The Trains

So this is really sad but most of you say it very,un maturly..im pretty sure most of you dont know what went on or how anyone in the holocaust felt,im pretty sure that this is more serious than sad.I feel like this is sad,but no one is doing really anything to stop genocide..its still going on,in places like darfur.so instead of saying its sad and feeling pitty,STOP STUPID, INSIGNIFICATE,CRAZY THINGS,like genocide.take action,(and im only 13 yrs old)so if i care than we need to do something

I am 13 years old and have full respect for what you all have to say but really in places like dafur we don't have much we can do. All we can do is pray that this inhuman killing will be stopped.

this is so sad, why would anyone ever do that to people? i hate it when innocent people are killed

im suprise about this and thats sad how they done to them poeple and it doesnt matter who they are but that awful what they done. and i learn this in class and my hearts was drop how they done to them and same thing in the movie of boys in stripe pajamas.

i read a biography about this and it was extremley sad at the end when she was set free they thought she was in her 80s she was 13 that is both sad and nasty

I felt horribly bad when i watched a video on d holocaust, i just couldn't stop crying. This is man's inhumanity to man. I still cant understand how on earth people could do this to their fellow humans without sympathy.I felt horribly bad when i watched a video on d holocaust, i just couldn't stop crying. This is man's inhumanity to man. I still cant understand how on earth people could do this to their fellow humans without sympathy.

Why!!?? This is inhumain and horable. Every time i learn about the holocaust it makes me feel more and more gratefull to be in the centry and not in that time period alos i recamend people to watch paper clips the movie it about a small commmunity makeing a change that has to do with the holocaust. Thanks(::(

This is the saddest thing i have heard about my " GF" cries when i show her pics

we learned about this in class and people started crying durning the videos. And there was one kid in the video who was like we don't need to learn about it, it happened in the 17th century and another person said they thought the holocaust was a jewish holiday it was a really bad video.

omg this is terrible i cant belibe anybody would do such a thing !

this is sad

It is very sad.

That is just absolutely horrible nobody deserves that kind of treatment no matter what there belief is and I think we all need to study the holocaust and learn from this so we dont make that kind of mistake again in the future!

yea this is really terible i hope and pray this does not happen in the future

people think certain animals are dangerous but they dont no that the human mind is far more hazardous

ANIMALS AREN'T EVEN TREATED LIKE THAT!(thats if you are treating animals like they should be treated)

GERMAN PEOPLE ARE SO FREAKIN RACIST! (only the nazi) There so racial noott kool I HATE THEM FROM WHAT THEY DID TO JEWS! gosh

it is a very touching story.it is sad also, no one deserves to be treated like animals.

thats terrible 18 days innocent human beings were just pushed and teased into the cart, but why one may know

i think that was not right and it should have never happened we a studying the holocaust and i am reading the final journey by gudrun pausewang

this is sooo... wrong

Watch for the slow removal of individual freedoms. At first the hurt is as an insect bite, then the lion jumps out of the bush. It's better to kill the insect than to wait for the lion.

whoa

Thats sad how would some be able to do that? Its just to trick someone like that. I mean would you be to? I know I wouldn't be able to. Its just WRONG to do that to someone. Even if you dont beleive in the same things that they do.

I cant believe that Hitler would have even the mind to do this horrible thing!

I found one person's comment to be interesting: why did Hitler only torture the Jews and not other people of different nationalties This is a false assumption. Many were persecuted in the Holocaust, whether based on nationality, appearance or supposed faults that Hitler decided to focus on. The Roma were among those persecuted and lets be realistic, it was because of their nationality, not because they were criminals or untouchable.

Exactly!!! Thank you for saying that. Hitler also persecuted Gypsies, Homosexuals, Handicaps, Mentally Handicaped, and many others. Hitler wanted to make (he thought they were) Aryans the superior race and he was willing to do just about anything to do that. Even if it ment killing millions of inocent people. He was just so sick.. makes you wonder how a person can get that way

I urge you to read the story of the 20th train. It was the only time that a death camp transport train (from Mechelen, Belgium) was ambushed and people (between 200 and 300) rescued. Three men on bicycles carrying pliers, pistols, and a lamp covered with red paper to signal the train to stop carried out the operation. It should be made into a movie.

I was born in Salonica in 1946.My father was a distinguished med doctor with many Jewish people among his patients,being a close friend with many of them.I had my first vague experience of the Holocaust,in my early childhood,when I saw the "Number" on the arm of a family friend.I realized that something evil had happened but,as a child,didn t know,axactly what that was.I am absolutely conveinced that the total loss of OUR jewish friends,was a disaster for the city which CAN NEVER be repaired or forgotten.For myself,Holocaust is a nail in my heart until I die.

Hitler was able to attain power legally because he knew how to use the system. He promised the German people change, a better tomorrow and an opportunity to once again take their rightful place in the world. He stifled dissent through the use of force and terror. German Jews were thoroughly assimilated in German society and did not believe they would be singled out for destruction even though the evidence against that way of thinking was mounting. When Hitler invaded Poland, and later on the Baltic countries and the Ukraine he sent the Einsatzgruppen closely behind the Wermacht to conduct what we call today "ethnic cleansing" which means the shooting of Jews along with Poles, Slavs and Gypsies. Killing pits were filled from Eastern Poland to Western Russia with hundreds of thousands of Jews who were shot down, murdered, by the killing squads with help from local militia and even occasionally Waffen-SS and Wermacht troops. There was very little dissent among the troops who did the killing.It was only later, perhaps early in 1942, that death camps were set up to receive Jews for destruction. The notes from the Wannsee Conference held in January 1942 that survived the war showed that the Nazi's estimated 11 million Jews that were going to be destroyed, from Western Europe including England, Scotland and Ireland to Siberia. That was too great a number to be shot and a more "efficient" method of destruction had to be found. Trains and death camps filled the bill.

As a second-generation survivor, I cannot grapple with, cannot imagine, the horror of the transports. One thousand people were placed on each of these by force. Each car was way overloaded. Three of my four grandparents and my only aunt were taken by transport from Vienna to Sobibor and Maly Trostinets in 1942. My other grandfather had already, by then, been murdered in Buchenwald. When I recently in Sept 2008 visited Italy and inevitably rode trains on the European continent, I could not help but contemplate the suffering of my dear relatives, whom I never had the privilege to know, on other European trains 64 years earlier. When I was younger, I once stood for about 4 hours on a train from Boston to New York to get home from college one Thanksgiving. At that time I was not yet aware of the transports. Standing for 4 hours was unpleasant, believe me. How can I imagine standing for 96 hours (four days) or more? Without water? Without food? Without sanitary facilities? How can I imagine the murder of those who withstood the experience upon arrival at their destination? Who can imagine such things? The horror, the horror. Thi

I am not a jew. I am an American of German descent. I know the German people knew what was going on because my family had relatives that visited in 1937. They spoke with much animosity toward anyone who was a jew. It disturbed me as a young child because I was able to pick up on the contempt in their conversation. I remember asking my father about it and he said our church tells us to love everyone. The relatives were angry with my father for saying this to me. It did not stop him, however, he continued telling me not to listen to such nonsense.
After the war when people would say they didn't know about what was happening, I knew better. Our German relatives told us they did not believe in Hitler and they knew nothing about the camps and what was happening there. How could they not know? Did they think all the missing people visited the land of Oz?
I read Mein Kampf and that book oozed such hatred that it sickened me. After world war I, Hitler wanted to have power and the people in Germany were starving. He gave them a scapegoat and made it the Jews. If he could give them something to hate and behave as their "savior" then he would gain much power.
I believe in forgiveness, but only for those that didn't realize their sin. Hitler knew what he was doing. He did it perfectly, and he will answer to God for all eternity for the suffering, pain, and loss that he inflicted on the Jewish people. I hope the Jews can find it in their hearts to forgive the German people for their learned hatred and find peace for themselves.
I will pray for you always. And I will also pray for the German people that they will never again be lead around in such a malevolent way.

Have you ever wondered why Hitler actually did what he did? I mean many poeple think that he had on mind that he was doing a deed towards god by murdering all those Jews. Jews are like any other people. They eat sleep breathe and do everything else that the Americans, Canadians and Mexicans do. So why did Hitler only torture the Jews and not other people of different nationalties. There is many cofusion both online and in novels about the Holocaust. Many poeple say that he was beaten and abused by his father at a young age. Sometimes this can lead to a mass murderer...but think about all of the other things that could have caused this. Hitler was a dangerous man that caused families to be separated, families to be killed and devastation all around the world. People had their identities taken away from them, and when they were out in lines to go the either the smoke chambers or the barracks, it was like a path to either life or death. Today, we have it really good. Our ACTIONS speak for themselves, and we have the option to CHOOSE what we do in life. The poor Jews back in the Holocaust had no idea or choice where their life and family was headed. It was a very upsetting time and if you ever get the chance to pick up a copy of Mein Kampf anywhere get it and read it. That is the only way that you are going to know anything about what when through Hitler''s mind. God Bless all Jews!

we are watching a movie about the holocaust at my school it is calles "paperclips" it is very interesting but sad at the same time. hitler was an evil man. god bless you and all the jews

hitler is evil and is burning in hell right now and forever,for what he has done to the jewish people.may god be with the jewish people always.

Hitler (and his pals) had I trouble.
In his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
it is all about him/me.
We must all be careful of I trouble because when we begin to think it is all about me ARROGANCE sets in and then we begin to think we are Superior than anyone else and then we become Racist and then dangerious.
God helps us to watch out.

Hitler is burning in Hell right now and will be forever!

How could somebody be so cruel. To use people as human stairs. To be stuffed into jail cells, to kill innocent people. Those people are cowards epscially Hitler, he is a coward to me

the holocaust is indeed a very bad and worst night mare ever happened in the history of humanity. 6 million people were wiped off and GOD did nothing much! Why did hitler kill jews? If at all he hated them why did not he let them deported only, why he had to kill them? And why he hated the jews? If he was a real Christian, was he not supposed to even love his own enemies? If at all any jew would have offended him, he should have held a grudge against that person and not against the entire community. No where did the Jewish community maligned him so as to earn his ire. The Jews are the most intelligent people in the world and just like the Gujaratis of India are very entrepreneurs.
Its good that nazisim has been wiped out now but Israel now faces another like wise enemy - the islamic fundamentalism. Now we only have to pray to GOD to stop the atrocities on Jewish people. And those Christians who say that jews killed Jesus should well understand that the romans were not counting the rosaries at the time of crucification. What happened was the will of God and cannot be related to present day sufferings of the diaspora.
USA must support Israel whole heartily and stop applying double standards.
Shalom!

what about the train crews? they had to know the fate that awaited their cargo.were they guilty of war crimes or murder?

My parents were both taken by train to the concentration camps in Germany. Thank you for providing the personal accounts of what that was like.

i read the article by Ben Hecht and it really opened my eyes to these nazi's a brutal people making you feel horrible and then mocking you in your face cause theres nothing that you can do about it if you had to use one of the buckets you couldn't because then for the rest of the train ride you would be in soacked, urinated clothes and this was children to not just grown-ups

This was very difficult to learn about.It very sad to watch movies about this subject

This helped me soooo much on my report!

people live what they learn. The jews have a moral responsibility to humanity not to learn from the Aryans the level of depravity meted out to them.Show the world that you are Abrhm's seed.Treat Plstnians well.

I read Sam's comment and I do agree. I come from a German Heritage as well and it is great to see Germany the way it is today. Excellent.

I came across this web site. I am German, and sympathize. My grandfather and his brother both fought against 1942 Germany. I am glad to see people are not so different. I am glad to see Germany the way it is today, peaceful and markedly opposite to what the nation once stood for. Good site, my regards.

i cant even begin to imagine how our people managed to withstand those trains. my grandparents, who are german, were forced on these trains as children and there stories of what they saw and how they were treated chill me to the bone. its a wonder any of us are left

my grandfather is polish and was put on a train from poland to siberia, to a forced labour camp. the trip took two weeks and half of the one hundred men died. there was no food and no water, but the passengers could stick their hands through the holes in the roof and eat snow. yet this is hwat killed many of them, causing dissentry. the older men aboard told my grandfather not to eat the snow, and he survived.

I wish everyone could see the pictures and know what our people went through. My grandmother lost her family during the war.It breaks my heart.

You guys did a great job, good job! I am teeling my friends because we all needed this.

Thank you so much for publishing this information and these pictures. They are very appalling and I am telling friends about this wonderful site. Thank you so much!