Umschagplatz today
The Warsaw Umschagplatz was the point of deportation to the Treblinka death camp. In the summer of 1942 around 250000 people and in 1943 around 50000 people passed through it on their way to death. This is what it looks like today. (The quality of the film may be worse than usual as I had to reduce it to meet with You Tube requirements. I am not familiar with use of the movie maker software and apart from that do not have time to learn it so I apologise in advance.) Filmed on 17 and 24 February 2007. My channel on you tube : www.youtube.com is one of themost prolific from Poland, although unfortunately not the most visited. With almost one film per day, one may be forgiven for thinking I do nothing else but I do have a day job as well. I have produced more than 400 original films, most in English but also in Polish, French, Italian, Spanish and the occassional hint of German and Hebrew. My big interest in life is travel and history but I have also placed films on other subjects Please feel free to ask questions in the public area or to comment on things you disagree with. Sometimes there are mistakes because I speak without preparation. If I see the mistakes myself, I make this clear in the text. Please also leave a star rating! There are a number of films here on the packaging industry. This is because I am the publisher of Central and Eastern European Packaging — www.ceepackaging.com – the international platform for the packaging industry in this region focussing on …
Thank you very much – I do my best and it is nice to have some appreciation!
Great job with these videos.
Thank you. I am 100% British.
I’ve been in that spot so many times, yet never knew the full facts; meaning the significance of the sites. Despite being in Warsaw so many times, I have only visited the Memorial to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto once – and even that was as a child. Very informative, cheers.
I’m just wondering, are you half-Polish? I’ve rarely come across anyone from the U.K. living in Warsaw.
Your other vids are interesting also, the Wikipedia interview was of interest.