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Old November 13th, 2022 #521
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Free candy in the gas chambers queue

Giddeon Hausner, the Chief Prosecutor at the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, stated in his opening address:

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In Majdanek there was only one place where the children were treated kindly: At the entrance to the gas chambers each one was handed a sweet.
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Gas chambers, gas vans, gas shops


The Jewish Chronicle reported on May 7, 1943:

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"Details of some Nazi atrocities in Latvia have recently been given in the official SOVIET WAR NEWS. All Jews and gypsies were killed in the towns and villages of Latfalia and in the Kurseme and Verseme districts. Whole families were herded inside shops in the market square and killed off with poison gas."
On the same page, the JC reported on the Germans claiming to have "discovered" (their quotation marks) more mass-graves in the Katyn forest. The JC called it "atrocity propaganda".

In the same article about the gas shops, the JC related the dreadful news from Smolensk (which is only 12 miles east of the Katyn), where the evil Germans had captured the final 16 Jews in the region, tortured them, and forced them to dance naked on snow covered ground to entertain the Gestapo. Afterwards the Jews were forced to dig a grave for themselves and shot. Strangely, the final words of one elderly victim were known: "Our children will avenge our torture!" The JC's source for this massacre, including the quote from the elderly victim, was Mr. Ilya Ehrenburg.

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Delay action killing gas, so Jews can walk to the burial pits


Yitzhak Arad was in the Jewish controlled Soviet murder squad the NKVD, who killed millions of Christians, he's a Israeli hero. He served as head of Israel's Ho£ocaust centre, the Vad Yashem for 19 years, and he's written extensively about the Ho£ocaust, including this book which is considered
the standard work on the Reinhardt Death Camps.

In the book he quotes from a 1942 Polish underground report on Death Camp: Treblinka, and how Jews were being gassed with a delay action gas, so the Jews could walk to the burial pits before they died.
 
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How tall was the piles of clothes at Treblinka



Treblinka escapee Samuel Rajzman says there was a pile of clothes and shoes at Treblinka
9 feet (2,75 m) high.

https://web.archive.org/web/20071012...reblinka.shtml

Head of the Disinfection Services of the Waffen-SS Kurt Gerstein says the pile of clothes and underwear was 115 - 130 feet (35 - 40 m) high

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The gas chamber was full, so I survived

Nice holohoax tale from a Polish Catholic monk, and some early Holocaust minimizing, only hundreds of thousands of Jews killed at Auschwitz.



North Country Catholic - April 26, 1978 - page 15

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"Three times they gassed me" at Dachau

Polish-born Catholic priest Rev. Hyacinth Dabrowski claimed he survived three gassings at Dachau.



The Times-Picayune, (LA) Thursday, May 5, 1949, p.25.

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Survived three attempted gassings at Auschwitz

Senior British politician Michael Howard discusses how the Germans put his Transylvanian-Jewish aunt into an Auschwitz gas chamber on three occasions, but lived to tell the tales.



BBC - July 3, 2004

https://web.archive.org/web/20041010...3/howard.shtml



The Independent - July 3, 2004

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Gas chamber rescue via the window

"It was at Cracow (i.e. Auschwitz) that Margit was selected for the gas chamber,
but was rescued by Irene, who broke through a window and pulled her to safety.
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Perry Herald (Perry, NY), August 14, 1946, p.8.
 
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Gas chambers didn't need to be ventilated, as victims breathed in the poison gas

"Finally, it is obvious that in both cases the person retains more of the poison in his body with each inhalation, so that the concentration of the poison in the surrounding air is reduced. This fact simplifies ventilation problems afterward: it take less time to evacuate the remaining gas."



Nazi Mass Murder: A Documentary History of the Use of Poison Gas (1983) by Eugen Kogon (Editor), Hermann Langbein (Editor), Adalbert Ruckerl (Editor), Caroline Lloyd-Morris (Translator)
 
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Workers forced to watch gassings at Auschwitz



The Manchester Guardian (UK), Monday, August 20, 1945, p. 4.
 
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Elie Wiesel's "Geysers of blood"


"Later, I learned from a witness that for months after the massacre, the ground did not stop trembling and that from time to time, geysers of blood spurted up out of the earth."

Against Silence: The Voice & Vision of Elie Wiesel, Vol 2 (1985) Elie Wiesel & Irving Abrahamson

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http://books.google.co.uk/books?ei=B...+the+earth.%22


Elie Wiesel, Pope of Holocaustianity


Mr Elie Wiesel:

- The most famous holocaust survivor, who charges thousands of dollars to speak about the holocaust

- Who wrote: "Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate - healthy, virile hate - for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German. To do otherwise would be a betrayal of the dead."

- Who said:"I was there when God was put on trial." By rabbis at Auschwitz

Says the holocaust, is equal to the Revelation of the Torah by God to Moses at Mount Sinai:

"Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance."

https://www.islam-radio.net/historia...t-religion.htm

Wiesel unimpressed by Prof. Butz's book



The Daily Northwestern (Evanston, IL) Tuesday, March 29, 1977, p. 1 & 12.

https://www.islam-radio.net/historia...butzs-book.htm


Elie Wiesel on the accomplices to the Holocaust

"He [Adolf Hitler] wanted to destroy the living Jews and burn the dead Jews. Anyone who does not engage actively today in keeping these memories alive is an accomplice of the killer."



- Elie Wiesel, 'Teaching the Holocaust' in The Record: The Holocaust in History 1933 - 1945, Published by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith in Cooperation with The National Council for the Social Studies, p.3, supplement with the The Jewish Chronicle (Pittsburgh), April 13,1978.

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Eddie Weinstein's harrowing Holocaust story: Jews murdered in "death showers" w/ carbon monoxide, Survived gunshot through lung, no medical treatment

Eddie is another Polish Jew with a harrowing Hollowhoax tale, and miraculous story of survival.

At the "death camps" created by the Germans, Weinstein says Jews were lured into gas chambers disguised as showers. But water didn't come out. Nor Zyklon B. Nor diesel engine gas. No, carbon monoxide. Eddie calls them "death showers."

One time while at Treblinka, Eddie says he saw a group of babies sitting near the trash. He says those babies were later shot and burned.

Also while at Treblinka, Weinstein says he was shot in the right side of his chest, piercing his lung. Eddie didn't go to a hospital or receive any medical treatment. He just hid out in a building at the camp for 3 days, was healed, then went back to work dragging bodies. Another miracle of the Holocaust!

Eddie escaped from Treblinka by jumping on a train that was being loaded with clothes. When he got back to his home town, he says no one would believe him when he told his story about the death showers or the camp.


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Survivor details escape from Holocaust camp

By Sheryl McCabe
The Acorn
Published: Friday, March 19, 2010

An open class of Perspectives on the Holocaust taught by professor Ann Saltzman presented Holocaust survivor Eddie Weinstein in a section of their curriculum titled “Fighting back: the Jewish Resistance” last Tuesday. Weinstein’s presentation, titled “My Story: An Escape from Treblinka,” taught the class about being Jewish while living in German-occupied Poland.

Saltzman started the class by explaining types of Jewish resistance during World War II. While active resistance, like arms and weapons, could not be used, using sabotage was a popular method to undermine German activities. Saltzman gave examples such as Jewish workers putting straw in bullets so they wouldn’t go off. She also described how Jewish women blew up the crematorium in Auschwitz by putting gun powder in their skirts.

“You are the last generation to hear voices of the Holocaust,” Weinstein said. “My story is about daring to resist and fearing to die.”

He lived in a town 75 miles east of Warsaw with his parents and his brother, Israel. When the Germans invaded Poland, they asked the Jews in his village to create a council, have their own police and own schools. Like many other Jewish people of the time, Weinstein’s village had to wear arm bands bearing the Star of David. “Every few days new orders would be issued against Jews,” Weinstein said.

In August 1940, Weinstein started working on the rail road with 400 other Jewish men. In Feb. 1941, he was sent to build barracks. The Germans were planning to invade Russia. In the spring, the Germans took Weinstein and 50 other men to Warsaw to finish a railroad. He worked the night shift, but decided to escape and walked 60 miles back home.

That June, Russia was invaded. Einsetzgruppen soldiers killed multiple Russians, including Jews, communists and other intellectuals in Russia. Weinstein said that 34,000 Jews were killed in the operation.

Weinstein explained that, by November, his family still had no income because they all worked without pay for Germans. In order to attain food, the family had to sell their items to survive.

The Germans established a ghetto in town where overcrowding was a huge problem. “People slept in attics, basements, hallways, stairs, anywhere,” Weinstein said. They were forbidden to leave the ghetto or they would be executed.

The next year, in 1942, 50 German senior officials met in order to plan a way to systematically murder the Jewish population. Adolf Hitler called it “the final solution to the Jewish question.” The Germans created 6 death camps near railroads. Jewish people would be told that they were needed for work and had to shower in order to disinfect themselves. The shower heads would then release carbon monoxide.

In March of the same year, Weinstein was among 200 young men taken on a train to a concentration camp. They were working on the fields in the snow with little food and no heat. Lung disease, sores and lice were rampant. When Weinstein ran away from the camp, the Jewish police were sent to arrest him. When the police arrived at his house, his mother was arrested instead. His father gave himself in to be arrested for Weinstein and was sent to a concentration camp.

That August, a list of Jews was read by the Jewish Police and taken to the railroad. “As we marched, German soldiers shot at the crowd to speed them up,” Weinstein said.

He talked about how it was a hot day—over 100 degrees—but for 2 days they were given no water. Cattle cars came and all the people were put inside them. Many people died of suffocation and those who jumped off the cars to escape were shot.The train stopped in Treblinka, 62 miles away from Warsaw. “In 2 hours, 20 cattle cars filled with people would die [in Treblinka],” Weinstein said. After 3 and half days with no water, Weinstein and other Jewish men were finally given water. But the scene became chaotic, and the Germans started shooting. Weinstein was shot in the right side of his chest, piercing his lung. His brother hid him between packages in a building in the camp. Weinstein waited 3 days until he went outside. He helped drag bodies and received water as a reward for doing the deed.

He found out that those who stayed alive to maintain the death camp wore red patches on the side of their pants and stuck one on his pants. The sick and wounded were shot then burned in with the garbage. Weinstein recalled that he once went over to the garbage and a group of babies were sitting near the fire. He heard that all the babies were shot and burnt as well. “It’s been more than 67 years, I’ll never forget their beautiful faces,” he said.

One day, the clothing was being put onto a train and Weinstein hid on the train. As the train was moving, he broke open a window, jumped out and went back to his town. No one believed the story of the death shower or camp.Weinstein found his father and went into hiding with him. They hid for 17 months. Two months later, July 29, 1944, the Germans began pulling back from Russia, and the front lines were near the forest Weinstein and his father was hiding in. They left it and the next day, they were liberated from the Russians. Weinstein later joined the Polish army and fought on the front lines for four months to win back Warsaw.
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Excerpts from "The Black Book" - Electrocution Chamber and Electric Crematorium at Belzec, rivers of blood, Jewish bone powder used for construction, etc





About "The Black Book" via Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_...orld_War_II%29

The Black Book was a result of the collaborative effort by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) and members of the American Jewish community to document the anti-Jewish crimes of the Holocaust and the participation of Jews in the fighting and the resistance movement against the Nazis during World War II.

Background

Prominent Jewish Soviet writers and journalists Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman served as war reporters for the Red Army. Grossman's documentary reports of the opening of the Treblinka and Majdanek extermination camps were some of the first eyewitness accounts — as early as 1943 — of what later became known as the Shoah. His article The Treblinka Hell (Треблинский ад, 1944) was disseminated at the Nuremberg Trials as a document for the prosecution.

Manuscripts and publications

In 1944–1945, based on their own experiences and on other documents they collected, Ehrenburg and Grossman produced two volumes under the title Murder of the People in Yiddish and handed the manuscript to the JAC. Copies were sent to the United States, Israel (then the British mandate of Palestine) and Romania in 1946, and excerpts were published in the United States in English under the title Black Book that same year. In Romania, a part of the manuscript was also published in 1946. It was also printed in Israel. A handwritten manuscript of the book is held at Yad Vashem.

SELECTED LIES FROM THE “BLACK BOOK”


PUBLISHED BY THE JEWISH BLACK BOOK COMMITTEE, 1946

World Jewish Congress, New York
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Moscow
Vaad Leumi (Jewish National Council of Palestine, Jerusalem)
American Committee of Jewish Writers, Artists and Scientists, New York.

Inside cover blurb: “The entire manuscript of THE BLACK BOOK was submitted to the juridical authorities of the United Nations War Crimes Commission meeting at Nuremberg, Germany, as evidence of the crimes committed by the Nazis against the Jewish people.”

PAGE 270, BREENDONCK CAMP, BELGIUM: “One man, after having his back burned, was sent outside to work with 600 pounds of wood tied to his bare back… One cell… contained nothing but an air pump with a vent outside. In the wall was a hole through which the Germans forced gas. If the victim was strong enough he could pump in fresh air and keep himself alive for a while. The weak died quickly.


PAGE 280, FRANCE: “They were poisoned in the camps. In trucks which were meant to hold twenty people, the Germans placed a hundred. Quicklime was placed on the floor about ten inches deep. The doors were sealed hermetically. These people had to pass their water – that would start the lime cooking. Gas and fumes came up and choked them to death. Bodies were thrown into special crematories on the border between Germany and Poland [sic] and burned there.”

[Note: this apparently refers to the concentration camp at Gun [?], in Southern France, near the Spanish border, but it is not very clear. Did they really kill them on the Spanish border and then transport them all the way to the Polish border just to burn the bodies?]


Page 281, NATZWEILER: "Cremation of one corpse required fifteen minutes."

PAGE 313, BELZEC: “The Belzec camp is built underground. It is an electric crematorium. There are two halls in the underground buildings. People were taken out of the railway cars into the first hall. Then they were led naked to the second hall. Here the floor resembled an enormous plate. When the crowd of men stood on it, the floor sank deep into a pool of water. The moment the men sank up to their necks, a powerful electric current of millions of volts was passed through, killing them all at once. The floor rose again, and a second electric current was passed through the bodies, burning them until nothing was left of the victims save a few ashes.”


PAGE 339, TATARSK, RUSSIA: “A river of blood flowed from their home…”

PAGE 356, THE UKRAINE: “Children up to the age of fifteen were not shot, but were thrown into ditches and buried alive. For several days the earth trembled above the infants. Their blood seeped up to the surface.


PAGE 364, SOMEPLACE IN RUSSIA: “On the tenth day we were driven to the Lykyanovka ravine. We stood there – panic-stricken. From beneath the freshly strewn earth streamed rivers of blood, the blood of 56,000 murdered Jews. It cried out to us from beneath the earth. My hair turned gray that morning.”


PAGE 375, SOBIBOR: “Gas was filtered into the ‘bathhouse’ through a hose. The Germans watched the process of asphyxiation through a tiny window. At a signal the supply of gas cut off, the floor of the ‘bathhouse’ opened, and the bodies dropped below. The prisoners working underground had to load the bodies and cart them away.”


PAGE 378, POLAND: “The Nazis organized special workers’ brigades to make powder out of human bones; the powder was taken to the village of Zawada, on the Warta river near Kolo, where it was used in building walls.”

PAGE 408, TREBLINKA: “The second Treblinka camp method, and the most widespread one, consisted of pumping all the air out from the chambers with large special pumps. By this method death ensued from approximately the same causes as from poisoning with carbon monoxide: man was deprived of oxygen. And, finally, the third method, less widespread, was killing by steam, based also on deprivation of oxygen: the steam drove air out of the chamber.”









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Max Edelman's sad Holocaust™ tale: "Blind Jew in a Death Camp" - Miraculously survived 8 days without water, escaped being holocausted though blind

Polish Jew Max Edelman says he spent time in several German camps during the war.

He claims he was blinded due to a vicious beating from camp guards, who beat him for no other reason than pure "sport."

Even though, as the story goes, a blind inmate would have been immediately sent to the ovens, "somehow" Edelman managed to survive. It was a miracle.

Just prior to his liberation, Max was taken on an eight-day forced death march without food or water. Miraculously, he survived this too.

The one harrowing experience Max can't get rid of is one night when the Germans had a party, and for entertainment had a German shepherd attack and kill a camp inmate by tearing his throat to pieces.

From then on, Max was deathly afraid of dogs. This prevented him from getting a guide dog for years until he finally mustered the courage and got his own guide dog, Calvin, a chocolate Lab.

After the war, Max experienced guilt "for his survival." But somehow he coped.

Edelman emigrated to the United States in 1951, found a job as a X-ray darkroom technician, and now, of course, tells his Holocaust story to young children. He speaks two or more times a week, after decades of silence.

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Blinded by Nazis, guided by a dog

8/12/2009

By Sharon L. Peters, Special for USA TODAY

Max Edelman, a sprightly gentleman with a potent laugh, huge social network and vast array of interests, surges through life. At 86, he figures he's got too much to do to slow down. Blind for decades, he receives a little help from Tobin, a placid black Lab.

Like each of the thousands of service dogs, Tobin has been bred and trained to help keep his owner safe and independent. And like the thousands of people who are paired without charge with a dog, Edelman has undergone training to make the most of the union.

But Edelman was far from typical when, in 1990, he traveled from his home in Lyndhurst, Ohio, to Guiding Eyes for the Blind in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., to get his first-ever guide dog. For one thing, he was nearly 70. Back then, says Guiding Eyes' Graham Buck, almost all clients were much younger, mostly kids blind as a result of premature births.

But it wasn't Edelman's age that was the biggest challenge. It was his back story.

The things he'd seen and endured would have destroyed most men — and did, in fact, kill millions. He suffered years of starvation and beatings and spirit-crushing cruelty, including an eight-day forced march just before the U.S. Army arrived to liberate the German camps. He spent 192 grueling hours without food or water, during which 1,700 of the 2,500 prisoners collapsed and were shot by the side of the road.

Somehow Edelman, a Jew sent to Nazi concentration camps when he was 17 and freed at 22, managed to survive. He was blinded in a vicious beating by guards —"for no real reason. It was sport for them, they enjoyed inflicting pain" — months before his rescue.

He was trained as a physical therapist, married and immigrated to the USA in 1951. He landed a job in the X-ray department at the Cleveland Clinic and built a life — more or less successfully moving beyond the memories of the camps, including the death of his father.

He coped reasonably well with survivor guilt and was largely able, except at night when nightmares invaded his sleep, to deflect the awful images that were the last he would actually see.

There was one thing he couldn't vanquish: the memory of one night in the camp.

The commandant was holding a party for like-minded people. As part of the evening's entertainment, he ordered that several prisoners be lined up. Edelman was among them. The commandant eyed the men, made a decision about who would die and ordered his massive German shepherd to attack. The dog lunged, grabbed the prisoner by the throat and killed him.

From that night forward, Edelman's fear of dogs was intractable.

But when he retired, he wanted to relieve his wife of the job of taking him everywhere he wanted to go. A guide dog would be ideal.

He mustered his courage, attended the 26-day Guiding Eyes training, was coached patiently through his dog phobia, and went home with Calvin, a chocolate Lab.


The two had the skills to mesh as a team, but Edelman couldn't connect, didn't really know how to trust the animal. He was appreciative of Calvin as a "tool to get around," he says, but formed no bond. Guiding Eyes experts provided additional help.

"If I failed at this, it would not be for lack of effort," he says.

But Calvin knew something was off. The dog had been around people all of his two years; he knew how things were supposed to be, and this wasn't it. He lost weight and was depressed. The vet said he sensed Edelman's emotional distance.

One day, at a crosswalk, Edelman heard the traffic stop and gave Calvin the "forward" command. A driver made a sudden, sharp right turn and was upon the two without warning.

Watchful Calvin stopped instantly, and the two returned to the sidewalk. "He had saved both of us from serious injury," Edelman says. He hugged Calvin, and the barrier dissolved. "From that day on it was love. We both blossomed."

Calvin served him well for nine years and retired with an adoptive family. Then came Silas, a yellow Lab who forged a solid bond with Edelman; he died last year. Edelman misses Silas deeply. "When we were on our 3-mile walks and I'd get lost in thought and have no idea where we were, he'd get me home."

But he and Tobin, who were paired earlier this month, are bonding. Last week, the dog accompanied Edelman to a college campus where he spoke about the Holocaust. Edelman accepts two or more such invitations most weeks, after decades of silence. "Survivors are few in number now," he says, "so we have to bear a larger load."

Tobin eases the way.
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Inside the Auschwitz "Death Factory" - "Eyewitness" says boiling human fat collected in pans and poured over bodies in burning pits to stoke fire


From "Hitler's Death Camps" by Konnilyn G. Feig

The Auschwitz-Birkenau crematoria could not handle the amount of Jews being gassed with bug spray, so they had to burn the bodies in pits. The diabolical and ingenious Nazis designed the pits so they could collect the boiling human fat draining off, and then they poured it back over the bodies in the pit to keep the fires burning strong. Then, get this, Nazis with flamethrowers were brought in at intervals to burn up any jew body parts that hadn't totally been consumed by the flames. Later the Germans dug out and "pulverized" the ashes before disposing of them. It's all true...one of the "few" "eyewitnesses" to survive Auschwitz said so.

Note the source claims it only took half an hour to burn 2-3 Jews bundled together in the crematoria. In modern crematoria, it takes around 2 hrs to cremate a body. But as we know, all laws of physics, all logic, and all reason is suspended when discussing the Holy Holohoax.

Kosher source: Nizkor

https://web.archive.org/web/19990921...z/auschwitz.01

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Each day the trains rolled into the camp through the passageway constructed in the far gate, down one of three tracks to the selection platform. As they fell out of the trains, the victims were sent one way or another, with tearful prting scenes. The procession moved to the crematoria yard where the SS told the Jews they were going to take disinfection baths. An orchestra of attractive women played gay tunes from operas and light marches. Then to the dressing room or reception center with numbered clothing pegs drivin into the walls. The SS ordered the victims to undress and to remember their numbers. Sometimes they gave them towels. Then the SS drove the victims through the corridor to the heated gas chamber. The heating was provided not for the comfort of the prisoners but to create a better setting for the evaporation of gas. The gas squads packed the 2,000 victims into the room. From the ceiling hung imitation shower heads. The doors were closed, the air was pumped out, and the gas poured in. Cyclone B, or hydrogen cyanide, is a very poisonous gas that causes death by internal suffocation. In sufficient concentrations, it causes death almost immediately. But the SS did not bother to calculate the proper quantities, so death took anywhere from three to twenty minutes. While the victims were dying, the SS witched through the peepholes.

When they opened the doors, they found the victims in half-sitting positions in a towerlike pile. Most were pink, others were covered with green spots. Some had foam on their lips, while others bleeding from the nose. Many had their eyes open. The majority were packed near the doors. The squads in special clothing moved in with hooks to pull the bodies off of each other.

The SS physicians and scientists monitored the selection and the gassing, watching the procedure through the special airtight door. The doors could not be opened until the doctor gave the sign that all victims were dead. The doctors assumed their monitoring of the killings on a rotating basis.[44]

Two German firms, Tesch/Stabenow and Degesch, produced Cyclone B gas after they acquired the patent from Farben. Tesch supplied two tons a month, and Degesch three quarters of a ton. The firms that produced the gas already had extensive experience in fumigation. "In short, this industry used very powerful gases to exterminate rodents and insects in enclosed spaces; that it should now have become involved in an operation to kill off Jews by the hundreds of thousands is not mere accident."[45]

After the war the directors of the firms insisted that they had sold their products for fumigation purposes and did not know they were being used on humans. But the prosecutors found letters from Tesch not only offering to supply the gas crystals but also advising how to use the ventilating and heating equipment. Hoss testified that the Tesch directors could not help but know of the use for their product because they sold him enough to annihilate two million people. Two Tesch partners were sentanced to death in 1946 and hanged. The director of Degesch recieved five years in prison.

The scientifically planned crematoria should have been able to handle the total project, but they could not. The whole complex had forty-six retorts, each with the capacity for three to five persons. The burning in a retort lasted about half an hour. It took an hour a day to clean them out. Thus it was theoretically possible to cremate about 12,000 corpses in twenty four hours or 4,380,000 a year. But the well-constructed crematoria fell far behind at a number of camps, and especially at Aschwitz in 1944. In August the total cremation reached a peak one day of 24,000, but still a bottleneck occurred. Camp authorities needed an economic and fast method of corpse disposal, so they again dug six huge pits beside Crematorium Five and reopened old pits in the wood.

Thus, late in 1944, pit burning became the chief method of corpse disposal. The pits had indentations at one end from which human fat drained off. To keep the pits burning, the stokers poured oil, alcohol, and large quantities of boiling human fat over the bodies:

The sizzling fat was scooped out with buckets on a long curved rod and poured all over the pit causing flames to leap up amid much crackling and hissing. . . . The air reeked of oil, fat, benzole and burnt flesh.

Muller described the ghastly scene:

The corpses in the pit looked as if they had been chained together. Tounges of a thousand tiny blue-red flames were licking at them. The fire grew fiercer and flames leapt higher and heigher. Under the ever-increasing heat a few of the dead began to stir, writhing as though with some unbearable pain, arms and legs straining in slow motion, and even their bodies streightening up a little, hesitant and with difficulty, almost as if with their last strength they were trying to rebel against their doom. Eventually the fire became so fierce that the corpses were enveloped by flames. Blisters which had formed on their skin burst one by one. Almost every corpse was covered with black scorch marks and glistening as if it had been greased. The searing heat had burst open their bellies: there was the violent hissing and sputtering of frying in great heat. Boiling fat flowed into the pans on either side of the pit. Fanned by the wind, the flames, dark-red before, now took on a fiery white hue: the corpses were burning so fiercely that they were consumed by their own heat. The process of incineraton took five to six hours. What was left barely filled a third of the pit. The shiny whitish-grey surface was strewn with countless skulls.[46]

At intervals, flamethrowers were brought in to destroy the rotten remains. In the center of Nazi industrial might it was the open pits that finally broke the bottleneck of bodies: a technique from ancient times.

Burning that many bodies produced an enormous quantity of ashes. To finish the task, the labor squad cooled the ashes with water, shoveled out the ashes, piled them in heaps, removed remaining bones and limbs with special tools, reburnt the limbs, pulverized the ashes, and buried them in pits or threw them into the marshes. Later they threw the ashes into the Vistula and Solo rivers. A small, carefully sifted quantity was kept in a shed. Sometimes families were notified of the death of their loved ones and in return for money they would recieve urns filled with the ashes.[47]
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Kazimir Tafilin's holo-fable: escaped Auschwitz by climbing crematorium chimney; jumped from roof, bounced off ground, bones rattled when ran away

Kazimir was captured by the Nazis and sent to the Auschwitz Death Camp. The Nazis saw that Kazimir was small, so they made Kazimir build the roof on the crematoria.

So Kazimir hid in the cracks of the roof, and then crawled up the 90 foot chimney. Kazimir waited until the Nazis left, and then he jumped. He was so dehydrated that he just bounced when he hit the ground.

Then Kazimir ran away!

He could hear his bones rattling when he ran.

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By Dave Bakke ([email protected])
THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER
Posted Aug 11, 2009

When he was a boy, Kazimir Tafilin was so short he had trouble riding a bicycle. That is what Kazimir Ladny remembers best about the friend he had as a child growing up in Kakolewnica, Poland, nearly a century ago.

But Ladny, who lives in Springfield, remembers something else about his small friend. He remembers hearing that Tafilin and his family had died in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland during World War II.

Ladny was a counterintelligence officer in the Polish army until being captured by the Russian army after it invaded Poland in 1939. He spent time in POW camps in both Russia (Siberia) and, after a prisoner swap between the two countries, in Germany.

Ladny, who is 95 years old, still travels to Poland each year to visit family. Seven years ago, as the family was reminiscing, someone happened to mention that Kazimir Tafilin was alive. Once the shock wore off, Ladny went to find his boyhood friend.

“That is a story in itself,” says Ladny. “There was this old man pulling weeds in his garden. I said hello, but he didn’t recognize me. I said, ‘It’s Kazimir Ladny,’ and he jumped back, ‘What! Are you still alive!!??’

“I said, ‘I can ask you the same question: Are you still alive? But I see that you are.’”

While Ladny spent about 60 years thinking that Tafilin had been killed in Birkenau (sometimes called Auschwitz II), Tafilin always assumed that because Ladny never came home, he had been killed on the Russian front.

In a picture of them together, taken earlier this year, the 5-foot, 7-inch Ladny towers over his old friend.

In getting reacquainted, Ladny told Tafilin how he survived. While working on a prison farm in Germany, Ladny escaped. It was his third try. A German woman hid him and fed him, at the risk of her own life. The two eventually married. In 1951, they left Poland for America and settled in Springfield.

Tafilin’s story might be even more amazing. Nazi commanders at Auschwitz ordered him to build a roof on one of the crematoriums used to dispose of prisoners’ bodies. They chose him for the job because, as small as Tafilin was, he could maneuver in tight spaces under the roof as he built it.

As a result, Tafilin knew every inch of space under that roof — knowledge that saved his life. He escaped the camp by climbing up the inside of the crematorium’s chimney and out the top.

“He peeked over the top of the chimney,” Ladny says, “and saw soldiers so he slid back down. He kept peeking until the coast was clear, then he jumped down.

“He said he was so dehydrated that he just bounced when he hit the ground. He said he could hear his bones rattling when he ran.”


In a corner of the yard at his home in Poland, Tafilin has built a shrine in honor of those, including his own family, who did not survive the Holocaust. The walk-in shrine is dedicated to the Rev. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish priest.

Kolbe was imprisoned in Auschwitz when another prisoner, Franciszek Gajowniczek, was among those selected to die by starvation. Upon hearing that Gajowniczek was worried about his family, Kolbe volunteered to die in his place, which he did. Kolbe was canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church by Pope John Paul II in 1982. Gajowniczek was at the Vatican for that ceremony.

Knowing that Ladny would be coming back to Poland again this year, Tafilin arranged for something special — a Mass of thanksgiving in St. Philip Neri Church in their hometown of Kakolewnica. On May 24, the two reunited for the Mass.

Tafilin, who is 90, walked into the church wearing a Polish army uniform, though interestingly enough, he never served in that army. Ladny explains that sometime after the war, in honor of his heroism, the Polish government made Tafilin a captain in the army so that he could receive the increased government benefits that come with being an army officer.

Ladny, who chronicled his life in 2001 in a book titled “It Was Worth It,” still gets emotional when he tells the story of himself and Tafilin, his friend who saved himself by crawling up the inside of a crematorium chimney.

Had Tafilin been a bigger man, he never would have made it. Perhaps that is why he never grew.
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Leon Litvack's tale - "Second generation Holocaust survivor" says his momma escaped Auschwitz gas chamber twice by climbing out a window


Leon's poppa survived seven German labor camps.

He shares this fairytale with young schoolchildren to teach against the "evils of racism, anti-semitism, prejudice and discrimination."

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BOYS’ MODEL MARK HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY 2009

Belfast Boys’ Model pupils have been given an insight into the horror of the Holocaust from Queen’s University Professor, Leon Litvack whose parents survived the atrocity, which claimed the lives of an estimated eleven million people.

In a presentation delivered to mark “Holocaust Remembrance Day” (Tuesday 21st April), Professor Litvack gave a harrowing account of the experiences of his parents, both of whom were placed in concentration camps. He described how his mother, Pola, who was contained at Auschwitz, was sentenced to the gas chambers twice and managed to escape out of a window on both occasions. His father, Sam, also endured the terror of Hitler’s reign and was subjected to seven different labour camps, including Plaszow (made famous by the film Schindler’s List).

As well as giving a detailed description of the torment inflicted on Jewish people in Germany under Nazi rule, Professor Litvack also explained the muted life led by those who survived the Holocaust. He explained to pupils the psychological trauma that plagued his parents and how the Holocaust was an ever-present reality for him growing up, with pain and loss now central components of his identity.

Commenting on Professor Litvack’s presentation, Belfast Boys’ Model Head of History, Ms Mary Currie said, “I am very grateful to Professor Litvack for giving our pupils a real understanding of the evils of prejudice and discrimination, as was experienced by his parents and the estimated millions of Jews, who lost their lives during the Holocaust. Nazi ideology was founded on racism and anti-semitism and Professor Litvack’s presentation will go a long way to ensuring that our pupils leave the school with a respect for other faiths and the realisation that the human and civil rights of all people in our society should be protected”.

Professor Leon Litvack also said of his visit to the school, “Belfast Boys’ Model has given me the opportunity to use my family’s experience as a source of light to transmit the Jewish faith and culture, of which the legacy of the Holocaust plays an important part.. I hope that my visit to the school will allow pupils to admire survivors, who set an unrivalled example of dignity and fortitude and to use the Holocaust to measure how far we have come in treating our fellow human beings with dignity and respect“.

Holocaust Remembrance Day will be held on Tuesday 21st April and aims to commemorate Holocaust victims, honour survivors and commit to tackling prejudice, discrimination and racism in the present day.
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Edie Eger's tale - danced for Mengele, weighed 40 lbs at 17 yrs-old when liberated

As Edie danced for Dr. Mengele, she saw the black smoke from the gas chamber (not the crematorium), which likely contained the ashes of her mother.

Whenever Edie and her sister Magda showered at Auschwitz, "they never knew if they would receive water or gas."

Eventually an emaciated and thought-dead Edie was thrown in a mass grave in the woods behind a camp, but an American GI spotted her hand move and she was pulled from the pile of corpses. A miracle!

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Edie's story began in Kassa, Hungry where she grew up with her parents and older sisters, Magda and Klara. In May of 1944 at the age of 16 her life changed forever. Edie was sent by the Germans to Auschwitz concentration camp along with her parents and sister Magda. (Her sister Klara was smuggled out of the country by her music teacher and was the only one in her family to escape the concentration camp.)

When Edie and her family arrived in Auschwitz, her father was immediately separated from the rest of them and sent to the men's camp. They never saw him again. While Edie, her mother, and sister Magda stood in line to await their fate, Dr. Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death" approached them. He directed her mother to the left and Edie and her sister to the right. Edie tried to go to the left with her mother, but Dr. Mengele told her she had to go to the right and that she would see her mother later after her mother's shower. Edie waited for her mother, but later learned from another inmate that her mother had been sent to the gas chamber.

Later that same day the guards found out from other inmates that Edie had been a ballerina in Hungry. They told Dr. Mengele, who liked to be entertained by the inmates. He sent for Edie to dance for him. As Edie was onstage dancing for Dr. Mengele, she saw the black smoke from the gas chamber, which likely contained the ashes of her mother, drift upward toward heaven. Edie remembered her mother's words while on the train to Auschwitz, "No one can take from you what you put in your mind."

Edie said as she continued to dance, "Dr. Mengele discussed with the guards who should die next. I prayed. Not for myself, but for Dr. Mengele, so he would not have to kill me. It was then that I began to pity the Nazis; they were more imprisoned than I. Somehow I would survive, but they would always have to live with what they had done."

Edie and her sister Magda were close to death many times. Whenever they showered, they never knew if they would receive water or gas. They had to carry ammunitions for the Nazis on the infamous "death march." They were used as human shields on top of a train full of ammunitions. The Nazis thought that the allies would not drop bombs on a train carrying prisoners, but they were wrong. The bombs killed others around them, but Edie and her sister survived.

From June 1944 to May 1945 Edie and Magda were moved from camp to camp, eventually ending up in Gunskirchen Larger camp. They were becoming exhausted and emaciated with hunger. Edie became so weak that she went in and out of consciousness. Even her sister's vigilance as a caretaker couldn't revive Edie. She was unconscious when guards thought she was dead and they tossed her in a mass grave in the woods behind the camp.

Then in May of 1945 Edie's miracle came. Almost a year to the day from when she arrived in Auschwitz, she was pulled from the pile of corpses in the woods by an American GI who was there with the 71st Infantry to liberate the Gunskirchen Larger camp. He saw her hand move. She weighed 40 pounds and had a broken back, but she was alive!

After her recovery, Edie married a Czech freedom-fighter and eventually moved to the United States where she raised three children. She believes she was saved for a reason. It is her life's work is to spread the message that it is possible to love and forgive, even in the midst of life's greatest adversities. Edie says, "Contrary to popular belief, there are no victims in this world - only willing participants. Each of us have the opportunity to transform our lives. You may not control your circumstances, but you can control how you respond to them. Everyone has the power to change at any time."

Edie is an amazing person beyond her story! Being in the presence of someone with this level of love and compassion is life changing.
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