Oświęcim
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Oct 8, 2026
Tego SigelHOST
Yeah, he's going for a, um, spa, a, a thermal spa.
Tego SigelHOST
He's going for, he's going to the Auschwitz Museum, and he's going to something else.
Tego SigelHOST
But he's saying it's like £54 flights and-
LouisGUEST
Ryanair will send you there-
LouisGUEST
No, no.
Specs GonzalezPANELIST
My school tried to take me there on a school trip I know.
Specs GonzalezPANELIST
They were, they wanted us to see, um, Auschwitz and that.
LouisGUEST
Mm.
David SmallGUEST
I spent a year working in Poland and I was coaching ice hockey.
David SmallGUEST
And half of my players lived in this town called Oswiecim, which we would call Oswiecim.
David SmallGUEST
and I said oh you guys live there and they brought me there and they showed me around and I did a tour of the concentration camp and you're just exhausted at the end of it because you go from evil to evil to evil to evil and you think oh there's no way that it can get more evil than this and then they take you to the next spot and it becomes even more evil and it was the same when I was with the Rohingya that you listen to their stories and you think there's no way it can become more evil what has happened to these people.
David SmallGUEST
And then you grab the next person walking by and they tell you their story.
Chad ConnellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So we gotta put you aside, wear a gold star, put you aside, build a wall, oh, we gotta move you someplace, because it's safe.
Chad ConnellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So Dana and I went out, and the first day in Poland, went to Auschwitz, I don't know if you've ever been.
Chad ConnellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And it was kind of rainy and drab and just kind of a yucky day.
Chad ConnellySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And nobody's excited about being there, but we want to go, right? And you walk in the gas chambers where human beings were gassed.
LiamHOST
First time Europe goer.
LiamHOST
Paris, Corfu, Zakopane, little mountain town or something, Poland, Auschwitz.
KirbyHOST
Do you want to like, no, I mean like saying exactly where you're going, do you want that out there? People know where you're going.
LiamHOST
I just thought you'd have something to say when I said Auschwitz.
KirbyHOST
I've got plenty to say, but you're going to cut it later.
LiamHOST
And then finish off in London.
Lindsey GrahamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's April 7th, 1944, and World War II rages across the globe.
Lindsey GrahamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But here in southern Poland, a pall of gray mist hangs over the town of Oswiecim.
Lindsey GrahamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Since the Nazi occupation of Poland began in 1939, Oswiecim has been known by its German name, made notorious by the concentration camp built nearby, Auschwitz.
Lindsey GrahamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Inside the Auschwitz prison yard, an SS officer strides past rows of shivering inmates.
Lindsey GrahamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The officer suspects that two prisoners have escaped.
Steve HaywardHOST
And so the data point just from the last week is there's this woman running for the state Senate as a Democrat in North Carolina.
Steve HaywardHOST
And some people have uttered some social media tweets, including one, she took a picture of herself touring the ovens, I think at Dachau or Auschwitz, I forget, one of the camps.
Steve HaywardHOST
And her tweet was, this is where Trump supporters belong.
Steve HaywardHOST
Now, this takes me back to something, again, Ajafa said or wrote, which is, it is hard to be fellow citizens with people who regard each other as utterly alien.
Melissa BrodskyGUEST
[short upbeat jingle] In nineteen sixty-eight, Poland found a politically acceptable word for a Jew it wanted gone.
Melissa BrodskyGUEST
Twenty-three years after Auschwitz was liberated, Polish Jews were packing their suitcases again.
Melissa BrodskyGUEST
They were professors, doctors, journalists, military officers, actors, students, engineers, civil servants, and families whose roots in Poland went back generations.
Melissa BrodskyGUEST
Some had survived the Holocaust.
Robert GildeaHOST
And all this.
Robert GildeaHOST
Now, in all this, The French record is not very good, even compared with other countries, the spectacular exception being Slovakia, which was certainly one of the worst places you could possibly have been as a Jew, and not too far from Auschwitz, across the frontier in in Poland, which turned over both natives and foreign Jews to Nazis right away.
Robert GildeaHOST
Vichy France was the only country in which local authorities deported Jews without the presence of occupying forces.
Robert GildeaHOST
And in Hungary, which had had anti-Semitic legislation since 1920, even the vicious admiral called Horthy, who's not in this course, but he was vicious anyway, H-O-R-T-H-Y, handed over no Jews, who were Hungarian Jews, until German occupation in 1944.
Michael SteinmetzGUEST
And I've always used it as that as kind of soul to like nourish me.
Michael SteinmetzGUEST
So as it came to like, literally my journey was you know nasa then i went investment banking then i was like i fucking hate this i'm gonna go travel the world and like and again i didn't go with the intention of like let me go travel for a year and four days i went like i'm gonna go for three months because that was feels right and then in that three-month journey i went through like eastern europe i went through like a kosovo where still the un was in there it was like bosnia then i went to like uh um what's it called? Krakow, Poland, where like literally the Auschwitz concentration camp was there where my grandfather survived.
Michael SteinmetzGUEST
It was just like, whoa, bro.
Michael SteinmetzGUEST
Like this whole thing like literally shook my life.
Stephen PidgeonHOST
But a lot of the slaughter that took place in the Jewish community was done by the government of Poland, the governing group in Poland, which of course were Nazis, the Nazis, you know, the Ukrainian turned Nazis under Stepan Bandera in Ukraine, and the Nazis that came to control Belarus, which were also indigenous to Belarus.
Stephen PidgeonHOST
And so we see that of the so-called alleged 6 million that died in the genocide that took place under Adolf Hitler, more than three and a half million of them were killed in three countries belarus ukraine and poland and the vast the biggest number was killed in ukraine most of the pictures you see in the holocaust museum of you know a guy shooting a woman holding a child trying to kill both of them with a single shot of guys being rounded up digging a ditch forced to stand in the ditch and then all being shot those pictures those videos were all taken in ukraine not in germany You know, Auschwitz was located in Poland, not in Germany.
Stephen PidgeonHOST
So, you know, when you look at this now, you begin to see, all right, so what's going on here? Well, we can only talk about the Holocaust.
Stephen PidgeonHOST
We can't talk about the Holodomor.