'I feel like crying': Survivor returns to Auschwitz

[0:00]Forever let this place be a cry of despair. And a warning to humanity, when the Nazis murdered about 1 and a half million. Men, women and children. Ziggy Shippers read those words cast in bronze countless times. Yet still, they've lost none of their power. Hatred, hatred, hatred, hatred. That's all it is. Hatred which brought him to this place of infamy, aged just 14. His group was destined to work elsewhere, but most other passengers on these cattle trucks were immediately assessed by the SS. And there were German SS guards pointing right, left, right, left. All the people that went to the right were old people, disabled people, children, babies. And also women holding children. So they guards came over and told the woman to put their baby down, go to the other side. Well, you can imagine a mother wouldn't do it. They tried to rip that baby out of their arms. If sometimes they didn't succeed, they shot the baby, shot the child. Do you know, every time I talk about it, I feel like crying. How can you kill babies? Little remains now of the gas chambers where most perished. Ziggy was deemed fit enough to work and so was spared this awful fate. They told them they're going into the showers, but of course there was no showers. It was a building, you see, and uh they packed them into that building, closed the door, and then they killed them. They gassed them. But you know, even every time I come here, I can't believe the size of this place. It's like a like a little town almost. It's just unbelievable, just for killing people. Amid this bleak, monochrome landscape, there is one point of colour, symbolizing the unimaginable horror of the Holocaust. You see you've got six candles here, it's always six candles because the 6 million Jews because 95% of the people that were killed here were Jews. I why, why? Why kill babies? Have we learned? I don't know. But we must not give up.