WEBVTT 00:00:05.643 --> 00:00:08.613 This is Auschwitz situated in Poland. 00:00:08.721 --> 00:00:12.724 Sixty years ago, one of the largest concentration camps was built here. 00:00:12.786 --> 00:00:16.143 Six million innocent people perished. 00:00:16.433 --> 00:00:22.086 200 young people across London have the honourable privilege to visit Auschwitz 00:00:22.157 --> 00:00:25.387 and re-live a little of what was experienced. 00:00:26.741 --> 00:00:32.555 This opportunity came about from taking part in the LFA Project - Lessons From Auschwitz. 00:00:34.559 --> 00:00:41.037 We attended 3 seminars where we learnt about the Holocaust, in depth and the history behind it. 00:00:41.796 --> 00:00:46.063 We learnt about life's hardships before the Holocaust, 00:00:46.806 --> 00:00:54.720 the trauma of the Holocaust and the destruction after the Holocaust. 00:01:01.048 --> 00:01:07.577 We're walking to one of the sites in Auschwitz ... it's going to be sad. 00:01:08.497 --> 00:01:09.737 What are you thinking? 00:01:09.958 --> 00:01:14.191 It's freezing. I didn't expect it to be this cold. 00:01:15.759 --> 00:01:20.304 Can't wait to find out more information about what happened in Auschwitz. 00:01:28.745 --> 00:01:32.994 00:01:33.009 --> 00:01:35.775 00:01:35.867 --> 00:01:40.113 00:01:40.158 --> 00:01:43.294 00:01:47.503 --> 00:01:49.067 00:01:49.422 --> 00:01:56.650 00:01:56.859 --> 00:01:58.794 00:01:58.915 --> 00:02:03.964 00:02:04.085 --> 00:02:09.470 00:02:15.099 --> 00:02:20.485 It's so depressing hearing these stories of how the Jews were exterminated. It was horrible. 00:02:20.551 --> 00:02:27.412 Saying how they were going to get decontaminated, but they actually were on their way to death. 00:02:28.074 --> 00:02:30.659 Can't believe this happened. 00:02:33.516 --> 00:02:37.935 These were the toilets and it wasn't one hole per person, 00:02:38.092 --> 00:02:41.388 it was about one hole per three, four different people. 00:02:43.394 --> 00:02:47.679 One of the survivors that we met, her name is Kitty, she said her favourite job 00:02:47.791 --> 00:02:53.606 on the camps, was to clean out these sanitary bases because you were inside, 00:02:53.644 --> 00:02:58.301 you had access to one of the holes to yourself. 00:02:58.540 --> 00:03:04.846 It was by far, one of the best jobs to have, alongside clearing up dead corpses. 00:03:20.146 --> 00:03:28.310 Here is the cemetery and there's a lot of controversy around it because it was recently built 00:03:28.389 --> 00:03:33.210 a couple of years ago in order to remember the Holocaust victims. 00:03:33.268 --> 00:03:38.977 However, some people of different countries don't recognise it as a memorial and others do. 00:03:39.048 --> 00:03:44.924 You can never please everyone, but this site does represent the people who passed away. 00:03:44.966 --> 00:03:52.459 Here is the crematorium in Birkenau ... and this is the remains of it 00:03:52.566 --> 00:03:58.186 It hasn't been touched, it hasn't been preserved in any way, this is how it remains .. 00:03:58.234 --> 00:04:08.676 and people were killed and they were burnt. They were burnt to ashes...alive 00:04:08.714 --> 00:04:12.835 Some alive, some still half alive, some unconscious, some dead... 00:04:12.904 --> 00:04:17.289 and the smell flew all the way to Auschwitz. It blew there. 00:04:17.313 --> 00:04:23.061 People could see a glow as the trains were coming in. They saw their death. They knew their death. 00:04:23.092 --> 00:04:27.907 People in Auschwitz could smell the smell of burning flesh, on their skin, on their clothes 00:04:27.928 --> 00:04:29.875 and even on the bread that they ate. 00:04:30.055 --> 00:04:34.522 They knew what awaited them. So there was no hiding, no pretending. 00:04:34.661 --> 00:04:39.652 They would work day and night and they knew, this was their fate. This, was their fate. 00:04:39.699 --> 00:04:45.082 The Nazis wanted to destroy the evidence. They wanted to make people believe it had never happened. 00:04:45.798 --> 00:04:46.941 But, they failed. 00:04:47.972 --> 00:04:49.372 They failed. 00:04:59.163 --> 00:05:04.231 This shows Germany was more than just concentration camps that killed off many Jews 00:05:04.315 --> 00:05:08.830 It was terror, it was mass murder. It was brutal and heartless. 00:05:08.943 --> 00:05:10.910 This is what Hitler and the Nazis did. 00:05:10.991 --> 00:05:15.351 They burnt people alive. These people, their only crime was being Jewish. 00:05:15.425 --> 00:05:20.702 If that happened in Nazi Germany, then what could happen today as a result of dictatorship? 00:05:20.719 --> 00:05:24.365 We all need to be really careful and not let this happen again.