From the Cattle Cars to Arrival at the Camps | Deportations during the Holocaust

No words can truly described the horrific experience our peoples suffered until their ends. The humiliation was tantamount to the path of the murders. These videos keep the history alive & Yad Vashem is a testimony to the survival. Rest in peace all of the martyrs.

Exceptionally focused, intelligent and thoughtful distillation of the dreadful experiences suffered.

seeing the cattle car at Yad Vashem for the first time gave me the shivers , knowing how many PEOPLE were crammed into one of those things , sometimes for days with little more than a single bucket as a latrine , the stench must have been intolerable 😢

So tragic, Dr Shik. I often watch the videos, and until now, wondered why these precious people didn't resist the Nazis, or form a rebellion. Now I see the psychology applied to these hapless people. My heart breaks 💔

I feel very sorry for them. I can't imagine how horrible it was to the mothers. We can never forget it.

This video and comment was very good and very spot-on, with why these prisoners were treated so extremely poorly as to make them feel as if they were Less in all aspects, including a non-person, non human being. The abusers (Nazi soldiers and their helpers), did humiliation and dehumanizing as what this person in the video mentioned, to make it easier on them (the tormentors), the prisoners don't hardly rebel, they give-up and therefore give-in. However, I had read a few video comments, in other interviews, when asked of an ex-Nazi soldier from a prison camp, "Why they tormented and humiliated prisoners in such extreme ways, especially if they (the prison guards) were going to kill most of their prisoners anyway. the answer was... "To make it easier on 'them' the prison guards". He stated, "in dehumanizing, and tormenting and humiliating, then they have a mindsets that their prisoners are (in the guards & soldiers eyes and mind), their prisoners are Not Human, at all. Therefore, its much easier to kill what is Not human". Its a matter of training their conscious (and subconscious) to not look at their prisoners as a human at all, Otherwise, they couldn't go through with what they were there to do. Nor would they be able to live with their conscious after the war and back to their homes & family & normalcy. I wrote this because all the points are covered, but one point is left out. The prisoners are made maulable by torture mentally, emotionally, and physically way before being murdered or worked to death, it was done (to tear down the prisoners) in a psychological way, for both sides of this matrix horror... the prisoners (Jews, and others alike who were imprisoned) but also the Nazi prison guards and their helping hands.

Yad Vashem Foundation, good morning! Congratulations on your exceptional work in preserving the memory of the Holocaust. This work has to last, so that such an atrocity never happens again. I ASK YOU TO TRANSLATE THE VIDEOS SO THAT MORE PEOPLE CAN APPRECIATE YOUR WORK IN MEMORY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS. TRANSLATE AT LEAST IN SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE! GOD BLESS YOU! Sou do Brazil!

This woman did an excellent job accounting the transports and how these innocent peoples were systematically treated, and the very sickening psychopathy behind it. Imagine, working on plans to exterminate whole masses of various types of human being’s? It’s beyond sick!

Thank you. Emphasises yet again the care with which the Shoah was planned. With psychological brilliance and absolute determination to humiliate, depersonalise, confuse and destroy.

This breaks my heart 🥺💔

English is my mother tongue , so I muted the volume , and tried , TRIED going solely with the subtitles , which even I found hard to keep up with , having to periodically pause and rewind to catch up on this sentence or that . That being said , I learnt some things from a different perspective , but unlike my daughter who has actually visited Birkenau and Treblinka on a school trip , I can never visualise , even in part , what it was like to survive the journey to hell , and the trauma of being dehumanised to the point where my existence was either to myself, or my captors worthless , and thus subject to elimination , and within hours, all traces of my existence removed forever

Sad, sad! Blessed be the memories of those who perished in this horrible genocide know in History like the Holocaust (Shoa) 🙏🏽✡️❤️

Thank you!!

I just wanted to suggest to Naama to talk a little bit slower next time since many viewers are dependent on reading (keeping up with) the subitles. In this case you could change the settings of speed to 0.75% or even slower to read along a bit easier.

@5:05 Dr. Shik forgot to mention that deportees got sometimes informed before entering the train that in cases of escapes others will be killed eventually and that also this threat did prevented escapes. And there was of course not allways an agreement/acceptance within the cattle car passengers when someone made preparations to escape, people feared for their life and it even happened that such passengers were killed by their own to avoid that others got killed for the deed / escape.

The suffering of the Jewish people in these cattle cars is indescribable.. one day their God will do justice..

Thank you for this Dr. Naama Shik!

To be honest, inhumane treatment in the eastern territories and in the Balkans was common place. This was due in part to ideology but also due in part to resources.

The subtitles go by too fast to read

@6:19: "the horrific conditions were accompanied by mental and physical humiliation" while in the background a trasnport from a ghetto is shown. Clearly recognisable by the four members of the Jewish police/Ordnungsdienst with their caps.