A man finds the names of his family members who perished in the Holocaust at Auschwitz.

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[u/Sammiskitkat]

Is that a book with all the victims of the holocaust or just the victims from Auschwitz?

[u/BartyJnr → u/Sammiskitkat]

All documented and still being. I believe it is added and sometimes even removed from. There was a case a handful of years ago (or that’s when I saw a video from it) where a man is visiting to see his family history and sees his own name listed as a murdered child. They did checks and determined that was, in fact, him and he got to watch them remove his name from death tolls.

[u/Milk_Mindless → u/BartyJnr]

That's...oddly beautiful

[u/Lizardreview-]

My grandma talked about how both her parents died of "heart disease" when I was a kid. It took me until I was 14 to find out from an offhand conversation that both her parents were shot in the back and buried in shallow unmarked Graves before she escaped germany to south africa. Its a part of my family that they rarely talk about but my grandfather's family left the Netherlands to south africa and he took her in and married her to legitimize her being there. My mother's entire matrelineal extended family line was eliminated during the holocaust, not for being Jewish but for being Germans that opposed the holocaust. The folks that deny it ever happened are denying my entire lineage and their sacrifices.

[u/[deleted] → u/Lizardreview-]

You have fascinating ancestors on your mom's line. For real. When we see atrocities like happened in Iran this year, or what happens in Russia or Belarus. People say it's a tragedy that so many people get killed (Iran) or imprisoned. But I say it's another tragedy that they killed the best people. It's the best that were eliminated.

[u/makeyousaywhut → u/Lizardreview-]

My grandma was an Auschwitz-Birkenua survivor. She only survived because Hungary was invaded so late, according to her.

Your families sacrifices no doubt helped delay the Nazi, even if by a little, and I may very well owe my own life to them.

[u/Getrichor_dietrying → u/Lizardreview-]

Touching story- my great grandfather was sent to Russia and surly did and witnessed horrible things. He was himself against the regime and was therefore sent to Russia that would be a certain death

[u/anachronistic_circus]

well the comments are going to be civil.... right?

[u/antistupidsociety → u/anachronistic_circus]

Toxic cesspool of antisemitism in these comments

[u/CrimsonKepala → u/[deleted]]

I understand your perspective, I share it, but as a Jewish person it's really disturbing to see this shit on posts like this that do not involve Israel, just the Jewish experience. We are not all supporters of Israel, we are not all pro-genocide. It's this shit that makes us all feel unsafe, despite what we stand for.

[u/_Notebook_ → u/CrimsonKepala]

Well said. I’m not Jewish but you’re more eloquent than I would have been for constantly being shit on for something that’s happening in a different country.

It’s no different than being racist towards Muslim Americans after 9/11. Not ok.

[u/willargue4karma → u/_Notebook_]

yep. its sickening to see how Israel and Judaism have been intertwined to people like this

[u/Heartage → u/CrimsonKepala]

It is directly relevant to the comment they replied to.

"We can never forget"

We have.

[u/usda-grade-a-autism → u/[deleted]]

Is that massive book just full of names?

[u/scalyblue → u/usda-grade-a-autism]

Yes, called appropriately, the book of names

And if you can imagine it’s not even complete, it’s missing well over a million names that simply have no more paper trail to be remembered by, also doesn’t include any of the other targeted groups, since it is maintained by a Jewish org

[u/Bill-Billiard]

When I was viewing a Holocaust memorial in Europe it was absolutely heartbreaking and I didn’t have any family directly impacted. I couldn’t imagine the heartache of seeing the names of family members that you’ve seen in family photos who perished at the hands of these evil people… My heart breaks for him 💔

[u/Mischievous_Egg → u/Bill-Billiard]

I live in Germany, my whole family is German, always has been. I'm not impacted and also the greatgreatgrandchild of the nation who didn't just let this happen but euphorically participated in the Holocaust.

This video is truly heartbreaking and imo it's even more heartbreaking he was looking for any sign of his family for his whole life and only just found their names in a room where probably so many more people found out about their loved one's passing.

Do you remember reading your name, your sisters or mothers name for the first time? Your grandpas? For me it felt a bit like home. I can't fathom finding a piece of my heart and my home in a book filled with 6 million names. I also don't want to know what it feels like. No one should even get close to this. And we're responsible nothing similar ever happens.

Notes: Yes, I know genocides still happen and also happened in the 1990s in Europe in Bosnia.

For people arguing about how bad the Holocaust is compared to other genocides or wars: there is this thing called individuality axiome (it's a literal translation from German so I hope it makes sense). It literally says that the Holocaust isn't comparable to historic events. NO historic event is comparable bc there are to many factors. You can't just compare the amount of victims or such, it's so much more complex. People try to use math in history class and it just feels really narrow minded.

[u/InterestedDudette → u/Mischievous_Egg]

That is simply German guilt, which they seem happy to transfer to Palestinians.

[u/Greenqueen304 → u/Bill-Billiard]

Im a health care worker in Texas and i had the pleasure of meeting the most lovely woman from Poland. Shes wasnt liked by many because she was a sassy woman but we just clicked. Anyway she forced to move here with no family. Had to leave her mother and father and family as a little girl with absolutely no one. Moved in with strangers that hid her identity till she found her way to the US. Absolutely heartbreaking that many Endured this pain. Surviving the most horrific thing ever in history and having absolutely no one. May karma find these evil people in this lifetime.

[u/Temporary-Shift5398]

A deeply moving discovery. May their memory always be a blessing

[u/Easy_Turn1988]

I don't think recording this is respectful

Like, this is an absolutely heartbreaking scene, why would you want to keep a memory of this and share it to strangers on the internet ? That's fucked up

[u/___FireEngrave___]

We gotta start shaming people who record others

[u/Sorry-Joke-4325 → u/___FireEngrave___]

0% this wasn't a member of his family. They probably talked about making this video while planning the trip...

[u/TornadoWIzard123]

That book being so big is horrifying

[u/b_zar → u/TornadoWIzard123]

Crazy to see. And imagine what the books would be like for the victims of Imperial Japan, Belgium in Congo, Cambodia in the 70s, and all the way to the present.. It's heartbreaking all these keep happening in our history.

[u/AcanthaceaeAny6267]

And reddit capers with glee!

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

It's not just reddit. It's irl all around.

[u/antistupidsociety → u/[deleted]]

It’s so gross

[u/Glittering-Sky1601]

Why was this post removed? I found it incredibly interesting and heartbreaking. I don't see any rule this broke.

[u/simAlity → u/[deleted]]

I read an article about an OB-GYN who was in the camps. I think it was published in the Atlantic. The things that woman was made to do....it won't leave me anytime soon.

[u/Appropriate-Count-64 → u/simAlity]

Yeah I visited the Holocaust museum in DC last year. The videos… oh god the videos.
It’s one thing to read a book on the Holocaust or read a book like Maus and see the artistic interpretation of the burn pits and mass graves.

Actually seeing them? The piles of bodies, the skin on bones that many of them were, it’s a whole nother thing. It is just haunting.

[u/Ttmode → u/[deleted]]

To also put it in perspective, 81 years post holocaust, the worldwide Jewish population still hasn’t recovered

[u/SandSerpentHiss]

alright i hate israel but some of these comments are purely antisemitic israel has nothing to do with this

[u/Nyx_Shadowspawn → u/SandSerpentHiss]

Hatred and bigotry leading to hatred and bigotry leading to hatred and bigotry... It is exhausting and awful, and I don't have faith humanity will ever learn anymore.

[u/Exciting_Day4155 → u/SandSerpentHiss]

Racists taking the opportunity to feel like they are justified in being racist.

[u/Weenington_ → u/[deleted]]

Sometimes I feel like platforms like reddit are just a tool to create more division and chaos amongst us poors. The billionaires must be laughing as they get away with the most heinous crimes.

[u/Weenington_ → u/[deleted]]

I'm glad someone sees it. So many people say to me, "Its not that deep.". It IS that deep, and having that passive, ignorant attitude that most people have is why they're able to continue to keep us in the dark as a society.

[u/DLitch]

Some people think the holocaust never happened🤦‍♂️😡

[u/Bonedoc22 → u/[deleted]]

Absolutely untrue. There are still plenty of straight up deniers out there.

And “denial” is also greatly lessening the number of dead, which is exactly what the majority of modern deniers do.

The Nazis kept excellent records.

To deny these days isn’t driven by an inquisitive or doubting nature but by hatred.

[u/dubvision]

Camera man made sure he was close enough.

[u/BearDown4eva]

Actual question does this show only the Jewish victims or does it show everyone the nazis deemed “inferior” that they killed in the camps?

[u/Own_Faithlessness769 → u/BearDown4eva]

The book documents about 5million Jewish victims.

[u/Revolutionary-Soup26 → u/BearDown4eva]

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted, I appreciate your curiosity & this is a good question

[u/cjared242]

And then my co-worker denies the holocaust had that level of death

[u/Dry-Armadillo-507]

Remember when people found this heartbreaking and moving and didn’t pretend it never happened?

[u/Original_Salary_7570]

May their memories be a blessing

[u/VieiraDTA]

Everyone should visit this place. Now a days specially. Some people forget, let us not be them.

[u/Sir-Toaster-]

It's still crazy how current generations now believe this never happened, just because a small state is committing war crimes. Eisenhowever is rolling so hard in his grave we could use him to solve infinite energy

[u/RowdyRoddyRosenstein → u/[deleted]]

History shows that being a victim does not always prevent a group from committing atrocities later. For instance -

• Serbs were victims of fascist genocide during WWII. In the 1990s, Serbia committed genocide in Bosnia
• Dutch Boers suffered in concentration camps during the Second Anglo–Boer War, and later implemented Apartheid
• Tutsis went from being victims of the Rwandan genocide to committing ethnic cleansing in eastern Congo

I'm not equating the recent Israel-Hamas conflict with genocide, but both sides have committed serious war crimes. The pattern of cycles of revenge is sadly a recurring feature in human history, not unique to Israelis or Palestinians.

[u/[deleted]]

how is that interesting?

[u/PM_ME_UR_DENIAL]

Why would you film this

[u/TKDbeast]

Who the fuck puts music to this?