Some of the libretto (lyrics) in this piece are taken from a teenage girl's prayer on a Gestapo prison wall during World War II. Some are taken from a Silesian folk song, where a mother has lost her son in a war. I didn't see it mentioned here and I feel it adds to the already astonishing beauty of this symphony.
A very beautiful and powerful piece of music BUT it's not about the Nazis and Auschwitz!!! This part is about a mother looking for her dead son's grave. Her son was killed during the Silesian Uprising of 1919-21
I heard this piece of music on the soundtrack of the 6 part documentary - Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' - Coupled with an excellent documentary and rather disturbing subject matter it was very powerful indeed, made the hair stand on the back of my neck.
@iancbr mine too! It's almost sad that the composer was so close to the tragedy. This music could have been about other, perhaps inner and more personal pain. But it and the composer are forever linkend to the murder of the Jews in WW2
Kris, you are right. Yet, the Jewish people with a heart, and a sense of fairness, perfectly know this fact, be reassured. What you are saying is true! Exploitation of this atrocity, you know, is nothing new. But at the center of it all, are some, that do know the reality of it all. And unfortunately, if it all started again, today, against the Martians with green antennas, you know... not many would even make a single move. All over, again, until all of us become a little better.
I heard this movement shortly after the tragedies at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Shanksville Pennsylvania...I burst into tears hearing this. It is the most moving, eloquent piece of music I have ever heard.
@LJenson71 I believe the lyrics posted in this video are from the third movement. The lyrics of the second movement (the one being played) were carved by a young girl on the wall of a Gestapo prison and read as follows: Mamo, nie płacz, nie. Niebios Przeczysta Królowo, Ty zawsze wspieraj mnie. Zdrować Mario, Łaskiś Pełna. Translation: No, Mother, do not weep, Most chaste Queen of Heaven Help me always. Hail Mary. The last sentence was added by Gorecki himself.
"Normal people" are not offended by the subject of the Jewish tragedy and would not protest this topic or its scope. This is the topic of this video; like it or not...
something beautiful like this only comes along once every hundred years.. this is truly a masterpiece, my heart aches for all those who's stories will never be told and who's lives will never be remembered. God bless.
@kukbmx Detained? God forbid we should all suffer and die the same - right? ! No one people claim exclusiveness int this of all things. Your comment disgusts me.
As ronniegoogle has said, it is music that transcends language. I recall so well the first time I heard this symphony, and time stood still - it does each time I hear it. It reminds us of a darkness humans (nor any animate being) should ever have to visit, the depths of despair. Yet there it breathes haunting beauty. And to all that this presentation adds visual images that pluck the human heartstrings. Thank you.
The first text is a Polish lament of Mary, mother of Jesus, the second a message written on the wall of a Gestapo cell during World War II, and the third a Silesian folk song of a mother searching for her son killed in the Silesian uprising.
While what you say is true, I believe this is one of those occasions where the music has, as it were, escaped the intention of its composer, and has become entwined with the tragedy of the Holocaust, thus achieving an immeasurably profound significance in symbolic terms.
@przytrafkaWP T dziewczyna to Helena Błażusiak zatrzymana i więziona przez Gestapo w Zakopanem od 25 września 1944. Tam napisała jak podałaś Kasiu na ścianie celi "Mamo, nie płacz, nie. Niebios Przeczysta Królowo, Ty zawsze wspieraj mnie. Zdrowaś Mario." nawiązując do bardzo popularnej ballady Anny Fisherówny o Jurku Bitschanie-Lwowskim Orlęciu poległym w obronie grodu Semper Fidelis
Muzyka jest uniwersalna! Sztuka jest uniwersalna! Jeżeli ktoś uznał, że ta muzyka jest piękna i wyraża smutek, który czuje po tragedii, której doznał on, jego naród, babcia, dziecko itp. to chyba ma pelne prawo wykorzystać ten utwór, nie? Górecki raczej nie był osobą, która chowała swoje utwory pod "polską strzechę" jedynie dla katolików. Polacy jak zawsze głupim nacjonalistycznym gadaniem potrafią wszystko zepsuć, obrzydzić i zniechęcić innych do siebie, nawet jeżeli robią coś pięknego
@przytrafkaWP kiedy idziesz na rozstrzelanie, czy to wazne kto jest Zydem a kto Polakiem. W wiezieniu Ubowskiego miasta Grojec, wyprowadzono mnie raz na dziedziniec, zeby mnie rozstrzelac. Potem okazala sie ze to byl jeden ze srodkow aby zlamac mnie psychicznie. W obliczu smierci i Polak i Zyd, jesli kat da mu chwile czasu, zegna sie z tym co dla niego najblizsze, najdrozsze...akurat dobrano slowa Polki . czy to poniza wielkosc goreckiego kompozycji....
@przytrafkaWP Wstyd mi za Twój wpis. Pokazujesz w nim polski antysemityzm i brak empatii dla WSZYSTKICH ofiar faszyzmu! To boli , bardzo boli i człowiek się wstydzi się za takich Polaków jak Ty.
Text for this song is from prayer inscribed on wall cell 3 by Wanda Blazusiakowna, polish, catolic, 17 years old girl , inprisoned and tortured in Gestapo headquaters in Zakopane in 1944.
All Poles, should be remembered for the strife that befell them, all Europeans should be remembered. Read The Forgotten Holocaust on the internet to remember. Beautiful piece, beautiful video - thank you.
When a man leaves such a work behind, he has done what he came on this earth to do. He has made this world a better place. We should all aspire to do our little bit.
Text iof this song s from prayer inscribed on wall cell 3 by Wanda Blazusiakowna, polish, catolic, 17 years old girl , inprisoned and tortured in Gestapo headquaters in Zakopane in 1944.
Does anyone have the sheet music for this masterpiece? I've been learning the vocal melody by ear and learning to phrase it properly on guitar but I'd like to cover the orchestral section too.
one more thing, nothing against the Jews, but this video is written by a Polish man, about the suffering in WWII, about loosing a son...so why does this video have to be about the Jewish? why does anything WWII have to hear about the Jewish dying. I'm part Jewish myself but 3 million Polish died in WWII and we can't even have this special song to them be about Polish children?? why can't anyone else be remembered what happened to them and what they did?
@KrisKardash777 Maybe as much as 88% of Polands prewar Jewish population died during the Holocaust (weren't they Poles too?) Maybe the fate of the Jews during WWII is regarded as unique because no other racial or religious group were singled out for complete extermination. 75%? of Jews in Nazi occupied Europe died and even in undefeated countries like the my own (UK) the Nazis had plans to deploy Einsatzkommando 6 to exterminate Jews. Even neutral countries were to have their Jews exterminated
Text is from prayer inscribed on wall cell 3 by Wanda Blazusiakowna, polish, catolic, 17 years old girl , inprisoned and tortured in Gestapo headquaters in Zakopane in 1944.
@KrisKardash777 Hi, from what you say I don't believe that you are in any way anti-Semitic. But even though Henryk Goreki may not have written this piece specifically with the Holocaust in mind, I think it is so appropriate that it has become associated with the unique character of it.
@KrisKardash777 i agree with you, but Hitler had not tried to eliminate all poles yet, but he had tried to kill all jews. He had plans to wipe out all non "aryan" races, but had only started on the jews
@KrisKardash777 The music is written by a Polish man, but the pictures are from uploader. Gorecki resisted attachment of a meaning about WWII, Holocaust, war in general, religion, or anything else to this work. He said it was 3 sorrowful songs. Only the 2nd movement has words from an 18yo (Catholic) who was tortured by the Nazis, but what attracted Gorecki is that the girl was worried more about her mother than herself.
The pain expressed by this symphony is meant to be universal, not specific.
@KrisKardash777 Exactly what I have always felt about "ownership" of the grief from WWII. 6 million Jews, but some 12 others! Good, brave Germans, Gypsies (Roma), gay people, priests, soldiers....Russians...why do the Jews think they are the only ones who suffered? Why not a word about the others who died the same way? Not to mention the war dead! EVERYBODY who went into a gas chamber deserves recognition...12 million others are rolling over in their ovens at being forgotten...
@KrisKardash777 ...really, it's because Jews were the only group determined enough and organized enough to ensure that noone forgets about the atrocities in WWII. It is really fortunate that someone has taken this on. Unless we know our history, we are doomed to repeat it.
I think it sucks that he wrote this to commemorate the atrocities against the Jews and spits in our face by writing lyrics that pray to a philistine goddess of the Jews long time enemies. (queen of heaven; Astarte)
@KrisKardash777 Let's not get into a contest about who suffered the most. We shouldn't vie for victim status (I'm also Polish with some Jewish ancestry). The Nazi camps were designed to consume and liquidate human life and the humans happened to be Jewish, Slavic (Polish, Russian), Roma, gay, communist, Jehovah Witnesses, and the physically or mentally infirm. We must feel this pain for everyone, including the various Germans who fell into those categories.
@jmburkow AMEN, finally I hear a Jewish person speak the truth that Jews weren't the only ones singled out by Hitler, I'm gay by the way, I would have perished in Nazi Germany also.
@zentopia7 I'm not exactly a 'Jewish person'; more like a Polish/Slavic person with Jewish ancestry, but thank you for the support. And yes, sadly you too would have been fair game for the Nazi death camps.
@KrisKardash777 So many people were killed mercilessly. Every life is dear and yet people like you have the audacity to single out one group of many. The Jews were the prime target. Why even attempt to argue that? Jab at it?
@john3047X _ Hitler wasn't an Aryan. If he'd had any integrity he would have committed an act of egregious violence upon his own person. But he didn't! Which only goes to show that his heart really wasn't in the whole 'racial hygiene' thing.
@brino64 Sorry but the only "poetic" justice Hitler deserved was to have his balls clipped off piece by piece by nail clippers and then fucked in the ass by his own penis. Yet the genocide of culture and people that man caused warrants nothing less than his own damnation to hell I guess.
Could anyone tell me where the picture of the woman with the accordian at about 1minute 30 in this video is from? Is it a picture or a painting....tried to search for it on the internet but with no success....
@sabotagetimes Sometimes such blunt language is perfectly placed. Your words echo exactly what I thought. That there are people able to create a piece of music so tragic, beautiful, uplifting, morbid, sorrowful and joyful, and all in the space of 10 minutes, makes me want to cry.
And I forgot to say how lovely those well chosen pictures were pieced together. They go just as well with the music. Great work. Thank you. I hope lots of people will watch it and that they may be touched by this as much as I am. May cruelty like this never ever happen again, although, sadly enough, I'm well aware it is and will be.
I can't help it but I'm bursting out into tears everytime I watch and listen to this. I do have a son in that age and I can really feel the grieve of that woman.
This piece of music is so amazing, a true work of art.
I first came across this when it was used in the excelent BBC programme "the final solution" and it was oicked up by Clasic FM, this is the first time on here i have seen set to appropriate pics and comments
Thank you for doing this it will make more ppl think about what this piece is actualy about
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Of the 3.3 million Jews who lived in prewar Poland, only 10% survived the Holocaust. Upon returning home after the war to Poland some of these Jewish survivors met death at the hands of Polish anti-Semites . . . killed by Poles simply for the crime of being Jewish. On July 4, 1946, 42 Jews were murdered in the village of Kielce by Poles. Following the Kielce pogrom, Jews fearing for their lives in Poland, sought refuge in other lands. . . . Today in Poland, only a few thousands Jews remain.
@JuanVenusChavalo-Kielce was not a village but a major town. You forgot the Communist expulsion of Jews in 1968. To be brutally honest Jews would be welcome in Poland again but only to the point of having some "light diversity" in a more affluent politically correct environment. The Good news: Tolerance and Acceptance is getting better.
@JuanVenusChavalo ,as a active member of HOLOCOUST INCORPORATION you reserved sole rights to martyrology in WWII to Jews,many nations and races suffered far greater loses and indeed even now are still traumatised by evil of war ,Please dont use this platform to spread halftruths myths and legend ,you tendency to misinterpret alleged events only stirs suspition .prejudice and hatered between ohtervise friendly peoples and races
Music that transcends languages....many thanks for posting this. The sorrow in the voice is the sorrow of all humanity. Why do we kill each other, abuse each other when deep within our hearts we know we are the same- the colour of the human blood is same.
@ronniegoogle actually, I would say it reminds us of the humanity most people have inside somewhere. The pain, the deep pain you feel when you hear this means that the opposite is also there. Something like if there's wrong there's right too. In an very philosofical way, I think this music is horribly beautiful
The first time I heard this piece of music was on the Lawrence Rees BBC documentary, "Auschwitz, the Nazis and the Final Solution". It's a simply heartbreaking piece of music that shows the depths that humanity can sink to.
Remember to listen to the beauty and sorrow in this music and rise above the tiny-mindedness that we are capable of (and that, sadly, is all too prominent in the below posts). We are capable of greatness as well as horror. THAT is truth. "Forgive, never forget." All death is tragedy. A million deaths is a million tragedies. Let us forgive but never forget. I will not let them have died in vain.
i guess because there would have been too many plagues if they would have let them die this way, the KZs were overfilled anyways..(i hope i understood your question right now as my english is not the best)
If you're saying the Holocaust was fake... I never knew how to respond to that. I'm a strong believer in the power of stories, real or fictional, though, so I think as long as you agree with the message taken from the story of the Holocaust, I'm not too worried.
To be fair, though, you should have known that posting this on a YouTube comment board wasn't going to do much more than cause a firestorm. YouTube users love attacking anything controversial, and you pretty much waved a red flag.
I couldn't care less about controversy or "waving a red flag". I have no agenda apart from confronting political or/and historical lies. Whatever the motive. I like truth. I despise bullshit. That's it.
@hornetobiker Perhaps. If you are interested in confronting such lies purely for your own benefit, I don't see why you bother posting comments. And if you are interested in persuading others, again - I'm sure you are well aware that a YouTube comment isn't going to open anyone's eyes either way.
If you're aware that your comments are pointless, you're ahead of most YouTubers. If you use that awareness to develop a sense of occasion, *then* you're getting somewhere.
NO! if this is so, why were there gas chambers in the camps at all? Disabled people suffered a similar fate, you might say that they were the "prototype".
...so you are effectively disregarding all of the photographic evidence, films and eyewitness accounts depicting the mass murder? even many of the nazis confessed to the holocaust you idiot.
In 500 years, people will wake in the middle of the night and scream at the inhumanity of the Nazis. Their crimes against humanity will haunt the success of mankind's future achievements.
in 500 years no one will care, no one wakes in the middle of the night and screams at the inhumanity of the europeans butchering the native americans. Of course it was horrible, but humans move on... and i don't think there will be anyone watching this video that was personally affected by what happened, people have moved on already....
Parts from this were used in the BBC documentary "Auschwitz, the Nazis and the Final Solution", along with some other classical pieces. The use of music in that documentary really enhanced an already excellent programme
Tan triste, tan bello / So sad, so beautiful.
pablodarko84 5 days ago in playlist Basquiat Soundtrack
My grand father is a just among the nations, so each time I am hearing this "song", I a crying ant thinking about him..............
i42s 2 weeks ago
Some of the libretto (lyrics) in this piece are taken from a teenage girl's prayer on a Gestapo prison wall during World War II. Some are taken from a Silesian folk song, where a mother has lost her son in a war. I didn't see it mentioned here and I feel it adds to the already astonishing beauty of this symphony.
FatToti 4 weeks ago in playlist Classical
1:03 makes me feel so emotional :'(
KatieandTiggy 2 months ago
1:05 - An instant plummet into darkness.
Thecuregalore94 2 months ago
beauty
tristiismortuus 3 months ago in playlist Lonelyness
So tranquil and sad. A favourite of mine.
Chopinowi 3 months ago
A very beautiful and powerful piece of music BUT it's not about the Nazis and Auschwitz!!! This part is about a mother looking for her dead son's grave. Her son was killed during the Silesian Uprising of 1919-21
crewman1 4 months ago 4
I heard this piece of music on the soundtrack of the 6 part documentary - Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' - Coupled with an excellent documentary and rather disturbing subject matter it was very powerful indeed, made the hair stand on the back of my neck.
iancbr 4 months ago
@iancbr mine too! It's almost sad that the composer was so close to the tragedy. This music could have been about other, perhaps inner and more personal pain. But it and the composer are forever linkend to the murder of the Jews in WW2
Tiscali1981 3 months ago
I've been trying to find this music for 3 years since the first time i heard it. Amazing, it's a masterpice.
ericakarouk 4 months ago
god this song is just the most beautiful u wonder what happened to all these ppl in these wars of past times the words are so very strong
orlaod1 5 months ago
OMGOSH. I WAS WATCHING THIS VIDEO AND I REALISED I'VE BEEN THERE :O
justbelieve25 6 months ago
Kris, you are right. Yet, the Jewish people with a heart, and a sense of fairness, perfectly know this fact, be reassured. What you are saying is true! Exploitation of this atrocity, you know, is nothing new. But at the center of it all, are some, that do know the reality of it all. And unfortunately, if it all started again, today, against the Martians with green antennas, you know... not many would even make a single move. All over, again, until all of us become a little better.
jeff19598 6 months ago
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Joanniethama 7 months ago
This piece has just left me in absolute tears.
walyern 7 months ago 4
is a one piece most beautiful forever...thanks for this stunning video.
PolichinelaAzul 8 months ago
I heard this movement shortly after the tragedies at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Shanksville Pennsylvania...I burst into tears hearing this. It is the most moving, eloquent piece of music I have ever heard.
putneylane 8 months ago 3
What are the lyrics starting at 5:41, then repeated at 6:02? Is that the "Oh, sing for Him?"
An amazing piece.
LJenson71 9 months ago
NPBaudelaire 7 months ago 2
I'm Jewish and think the music and sentiments fit the pictures perfectly.
coolasmud 9 months ago
@coolasmud - jestes żydówka - a z pochodzenia etnicznego kim jesteś - Żydzi to nie definicja Etniczna tylko religijna - Jesteś Chazarką ? żałosne
Dostoyewski1 6 months ago
why can we just be quiet and listen..
hudyseusz 9 months ago
@WineBeerLover
"Normal people" are not offended by the subject of the Jewish tragedy and would not protest this topic or its scope. This is the topic of this video; like it or not...
Thespadecaller 9 months ago
something beautiful like this only comes along once every hundred years.. this is truly a masterpiece, my heart aches for all those who's stories will never be told and who's lives will never be remembered. God bless.
fruitsmashers 9 months ago
@WineBeerLover FUCK YOU, I HATE YOU
Tiscali1981 9 months ago
if they play/preform it in houston i shall try and show up . ------------
vryselctiv 9 months ago
@kukbmx Detained? God forbid we should all suffer and die the same - right? ! No one people claim exclusiveness int this of all things. Your comment disgusts me.
mrJohnDesiderio 9 months ago
A song that tugs at the emotions
itsmister2u 10 months ago
Also in the movie "The game". A very good movie by the way.
itsmister2u 10 months ago
@kukbmx Why not ? We were mixed for centuries.
givvera 10 months ago
@jawbraker84
I believe it was used in the film Fearless (1993) starring Jeff Bridges.
LordDoomable 10 months ago
Triste y hermoso a la vez.
airvarios 10 months ago
@kukbmx
We're all just people, feeling the same way. Doesn't matter whose music or tragedy.
Shtove 10 months ago 19
@Shtove i agree kris many groups of people died in the camps,
but people know only of the jewish people becouse of there numbers
there were catholics, homosexuals, polish , and aton of others
dave2193 7 months ago
@dave2193 true, but what about the communists and russians? they were also imprisoned in the death camps. beautiful piece btw
pizdauskas1 7 months ago 2
@Shtove well said! Music is universal, this is a masterwork of music and that's what it is
Tiscali1981 3 months ago
I have never met anyone who can share this pure feeling of sadness with me. When , or if , i ever do, i will have met my partner.
somkiddy 11 months ago
This song was used in a movie but I don't remember which one. anyone know?
jawbraker84 11 months ago
As ronniegoogle has said, it is music that transcends language. I recall so well the first time I heard this symphony, and time stood still - it does each time I hear it. It reminds us of a darkness humans (nor any animate being) should ever have to visit, the depths of despair. Yet there it breathes haunting beauty. And to all that this presentation adds visual images that pluck the human heartstrings. Thank you.
DD5975 1 year ago
Освенцим - Фабрика Смерти
Whinestee 1 year ago
SOME PEOPLE SAY THE TIME IS COMING FOR THE BLACKS , MUSLIMS AND 3RD WORLD . THT IS WHAT THEY SAY
xrisiavgi1 1 year ago
Det var god musikka! Tris å hør går det er ikke bra ! Bra Tris !
alianozedi 1 year ago
@przytrafkaWP Nie sądzę, że to dobry pomysł, aby oddzielić polskich ofiar religii katolickiej z tych religii żydowskiej
bergmanstraub 1 year ago 3
Mais pourquoi il met des images d'Auschwitz ? Quel rapport ?
Pouffecal 1 year ago
@Pouffecal
... parce que lui et la plupart des autres connait bien Gorecki travail parce qu'il était utilisé dans le documentaire "Auschwitz".
g1a1r1y3 1 year ago
Heartbreaking, exquisite, transending.
sunroom7 1 year ago
niemcy podczas drugiej wojny światowej wyrwali serce z piersi wielu narodom
RiggLeOX 1 year ago
The first text is a Polish lament of Mary, mother of Jesus, the second a message written on the wall of a Gestapo cell during World War II, and the third a Silesian folk song of a mother searching for her son killed in the Silesian uprising.
mata3949 1 year ago 3
@kukbmx
While what you say is true, I believe this is one of those occasions where the music has, as it were, escaped the intention of its composer, and has become entwined with the tragedy of the Holocaust, thus achieving an immeasurably profound significance in symbolic terms.
theprophet20 1 year ago
@theprophet20
Thanks for understand. This clip is unfair for Poles!
kukbmx 1 year ago 3
the most beutiful noise ive ever heard
jimikite999 1 year ago
Piękne!
Ale bez tej żydowskiej przesady, ten klip byłby jeszcze piękniejszy!
Holokaust istniał, ale tylko Polski : 5milionów Polaków!
Słowiański 35milionów!
Polacy, utwórzcie oczy, uratowaliście ich 800lat temu, a oni zawsze was zdradzali, mordowali i odwracają historię i propagują fałsz!
POWROTTATY 1 year ago
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To jest POLSKI kompozytor, a słowa są KATOLICKĄ modlitwą POLSKIEJ dziewczyny która napisała je na ścianie celi Gestapo, w której była więziona.
Dlaczego obrazy do tej pięknej, POLSKIEJ muzyki pokazują ŻYDÓW?
przytrafkaWP 1 year ago 16
@przytrafkaWP T dziewczyna to Helena Błażusiak zatrzymana i więziona przez Gestapo w Zakopanem od 25 września 1944. Tam napisała jak podałaś Kasiu na ścianie celi "Mamo, nie płacz, nie. Niebios Przeczysta Królowo, Ty zawsze wspieraj mnie. Zdrowaś Mario." nawiązując do bardzo popularnej ballady Anny Fisherówny o Jurku Bitschanie-Lwowskim Orlęciu poległym w obronie grodu Semper Fidelis
polaand966 1 year ago
@przytrafkaWP A co nie było Żydów,którzy byli Polakami i za Polskę walczyli i ginęli? Było ich mnóstwo!
metalmaniek 1 year ago
Muzyka jest uniwersalna! Sztuka jest uniwersalna! Jeżeli ktoś uznał, że ta muzyka jest piękna i wyraża smutek, który czuje po tragedii, której doznał on, jego naród, babcia, dziecko itp. to chyba ma pelne prawo wykorzystać ten utwór, nie? Górecki raczej nie był osobą, która chowała swoje utwory pod "polską strzechę" jedynie dla katolików. Polacy jak zawsze głupim nacjonalistycznym gadaniem potrafią wszystko zepsuć, obrzydzić i zniechęcić innych do siebie, nawet jeżeli robią coś pięknego
gaona1983 1 year ago
@przytrafkaWP Nie wiemy, czy pokazani sa TYLKO ZYDZI, mysle, ze konieczna jest powtorka z historii
grumpy
mypingu2 1 year ago
@przytrafkaWP bo żydzi także są częścią polskiej kultury? podobnie jak sarmacka ksenofobia i antysemityzm, ale tym to już bym się nie szczycił...
Bielo532 1 year ago
@przytrafkaWP kiedy idziesz na rozstrzelanie, czy to wazne kto jest Zydem a kto Polakiem. W wiezieniu Ubowskiego miasta Grojec, wyprowadzono mnie raz na dziedziniec, zeby mnie rozstrzelac. Potem okazala sie ze to byl jeden ze srodkow aby zlamac mnie psychicznie. W obliczu smierci i Polak i Zyd, jesli kat da mu chwile czasu, zegna sie z tym co dla niego najblizsze, najdrozsze...akurat dobrano slowa Polki . czy to poniza wielkosc goreckiego kompozycji....
1928piotrus 11 months ago 2
@przytrafkaWP Wstyd mi za Twój wpis. Pokazujesz w nim polski antysemityzm i brak empatii dla WSZYSTKICH ofiar faszyzmu! To boli , bardzo boli i człowiek się wstydzi się za takich Polaków jak Ty.
cmyk852 11 months ago
Beautiful and haunting.
tirnaog09 1 year ago
umarł mistrz. pozostawił po sobie coś pięknego.
ticketos 1 year ago
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Text for this song is from prayer inscribed on wall cell 3 by Wanda Blazusiakowna, polish, catolic, 17 years old girl , inprisoned and tortured in Gestapo headquaters in Zakopane in 1944.
visual1954 1 year ago
5:39 Tear just fell.
yokokanno25 1 year ago
Czesc Jego Pamieci!
Niezastapiony
ukrzych1 1 year ago
All Poles, should be remembered for the strife that befell them, all Europeans should be remembered. Read The Forgotten Holocaust on the internet to remember. Beautiful piece, beautiful video - thank you.
Picardy 1 year ago 2
R.I.P. - Henryk Górecki - 1933-2010 / Composer / Genius.
Born amidst the chaos preceeding WWII, he created beauty through music from the horror he witnessed as a child.
1612ydraw 1 year ago
Henryk Gorecki, R.I.P. Composer of "Symphony #3", one of my favorite classical compositions ever.
I watched him conduct "Symphony #3" with the USC orchestra and give a Q&A in LA before. Fantastic composer.
ustadkhanali 1 year ago
R.I.P.
2JOHNNYT 1 year ago
Góralka18-letnia Helena Wanda Błażusiakówna ze Szczawnicy-"O Mamo, nie płacz, nie – Niebios Przeczysta Królowo, Ty zawsze wspieraj mnie"
>PALACE KATOWNIA PODHALA w ZAKOPANE<
-WIECZNE ODPOCZYWANIE RACZ MU- IM DAC PANIE A ŚWIATŁOŚĆ WIEKUISTA NIECHAJ MU ŚWIECI NA WIEKI WIEKÒW AMEN
Requiescat in pace,
Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine.
Et lux perpetua luceat ei.
Requiescat in pace
*Ewige Ruhe schenke ihm , o Herr!
Und das ewige Licht leuchte ihm
*Eternal rest grant unto him, O LORD
konzertus 1 year ago 3
so sad to hear of his passing, he has left his mark on this world and in my heart, rest in peace maestro.
Kettip 1 year ago
you have such an honourable place you are now in.
AOrhon
muratorhon 1 year ago
He just passed away, RIP 11-13-10
kwixotic 1 year ago
When a man leaves such a work behind, he has done what he came on this earth to do. He has made this world a better place. We should all aspire to do our little bit.
God needs him now.
kkwilson27 1 year ago 2
Αιωνία σου η μνήμη, μεγάλε μουσουργέ...
stylian65 1 year ago
[*] Taki artysta a w polsce o nim się tak mało mówi [*]
mateu694 1 year ago
R.I.P. Henryck. You honoured life
Teech1958 1 year ago
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red00devil 1 year ago
Thank you so much for your music. Rest in peace.
MAFL77 1 year ago
rest in peace
ninarota 1 year ago 2
5 people doesn't have heart.
fernandojazz 1 year ago 3
Ah, Ronniegoogle, if we could answer that, if we could just answer that. . . .
comsources 1 year ago
Missed, but never forgotten.
unkiemonk 1 year ago
Tragische..Danke...
ilTroubadori 1 year ago
RIP Henryk
ucfbolw 1 year ago
Thank you all for the contributation. Stefan, Frankfurt
Steppelwuz 1 year ago
Sleep well HMG, thank you. xxx
AcringtonStanley 1 year ago
Text iof this song s from prayer inscribed on wall cell 3 by Wanda Blazusiakowna, polish, catolic, 17 years old girl , inprisoned and tortured in Gestapo headquaters in Zakopane in 1944.
visual1954 1 year ago
HMG RIP +
papist77 1 year ago
[*] Rest In Peace mr Górecki [*]
pocalujzabkewlapke 1 year ago
Does anyone have the sheet music for this masterpiece? I've been learning the vocal melody by ear and learning to phrase it properly on guitar but I'd like to cover the orchestral section too.
KeithWhalen11 1 year ago
5:38 and forward, just chilling. Such a fine piece of music
woweixiaomiandui 1 year ago
one more thing, nothing against the Jews, but this video is written by a Polish man, about the suffering in WWII, about loosing a son...so why does this video have to be about the Jewish? why does anything WWII have to hear about the Jewish dying. I'm part Jewish myself but 3 million Polish died in WWII and we can't even have this special song to them be about Polish children?? why can't anyone else be remembered what happened to them and what they did?
KrisKardash777 1 year ago 26
@KrisKardash777 Maybe as much as 88% of Polands prewar Jewish population died during the Holocaust (weren't they Poles too?) Maybe the fate of the Jews during WWII is regarded as unique because no other racial or religious group were singled out for complete extermination. 75%? of Jews in Nazi occupied Europe died and even in undefeated countries like the my own (UK) the Nazis had plans to deploy Einsatzkommando 6 to exterminate Jews. Even neutral countries were to have their Jews exterminated
Caracalla23 1 year ago
@Caracalla23
Text is from prayer inscribed on wall cell 3 by Wanda Blazusiakowna, polish, catolic, 17 years old girl , inprisoned and tortured in Gestapo headquaters in Zakopane in 1944.
visual1954 1 year ago
@KrisKardash777 Hi, from what you say I don't believe that you are in any way anti-Semitic. But even though Henryk Goreki may not have written this piece specifically with the Holocaust in mind, I think it is so appropriate that it has become associated with the unique character of it.
theprophet20 1 year ago
@KrisKardash777 i agree with you, but Hitler had not tried to eliminate all poles yet, but he had tried to kill all jews. He had plans to wipe out all non "aryan" races, but had only started on the jews
earp1232 8 months ago
@KrisKardash777 The music is written by a Polish man, but the pictures are from uploader. Gorecki resisted attachment of a meaning about WWII, Holocaust, war in general, religion, or anything else to this work. He said it was 3 sorrowful songs. Only the 2nd movement has words from an 18yo (Catholic) who was tortured by the Nazis, but what attracted Gorecki is that the girl was worried more about her mother than herself.
The pain expressed by this symphony is meant to be universal, not specific.
IheartZorro 8 months ago 2
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DjChoci 6 months ago
@KrisKardash777 Exactly what I have always felt about "ownership" of the grief from WWII. 6 million Jews, but some 12 others! Good, brave Germans, Gypsies (Roma), gay people, priests, soldiers....Russians...why do the Jews think they are the only ones who suffered? Why not a word about the others who died the same way? Not to mention the war dead! EVERYBODY who went into a gas chamber deserves recognition...12 million others are rolling over in their ovens at being forgotten...
MDelaneyCampeau 7 months ago
@KrisKardash777 ...really, it's because Jews were the only group determined enough and organized enough to ensure that noone forgets about the atrocities in WWII. It is really fortunate that someone has taken this on. Unless we know our history, we are doomed to repeat it.
PatMulgrew 7 months ago
@PatMulgrew true dat
johosophat555 6 months ago
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@PatMulgrew
I think it sucks that he wrote this to commemorate the atrocities against the Jews and spits in our face by writing lyrics that pray to a philistine goddess of the Jews long time enemies. (queen of heaven; Astarte)
What a fucking asshole.
intervalkid 5 months ago
@KrisKardash777 Let's not get into a contest about who suffered the most. We shouldn't vie for victim status (I'm also Polish with some Jewish ancestry). The Nazi camps were designed to consume and liquidate human life and the humans happened to be Jewish, Slavic (Polish, Russian), Roma, gay, communist, Jehovah Witnesses, and the physically or mentally infirm. We must feel this pain for everyone, including the various Germans who fell into those categories.
jmburkow 6 months ago 29
@jmburkow although im not of said heritage,your words are very strong
peace
DjChoci 5 months ago
@jmburkow AMEN, finally I hear a Jewish person speak the truth that Jews weren't the only ones singled out by Hitler, I'm gay by the way, I would have perished in Nazi Germany also.
zentopia7 3 weeks ago
@zentopia7 I'm not exactly a 'Jewish person'; more like a Polish/Slavic person with Jewish ancestry, but thank you for the support. And yes, sadly you too would have been fair game for the Nazi death camps.
jmburkow 3 weeks ago
@jmburkow Finally, a voice of wisdom in the youtube comments!
whereismymind1992 2 weeks ago
Did you know? They say that roughly 3 million non-Jewish Polish were killed in the Holocaust.
KrisKardash777 1 year ago
@KrisKardash777 So many people were killed mercilessly. Every life is dear and yet people like you have the audacity to single out one group of many. The Jews were the prime target. Why even attempt to argue that? Jab at it?
mallfairy09 1 year ago
@mallfairy09 well 5 million non Jews were killed as well, Catholics, gypsies, disabled, anyone non-aryan.
john3047X 1 year ago 2
@john3047X _ Hitler wasn't an Aryan. If he'd had any integrity he would have committed an act of egregious violence upon his own person. But he didn't! Which only goes to show that his heart really wasn't in the whole 'racial hygiene' thing.
ofcoursehesthefarmer 1 year ago
@ofcoursehesthefarmer He did eventually commit suicide. I wonder if that could be considered some sort of poetic justice.
brino64 11 months ago
@brino64 Sorry but the only "poetic" justice Hitler deserved was to have his balls clipped off piece by piece by nail clippers and then fucked in the ass by his own penis. Yet the genocide of culture and people that man caused warrants nothing less than his own damnation to hell I guess.
p4ulcha 10 months ago
sorry i have just sent that three times thinking that the post wasn't working!
skershawno1 1 year ago
Could anyone tell me where the picture of the woman with the accordian at about 1minute 30 in this video is from? Is it a picture or a painting....tried to search for it on the internet but with no success....
skershawno1 1 year ago
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Please could someone tell me where the picture of the woman with the accordian is from? Is it a picture or a painting?
skershawno1 1 year ago
Please could someone tell me where the picture of the woman with the accordian is from? Is it a picture or a painting?
skershawno1 1 year ago
OUTSTANDING!
corcaighrebel 1 year ago
Une révélation ! Un pouvoir ! Profondeur lumineuse....
artgregh 1 year ago
well that was fucking amazing
sabotagetimes 1 year ago
@sabotagetimes Sometimes such blunt language is perfectly placed. Your words echo exactly what I thought. That there are people able to create a piece of music so tragic, beautiful, uplifting, morbid, sorrowful and joyful, and all in the space of 10 minutes, makes me want to cry.
prosser243 1 year ago
Hi Digg!!
JohnLocke40 1 year ago
Put together beautifully. So sad yet so beautiful.
kendingo39 1 year ago
I'm amazed to read other people who either watched or listened to this piece that some break down and cry. Well ... I'm one of them as well.
Sad. Slow .... but Beautiful.
MrChristian326 1 year ago
Very very touching. One doesn't need to understand the language to understand the emotion.
HiDeguild 1 year ago
This is the most heart wrenching music ever.Even after 65 years its still hard to fathom.God bless the lot of you.
wrm1943 1 year ago
where's the other bits?? there's more bits and there not here!!!
Tommyfazz 1 year ago
so powerful. it's amazing what music can do. Dawn is so unique.
baburton81 1 year ago
And I forgot to say how lovely those well chosen pictures were pieced together. They go just as well with the music. Great work. Thank you. I hope lots of people will watch it and that they may be touched by this as much as I am. May cruelty like this never ever happen again, although, sadly enough, I'm well aware it is and will be.
MsSubV 1 year ago
I can't help it but I'm bursting out into tears everytime I watch and listen to this. I do have a son in that age and I can really feel the grieve of that woman.
This piece of music is so amazing, a true work of art.
MsSubV 1 year ago
@WiseMonkey888 you no not what you are saying many jews were saved by their Catholic brothers and sisters only God can judge if it was enough
136miles 1 year ago
I first came across this when it was used in the excelent BBC programme "the final solution" and it was oicked up by Clasic FM, this is the first time on here i have seen set to appropriate pics and comments
Thank you for doing this it will make more ppl think about what this piece is actualy about
"Lest we forget"
136miles 1 year ago
This rivals Schindler's List music, prob. even surpasses it... Lord knows the Jewish people are still recovering from WWII even now...
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marksmanmerc1 1 year ago
LOVE IT
animegalc4 1 year ago
so deeply touching.
RebeccaMinn 1 year ago
Obviously using the Pieta allegorically-- this is brilliant.
remy123go 1 year ago 2
Of the 3.3 million Jews who lived in prewar Poland, only 10% survived the Holocaust. Upon returning home after the war to Poland some of these Jewish survivors met death at the hands of Polish anti-Semites . . . killed by Poles simply for the crime of being Jewish. On July 4, 1946, 42 Jews were murdered in the village of Kielce by Poles. Following the Kielce pogrom, Jews fearing for their lives in Poland, sought refuge in other lands. . . . Today in Poland, only a few thousands Jews remain.
JuanVenusChavalo 1 year ago
@JuanVenusChavalo-Kielce was not a village but a major town. You forgot the Communist expulsion of Jews in 1968. To be brutally honest Jews would be welcome in Poland again but only to the point of having some "light diversity" in a more affluent politically correct environment. The Good news: Tolerance and Acceptance is getting better.
lakotausa 1 year ago
@JuanVenusChavalo ,as a active member of HOLOCOUST INCORPORATION you reserved sole rights to martyrology in WWII to Jews,many nations and races suffered far greater loses and indeed even now are still traumatised by evil of war ,Please dont use this platform to spread halftruths myths and legend ,you tendency to misinterpret alleged events only stirs suspition .prejudice and hatered between ohtervise friendly peoples and races
zabawkarz 1 year ago
@JuanVenusChavalo
zabawkarz 1 year ago
Music that transcends languages....many thanks for posting this. The sorrow in the voice is the sorrow of all humanity. Why do we kill each other, abuse each other when deep within our hearts we know we are the same- the colour of the human blood is same.
ronniegoogle 1 year ago 27
@ronniegoogle actually, I would say it reminds us of the humanity most people have inside somewhere. The pain, the deep pain you feel when you hear this means that the opposite is also there. Something like if there's wrong there's right too. In an very philosofical way, I think this music is horribly beautiful
Tiscali1981 11 months ago
I believe in the sun even when it is not shining.
I believe in love even feeling it not.
I believe in GOD even when HE is silent.
Inscription found on the walls of a cellar in Cologne, Germany, where Jews hid from the Nazis.
JuanVenusChavalo 1 year ago 7
@JuanVenusChavalo God is always silent ; GG.
bovinepro 1 year ago
The first time I heard this piece of music was on the Lawrence Rees BBC documentary, "Auschwitz, the Nazis and the Final Solution". It's a simply heartbreaking piece of music that shows the depths that humanity can sink to.
jadefalconmk1 1 year ago
Remember to listen to the beauty and sorrow in this music and rise above the tiny-mindedness that we are capable of (and that, sadly, is all too prominent in the below posts). We are capable of greatness as well as horror. THAT is truth. "Forgive, never forget." All death is tragedy. A million deaths is a million tragedies. Let us forgive but never forget. I will not let them have died in vain.
petitlapin66 1 year ago 4
What does that even mean?
MarkRustemier 1 year ago
Very powerful!! Thank you.
Thank you, Jeff.
Jeff
97669 1 year ago
Such a moving piece of music, and made more so here with the addition of these images.
yourforte 1 year ago
This is music that moves people to a greater level than we exist in our every day. There we can see beyond the evil.
danieltaylor333 1 year ago
Dawn Upshaw is breathtaking.
This symphony is pure perfection.
So dense of meaning and emotions.
alcyonae 1 year ago 2
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Why did the Nazis starve everybody before they gassed them? Not very efficient. Why not just deprive them of water for 3 days?
hornetobiker 1 year ago
Because they wanted them to work until they die, giving them food would have been more expensive for them then getting new slaves.
Idomanaio 1 year ago
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What happened to the "gas chambers" idea? You're just making stuff up.
hornetobiker 1 year ago
i guess because there would have been too many plagues if they would have let them die this way, the KZs were overfilled anyways..(i hope i understood your question right now as my english is not the best)
Idomanaio 1 year ago
Thanks for that. A coherent question for a change. Check out Typhus and the epidemic in europe 1944 - 1945, it explains everytning.
hornetobiker 1 year ago
If you're saying the Holocaust was fake... I never knew how to respond to that. I'm a strong believer in the power of stories, real or fictional, though, so I think as long as you agree with the message taken from the story of the Holocaust, I'm not too worried.
To be fair, though, you should have known that posting this on a YouTube comment board wasn't going to do much more than cause a firestorm. YouTube users love attacking anything controversial, and you pretty much waved a red flag.
BenMcCormack91 1 year ago
I couldn't care less about controversy or "waving a red flag". I have no agenda apart from confronting political or/and historical lies. Whatever the motive. I like truth. I despise bullshit. That's it.
Take what you want from that.
hornetobiker 1 year ago
@hornetobiker Perhaps. If you are interested in confronting such lies purely for your own benefit, I don't see why you bother posting comments. And if you are interested in persuading others, again - I'm sure you are well aware that a YouTube comment isn't going to open anyone's eyes either way.
If you're aware that your comments are pointless, you're ahead of most YouTubers. If you use that awareness to develop a sense of occasion, *then* you're getting somewhere.
BenMcCormack91 1 year ago
NO! if this is so, why were there gas chambers in the camps at all? Disabled people suffered a similar fate, you might say that they were the "prototype".
sstuddert 1 year ago
...so you are effectively disregarding all of the photographic evidence, films and eyewitness accounts depicting the mass murder? even many of the nazis confessed to the holocaust you idiot.
sstuddert 1 year ago
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Beautiful music. Shite message.
A lot more than jews died in the labour camps.
hornetobiker 1 year ago
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Aaaaaah, what poor little pussys have I uspet now?
hornetobiker 1 year ago
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yourforte 2 years ago
In 500 years, people will wake in the middle of the night and scream at the inhumanity of the Nazis. Their crimes against humanity will haunt the success of mankind's future achievements.
londonplayer 2 years ago
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in 500 years no one will care, no one wakes in the middle of the night and screams at the inhumanity of the europeans butchering the native americans. Of course it was horrible, but humans move on... and i don't think there will be anyone watching this video that was personally affected by what happened, people have moved on already....
MarkRustemier 2 years ago 8
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4854derrida 2 years ago
An continuous effort must be made to secure the context the holocaust has in society today. When that context is lost, such acts will be repeated.
blastpeed 2 years ago
no they wont
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@londonplayer
Fuck off you self serving pratt. I wonder where you live.
hornetobiker 1 year ago
Parts from this were used in the BBC documentary "Auschwitz, the Nazis and the Final Solution", along with some other classical pieces. The use of music in that documentary really enhanced an already excellent programme
jadefalconmk1 2 years ago