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One of my favourite escape stories.. when I first learned about the story of Vrba and Bretzel I can't believe it was a real story.

There are people in my country that want to change how history is taught . When you try to change how it's taught ..you are FULLY intending to repeat it .

It blows my mind on how people could be so evil to do such things to another human being. It's beyond evilness to me.

Absolutely Heartbreaking. But, I learned from watching this one. It should be taught in schools all over the world. Lest, we forget and History repeats itself.. Prayers for the survivors 🙏🙏🙏

There's a movie made about this story, called The Auschwitz Report from 2021.

Never heard of these two guys before... 😔 What an amazing story.

I notice that more and more people are denying this ever happened. There were no 'deniers' right after the war because there were too many people who saw proof with their own eyes. But as more and more of the witnesses passed on, the deniers started to become more. This should tell you something about the people who say it never happened. More specifically, their lack of courage. Today the deniers outnumber the survivors. I'm saddened that in a generation this will only be seen as a myth. (despite the visual and written evidence)

As a history professor I felt a sense of responsibility to explain to people why this Holocaust Remembrance Day is different than all others. So, I made a short video and included many resources for people to learn more about the Holocaust. Soon the entire generation of survivors will be gone. Now is the time to learn the lessons of the past.

Most of the reasons why Auschwitz wasn't bombed were touched on in this vid. But one reason was not fully explored, and that is the military men running the war for the Allies had one objective - to win. They assumed those running the war in Germany had the same objective, and they couldn't fathom Germany would divert such massive resources from their war effort to carry out an ideological pursuit that had no military value. The Germans were losing on three fronts. It didn't make sense to the Allied military commanders and I'm not sure they fully believed or understood the reports coming out of Auschwitz. My dad was a POW at Lamsdorf, in the same part of Poland as Auschwitz. I've been to Auschwitz and have talked to guides and the local historians about this.

Interesting and informative documentary on the account of the bombing of Auschwitz and the two young men who escaped to get the info out what was happening. I have never heard of this before in a historical documentary. Thanks for an important part of Holocaust history.

Enjoed this documentary 🎬thank you

In regards to stopping the Holocaust, there's not much the Allies could've done. Take into account that there are 42,500 camps total, the Holocaust would've continued and not to mention the severe reprisals that would've happened. The only way to really stop the Holocaust in its tracks for good was to win the war. If anyone wants to know more about the story shown on screen, I highly recommend a book titled The Escape Artist by Johnathan Freedland. It's easily my favorite book despite the grim subject it pertains to.

This is wild, growing up in the US in the 90s I NEVER learned that we had advance knowledge of the concentration camps, the story was always told of how shocked the soldiers were when they liberated the camps but nothing about this. Thank you.

I had never heard about these two brave young men. Eighty years later this among other realities of World War II need to be taught to adults (younger than we boomers) as well as children, as we face a new force of evil against Israel and all Jews around the world. Thank you for this presentation.

My wife and I just finished watching the Series The TATOOST OF AUSCHWIST on PEACOCK…. It was unbelievable what happened to these people…. It was amazing what these people did to survive ( the one’s that did ) It’s scary, it could happen again… A small part of this story was in that series…….

I have been in Poland several times! I have travelled throughout Poland to witness every Camp from the first one Stutthof to the horrible one Auschwitz! Germany 🇩🇪 owes Poland 🇵🇱 apology for the next coming years on this planet 🌎 for the unimaginable horrible works from 1940-1945!

Thank you. How incredibly important this is for such a time as this

Thank you for continuing to educate people. There is always one face in the footage I look for, he's very close to the end and I see him often and I'm always wondering if anyone knows anything about him. At 57:45 is a man with a lot of black hair. It's just so profound to see someone with this much hair in these photos. I always wondered if anyone knows his name, are there any descendants of his who comes here etc. I would like to know what became of him after liberation, I would like to know his name so I can say a prayer for him. His face just always touches me.

Whole world knows about the holocaust but not one person knows about what happened in Croatia during that same period to my ancestors and my people-Serbian people. Even the Nazis were appalled...make a serial about that, thanks

I had read stories like this or similar when I was still in Europe. Every time I see these pictures of Jewish people in Poland I sickened my stomach.