„People have caused this fate to people”

„There we sight glooms of eternal deaths from high position to infinite depths looking and eternal life.”


Jewish women and children, after selection, on their way to the Birkenau gas chambers.
June 14, 1940, when the first transport of Polish political prisoner deportees arrived in Auschwitz, is regarded as the date when it began to function.
At first, Poles were imprisoned and died in the camp. Afterwards, Soviet prisoners of war, Gypsies, and prisoners of other nationalities were also incarcerated there.
Beginning in 1942, the camp became first of all the site of the mass murder committed against the European Jews as part of the Nazi plan for their complete destruction.

Experiments on prisoners

The German physicians who ran SS and Wehrmacht medical institutions, along with medical personnel at lower levels, participated actively in carrying out Nazi extermination plans. SS physicians assigned to the concentration camps, including Auschwitz, played a special role. They conducted criminal medical experiments on prisoners and committed other acts that violated medical ethics. Having furthered the extermination program in the concentration camps, they have gone down in history as medical criminals

Throughout the period when the "infirmary" was in operation, SS physicians carried out various types of medical and pharmacological experiments that usually led to the death of prisoners or left them permanently injured.
So, in opinion of many prisoner, hospital was hell, on background of atrocities of the rest of camp even. In spite of it, obtaining was sole chance for many persons for hospital on survival

Crematoriums

The Crematorium IV building, which contained a gas chamber and furnaces for burning corpses.
Thousands of Jewish men, women and children were murdered here with poison gas, and their bodies burned.
The bodies of Jewish and non-Jewish prisoners who died in the concentration camp were also burned here. According to calculations by the German authorities, 768 corpses could be burned in this crematorium every 24 hours. According to the testimony of former prisoners, the figure was higher.
The apparatus of mass murder in this building functioned, with interruptions, from March 1943 until October 7, 1944. The building was burned down on the day of the mutiny of the Jewish prisoners from the Sonderkommando.

One of polish writer presents life of prisoner in one of book so

„(…)Wounds opened, they crucified injections… It made doctors. They have carried away us for other camp from there, for factory of ammunition.(…) They beat me awfully that (in order to) say come that (in order to) say come and that made at I. They beat me rubber bludgeon. As face eats it screen hand me break. Shows here else...(...) Now I will tell you about head counts in camp. When women died of head counts and they were reversed on land, laughed " protectress " and they digged it. It was necessary to look so and not help”
Has assembled material for in active time in main commission of research of nazi crime in 1945 year " Sophia Nałkowska „Medaliony”.
This book discharges debts in accordance with life art, truth about human reality commanding. It reminds of requirement of solidarity. Among alive solidarity, which hear late voice and it, which have survived.


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Sophie Nałkowska „Medaliony

Remember The Past To Build The Future

The term holocaust originally derived from the Greek word holókauston, meaning a "completely (holos) burnt (kaustos)" sacrificial offering to a god. Since the late 19th century, it has been used primarily to refer to disasters or catastrophes.
The biblical word Shoa (שואה) (also spelled Shoah and Sho'ah), meaning "calamity," became the standard Hebrew term for the Holocaust as early as the 1940s. Shoa is preferred by many Jews for a number of reasons, including the theologically offensive nature of the original meaning of "holocaust."
The word antisemitism means prejudice against or hatred of Jews. The Holocaust, the state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945, is history’s most extreme example of antisemitism.
Here is an example of antisemitic children's book published in 1936 in Nuremberg, Germany. The title, in German, is translated as "You Can't Trust a Fox in the Heath and a Jew on his Oath".



The number of children killed by Hitler and his Nazis is not fathomable and full statistics for the tragic fate of the children will never be known. Estimates range as high as 1.5 million murdered children.
Here are some of the letters they sent to their parents, who were far from them.
"Chere Maman, I send you 10000000000 kisses. Your son who loves you very much. There are big mountains and the village is very pretty. There are a lot of farms and we look for blackberries and raspberries and white mulberries. I hug you with all my heart. Georgy


Raluca Teodoru, Class 9F2

Pictures taken by the students of Gimnazjum No. 2 in Brzeszcze

"WE WANT TO UNDERSTAND" Gimnazjum No. 2 in Brzeszcze

A group of pupils from classes: Ib, Ic, Id, Ie and IIa ( 33 pupils in total ) from Gimnazjum No. 2 in Brzeszcze undertook the realization of project having on aim learning the history of their hometown and the closest neighbourhood. Young people are particularly interested in the period of world war II because they live in the vicinity of the largest extermination camp – KL Auschwitz - Birkenau, and in their hometown was one of many sub-camps - KL Jawischowitz.
The first task, they set for themselves was participation in the opening of the museum, which came into being in the former camp baths buildning on the premises of the mentioned sub-camp.

The participants of the ceremony heard a lecture by Mrs A. Papla, a retired teacher who at present is a tour guide at State Museum KL Auschwitz - Birkenau. She told us about the history of this place and introduced life and working conditions of the prisoners.

We found out many details about the everyday existence of placed here people, we heard from doctor A. Strzelecki's mouth information about organization of work, treatment of prisoners, their mutual relations, unimaginable everyday hardships and relations with neighbouring civil population, which in very many incidents helped the prisoners despite that such help was severely forbidden and even more severely punished.
The pictures portray expositions and souvenirs from that period – all exhibits are authentic.

After the opening ceremony of the museum we went to Culture Centre in Brzeszcze for a meeting with unusual guest, Mr August Kowalczyk.
In specially prepared for this occasion scenery our guest told us his war story.
We listened to it in full concentration.We heard an incredible story of a man who as a seventeen-year-old boy landed in KL Auschwitz - Birkenau with the first political prisoners transport from Tarnow only because he wanted to cross the Romanian border and fight for the freedom of his country. We found out that he managed to run away and survive thanks to help of neighbouring civil population. This meeting made a huge impression on us, because we heard a man who in an exceptionally interesting way told us what he himself survived.
We believe that such meetings carry unusual emotional load, because they tell authentic stories of real people which cannot be substituted by even the best book or film, therefore we will try during the realization of this project reach the people who have survived so they could tell us their story.