp Lütringhausen for 4 years. My uncle hid a Jewish couple, they were also betrayed, the woman survived the camps, but her husband and my uncle died. My uncle died during a transport from Oranienburg to Bergen-Belsen. The attitude off my countrymen was awful, all for money and possesions. 🤮🤮😭😭🙏🏻

​@@zwijntje3010so sad

​@@zwijntje3010a brave uncle amen

@@francisthomlinson9062 Thank you so much, dear Francis! Have a nice day, love from the Netherlands 😘💜🙏🏻

Amen

Dear Nicola,of course Amen.We jews can never forget,it haunts us,and it should haunt the world.My own family were from Greece and France.Bless you !

Dear Marybee shalom to you and those you love,from Baruch in London,England.

Lovely comment and appreciated.

What a wonderful comment!! Thank you for sharing.

This kind of makes me wonder if it would be better for people not to be made aware of the atrocities of the past, since it makes them aware that people can actually do such evil things to one another. The awareness of this to some extent is subject to bring forth the same type of behavior in some people who witness it, since these people realize that others have actually done those things. But they less subject to certain types of behavior if they can't fathom that people would do those things to each other, for instance if they were not made aware of past when people did those things.

@wrestler x. I understand why you said this…. But history repeats itself over and over and over again if no one knows about it. This has been going in different ways since the Ancient Greek philosophers. In my humble opinion…and since there seems to be people now that don’t believe that the Nazis did what they did…I would prefer everyone knew about this….and that true history was taught in every school …middle, high school.. college in the USA. I don’t know what other countries teach. For myself….and I already knew about Roman history…I received my undergraduate degree in Ancient Roman History with a minor in Aztec and Mayan History. Unfortunately…. The human race doesn’t change a lot from century to century to century. There’s a great song…The Merry Minuet…written by the Kingston Trio in 1959. Maybe…the human race will become enlightened. As for me, I do my own work every day.

Yes, it seems it does not change. 😢

@@mapleext yes, and it will not change. the good thing is that there is the other side of humanity too - the good one

Humanity no Germans these people were born to be monsters and not Nazis Germans

They married and had children contributing to future jewish generations

Thank the Catholic Church

Because they are Gods' chosen people. This is a Satanic war.

people tend to hate anything they don't understand. it's the same with racism, homophobia, transphobia etc. there will always be a group of people who evil individuals will target, it'll never end.

@@Thor_Odinson As a catholic, especially as a child, I could never understand hating Jewish people because Jesus was Jewish. The contradiction always bothered me.

​@@sandijohnson2216isn't according to Catholic belief Jesus was murdered by Jewish people?

Let us also remember the systematic way that the Israeli government takes over the land of the Palestinian people. That is happening right now.

Just Germans are capable of doing this they are monsters

Well said

Irena Sendler and thousands of others brave polish people, neighbors, friends risking their own lives hiding Jewish in their homes.This Jewish were polish citizens.

Dear Leonid shalom to you and those you love.From Baruch,in London,England.

Denmark put citizenry status above religion and continues to do so. Gd bless Denmark and it's people forever. Amen

Amazing how Israel prevails over the insidious enemies surrounding them! The world needs to know what that is really all about and quite coddling their persecutors.

Of us jews we never can forger as it is always there in the background of our lives haunting us.My folks were from Greece and France.

Putin is taking out the bio-weapons labs created by our deep state, Satanic. Human trafficking, Cannibals, and pedophiles not only run our gov't here in the U.S., but it's also all over. Headed up by the 13 Venetian families. The Pope, Queen Lizzy (draconian reptoid also known as Queen Lizzy who has been dead 3 years.), The Bush's , Clintons, Obama's, George Soros, Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, All of Hollyweird, This has been going on for thousands of years. These evil, sadistic, non-humans, are responsible. They escaped prosecution and took off to other countries. Antarctica, underground bases. ALL OVER THE WORLD. 378 D.U.M.B.S in the U.S. alone. The good news special forces has spent the last 7 years blowing them up. Putin went in and blew up D.U.M.B.S, rescued children, and gave aid to the people. His agenda is to help save the world from what would have been devasting to the entire planet. COVID-19 the plandemic didn't work, and neither did this bio-weapon Putin blowin em up. This is biblical. My heart goes out to all the men, women, and children who endured horrific tragedy . We MUST NEVER forget . WWG1WGA

Nothing natural about it

Dear Garry,shalom.G-d forbid it could happen ever again ! But with the present hiddeous turn against us much backed up by the humongous moslem population now all over Europe.And them with thier most unusual solidarity of communist and left wing socialists,we can no longer feel safely sure that it never will happen again.We jews cannot help feeling betrayed by europe once more.

But dear Garry,we jews cannot be but deeply touched by the kind friendship shown to us by precious people like you.Though yes there were indeed people such as you before The Holocaust.And even through the years of The Holocaust.

Jews have only ever hoped and when and where allowed to actually asked that all we want for us is to be treated equally as everybody else. No better ! No worst !

My mother was born in Feldafing.

as a jew who lost family in the holocaust and six million of my people, thank you for saying this. it's hard to forgive to an extent, especially after growing up in a community that had and still thank G-d does have survivors. it means so much to me to see comments like your's, and i agree, it shouldn't happen to any group, yet it still sadly is. i'd be interested in speaking with you if you were open to it, i would like to hear how you were taught about germany's past and the holocaust, and your experience growing up there, especially if you know any jews who are survivors and live there now/ when you were growing up. danke!

Ha Nazis you mean Germans

They didnt go mad, but they had suffered so much after WWI that they couldnt see straight and when someone (Hitler) promised something better, they followed him. I dont think people know how much the German people suffered after WWI. This is why programs such as the Marshall Plan after WWII helped so tremendously in maybe changing peoples minds a little bit. It is not good to make people suffer so much after war, even if they were the ones who started the war. This is why Lincoln was such a visionary in his attitude toward the Confederates. We had a customer once in our store who told us that after WWI, he, a German would work for a week and his paycheck wasnt enough to buy a sausage sandwich. This was the whole country was like that. So it was easy to look for a scapegoat and Hitler chose the Jews. (and Gypsies). (and Communists). I look at my neighbor down the street and I think, what....would it take for me to turn on that neighbor? I think, there is nothing that would cause me to do that, but then I have never suffered like that.

Exactly!

And skilful propaganda of the Nazis to their nation that Jews and Slavs are subhuman races, demonising and dehumanising them. Brainwashing. This tactics are still being used in the world now

Not easy to answer. @Neilsowards already made an important point reminding of the end of WW 1 which was a European "accident" no-one had anticipated to grow into the catastrophy it eventually turned out to be for many reasons. Scapegoats for Germany losing that war (actually nobody really won anything from it) and having to accept to be one-sidedly blamed and pay for it for having started it were in high demand. And there were many, in particular the Socialists and Communists - who were later killed in many ways including concentration camps. "The Jews" as the scapegoats for anything were just as bad as the Russian Bolshevists. Demonising and threatening the the former was "just a means" by the Nazis to gain complete control over all the Germans. Most people weren't Antisemites. The Nazis quickly installed a sysetm of terror within the country and used their political enemies (Socialists for instance) and non-political groups such as Jews, homosexuals and others to intimidate everyone. No one should ever feel safe. "The Jews" weren't a uniformly recognisable group in the beginning. There were many Jews who didn't practice their religion in any way, people who had Jewish ancestors and didn't know about it etc. All of these were suddenly (1933) threatened - in degrees. Having your pension reduced, not being promoted, losing your job... So being "Jewish", "Half-Jewish" "Quarter-Jewish" etc was "just" one means of spreading fear amongst the whole population. (Ironically, the most unsafe place to be was in the party itself.) And of course there were winners too - those who then gained jobs, got promoted... Demonising the Bolsheviks was a means to motivate and justify the reckless war in the East using unprecedented means in 1941 including the possibilty of building even larger concentration camps and insutrializing their deadly work. (The previous two years in the West had been conventional in its means and goals). There alreday existed Antisemitism in Germany before the Nazis. It was also not contained to Germany but wasn't played out as systematically and radically. The advance of new technology (mass medium radio) and its systematic use (propagada) contributed in a way hitherto unknwon. And what about Hitler? This might seem an out of place question, but: Was Hitler an antisemite? (Yes!) But would you expect the mastermind of the Third Reich to have a family doctor, treating his mother as a patient, who was Jewish? "Strong family values" you described in the victims were propagated also by the Nazis - for the "Arians". So something seemingly "good", a virtue, like "strong family values" has proven not be a means to protect from committing the most despicable crimes. The Nazi-Germans and their collaborators killed so many people in so many different ways, that's impossible to grasp. All to create terror as a means of poltical control. But besides using obvious cruel means such as tanks, guns and gas they used means you might consider positive: tradition, patriotism, comradery, family, friendship, responsibilty, belief in higher goals... you name it. So were Germans mad in the thirties and early fourties? No. If we had travelled the country back then, we might have found many people sharing the same values, acting quite normally in many circumstances. (See for instance W.E.B. Du Bois). A lot of the people working for the Nazis or Nazis themselves you would have found to be quite regular people. Adolf Eichmann, driving force of the Holocaust, was investigated by psychogoligsts after the war and found to be psychologically very normal. Do read the diaries of Victor Klemperer. You will probably easily share his sense of shock, astonishment and puzzlement and find a detailed inside-perspective of Germany and the Germans in the Third Reich. He was from Jewish descent but converted Christian (nothing to do with the Nazi regime). He barely survived the Third Reich. One of his memorable quotes is: I am German the others (Nazis) are Un-German.

Not Nazis Germans

Except if it's china and them doing it to the uighars🤷‍♀️