Holocaust survivor turned Nazi hunter on catching monster immortalised in Schindler's List
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มิ.ย. 2024
- JOSEF Lewcowicz was just 14 when he was given his first job of shovelling human bones into a wheelbarrow at Płaszów concentration camp.
It marked the start of three years of misery as the Polish-born teen was shipped through five brutal concentration camps, where he saw starving prisoners butchering and eating a dead boy and watched sick guards make prisoners jump off cliffs.
Today Josef is haunted by his nightmarish experiences throughout the Holocaust, which saw Nazis kill all 150 members of his family.
"I had seen so much cruelty that nothing surprised me anymore - shooting, hanging, beating…" he tells Sun Online.
Born in 1926, Josef was just a child when Hitler’s forces came crashing through the cities of Poland in 1939.
“The Nazis began marching in the streets and singing songs against the Jews," Josef says.
In one early incident, he saw a group of Nazis set fire to the beard of an elderly Jewish man for their amusement.
By 1942, Nazi troops had segregated people across Poland and moved Jewish people into controlled ghettos or concentration camps.
In some camps, they were stripped of their clothes and possessions before being forced into slave labour.
While in others, they were murdered immediately on arrival - gassed to death as part of the Nazis’ sickening ‘Final Solution’ genocide of the Jews.
At one point, Josef found himself in a group of 17,000 Jews when they were rounded up and ordered to form a line.
"At the head of the line, there was one SS man with a whip playing the role of God," Josef tells us.
This man split Josef’s group into three: 14,200 were sent to an extermination camp to be gassed to death, 2,000 elderly were shot dead there and 800, including Josef, were sent to Płaszów camp for slave work.
It was here, at the age of 14, he was given the job of digging up an old graveyard to make way for the prisoners' barracks.
Josef also speaks about his fears over the recent surge in anti-Semitism.
He also tells the of the incredible moment when as a Nazi hunter he cam across Amon Goeth, the butcher of Plaszow, immortalised by Ralph Fiennes in Stephen Spielberg's Schindler's List.
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Election time.
Deleting comments again I see. Respect to you Mr. Lewkowicz.
Matthew Ward I never swear in life or comments, so that is not the reason.
how can people be so horrible ?
Wow, this man, after going through so much stuff, had the discipline to not shoot that piece of garbage, Geoth.
excellent video, but this has nothing to do with the election, Trump was hardly hitler lmfao.
Why does this story have to be reported now?
Why are you a non playable character?
To remind you how not to be
In order for us to move away from hate ... and remember that we are brothers in humanity … therefore we must offer condolences to those who lost their lives and sympathize with every oppressed in the world. Greetings
@moon boots on my boots My guy, responding to a 1 year old post ad then saying 'an NPC' make a you a lesser life form. English and time factor, unbecoming?
I am very surprised that the comments have not been disabled.
The Sun usually disable the comments section, with uploads of a sensitive subject.
@Czeslaw K. if doesn't like equals antisemitic comments from a PoS nobody like you, then yes.
I think there might be an algorithm. Here's a test.
Jew Jew Jew.
@@catscats50 You are a real piece of work, go crawl back under your rock you came from.
@@bleulander7364 I haven't got a clue what you're talking about. Clearly some very reasonable content is being removed from TH-cam comments. I was just trying to discover which were the trigger words that would be removed in a quasi scientific experiment. The only content that I have had removed from this particular post was the words bagel bagel bagel. Which is unfathomable. So I wasn't trying to be anti-semitic I just wondered why some words or some content was being removed and just testing that. What I was trying to discover was wether a computer algorithm was removing content or a human was.
Just finished reading your account Josef, thank you and I hope you live a long life. I am travelling to Kracow next week with my daughter to see these places and will pray for you and your family 🙏Greetings from Glasgow ❤️
Because the last woman who spoke on this her maths with her age didn't add up..do the maths guys
you're saying this man doesn't seem over 90 and therefore can't have been 14 years old at the times he's reporting to have lived through?
@Hellcat BOYZ what u tryna say
20 minutes of half a story
He is so lucky cos he met Oscar.
God bless you Sir xx
Heart breaking indeed
He looks like my dad
Yes you look Jewish, oh well .
@@alisonhilll4317 Not fun at the moment... or growing up actually
Does The SUN often censor posters?
If it is idiotic or hate filled, yes. Which one was yours?
Fish Lake They have deleted two of my comments in the last 10 minutes.
@@williamusrex6417 Neither. Was just curious after reading an article on journalism and its inherent responsibilities regarding hate speech.
He says I'm begging
Show this to corbyn
Corbyn: islamaphobia is bad
Never Forget🙏🙏🙏
that guy got some imagination
Fuvk you
He said he saw the angel of death, and yet he's still here..
Play a better Benny hill and it's hall a funny difference
Is anyone actually buying this?
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no
what is it like being a conspiracy theory nut?
@@maxmendelsson404 his spirit is already rising from the deAd ..... Can u feel it lol.....
My grandfather died 😔
Pull o v E R
That vie o Lin 🤣 talking while he's jabbering on y'all be hi,jab,bering on ding ding 2 where ??? Neeeeh naaaaaah neeeeeh naaaaaah woooooooooooh
Aaaa not jew but polish men did he got polish papiers so polish and not polish jew lets be politically correct religion is not species e1b1b dna haplogroup
Many are just converts to claim stake to Palestinian lands.
My respect Mr. Lewkowicz. Thankyou.
Respect.
👋😄
Sie haben mein Respekt Herr Lewkowicz.🙏🏼
Fourteen to see all of that,i do not like any innocent,being treated so badly no matter what race religion.Its always innocent.
The V I o Lin 🤣
11.49, minutes,he says(you could see a picture). THESE things did happen, I don't doubt that,but this man has listened to people and been told not to forget, AND THE mind is a strange thing !. I'LL POST MORE LATER.
My respect Mr. Lewkowicz
Like antifa..
😳😢 A vote for the British labour party is like 1920 Germany nsdap party but in 2020 I pray for everyone that they don't get in. If they do all Jewish people leave Britain 🇬🇧 as its not save for jewish people today
I've worked on two Kibbutzim in Israel 30 years ago when I was a young man. I am not jewish but I can tell you the weather is great. If I was Jewish I would certainly move there it's really nice especially on the Mediterranean coast. The beer was much cheaper than England but I don't know if it is the case now. I think the price of beer is more important than antisemitism, that would be my main reason for going to Israel. Maccabi is the best brand in my opinion.
@Andy N ask the Jewish people if I am?
Don't be so bloody stupid
@@leovaughan1902 I just did and they said you are.
Good, what are you doing in Europe anyways? You have been kicked out of 109 countries for a reason.
My respect Mr. Lewkowicz. Thankyou.
janis vogel clearly you need to learn to have respect