'Among us in the experimental barrack for male twins and dwarfs was a misshapen, hunchbacked gnome, a little less than four feet tall,' recalls Efraim Reichenberg.
He was forty years old, had a fissure in his skull and could only walk with the aid of two crutches. He had been a watchmaker in Budapest and we came together on the same transport. Each of us was enduring his own private hell, but when he let us know what he was going through, there was still room for pity. Nearly every day he was put in a room and stripped naked. The SS brought him Gypsy women infected with syphilis and forced him to have sexual intercourse with them. The SS doctors stood watching. Every morning when he arrived and at the end of the day before he left, they examined him thoroughly to see if he had already caught the disease. When he first told me I didn't want to believe him, but one day I saw him through a crack in the door. A male nurse was holding him, forcing him down on a woman because he was no longer able. The unfortunate man didn't last long - he died some time later, not of syphilis but of exhaustion.
I don't understand how the "forcing" worked. The story comes from Ephraim Reichenberg, who was a plaintiff in a 1985 lawsuit where Mengele survivors from Israel sued the West German government. The survivors ended up winning the lawsuit, but each of them only received about 13,000 USD: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-23-mn-10215-story.html.
Like Eva Mozes-Kor who founded CANDLES, Reichenberg said that he was not a twin but that he was mistaken as a twin because he looked similar to his sibling. His story was that he had a poor singing voice but his brother had a beautiful singing voice, so Mengele was intrigued by the difference, and Mengele performed an experiment where he injected cancer cells into Reichenberg's neck. Now as a result of the experiment, Reichenberg had to speak through a device which made him sound like a Dalek (https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/07/world/jerusalem-listens-to-the-victims-of-mengele.html, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V41_BeF8Qo).
Isla Koch turned Jews into furniture and clothing:
"Ilsa Koch corresponded with the wives of commandants in other concentration camps, giving them instructions on how to turn human skin into a book cover, lampshade, gloves, or a fine table cloth."
According to a Jew who survived 5+ years in Buchenwald; Isla Koch used shrunken heads as handles on her riding crops:
"Underneath the lampshade was a stand made from pieces of human bone and, as a decorative item, a shrunken human skull. The parchment-like material looked like a Torah scroll. You could see the tiny holes where the hair once was. There was also a shrunken head that served as a handle for one of her riding whips."
Jews were tricked into getting on trains to be sent to concentration camps with chocolate:
"Young Alex saw action on the Russian front, and was even used by the SS to lure Jewish people to their deaths. Outside the cattle trains which carried victims to the concentration camps, he handed out chocolate bars to tempt them in."
According to the General Secretary of the Association of Romanian Jews:
"... in Banila pe Siret “only” a few were killed, but they were cut to pieces so that the axles of carts could be smeared with their blood... July 5, 1941 In Banila pe Siret, local residents, led by Mayor Mocaliuc and a certain Barbaza, killed 15 Jews, among them M. Satran, an eighty-year-old blind man, Iacob Fleischer and Iacob Brecher together with his daughter. Brecher’s body was cut into pieces, and his blood was smeared on the axles of carriages."
Tables & chairs made from human skeletons in Himmler's office, Himmler's human-skin lampshade, Human skin copies of Mein Kampf for top Nazis:
Frau Potthast said she would show them something interesting, a special collection Himmler kept in what had become his special lair. She led the way up to the attic.
"When she opened the door and we flocked in, we didn't understand what the objects in that room were—until she explained, quite scientifically, you know," Martin said, his voice now toneless. "It was tables and chairs made of parts of human bodies. There was a chair ... the seat was a human pelvis, the legs human legs-on human feet. And then she picked up a copy of Mein Kampf from a pile of them—all I could think was that my father had told me not to bother to read it as it had been outdated by events. [Speer had told me that Hitler had said exactly the same thing to him.] She showed us the cover-made of human skin, she said—and explained that the Dachau prisoners who produced it used the Rückenhaut, the skin of the back, to make it."
He said they fled, his mother pushing them ahead of her down the stairs. "Eike was terribly upset," he said, "and I was too." It hadn't helped them much, he said, when his mother, trying to calm them, told them that their father had refused to have the book in the house when Himmler had sent him a similar copy."
As well as bears and eagles, the Buchenwald zoo had a rhinoceros, tigers & monkeys. The Nazis advertised their zoo, and sold day tickets to Buchenwald concentration camp "sightseers". Ilse Koch "was always fucking some guard or other", "close to her horses". The bears ate either steak, honey and jam, or Jews, depends who you listen to:
"They had deer, wild boar, bears, tigers, foxes. Commandant Koch liked to amuse himself by throwing prisoners into the bear cages. The prisoners built a zoo, too. The zoo had monkeys, pheasants, and even a rhinoceros. The SS opened the game preserve to the public. They advertised it locally and made quite a profit from sightseers. Frau Koch, Use Koch was her name, used to go riding in the riding hall nearly every morning. She was always fucking some guard or other. I heard that she liked to fuck close to her horses, in the riding hall. She liked the band of prisoners to play music for her while she rode. She was so evil that her evil stood out in the middle of all the evil."
"Not far from the camp crematorium, Kommandant Koch maintained a zoo with four bears, five monkeys and a rhinoceros. Koch fed steak to his pet bears while the inmates subsisted on 'Viking Salad' (rotten liver sausage, fish heads and potatoes), and tea made from acorns."
"Karl Koch, built within this nightmarish human "menagerie" a full-scale hunting lodge and zoo. The hunting lodge was spectacular and expensive, following precisely the design of old German falconries and hunting lodges. A performative equivalent of the animal-like existence of the prisoners, the hunting lodges housed falcons and caged wildcats; the prisoners themselves, along with SS guides, gathered deer, wild boar, foxes, pheasants, and other wild game animals for the adjacent preserve. The inmates were also forced to build the zoological garden, which contained monkeys, bears, and even a rhinoceros. To add to the absurdity, the zoo animals ate infinitely better than the inmates: "Althought the camp suffered from a serious food shortage, the zoo animals received a daily meat ration from the prisoner mess. Bears ate honey and jam, monkeys consumed potatoes and milk, oat flakes, and other delicacies." Thus, with imminent slaughter and walking death all around them, the inmates were obliged to capture, maintain feed (sometimes be fed to), and care for the animals and game; the Jews were even forced to pay, through a "voluntary collection," for the replacement of animals that died."
Barney Burson served in the United States 30th Infantry Division, he witnessed the horror which was Buchenwald, the Nazi concentration camp with a rhinoceros, where a Jew was fed everyday, to a bear. Barney wrote home to his wife on June 13th, 1945 describing how the Nazis crushed the cremated remains of Jews, in an elevator. The elevator was thought to have been used for bring up cadavers from the mortuary/execution room beneath the crematorium, until Barney Burson's letter was forward to the Times, by Barney's son, Melvin.
"Burson described for his wife the furnaces where Jews were incinerated and the elevators the Nazis used to slowly crush their bodies."
Eva Olsson a survivor of Auschwitz on the bread made from wood and human bone soup served there:
"Olsson remembers the twice daily rations at Auschwitz – a slice of bread that was 70 per cent sawdust, a cup of black coffee, a mug of potato peel or turnip peel soup and, occasionally, the dreaded “surprise soup” in which swam bits of bone and tufts of human hair."
From the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel. Leon Wells, the prosecution witness, claims he worked in the "Death Brigade", the Sonderkommando 1005, at the Janowska camp in Poland:
"Questioner: Mr. Hausner, Attorney General Answerer: Leon Wells, Prosecution Witness
Q. Were you fed while you were working? Did you get any food?
A. We got a lot of food.
Q. Where did you eat? Amongst the corpses?
A. On the corpses.
Q. On the corpses themselves?
A. Yes, on the corpses. [...] Q. Now, when you went to work in the morning and came back in the evening, you say you had to sing?
A. We had to make up songs and sing while we were going to work, and also the Brandmeister (fire chief) would march in front, he was clothed like a devil; he had a special uniform with a hook in his hand and we had to march after him and sing. Afterwards we were also joined by an orchestra which would play as we sang and accompany us on our march to work."
Vera Grossman Kriegel describes being kept in a cage naked and being injected in the spine by Mengele at Auschwitz. She claims she was one of the few children to survive Mengele's cruelty, yet countless survivors also describe all sorts of crazy experiments that he conducted on them:
January 20, 2020 / 12:54 PM / 6 days ago "I stayed alive to tell" - Auschwitz's dwindling survivors recount horrors of Nazi death camp Maayan Lubell ... Aged six, Vera and her twin sister were subjected to the pseudo-medical experiments of doctor Josef Mengele, who used prisoners at Auschwitz as research subjects, earning him the name “Angel of Death”.
Vera and her sister were two of the few children to survive his cruelty. She tells of how she was kept naked in a cage, given painful injections directly into her spine, and beaten if she cried as she saw many other children suffer and die.
“Why did I stay alive? It was for a reason. Did I stay alive to keep silent? No – to tell.”
In this article, he claims witnessing a Mengele experiment here "The victims, women, were anaesthetized... Their uteruses were pulled out through their vaginas and I was forced to photograph the organs in detail."
Photographer tricked Nazis to save Auschwitz images
Published on March 13, 2009
Wilhelm Brasse was put through daily torture photographing the horrors of the Auschwitz death camp but the young Pole pulled a fast one over his Nazi captors to make sure the terrible events were not forgotten.
Brasse, now 91, had to take pictures of women whose genitals were butchered by Nazi "Angel of Death" Josef Mengele, of Jewish prisoners arriving at the camp to go to the gas chamber and even of the camp brothel where women were turned into sex slaves. ... Brasse was also forced to document inhuman pseudo-medical experiments performed by Mengele and other doctors.
"The victims, women, were anaesthetized,” said Brasse. “Their uteruses were pulled out through their vaginas and I was forced to photograph the organs in detail."
My grandfather was sent to Auschwitz when he was just 10 years old. During his time there, he had two face to face encounters with the notorious Dr. Mengele. These are those two encounters:
My grandfather, his older sister, and his parents were waiting in line at the gates of Auschwitz for the selection process. Those sent to the left, were sent directly to the gas chamber. Those sent to the right, were sent to work.
While standing in line, a Sonderkommando came up to his mother and told her to get rid of her young child because Dr Mengele would send young children and their mothers to the gas chambers immediately. If she got rid of him, she would have a chance to survive.
When his mother refused to give away my grandfather, the Sonderkommando told her a story: Earlier today a mother with a young child were standing where you are, and a Nazi asked the mother to hand over the child. She refused. He asked one more time. She refused.
The Nazi grabbed the child, & removed the child clothings. He then took rope and tied one end to a truck and the other end to the child’s foot. He then took another rope and tied it to another truck and the other leg. He then ordered the truck to drive in opposite directions.. The child was split in half right in front of his mother. As she screamed, the mother was shot on the spot.
The Sonderkommando urged my great-grandmother to give away her young child so the same wouldn’t happen to them. She refused. “I will NEVER give away my child.” My great-grandfather was a tall & broad man, so he told my grandfather to hide behind him, and maybe Dr Mengele wouldn’t see him.
Their time finally came for the selection. Dr Mengele right away saw my grandfather and asked him to come forward. He asked him how old he was. My grandfather said he was 17, hoping Dr Mengele would send him to work. Dr Mengele started laughing. “I know you aren’t 17, you can’t be older then 10 or 11, but go with your father (to work).” A few months later, my grandfather got scarlet fever and was transferred to the “medical facility” in Auschwitz. A faciltiy where medical experiments were performed mostly on children.
He had been there for a couple of days when in walked Dr Mengele.
Dr Mengele walked over to the Nazi in charge of this barrack, pointed at my grandfather and said: “ I am going to do an experiment on him.” “I am going to try and find a specific nerve in his neck and give him an injection.. If I find the nerve, this boy will be paralyzed for life, and if I can’t find it he will be dead in a matter of moments.”
My grandfather heard this exchange, and as sick and weak as he was, he jumped off his top bunk and started screaming as he ran towards Dr Mengele: “Experiments are for monkeys, not for children!” Dr Mengele reached for the pistol on his waist, and my grandfather thought that this was how his life was going to end. Dr Mengele held his pistol for moment while staring directly at my grandfather... Then walked out of the room. My grandfather never saw Dr Mengele again. Two years ago, my grandfather once again walked through the gates of Auschwitz accompanied by a soldier. His grandson. A soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces. My inspiration. My hero. My grandfather. Rabbi Nissen Mangel
Helmut Szprycer begged Mengele "Don't put me in the gas chamber" and he listened!
At Auschwitz life and death were in the hands of Dr Josef Mengele, the Nazi 'Angel of Death'. On 14th July 1944 Mengele ordered inmates to pass naked in front of him. Those he waved to the right were to continue as slave labourers; those to the left were sent for almost immediate death in the gas chambers. All the boys were waved to the left.
Helmuth remembered his grandmother's injunction to 'stay alive at all costs'. From somewhere he found the courage quickly to march up to Mengele before the guards could shoot him, click his heels (he'd seen films of Hitler Youth) and look into his eyes, saying in German: "I want to work for you. I will do anything - clean your shoes, your motorcycle. Don't put me in the gas chamber." Mengele asked where he came from and on hearing Berlin ordered Helmutt to work.
Helmutt clicked his heels and rejoined the other boys, when Harry asked him to save his life too. Incredibly, he returned to Mengele and pleaded on behalf of Harry. Mengele was running out of patience; he held out two matches, the shorter one leading to death. Helmuth drew the longer, Harry the shorter. Harry begged Helmuth to make a further plea for his life. This he did, calling on inexplicable reserves of bravery for his own life was continually at risk. Astoundingly, Mengele relented.
Both boys were made messengers in different parts of the camp, wearing blue blazers with riding breeches while on duty. In a surreal twist of fate, Harry was later transferred to Auschwitz I where he raised and lowered the barrier at the entrance gate which bore the notorious slogan Arbeit macht frei.
AJR Information (Association of Jewish Refugees), Volume LII No. 10, October 1997, p. 8
Farmington Daily Times (NM), Friday, May 3, 1985, p.A7.
When Hella Drizen arrived at Auschwitz, she was forced to remove her clothes and stand before Mengele, who decided whether she should work or be cremated. Though she was spared at that point, she faced another horror with the physician some months later. She was in a tub taking a rare bath in a couple of inches of water, when suddenly the tub filled with water and Mengele showed up. She knew that when extra water was given, it was in variably a precursor to being taken to the gas chamber. Yet she smiled at Mengele, and said, "Thank God, you've come here. I'm glad because it is the first time I've gotten enough water for a decent bath." He smiled in return, admiring her guts, and said, "You're very lucky."
Farmington Daily Times (NM), Friday, May 3, 1985, p.A7.
Sobibor Jew fat soap:
"At the end of 1942 the cremation of corpses began in the third camp. rails were laid and fires were constantly kept burning under them. ... Thousands were burned everyday; the fires were kept burning day and night, the flames rising very high. ... Special containers were fitted to the rails for collecting human fat. The furnaces were manned by a special crew of 150 prisoners. The ashes were collected in sacks and sent to Germany for use as fertilizer. The fat was packed in barrels, also for shipment to Germany. The Germans said that it made good soap."
"German Death Factory in Sobibur" by Major A. Rutman and Senior Lieutenant of the Guards S. Krasilshchik, Information Bulletin, published by the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Washington D.C, September 15, 1944, pp. 5-7.
"German Death Factory in Sobibur" by Major A. Rutman and Senior Lieutenant of the Guards S. Krasilshchik, Information Bulletin, published by the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Washington D.C, September 15, 1944, pp. 5-7.
The BBC celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Soviet capture of Auschwitz with a great tale: a quadriplegic dwarf forced by Mengele to have sex with a Roma (Gypsy) woman and dying of it.
How I witnessed Auschwitz's medical experimentation Motti Alon was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland from Budapest in 1944 as a child, with his twin brother and their mother. He recalls seeing camp physician Josef Mengele - known for performing medical experiments on prisoners - forcing a dwarf, suffering from quadriplegia, to have sex with a Roma woman.
Wilhelm Brasse claimed to have taken 50,000 photos at Auschwitz for the Nazis. In one instance, he claims that Mengele liked one jew's tattoo so he had Brasse take pictures. After being photographed, he was gassed and skinned. The tattooed skin from the gassed jew was then stretched on a table to be framed for Mengele, rather than framing the photograph.
The photographer at Auschwitz: Man forced to take chilling images of inmates and their Nazi guards was haunted until his death at 94
- Photographer Wilhelm Brasse died this week aged 94 - He had taken up to 50,000 photos in Auschwitz for the Nazis - Mr Brasse hid negatives which were used to convict the very Nazis who commissioned them
By Alex Ward Published: 11:20 EST, 27 October 2012 ... Wilhelm Brasse was forced to take photographs of frightened children and victims of gruesome medical experiments moments from their death at the extermination camp where some 1.5 million people, mostly Jewish died in the Holocaust. ... In February 1941, he was summoned to the camp commander’s office, the notoriously brutal Rudolf Höss, who would later be hanged for his crimes.
Mr Brasse was certain that this was the end but when he arrived he discovered that the SS was looking for photographers.
There followed what must have been a bizarre and terrifying experience. The assembled men were tested on their photographic skills.
Each must have known failure would mean a return to hard labour and death.
He said: ‘We were five people. They went through everything with us - the laboratory skills and the technical ability with a camera. I had the skills as well as being able to speak German, so I was chosen.’
The Nazis wanted documentation of their prisoners. The Reich was obsessed with bureaucratic records and setup ‘Erkennungsdienst,’ the photographic identification unit.
Based in the camp, it included cameramen, darkroom technicians and designers...
One day, a prisoner was sent to him because one of the camp doctors, the infamous Nazi Dr Josef Mengele, wanted a photograph of the man’s unusual tattoo.
He said: ‘It was quite beautiful. It was a tattoo of Adam and Eve standing before the Tree in the Garden of Eden, and it had obviously been done by a skilled artist.’
About an hour after taking the photograph, he learned that the man had been killed. He was called by another prisoner to come to one of the camp crematoria where he saw the dead man had been skinned.
Mr Brasse said: ‘The skin with the tattoo was stretched on a table waiting to be framed for this doctor. It was a horrible, horrible sight.’
‘Mengele liked my photographs and said he wanted me to photograph some of those he was experimenting on.
‘The first group were Jewish girls. They were ordered to strip naked. They were aged 15 to 17 years and were looked after by these two Polish nurses.
'They were very shy and frightened because there were men watching them. I tried my best to calm them.’
Mr Brasse and another inmate managed to bury thousands of negatives in the camp's grounds which were later recovered.
Video: Excerpt from documentary on Wilhelm Brasse the Auschwitz photographer
Murray Goldfinger Miraculously survived when "bullet bounced off his skull" and "American planes spotted his impending execution"
Holocaust survivor to share memories in Kristallnacht talk
November 10, 2009
LEWISBURG, Pa. — Murray Goldfinger, a Holocaust survivor, will speak about his experiences Monday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. in the Forum of the Elaine Langone Center at Bucknell University.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of the University's annual observance of Kristallnacht, the planned attack on Jews that began the Holocaust in 1938. It is sponsored by Campus Jewish Life and Hillel.
Goldfinger, who is the grandfather of a Bucknell student, was born near Krakow, Poland. Forced by the Germans to leave his village, his family hid from the Nazis until 1942, when Goldfinger, then 15 years old, was taken to Roznov, the first of several camps where he worked as a messenger, gardener, carpenter and miner.
Lucky survivor
Goldfinger credits his survival to luck and good-hearted people, including a non-Jewish former schoolmate of his mother who allowed them to live in a small home near their village, a work camp foreman who took a liking to him, and a police chief whose daughter was in love with Goldfinger's brother.
Even Josef Mengele, known as the Angel of Death for his cruel medical experiments on Jewish prisoners, checked on Goldfinger's condition after he was condemned to death for allegedly breaking his shovel. The bullet bounced off his skull and lodged in his shoulder, a wound that later became infected.
Goldfinger's last camp was Buchenwald where, on April 10, 1945, he was taken to the woods to be killed. Luckily, an American plane spotted the impending execution and began shooting at the Nazis. The Nazis hid from American fire among the prisoners before sending them back to camp where they were liberated the next day.
His family was less fortunate. His parents were shot and killed in the woods near their village, and his oldest brother was executed after being falsely accused of ripping up Polish currency. His four sisters died in the gas chambers at Belzec and one sister was last seen in 1941 in the Tarnov ghetto.
Sidney Glucksman claims to have seen nazis put jewish babies into bags, and would swing them against the wall to kill them. Also seems to suggest homicidal gas chambers at Dachau:
Survivor tells of Holocaust horrors
Abbe Smith, New Haven Register, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News March 26, 2009
Mar. 26--WEST HAVEN -- At the age most kids enter high school, Polish-born Sidney Glucksman instead witnessed unspeakable atrocities from within the walls of a Nazi death camp.
One of the few Holocaust survivors left to tell firsthand the story of the extermination of 6 million Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II, Glucksman lives by the mantra: "Never forget."
At Notre Dame High School Wednesday, Glucksman shared horrific tales of watching women and children marched off to gas chambers, never to be seen again, and babies stuffed in bags and brutally murdered. ... At 12 years old, Glucksman was a student at a school in Chrzanow, Poland, when Nazi soldiers invaded his school and rounded up the Jewish children. The year was 1940. The students were loaded onto trucks and taken away.
"They told us we would be back with our parents in the evening. That evening never came," he said.
The children slept outside and ate soup that consisted of slivers of potato floating in warm water.
He and the others were taken to Gross Rosen concentration camp where he was forced into labor and later transferred to Dachau concentration camp.
A young Glucksman watched as trains rolled in with box cars full of women and children packed tight as sardines.
"If you had to go to the bathroom, you did it standing up. If people died, they died standing up," he said.
He described for the students what he considers the worst scene he has witnessed in his lifetime. Nazi soldiers shaved the heads of women and children and told them they were going to take a shower. They were led to a gray building with two large doors. Brushes and soap sat on a shelf.
"We were waiting 15 minutes and they never came out. That's when we knew that was the first batch of the dead gassed people," he recalled.
The crematorium went day and night without interruption. Smoke came out of it all the time and the camp stunk of burning human bones and flesh. Glucksman saw babies stuffed into bags and soldiers swinging the bags against concrete walls, killing the babies. ... Despite the horrific images etched into Glucksman's memory, he managed to make a happy life with wife, Libby, who he met after being liberated from Dachau in 1945.
Eva Olsson claims to have witnessed "Gas chambers" and "Five children at a time burned alive in crematoriums" at Bergen-Belsen:
Holocaust survivor shares her message of hope
Written by Brent Chayka Cambrian Shield Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Eva Olsson, an 84-year-old Holocaust survivor, shared her amazing tale of survival to over 600 people gathered in the Lasalle Secondary School gymnasium on Monday.
Olsson began her speech by elaborately detailing the moment that her and her family were shipped to the Auschwitz concentration camp from her hometown of Szatmar, Hungary.
“When we got off the train, the masked Angel of Death, Josef Mengele, was waiting for us,” said Olsson. “He would signal us to go two ways, which was right or left. My mother went left.”
Those sent to the left were deemed as “unfit to work” and were led to the gas chambers, which included older men and women, children, and men with frail bodies. “I just wanted to wrap my arms around her and say goodbye,” said Olsson. “But it was too late.”
Olsson used this example to illustrate the importance of people showing love for those around them.
After several years in Auschwitz concentration camp, her and her younger sister would be shipped to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, which was the Nazis' most brutal camp.
“When we arrived, there were five children at a time being forced into the crematoriums to be burned alive,” says Olsson. “Many were led into rooms with shower heads, but water did not come out. It was gas.”
Jewish baby was born at Auschwitz, but his life was saved because.... he was born on Hitler's birthday!
Miracle of the Mengele babies: Truly astounding story of how three women cheated demon doctor of death by hiding their pregnancies... and raised their newborns in the very cradle of Nazi horror - Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele became known as 'The Angel of Death' - He inspected each new prisoner and asked if they were expecting a child - Priska Lowenbeinova concealed her pregnancy and raised baby in camp - Two other women also lied about their condition and their babies survived ... Rachel Friedman was advised to lie and say her son Mark (pictured together) was born on Hitler's birthday – April 20th - and it saved him ... "An SS guard told me: 'Say the boy was born on Hitler's birthday – April 20th. It might save him'" - Rachel Friedman ... The boy was small. 'Another Jew for the Fuhrer!' one of the guards shouted. Too weak to be happy, Rachel felt numb. She had secretly decided to name him Max (later to be known as Mark). 'I was thinking, 'So I have a child, or I don't have a child.' We didn't know what was going to happen.'
With no sharp objects to sever the umbilical cord, someone suggested Rachel bite through it. Eventually an SS guard handed Edita a dirty razor blade. 'They also found a cardboard box and put the baby in,' Rachel recalled.
Incredibly, Rachel had a little breast milk and was able to feed the baby. Rachel asked the date, determined to remember her son's birthday whether he lived or died. An SS guard replied: 'Say the boy was born on Hitler's birthday – April 20th. It might save him.'
We shall begin with another Mengele tale, which are my personal favorite. In this one, Mengele injects Eva Kor with some mystery substance and, for some unknown reason, tells her she will die in two weeks. But she didn't:
Why I forgive the Nazis who murdered my family
Eva Kor made it out of Auschwitz but her family was killed in the gas chambers. In a new documentary she explains why, despite protest from other Holocaust survivors, she has decided to forgive ... Eva and her twin sister Miriam were only kept alive as medical guinea pigs for the fearsome camp physician Dr Josef Mengele, who was obsessed with identical siblings. One mysterious injection administered by Mengele almost killed the then 10-year-old Eva. She recalls him standing over her barracks bed and announcing triumphantly that she had just two weeks to live.
But she survived Auschwitz – and then Dr Mengele, who later fled to South America where he died in 1979. Last April, Eva travelled to Germany to give evidence in the trial of his former colleague and, despite suffering so much at Nazi hands, publically forgive his sins.
Uncut footage of a former Auschwitz inmate "Hanan Rachel" breaking the world record for telling the most "rejected by historians" claims about Auschwitz-Birkenau in 82 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-T62bNKcKE - Sometimes Zyclon-B gas came from shower heads (not possible) - Jewish fat soap - Parchment and lampshades made from skin - Purses made of skin - Flesh used to make sausages, bologna to eat
William "Bill" Lowenberg was born in Ochtrup, Germany. He was the only survivor of his immediate family – his father, mother and sister all perished in Auschwitz. His family fled Germany to Holland in 1936 after experiencing an increasing amount of anti-Semitism... Highlights from the interview:
And let's remember one thing, the biggest money maker for the German government was the Holocaust because we take six million people, they have wedding rings, they have gold teeth, they have clothing, they have money in their pockets, a little bit, and then all these buildings to demolish. That was the biggest moneymaker. I would venture to say that the Second World War would have been finished within a year and a half to two years had it not been for the Holocaust because that financed the Germans. That's why you hear today about all this gold they took to Switzerland. That's why the insurance companies, are the biggest thieves on earth because they sold the insurance companies [policies], and people came after the war and said, "My father had insurance, I know that." They said, "Where's your death certificate?" Well Auschwitz didn't give death certificates. So, this is still going on now. The Holocaust was the biggest money making event for the Germans. If you had gold fillings, you were destined to be killed immediately because there were whole teams who did nothing else in the gas chambers after the Germans gassed them to take the gold out. Bags, and bags, and bags of gold. And the clothing – six million people, there're six million shoes. That's a lot of shoes for a country. The clothing, they sold them all over the world including South America. This was a big, big money making event for the Germans. That extended the war, in my opinion, by probably two years. Nobody talks about it but believe me.
The men they did castrations, a lot – middle size, regular size, big size – they castrated men and they had the worst time, they couldn't live much longer. I knew quite a few who were picked. They picked certain individuals who looked like they were "macho-macho" or whatever. They castrated and injected them. But the women were worse. In Auschwitz it was prevalent, big operation, what they did to women there you can't even talk about what they did to them. Inject them with semen from animals, you name it. Anything you can think of that you wouldn't want to talk about, they did it the people.
But not all the portraits have such pleasant, joyful, ethereal or prosaic stories. Katherine Griffiths has captured an elderly woman holding a blanket. The woman is elegant; her expression is forthright, and knowing. She might be the artist's grandmother, an inspiring teacher or an admired neighbour. She might be all three, but in fact, she is something else altogether. A Holocaust survivor, Olga holds a blanket made from the hair of Jewish prisoners who had their heads shaved as they entered Auschwitz. You don't feel afraid before you read the caption – Olga's eyes fairly twinkle from the frame. But, as you glance from the caption back to those eyes, they seem to be daring you, now, to look away.
The 'Automatic Shooting Machine' of Mauthausen. This claim is reproduced from the wildly popular history of 'Nazi atrocities' named 'The Scourge of the Swastika' authored by Edward Russell (aka Lord Russell of Liverpool) who was a key figure in the Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crime Trials.
All these categories were handed over to the Gestapo for 'special treatment'. This consisted of being deprived of prisoner-of-war status, sent to the concentration camp at Mauthausen, and shot with a bullet in the neck.
At Mauthausen they were known as 'K' prisoners. When they arrived at the camp they were not registered as were ordinary prisoners, and their names remained unknown except to the members of the 'Politische Abteilung'.
They were at once taken to the detention block, where they were undressed and then taken to what, for camouflage purposes was called the bathroom but which was, in fact, a room in the prison cells near the crematorium designed for execution by shooting or gassing. One of the methods of shooting these 'K' prisoners has been described by a French officer who was himself confined in the apparatus. 'The shooting was done by means of a measuring standard with an automatic contraption which shot a bullet into the back of his neck as soon as the wooden bar which determined his height touched the top of his head.'
Sometimes they were marched down in batches to the quarry dressed only in shirts and pants and mowed down by machine-gun fire. Death certificates were prepared in every case and endorsed, 'Killed while attempting to escape.'
Music journalist Barry Cain writes in his 2007 book "77 Sulphate Strip" about visiting the former Nazi concentration camp Dachau with the rock band The Jam in April 1977, and relates a extremely garbled story about Ilse Koch aka 'the Red Witch of Buchenwald' one of the band's entourage told him:
In the camp museum, manager John Weller [Paul Weller's father] looks at a picture of Nazis burning books before the war. The caption runs: 'where books are burnt humans will be burnt in the end.' Henrich Heine.
He remembers a newspaper report at the end of the war detailing the surreal sex life of a woman SS commandant. Every time a new batch of prisoners arrived she would choose the most virile-looking and lay him that night. The following morning she'd whip him to death, cut off his penis and pickle it in a jar. When her home was raided by American soldiers they found a room full of jars. She was known as the 'preying mantis'
On November 11, 1933, the Polish newspaper the Illustrated Daily Courier published a horrendous piece of atrocity-propaganda in which it claimed the Polish police had uncovered a Nazi-affiliated group operating in Poland, France, and Czechoslovakia, which sought to entice army officers and soldiers into becoming spies for the Nazi movement with money, gambling, orgies, and specially trained attractive female agents who would seduce the men.
Should the men refuse the offer of becoming a Nazi agent, or if they were ineffective agents, the paper insisted, they were murdered and their bodies were dissolved in acid. So far 505 men had been murdered by the group known as the German Patriotic League.
Following is a British newspaper article which reported on the story in the Polish paper, and then a translation of the full article from the Polish newspaper:
These wholesale murders are alleged to have been the work of the Deutsche Patriotische Liga, known for short as "Depali," and the discovery of their activities is attributed to the Polish political police.
The police authorities are said to have obtained a list of the foreigners murdered at the instigation of "Depali."
The list includes:
248 Frenchmen, 193 Poles, and 46 Germans.
It is further alleged that many Czecho- slovakians have also been done to death.
WOMEN EMPLOYED.
Many of the victims are said to have been army officers and soldiers.
According to the story in the Cracow paper, beautiful women were employed by the German organisation to persuade their victims to desert from the army and go to Germany.
They were then put in touch with the Ger- man espionage organisation, and if they refused to act as spies for Germany they were murdered.
So that all traces of the crime should be cleared away, the bodies were burned or dissolved in special chemical compounds.
Most of the murders, it is stated, were committed in Breslau, Silesia.
The organisation is said to be still active, not only in Poland but in other countries.— Central News.
Nottingham Evening Post, Saturday, November 11, 1933, p.1
Another Mengele story, this time... with seven midgets!
How the seven dwarfs of Auschwitz fell under the spell of Dr Death: The hideous experiments carried out by Nazi Josef Mengele on seven trusting brothers and sisters
As powerful beams of light revealed the new arrivals at Auschwitz, the SS guards could scarcely believe their eyes. One by one, seven tiny people were lifted off the train.
Five were women — each no taller than a girl of five, yet wearing make-up and elegant dresses. They looked like painted dolls.
Huddled together in a circle, the seven dwarfs made no attempt to join the teeming mass of passengers being herded up a ramp by soldiers with alsatians straining at the leash. ... Like most of the Hungarian Jews on the train, which had taken three days to arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the dwarfs had no idea they’d just been deposited in the Nazis’ most notorious extermination camp.
An SS officer strode over and established they were all siblings from the Ovitz family. Immediately, the order went out: Wake the doctor!
It was nearly midnight on Friday, May 19, 1944, and Dr Josef Mengele was asleep in his quarters. All the troopers on duty, however, were well aware of his passion for collecting human ‘freaks’, including hermaphrodites and giants.
A lone dwarf wouldn’t have been sufficient reason to disturb his sleep, but a family — and seven of them — why, it was just like the fairy tale!
They were certainly right about Mengele. When told about the camp’s latest acquisition, the good-looking 34-year-old doctor sprang out of bed.
Meanwhile, the dwarfs watched the rest of the passengers — including their aunts, uncles, cousins and friends — march towards a building with two chimneys that ceaselessly poured out smoke and flames. What was this place — a bakery?
Perla Ovitz, at 23 the youngest dwarf, questioned a Jew in a striped jacket who had helped unload the train. ‘This is no bakery — this is Auschwitz and you’ll soon end up in the ovens, too,’ he told her.
Suddenly, as Perla recounted many decades later, ‘each flame looked like a human being, flying up and dissolving in the air. We went numb, then started thinking about the unknown man we were waiting for — if this was a graveyard, then what was a doctor doing here?’
Had he been asked, Mengele would have said he was conducting important genetic research that might one day lead to a professorship.
To that end, he felt no compunction about torturing, maiming and often killing his unlimited supply of human specimens. His enthusiasm, ambition and cruelty set him apart even from the other death-camp doctors.
One of his first jobs had been to deal with a typhus epidemic in the female camp — a problem he solved by sending an entire barrack of 498 women to the gas chambers.
It was also his idea to kill families of gypsies for the sake of their eyeballs, which were extracted for research.
To the Ovitz family, though, a doctor represented hope. So as soon as Mengele arrived, they crowded around him, answering his questions eagerly in chorus.
His excitement mounted as they recounted their family history: their father Rabbi Shimshon Eizik, a dwarf, had been married twice to tall women, who gave birth to seven dwarfs and three conventionally sized siblings.
‘I now have work for 20 years,’ he exclaimed joyfully.
Mengele whispered orders to the officer in charge. Remarkably, not only were the seven dwarfs, their two normal-sized sisters, sister-in-law and two of their children saved from the gas chamber that night, but so were the families of their handyman and neighbour — who insisted they were close relatives. In total: 22 people. ... Theirs was to become one of the most extraordinary survival stories of World War II. But it would be many years before it was told, after extensive research and interviews with Perla Ovitz and other camp survivors.
Unusually, the heads of the Lilliput Troupe were not shaven and they were allowed to keep their own clothes. Simon Slomowitz, the handyman, lifted them on to their wooden bunks and performed all the tasks they couldn’t manage. ... Instead of having to use the latrines, they were given the potties of dead babies. There was also an aluminium bowl in which they had to wash every day, as Mengele was obsessed with hygiene. ... On the day they were summoned to Mengele’s lab, the women carefully made up their faces and put on their best dresses. To the emaciated inmates who saw them led to a truck, they must have seemed like a bizarre hallucination.
The lab looked like any ordinary clinic, with staff in white coats. All they seemed to want at first was to take blood samples, which seemed a small price to pay for their lives.
But the blood-letting was repeated week after week, along with dozens of X-rays. ‘The amount of blood they took was enormous and, being feeble from hunger, we often fainted,’ recalled Perla. ‘That didn’t stop Mengele: he had us lie down and when we came to our senses they resumed siphoning our blood.
‘They punctured us carelessly and blood spurted. We often felt nauseous and vomited a lot. When we returned to the barrack, we’d slump on the wooden bunks — but before we had time to recover, we’d be summoned for a new cycle.’
Mengele didn’t know what he was looking for. Far from recording any effort to break the genetic code for dwarfism, the paperwork reveals only routine tests for kidney problems, liver function and typhus.
Psychiatrists bombarded the dwarfs with questions to test their intelligence, doctors repeatedly tested them for syphilis — and boiling water, quickly followed by freezing water, was poured into their ears.
According to Perla, this water torture was excruciatingly painful and nearly drove them crazy. Also alarming was the fact doctors pulled out healthy teeth and plucked hairs from their eyelashes.
Dora Ovitz, the full-size wife of the eldest dwarf Avram, was cross-examined by Mengele about her sex life. As he bombarded her with increasingly lewd questions, he was actually salivating. ... He was unfailingly polite to his seven captives, often praising them for their appearance. ‘How beautiful you look today!’ he’d say to Frieda, the prettiest of the dwarfs.
Flirtatiously, she’d reply: ‘I knew that Herr Hauptsturmführer was coming, so I took great care to make myself up in his honour.’
If Frieda ever skimped on her beauty routine, he’d ask: ‘Are you in a bad mood today? Why didn’t you apply your beautiful red lipstick?’
Mengele also brought sweets and toys — belonging to children he’d killed — for tall sister Leah’s 18-month-old son Shimshon. Malnourished and traumatised, the boy had never cried or uttered a word.
One day, however, he toddled towards Mengele, saying: ‘Daddy, Daddy.’ The doctor smiled: ‘No, I’m not your father, just Uncle Mengele.’
Miracle that saved girl from Auschwitz gas chamber
YVONNE Engelmann was just 15 when she was rounded up with her family and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, one of the network of German Nazi extermination camps operated by the Third Reich in occupied Poland in World War II from 1940-1945.
But it was an unlikely miracle that saw her survive to tell the disturbing tale.
After arriving at the camp, Yvonne was immediately sent to the gas chamber. Thanks to some strange twist of fate, it malfunctioned and she was left naked in the chamber overnight before being freed.
By some miracle, the Nazi’s kept her alive, and she was sent to sort through the clothes of newly arrived Jews to find any gold or valuables they’d hidden.
Mengele whistled Mozart as he chose children for the gas chamber:
Auschwitz survivor describes how Dr Mengele whistled Mozart as he selected victims for gas chambers
An Israeli artist who survived Auschwitz as a child has told how Dr Josef Mengele used to whistle Mozart as he chose who would be sent to die in the gas chambers.
“He must have loved Mozart, because if he was bored during the selection he always whistled Mozart,” Yehuda Bacon said.
The 87-year-old Mr Bacon was one of the so-called “Birkenau Boys” selected by Dr Mengele to work as forced labourers at Auschwitz.
He has spoken out about his experiences at the extermination camp in a new book published in Germany.
According to Julius Eisenstein, his family was killed at Treblinka in 1940... However, Treblinka 1 was not opened until September 1941, which was the labor camp. Treblinka 2 was not opened until 1942, which was the alleged extermination camp. How is this possible?
Holocaust survivor Julius Eisenstein has a chilling story to tell. ... Eisenstein was liberated from Germany's Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945.
His parents and three sisters were killed at the Treblinka death camp in 1940. At 20, he was taken to the first of five concentration camps, including Auschwitz. Forced to work outside the crematorium, he heard cries and screams that still haunt him to this day.
This is reproduced from the wildly popular history of 'Nazi atrocities' named 'The Scourge of the Swastika' authored by Edward Russell (aka Lord Russell of Liverpool) who was a key figure in the Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crime Trials:
Wilhaus, from the balcony of his office, frequently shot prisoners walking across the parade group, partly for the sport of it and partly to amuse his wife and daughters. Occasionally he would hand the rifle to his wife so that she could have a shot. To entertain his nine-year-old daughter he sometimes used very young children for 'clay pigeon' practice, having thrown them up in the air so that he could take pot shots at them. His daughter would applaud and say, 'Papa, do it again', Papa did.
Murder was so monotonous that the staff were officially encouraged to devise new methods, and one of them named Wepke, made a bet that he could cut a boy in half with one stroke of his axe. The bet was taken. Wepke got hold of a ten-year-old boy in the camp, made him kneel down with his head hidden in the palms of his hands, and after taking a practice swing, with one single stroke he cut the boy in two.
And an SS Captain decided that he would strangle women and children as well as freeze men to death in barrels, because he was bored and 'murder was monotonous' so he came up with entertaining ways to kill:
Gebauer, with his own hands, used to strangle women and children. He froze men to death in barrels; their hands and feet were first tied, they were then lowered into the tubs and left there until they froze to death.
And to top it off, did you know that 1.5 million people were gassed at Dachau? Believe it!
Serge Klarsfeld: at Auschwitz 1,000 Jews deported from France were gassed ... in bed! viewtopic.php?t=7498
From page 23 of Filip Müller's book "Sonderbehandlung" he wrote about being forced to remove bodies from the Auschwitz gas chamber. One time, he found a half-opened suitcase, and gobbled up the cake! Interestingly, he did not get cyanide poisoning.
Ein heftiger Schlag, begleitet von Starks Gebrüll: "Los, los, Leichen ausziehen!" veranlaßte mich das zu tun, was auch ein paar andere Häftlinge taten, die ich erst jetzt bemerkte. Vor mir lag die Leiche einer Frau. Zuerst zog ich ihr die Schuhe aus. Meine Hände zitterten dabei, und ich bebte am ganzen Körper, als ich begann, ihr die Strümpfe auszuziehen. [...] Wachsam bemerkte ich jede Bemerkung Starks, um etwas verschnaufen zu können. Dieser Augenblick war gekommen, als er in den Verbrennungsraum hinüberging. Mein Blick fiel auf einen halb geöffneten Koffer, in dem ich Lebensmittel entdeckte, die wohl als Reiseproviant hatten dienen sollen. Mit der einen Hand tat ich so, als wäre ich damit beschäftigt, einen Toten auszuziehen, mit der anderen durchwühlte ich den Koffer. Während ich Käsedreiecke und einen Mohnkuchen aus dem Koffer grapschte, spähte ich ständig zur Tür, um nicht von Stark überrascht zu werden. Mit meinen blutbeschmierten und verschmutzten Händen brach ich den Kuchen auseinander und schlang ihn gierig wie ein Raubtier herunter.
TRANSLATION: A heavy blow, accompanied by Stark's roar: "Come on, take off bodies!" It caused me to do what a few other inmates did that I noticed only now. Before me lay the corpse of a woman. First, I took off her shoes. My hands were trembling, and I was shaking all over when I started taking off her stockings. [...] Alert, I noticed every remark Starks, to catch something. That moment had come as he crossed into the combustion chamber. My eyes fell on a half-open suitcase, in which I discovered food, which was probably to serve as travel provisions. With one hand I acted as if I was busy taking off a dead man, with the other I rummaged through the suitcase. As I grabbed cheese triangles and a poppy-seed cake out of the suitcase, I kept peering to the door so as not to be surprised by Stark. With my bloodied and soiled hands, I broke the cake and hung it down greedily like a predator.
New article that just came out today, another jew who magically "escaped the gas chambers" -- somehow, the nazis just allowed him to walk out at the end, I guess?
Holocaust survivor brings history to life for Baldwin students
Posted: Feb 12, 2019 3:08 PM EST
BALDWIN - Baldwin Middle School students got a firsthand history lesson Tuesday from a Holocaust survivor.
Werner Reich, 91, explained how he was hidden from the Nazis, captured and taken from his family, nearly worked to death in labor camps and escaped the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
"People were crying and screaming and bleeding all over the place, it was a scene like out of hell," recalls Reich, who is from Smithtown.
Dr. Hadassah Rosensaft, who is credited with having saved hundreds of Jewish inmates while a prisoner at Auschwitz, died on Friday in Tisch Hospital of New York University Medical Center. She was 85 and lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Her son, Menachem, said Monday that the cause was liver failure resulting from malaria and hepatitis she had contracted at Auschwitz. ... In testimony at a United States Senate subcommittee hearing in 1985, she described the death of one inmate under the foot of the notorious war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele. She said that late in 1943, while she was working in the Auschwitz infirmary, a young woman was late for roll-call outside her barracks. Dr. Rosensaft said Dr. Mengele ''ordered her to come forward'' and ''knocked her down with his booted foot,'' then put his foot on her chest. He hummed an ''aria from 'Madame Butterfly' and kept his foot there until the woman was dead'' from suffocation, Dr. Rosensaft testified. ''He showed the SS men a new way of killing.''
Jared Kushner's grandfather allegedly lived in a literal hole in ground in the middle of the woods in Belarus for three years. Yes... a jew lived on his own in a hole in the ground enduring months of sub-zero temperatures and starvation - 'staying out of sight' and 'foraging for food' - while the largest and bloodiest conflict in human history (including local partisans fighting on both sides were combing said woods) was raging all around.
Jared Kushner’s Family Calls Him an Asshole for Defending Trump
Gabrielle Bluestone 07/07/16 10:35AM
“I am the grandson of Holocaust survivors,” Kushner wrote in the op-ed, published yesterday in the newspaper he owns, the New York Observor. His grandparents, he wrote, escaped from the occupied Belarus ghetto Novogroduk in the fall of 1943 and hid out in the woods, where they lived off the land for most of the winter.
On the night before Rosh Hashana 1943, the 250 Jews who remained of the town’s 20,000 plotted an escape through a tunnel they had painstakingly dug beneath the fence. The searchlights were disabled and the Jews removed nails from the metal roof so that it would rattle in the wind and hopefully mask the sounds of the escaping prisoners.
My grandmother and her sister didn’t want to leave their father behind. They went to the back of the line to be near him. When the first Jews emerged from the tunnel, the Nazis were waiting for them and began shooting. My grandmother’s brother Chanon, for whom my father is named, was killed along with about 50 others. My grandmother made it to the woods, where she joined the Bielski Brigade of partisan resistance fighters. There she met my grandfather, who had escaped from a labor camp called Voritz. He had lived in a hole in the woods—a literal hole that he had dug—for three years, foraging for food, staying out of sight and sleeping in that hole for the duration of the brutal Russian winter.
'I will never be free of it': Auschwitz survivor recalls horror 75 years on
Kate Connolly Sat 25 Mar 2017 06.03 GMT
“It was a gradual process of dehumanisation over several years,” says Grosman. “They took our jewellery from us, then our fur coats. Then we couldn’t live on the main street, we couldn’t own a cat. We had to wear a yellow band – the yellow stars were introduced later – and then we were prevented from going to high school and the non-Jewish neighbours stopped greeting us.” ... They were rounded up by members of the Hlinka guard, the military arm of Catholic priest Jozef Tiso’s First Slovak Republic, a satellite to Nazi Germany. She recalls how the families cried and ran after the cattle car she and around 50 girls were packed into as it travelled to the spa town of Poprad. “There were no windows. Just one empty vegetable tin can as a toilet.” Arriving that same day in Poprad, they were joined by hundreds of other girls from around the region, all of whom were kept in a holding pen near the station. ... They were given a red bowl and spoon, an itchy sack-like uniform, and wooden shoes the prisoners nicknamed “clappers”. “They made such a racket we had to take them off and walk bare foot whenever we went through the gate, so as not to annoy the SS,” she says. They slept four or five to a wooden bed, one blanket between them, were woken at 4am and brushed their teeth using a finger dipped into the tea they received for breakfast.
When her group was ordered to stand outside for a roll call on the first day she recalls seeing the snow stained with blood. “Bizarrely quite a large number of us had got our periods at the same time,” she says. “We had no underwear, no sanitary protection. But then that never happened again because of what they put in the water to prevent us from menstruating.” One day in winter Heinrich Himmler of the Nazi leadership came to inspect the camp. “An SS guard suggested it was too cold for us to be outside working. I heard Himmler reply: “Für Juden gibt’s kein Wetter [there’s no such thing as weather for Jews].”
Another Mengele tale: this time, he saved a child!
In ‘Ultimate Sign of Victory,’ Elderly Holocaust Survivor Returns to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Recounts His Harrowing Experiences There
A video of an elderly Hasidic Holocaust survivor returning to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland and emotionally recounting his harrowing experiences there has gone viral on Facebook, drawing hundreds of thousands of views in just a few days.
In the video, Rabbi Nissen Mangel is seen telling a group of Boyaner Hasidim in Yiddish about how he, at the age of 10, underwent the “selectzia” process — supervised by infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele — with his family, who were from Bratislava. Mangel lied to Mengele about his age — claiming he was 17. Even though Mengele realized this was not true, Mangel and his father were chosen for slave labor, rather than immediate execution.
“It was a miracle,” Mangel said. “1.5 million children were sent to the gas chambers and to me Mengele said to work with my father.”
President Rivlin’s family hosts Holocaust survivor in their home: "We were sent immediately to work"
Apr 20, 2017, 8:00AM Rachel Avraham
"We were traveling for I don't know how long and then suddenly the train stopped," she recalled. "We started to get down. My grandparents disappeared. I was with a small child in my hands, my mother was with a baby and we were walking. It was the last time that I saw my mother and the children. From there, they took the children in cars into the forrests, made pits, threw the children in alive.Mengele saw that I was pretty strong and he said to work."
Archaeologists uncover buried gas chambers at Sobibor death camp
Kacper Pempel
SOBIBOR Poland (Reuters) - Archaeologists working at the site of the Nazi concentration camp at Sobibor, in eastern Poland, say they have uncovered previously-hidden gas chambers in which an estimated quarter of a million Jews were killed.
... Polish archaeologist Wojciech Mazurek, who has also been involved in uncovering the site, said the excavations revealed there were eight gas chambers.
“The extermination of people took place there; murder by smoke from an engine that killed everyone within 15 minutes in these gas chambers, in torment, shouting,” he told Reuters Television.
“It is said that ... the Nazis even bred geese in order to drown out these shouts so that prisoners could not have heard these shouts, these torments.”
Ernest and Judy Urman's tale: "The Nazis had a gas chamber in Shanghai, China equipped to gas the city's 20,000 jewish refugees" From: The Urmans escape 'gas chambers in Shanghai, China' viewtopic.php?t=7463
Gassing survivors, from: viewtopic.php?t=8432#p64031 Both these newspaper headlines are about the sensational testimony of Polish Jewess Zofia (Sophia) Litwinska regarding her partial gassing in an Auschwitz gas chamber.
Then there's the affidavit of Regina Bialek, submitted to the same trial as "evidence," her story is almost identical to Litwinska's, but the gas came out of the floor, and it was Mengele that saved her after a partial gassing (see link)
Survivor tells of Holocaust horrors
Abbe Smith, Register Staff Published 12:00 am EDT, Thursday, March 26, 2009
WEST HAVEN -- At the age most kids enter high school, Polish-born Sidney Glucksman instead witnessed unspeakable atrocities from within the walls of a Nazi death camp.
One of the few Holocaust survivors left to tell firsthand the story of the extermination of 6 million Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II, Glucksman lives by the mantra: "Never forget."
At Notre Dame High School Wednesday, Glucksman shared horrific tales of watching women and children marched off to gas chambers, never to be seen again, and babies stuffed in bags and brutally murdered. ... The crematorium went day and night without interruption. Smoke came out of it all the time and the camp stunk of burning human bones and flesh. Glucksman saw babies stuffed into bags and soldiers swinging the bags against concrete walls, killing the babies.
Stars and Stripes, September 22, 1945 "...prisoners in Belsen were so starved that they ate parts of the blackened corpses of those who had been cremated."
Yanina Cywinska's bizarre Holyhoax tale: At 10 years old, I dragged bodies out of the Auschwitz gas chambers, survived being gassed, survived 5 days with no water viewtopic.php?t=7511
Life Inside the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women
By Karen Iris Tucker April 16, 2015
Nestled alongside an idyllic lake, the Ravensbrück concentration camp, 50 miles north of Berlin, was constructed in 1939 specifically to house women. By the end of the war, 130,000 women from 20 European countries had been led through its entrance, often unaware of the danger inside.
Most of the camp’s inhabitants weren’t Jewish; rather, they were considered inferior because they were prostitutes, lesbians, political resisters, “work-shy,” or “asocial.” Roma (Gypsies) and Jehovah’s Witnesses—the latter had only to renounce their faith to be freed—were also imprisoned there. All were considered “useless mouths” by the Nazis, worthy of brutal treatment. More than 30,000—some estimate as many as 90,000—women perished there from starvation, disease, gassings, hanging, torture, or execution by shooting. ... Other heroines emerge in Helm’s narrative, including the brave Polish “rabbits”—women who were mutilated in medical experiments at the camp’s “hospital.” In some operations, deep wounds were made to the women’s legs, which were then deliberately infected with bacteria. Drugs were then tested for their efficacy in healing the swollen, pus-filled limbs.
One rabbit, Krysia Czyz, used urine as invisible ink in the margins of the censored letters she sent to inform her family, and the Polish underground, of the unspeakable suffering in the camp. Miraculously, a clandestine radio station operating from Britain broadcast Czyz’s reports. The International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva also received the information—as it did other news about the camps—but the organization refused to intervene.
On December 16, 1942, in his column in the Daily Herald, Hannen Swaffer quoted verbatim from the manuscript of an address made by Joseph Hertz, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire. (Daily Herald, December 16, 1942, p.3)
Hannen Swaffer
WAR'S WORST HORROR
DELIBERATELY I omitted from my report if the Chief Rabbi's address last Sunday, the most sensational paragraphs.
I could not hear them clearly enough. I wanted to see the manuscript and to know the source of his information.
For, as Dr Hertz himself said, some of the stories sound "unbelievable." Yet so is all Nazidom!
Babies As Footballs !
HERE, copied from the Chief Rabbi's manuscript, is a verbatim extract:—
"On July 27 all the Jewish inhabitants of a town near Kiev were ordered to the stadium. The women, of whom there were about 500, were instructed to hold their little children in their arms. A few minutes after we had all assembled, an eyewitness declares, a group of German soldiers in football attire entered the stadium. They snatched the infants from their mothers' arms and used them as footballs, bouncing and kicking them around the arena.
Soon the ground was drenched with blood and the stadium was filled with anguished cries of women driven insane as they saw their children being murdered before their eyes."
Neroism Reborn
NEVER since the days of the martyrdom of Christians in the Colosseum by Nero has such a story been told.
Yet Dr. Hertz never allows himself to be led into over-statement, even in the flash of oratory. He is most most reserved in his utterance.
He spoke too as the religious head of a great community and in the presence of its leaders—M.P.s. University professors, doctors of distinction and the Lord Mayor of London.
He would not jeopardise, I know, a case presented to the world by one exaggeration.
Voice of Authority
WHAT is the Chief Rabbi's authority? He has quoted a story told to the Soviet newspapers by Abraham Fivusovitch, a 26-year-old Russian soldier now fighting on the Stalingrad front. He gives the name of the village—Pogrehistchi.
It is now circulated by the World Jewish Congress, which is urging the United Nations to action in the vain hope of minimising the Horror [sic], and of the British section of which the Marchioness of Reading is president, and Professor Brodetsky, Jewry's first Senior Wrangler, and Philip Guedalla vice-presidents.
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91-year-old Nazi Holocaust survivor from KC moves murderers to tears ... Instead of taking them to Treblinka to the north for certain death, her train was rerouted to Majdenek to the south. For six months, they worked and barely survived starvation. They withered to the bone. They witnessed prisoners hanged, others ripped to death by German shepherds. ... At Bergen-Belsen, her final camp, Warshawski lived among the dead, mounds of victims of typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid and dysentery. ... Then on April 15, 1945, was the day of liberation by British soldiers. Prisoners could feel the rumble of tanks in the distance. That day, Warshawski, working the kitchen, was shot in the chest by a guard.
“I will tell you again,” she said, “that we have to believe in a higher power which was over me. … When blood starting coming out of my mouth, I was saying … ‘God almighty, after what I went through already… now I have to die?’”
She lived, to go on and meet and marry another survivor, to go on and have three children and a long life in the Kansas City area.
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From the 1996 testimony of Lillian Saunders Koenigsbach:
1:20 - "And then we were given showers and examined for some marks, or for, whatever, lesions, that we got on the trip, because they would immediately put them into the gas chambers if there were any lesions."
1:24:38 - "And then Mengele came around... Mengele turned me around to see if I had any pimples or lesions on my body because they would immediately take me for destruction. And I was not big enough or old enough to give blood. He came in with his bloody apron, and his stance of power, and he was a big man, and he put that intimidating stance, and he would yell and scream his orders, and he would look over people... and he would turn me around to see if there was anything, and I was sent to live, and he did that very often... He [Mengele] would take an inmate to the infirmary and take blood donations. And one person said, 'Is Jewish blood good for the German soldiers?' And he said, 'Yes, very good. We’ll take all of yours.' And she died right there on the table... [He killed her.] She had her blood drained, and she was thrown off, dead...”
1:36:30 - "And while we were at Auschwitz, we always had the big furnace, the chimney, which was a fairly low chimney, which resembled what they have in atomic power stations... and that was always on, and the ashes were flying all over. We had ashes of bodies settle on all of us..."
The Sentinel (Chicago, IL), June 15, 1944, p.5 "Most horrifying of all is the story just released from Moscow, reporting on the sadism displayed by the German and Rumanian troops, telling of a woman, who was forced, under threat of violence to her children, to gulp blood drained from her father. When the woman had drunk the blood from a cup, the Nazis tortured her to death after killing her children before her eyes."
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