„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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