Auschwitz Survivors Return To Death Camp 75 Years Later‌ | NBC Nightly News

suits where the Nazis murdered over 1 million people, mostly Jews, to me the scope is a graveyard. I remember the hangings. I remember the house of horror, which is like a terrible scar, it was a terrible place. Few survived the largest mass murder in history, but 75

years

later

. liberation from this extermination

camp

some are going to

return

some for the first time Sally Yossef from New York is a I need a lot of sweaters she was sent there at 16 with her parents and siblings, they were killed when we couldn't make the suits I found something like burning no I saw the gymnast but we felt the air burning like bones you know no 93 she is going to

return

it is a cemetery and I am going to honor my people to go to the cemetery that I never had to I'm going to cry with all my heart, but I want to go away Hundreds of thousands of Jews were selected to die at this place, gassed within an hour and then burned.

His ashes scattered here, at the gate of Auschwitz, with its notorious sign, will set you free. Some

survivors

returned and I spent exactly 8,400 hours here. Miriam Ziegler was 8

years

old when the famous Nazi doctor experimented on her here. Josef Mengele and that's you, anyone who experienced what we experienced when David Langer of California lost most of his family. I remembered the place where they shot people on the wall. I remember the tapestries. I remember the horror. I remember the smoke from the chimney that came out of the crematoriums, I remember everything, it left such a scar on my soul that I could never forget it.

Elizabeth Citron's mother was murdered on her first day here. The second day I asked when she would meet me. my mother and them took me by the arm and showed me the fireplace and told me that when you went out the same way every day it was a battle for survival absolutely absolutely the numbers are still staggering at full capacity. 10,000 people a day were murdered here in In eight weeks of 1944, a third of a million Hungarian Jews were gassed and then burned when we arrived at Auschwitz for Sonia Klein of New York,

death

was just a few meters away, we were next to the guest chamber and the crematoriums and we learned to sleep.

You nor we smelled the blood and we learned to sleep the horrors are unimaginable these newly colored images show the Jews being detained to die their clear terror the cattle trucks in which they were loaded took them to Auschwitz the end of the line and it was Here Where the traces end, the dozens of

survivors

gathered to commemorate the liberation of the

camp

in 1945. Their pain is still alive. I'm upset. You can probably feel that our Swiss is like a terrible scar from a terrible trauma that never goes away and the pain. it never stops many are afraid of new attacks against Jews in the US and Europe do not be silent do not be complacent do not let this happen to anyone again Mr.

Salia returned to Auschwitz bringing a message for his murdered mother talk to my mother and tell her MA I want to tell you what I went through in MA please I love you I need you to hug me I need you to touch me and kiss me like I used to do before and also bringing a burden I always feel guilty so why me, why me, she survives not only Auschwitz but Belsen, where she met the teenager and Frank, whose diary survives her murder. My friend Anne Frank there looked like a little girl like me. I'm here, my heart is breaking.

Everything comes back to me. I feel my mother, I feel my mother as if she were touching me where the prisoners were shot, the survivors shed tears, the mass killing here has always been a warning of history, but as anti-Semitism and nationalism grow, Today it is a more urgent warning than ever. afraid once again I am afraid I am very very afraid when good people see that evil is running anywhere in the world and do nothing about it and become indifferent to it that is the consequence because evil wins evil triumphs they will get a letter test we do not want our grandchildren to have the same anti-Semitism that we experienced when we only had thirty percent of the children.

We can even name a concentration camp and know nothing about the Holocaust. What do we expect? Sometimes history has a way of repeating itself. Hatred leads to destruction. We must not forget and today we are a handful of two million visitors a year who come to Auschwitz to the gas chambers to the crematoriums that the Nazis tried to destroy to remember like the survivors what was lost all the possibilities that could have been for our generation so the artists the The doctors and scientists in the smoke was the most horrendous mass killing in the history of humanity and the world decided at that moment to remain silent.

Can I forgive a different story? No, it could happen here too, it could happen what the Germans did in a country like sophisticated intelligent people came beasts even animals but even here after everything they have endured they count their blessings today I am a very lucky person I am married I have six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren and for this and very grateful for many as David Marks from Connecticut returning for the first time is a kind of victory. I'd love to. This should be a lifetime and I should see what I accomplished. But you are alive.

I'm alive, right? David Marks lost 35 members of his family. Marrying his partner Cathy Klein in June, this may be the last time so many survivors will gather here, but they warn that history is very clear, they will never be Methodists again, maybe they weren't before, but that's what the Humanity can become a horrible place. Hello NBC News fans. thank you for visiting our YouTube channel, subscribe by clicking that button below and click on any of the videos here to see the latest interviews, show highlights and digital exclusives thanks for watching